Cardiff Archaeology Research Seminars - autumn 2012 & spring 2013
All seminars take place in room 4.45 John Percival Building (Humanities Building) at 17:10, unless otherwise stated.
All welcome
Autumn Semester 2012
11th October
Simon Esmonde Cleary (University of Birmingham)
Hunting in late Roman society: Can we identify an archaeology?
18th October
Andrew Shapland (The British Museum)
Animals, humans and things in Bronze Age Crete
25th October
William Davies (University of Southampton)
Creativity, sociability and mobility at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe
1st November
Richard Evershed (University of Bristol)
Milking the residues
15th November
Meggen Gondek (University of Chester)
Finding a Pictish palace? The Rhynie Environs Archaeological Project
22nd November
Jörg Orschied (Hamburg University, Germany)
Bones, ritual and cannibals. The death ritual of the LBK
29th November
Steven Mithen (University of Reading)
Life and Death at WF16, an early Neolithic site in Southern Jordan
6th December
Ioana Oltean (University of Exeter)
The discovery of the Daco-Getic landscape: Benefits and challenges
13th December - please note starts at 16:10
John Chapman (Durham University)
From Brittany to the Volga - macro-networks and the importance of the Varna cemetery
Spring Semester 2013
31st January
Ergün Lafli (Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey)
Roman and Byzantine periods at Hadrianopolis, Southwestern Paphlagonia (Turkey): Fieldwork campaigns 2005-2008
7th February
Alexandra Villing (The British Museum)
Naukratis: new research on the Greeks in Egypt
14th February
Jody Joy (The British Museum)
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble’: The Late Iron Age cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire
21st February
Richard Madgwick (Cardiff University)
Investigating the biogeography and management of the European fallow deer in the last 6,000 years: An integrated approach
7th March
Aleks Pluskowski & Alex Brown (University of Reading)
The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Crusading, Colonisation and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic
14th March
Tsenka Tsanova (Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Late Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic Archaeology from northern Bulgaria
21st March
Steven Mithen (University of Reading)
Life and death at WF16, an early Neolithic site in Southern Jordan
18th April
Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield)
Songs of Stonehenge: experimental digital acoustic and graphical modelling of Stonehenge
25th April
Preston Miracle (University of Cambridge)
Little things that count: Dietary diversification and small game use in the prehistory of southeastern Europe
2nd May
Laura Basell (Bournemouth University)
Human evolution and palaeoecology at the headwaters of the Nile