UCL Institute of Archaeology

Mike Parker Pearson will give the fifth seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research undertaken by staff at the Institute on 29 October.

Change of location: This seminar will now take place in the Christopher Ingold XLG1 Chemistry Lecture Theatre around the corner from the Institute. See the building location here»

Programme

Term I Institute Research Seminar Series 2012/13

• 1 October: Unrolling Egyptian mummies in 19th century Britain (Gabe Moshenska)
• 8 October: Non-urban social complexity: a case study of Anglo-Saxon England (Stuart Brookes & Andrew Reynolds)
• 15 October: Innovations in visual survey techniques: infra-red recording in the investigation of the Brunels' tunnel in Rotherhithe (Stuart Laidlaw)
• 22 October: Evolving rice cultivation systems: from domestication to global warming (Dorian Fuller)
• 29 October: The Stones of Stonehenge (Mike Parker Pearson)
• 12 November: What does archaeology have to offer heritage and museum studies? (Rodney Harrison)
• 19 November: The Olduvai Geochronology Archaeology Project (OGAP): new research on the origins of the Acheulean at Olduvai (Ignacio de la Torre)
• 26 November: Composite Worlds: visual imagination in the earliest cities (David Wengrow)
• 3 December: Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - materialising island worlds (Sue Hamilton)
• 10 December: Tainted ores and the rise of metallurgy in the Balkans (Miljana Radivojević)

All welcome! Seminars will be followed by a wine reception.

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