Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research


2024-10-22 13:00: Reinterpreting A Black Past: Historical archaeology in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Dr Peggy Brunache)

2024-12-03 13:00: Cosmo-Politics and Andean Agriculture in the Atacama Desert (Chile): Late Intermediate and Inka Period (1.200-1.550 C.E.) (Dr Andres Troncoso)

2025-10-13 17:00: Using Environmental Archaeology to Revision Caribbean Indigenous Extinction Narrative (Dr José Julián Garay-Vázquez (U. of Cambridge))

2025-10-27 17:00: Foodways Archaeology: Insights into Methodology from the North Coast of Peru from Preceramic to Inca Times (Carito Tavera (U. of Barcelona))

2025-11-10 17:00: Corridors and commodities: towards better geospatial models of raw material movement and the emergence of the Chavin Interaction Sphere in the Andes (Dr Ben Vining (U. of Arkansas))

2025-12-01 17:00: Ingenieria inversa de piezas Prehispanicas de platino (Nohora Alba Bustamante (U. of Cambridge))

2026-01-27 13:00: Reading colonial archives in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania (Nicole Sithole, Ella Beaudoin and Charlotte Wood )

2026-02-09 17:00: Reverseaction and Making: Community Experiments with Ceramic Negative Decoration in the Nariño Highlands (Colombia) (Catherine Klesner (U. of Cambridge))

2026-02-10 13:00: Researching Slavery and its Afterlives: Reflections from Historical Archaeology and Community-Based Practice in Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (Dr Rui Da Graca Gomes Coelho)

2026-02-24 13:00: Exploring the Past and Present West African Peoples through Museum Collections in the UK and Nigeria (Prof Abubakar Sani Sule)

2026-02-27 16:30: New Perspectives on Marine Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Early Burials along the South Coast of Peru (Margot Serra (U. of Cambridge))

2026-03-09 17:00: Crafting for Commensality: Inka-style Pottery Production and Technological Transfer in the Inka Southwestern Border (Andrea Martínez Carrasco (U. College London))

2026-03-10 13:00: Crafting Heritage: Indigenous technologies and the archaeology of milk containers among the Gabra of Northern Kenya and the Borana of Southern Ethiopia (Dr Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori)

2026-03-23 17:00: Reflection Forum: Decolonising Archaeology in the Americas and the Caribbean (Led by Series Organizers (U. of Cambridge))