Archaeological Concepts of Temporality

Monday 21 May 2012

Deep Time, Deep History, and the End of Prehistory

Children, Rabbits and Golf: Social Practise, Environmental Change & Landscape

Friday 18 May 2012

Children, Rabbits and Golf: Social Practise, Environmental Change & Landscape

Animal Matters Research Group

Friday 18 May 2012

General discussion of aims and objectives of these meetings

Lunch-time seminar - The Gift of Fields: The Impact of Extreme Meteorological Events on Early European Farmers

Friday 18 May 2012

This paper explores some alternative thinking concerning the origin and construction of cursus monuments in North West Europe and specifically the British isles.

Lost worlds: the challenges of pursuing modern analogues in environmental archaeology

Friday 11 May 2012

We shall discuss the general principles behind work on modern analogues in environmental archaeology, with particular reference to our work on plants and insects, and discuss some specific examples.

Life and Death on the Sainte Victoire Mountain (Aix-en-Provence) between the first and sixth centuries AD

Friday 4 May 2012

We will consider the nature landscape management and engagement with natural environmental processes. We will also consider issues of continuity / discontinuity of settlement and tenure, as well as practices associated with funeral rites.

Wharram: past, present and future

Friday 23 March 2012

This celebratory conference, marking sixty years since Beresford and Hurst began their remarkable collaboration at Wharram, will take the reappraisal provided in volume XIII as the starting point for further forward thinking and questioning: this event will be forward-, not backward-looking.

Recent research on medieval rural settlements in Finland

Wednesday 21 March 2012

A rare Baltic treat!

Yorkshire Archaeology Postgraduate Group

Friday 16 March 2012

Research and the HLF

Monday 12 March 2012

Seminar starts at 1715 hrs; wine from 1700 hrs.

Homeless Heritage

Friday 9 March 2012

A team of homeless people and students from every level of academic life at the University of York Department of Archaeology is the subject of a professionally shot film which will premiere at this research seminar.

A hillfort at war? Excavations at Fin Cop, Peak District

Wednesday 7 March 2012

Dr Clive Waddington: Managing director, Archaeological Research Services Ltd.

InterArChive: exploiting the hidden archive in archaeological grave soils

Friday 2 March 2012

The InterArChive project is using a multidisciplinary scientific approach, linking soil micromorphology, inorganic geochemistry and trace organic chemical analyses, for the study of grave soils.

Arch Soc Guest Lecture - Human Remains and Associated Evidence (Title TBC)

Thursday 1 March 2012

Battlefield Archeaology Expert Tim Sutherland Human Remains and Associated Evidence

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Wednesday 29 February 2012

Liv Nilsson Stutz: Biological Anthropologist, Emory University, Atlanta

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Digital Humanities Symposium - Virtualisation and Heritage

Saturday 25 February 2012

bringing together researchers and practitioners in the digital humanities who focus on different aspects of heritage

Urban Myths: Housing and Shopping in York during the Eighteenth Century

Friday 24 February 2012

This paper will explore how the detailed study of housing fabric can aid our understanding of the eighteenth-century streetscape.

New insights into prehistoric human diet and agriculture through ancient biomolecules and stable isotopes

Thursday 23 February 2012

20 years of new technology re-examines 10,000 years of domestication

PC4: Conservation solutions

Thursday 23 February 2012

Project management, funding issues and risk preparedeness in conservation.

Buddhist landscapes of Central India during the early historic period

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Jason Hawkes: Archaeology Department, University of Cambridge

Grappling with archaeological visual media across multiple institutions: Catalhoyuk, the Wellcome Collection, and UCL's Institute of Archaeology

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Wine is served from 1700 hrs.

Organic residue analysis: a Mediterranean perspective

Friday 17 February 2012

The first application of organic residue analysis to early Mediterranean pottery, which appear with the first vestiges of farming and domesticates across this region.

Viking Research Group: Death and Burial

Tuesday 14 February 2012

The Gems fallen and the Body Rotten': Attitudes to Furnished Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England.

Whales, whaling and whalers: an integrated study in social and bioarchaeology

Friday 10 February 2012

Whales have featured in human lives since prehistory, as resources and as inspiration for myth and legend. In this seminar we discuss the potential of an integrated package of research that considers three overlapping aspects of whales and whaling.

