About our Society

Find out more about the Prehistoric Society - an international community that promotes research into prehistory.

Resources

Access resources and downloads to learn more about Prehistory in our 'Resources' section.

Grants & Awards

The Prehistoric Society offers grants and awards to its members for research into prehistoric archaeology.

Become a member

Prehistoric Society members receive the following:

Events and Activities

Next event
Conference

Prehistory in the Present

Prehistoric Society day school: online & in person

Prehistory in the Present is the second in this series of Day Schools on Prehistory: past, present and future. The day school will be online and in person.

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Lecture

The prehistory of a lost landscape beneath the North Sea: past, present and future

Annual joint lecture with FEAG & HIAG: in person
Dr James Walker (Bradford University)

This presentation will show how Doggerland was important to the birth of prehistoric archaeology, how it was, for a time, largely forgotten, and why there has been a resurgence of interest.

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Lecture

Palaeo-London. Thinking About The Ice Age Archaeology and Environments of the Capital

Annual joint lecture with LAMAS: online & in person
Dr Matt Pope (UCL)

From the first recorded discovery of a Palaeolithic tool through to the professional commercial excavations taking place in the city in recent years, we’ll consider how the London landscape was shaped by ice and water, and the early human populations who adapted, or not, to the dramatic cycles of climate change evidenced in the gravels and clays of the city’s deep past.

Image: Tabitha Paterson

Next event
Lecture

Iron Age Lives: exploring social dynamics in later prehistoric Britain and Europe

Non-Society event
The COMMIOS project

This one-day conference presents the key results of the COMMIOS Project along with parallel projects in Europe. It will explore the social dynamics of Iron Age society, including new evidence for kin-group composition, mobility, regional identities and complex relationships between the living and the dead.

News and social media

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New Prehistoric Society website launched!

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society collections

The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society is our flagship publication – an international academic journal that has been published since 1935.