UCL Institute of Archaeology

Richard Bussmann will give the second seminar in the Term I Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar series highlighting current research at the Institute on 7 October.

Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars take place on Mondays from 4-6pm, in Room 612 of the Institute.

Programme

Term I Institute Research Seminar Series 2013-14

• 30 September: Using material culture to (re)construct personal, family and community history in the UK and Greece (Theano Moussouri & Eleni Vomvyla)
• 7 October: Written, visual and material culture: modelling administration in early Egypt (Richard Bussmann)
• 14 October: Heritage Syndromes: From the Acropolis to Jerusalem (Beverley Butler)
• 21 October: The Multi-Cultural Origins of Agricultural Villages in the Near East: Regional food processing technologies, social cooking practices and the evolution of plant domestication (Karen Wright)
• 28 October: Bronze Age burnt mounds on Bow Hill: their contribution to the debate into burnt mound technology and use (Mark Roberts)
• 11 November: Portraits and politics in classical Greece and early imperial China - an institutional approach to comparative art (Jeremy Tanner)
• 18 November: Imperial Logistics: The Making of the Terracotta Army (Marcos Martinón-Torres)
• 25 November: Community archaeology, geophysics and the Roman settlements of Hertfordshire (Kris Lockyear & Ellen Shlasko)
• 2 December: From Massacre to Martyrdom, between Memory and Memorialization: The Rotifunk Missionary Murders of 1898 (Paul Basu)
• 9 December: Knossos: tracking regional dynamics over eight millennia at Europe's oldest city (Todd Whitelaw)

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

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