Constructing chronologies

Wednesday 8 February 2012

Christopher Bronk Ramsey: Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford

PC3B: Study and Conservation of Vernacular Buildings - Brick and Timber

Saturday 4 February 2012

A two day course exploring the conservation of brick and timber buildings

Time, Space and Structure in the Early Neolithic in the Fayum, Egypt

Friday 3 February 2012

To understand the nature of palaeoenvironment, subsistence systems, mobility, sedentism and landscape use an integrated multidisciplinary approach is needed.

Death and Data: integrated approaches to the study of early medieval cemeteries

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Sam Lucy: Post-Excavation and Publications Officer, Cambridge Archaeological Unit

The Romiri Project: a model for international cooperation in the conservation of cultural heritage?

Friday 27 January 2012

This session is about a small, modest, building on the island of Zakynthos is Greece, the Panagia Vlaherna chapel.

IPUP launches "The York Jewish History Trail"

Friday 27 January 2012

Explore the history of the Jewish community in York from the 12th century to the 21st century with a new tour of the city.

E-Science and Archaeology at Birmingham

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Vince Gaffney: Professor of Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics, University of Birmingham

Viking Research Group: Place Names

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Ingleby? Jorvik? What can the study of placenames tell us about settlement and society in Viking-Age England?

Viking Research Group: Place Names

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Ingleby? Jorvik? What can the study of placenames tell us about settlement and society in Viking-Age England?

Rebecca Dean: Women and Weapons in Ancient Egypt and William Stonborough: The Shield in Ancient Egypt

Friday 20 January 2012

Following a brief introduction by Jo Fletcher giving some of the background to today’s Egypt-related research forum, Rebecca Dean and William Stonborough will discuss aspects of their postgraduate studies:

PC3A: Study and Conservation of Vernacular Buildings - Earth and Thatch

Thursday 19 January 2012

A two day course exploring the conservation of earth and thatch in building

Some site formation processes of the Late Roman to Early Medieval Periods across Europe

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Richard MacPhail: Senior Research Fellow, UCL

S2: International Issues in Cultural Heritage Conservation

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Exploring international issues in conservation over eight consecutive Wednesdays (12.15 - 2.15pm)

Analysing material and culture

Thursday 12 January 2012

Joint PhD and staff conference together with our current and soon-to-come Erasmus student exchange partners in Uppsala (Sweden) and Aarhus (Denmark).

The 6th Experimental Archaeology Conference

Friday 6 January 2012

6th - 7th January 2012

Viking Silver! Seminar and Book Launch

Wednesday 14 December 2011

....details on two new major Viking hoards from Northern England, to be revealed at the British Museum on morning of 14 December.

The People Collectors: Stone axes since the Neolithic

Friday 9 December 2011

The People Collectors: Stone axes since the Neolithic

Footprints through time: The Mesolithic of the Severn Estuary

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Martin Bell: Professor in Archaeology, Head of Department, University of Reading

Postgraduate Open Day

Wednesday 7 December 2011

Meet the Department

Western Britain and the world of late Antiquity: recent fieldwork at Mothecombe, Devon

Friday 2 December 2011

Western Britain and the world of late Antiquity: recent fieldwork at Mothecombe, Devon

PC2B: Legislation and Policy (International)

Thursday 1 December 2011

Exploring international heritage policy and conservation charters

Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene settlement of sub-coastal uplands in northern Vietnam

Wednesday 30 November 2011

Ryan Rabett: Research Associate, University of Cambridge

Scandinavian metalwork and Viking settlement in England

Tuesday 29 November 2011

...Gender and jewellery in Viking England

'Popular Music and Urban Heritage: The Musical Characterisation of Liverpool'

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Talk starts at 5.15 pm. Wine will be served from 5 pm.

People and Deer in the British Mesolithic: considering antler technology within broader human/animal landscapes

Friday 25 November 2011

Since the remarkable discovery of an intact antlerworking industry at the site of Star Carr in the late 1940s (Clark 1954), antler has been regarded as an important resource for the fabrication of material culture within discussions of Mesolithic lifeways...