Abstract

For more than 50 years Prof. John Gowlett and Prof. Bernard Wood have been at the forefront of human origins research in eastern Africa. Having worked on some of the most important early human fossil and artefact discoveries in the region, and contributed in diverse ways to our theoretical understanding of hominin cultural and biological evolution, their work has influenced a generation of palaeoanthropologists and Stone Age archaeologists. Please join us for an informal talk discussing their careers, experiences and thoughts for the future of Prehistory in eastern Africa.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A on the past, present and future of prehistoric research in eastern Africa with Professor Wood, Professor Gowlett, Dr Lucy Timbrell and Dr James Clark.