UCL Institute of Archaeology

Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum) will give the Institute of Archaeology Annual Lecture 2013 on 1 May.

Congratulations to Dorian Fuller who has received a major new NERC award for the continuation of his ground-breaking research on early rice agriculture.

Mark Lake will present the keynote address at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology UK Chapter meeting being hosted by L-P Archaeology on 22-23 February.

Essex County Council is proposing to transfer the services of its Field Archaeology Unit (FAU) to Archaeology South-East, becoming part of the wider provision of the Applied Archaeology services offered by UCL.

Institute students undertaking the course on 'Issues in Conservation: Context of Conservation' have designed and produced posters communicating specific aspects of conservation.

The Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference will take place this year on 20-21 May on the topic of 'Forming Material Egypt' and a call for papers has now been announced.

Joe Flatman is contributing to a one-day event about Archaeology on TV at the British Film Institute (BFI) on 19 January.

Jago Cooper, Institute alumnus and now Curator of the Americas at the British Museum, will be presenting the first of his four-part television series 'Lost Kingdoms of South America' on BBC4 this evening.

Rodney Harrison is General Editor of the new Journal of Contemporary Archaeology for which a call for papers is announced.

Collaborative research on the Terracotta Army undertaken by Institute staff and Chinese colleagues features as one of the top archaeology stories of 2012.