Events
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Lecture
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Joint Leicestershire Fieldworkers lecture
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
The Neanderthals occupy a singularly seminal place within human origins, the first hominin to be discovered, the closest to us in evolutionary terms, and with the richest array of evidence to understand their lives. This lecture will explore how understanding of Neanderthals has evolved over more than 160 years
Joint meeting of Leicestershire Fieldworkers, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society and the Prehistoric Society.
Conference
The Painted Forest: Amazonian cosmovision journeys in San José de Guaviare, Colombia
29th August - 2nd September
Non-Society event, supported by the Prehistoric Society.
Rock art offers a glimpse into the earliest artistic expressions of humans around the world. Art gives a voice to people, a voice that can endure over time. Around the world, the genesis of artistic expression is recorded in rock art, providing a gateway to how early humans sought to navigate and understand their place in the world. These images record the voices that shaped and influenced burgeoning cosmologies, social norms and relationships with nature, laying the cultural foundations for generations to come.
Lecture
Staging the World of Stonehenge: reflections on the British Museum exhibition
Dr Neil Wilkin (British Museum)
Annual joint lecture with Welwyn Archaeological Society
Lecture
‘I see the hands of the generations’ - perceiving the past through later prehistoric artefacts
Dr Sophia Adams (British Museum)
The 22nd Sara Champion memorial Lecture
Lecture
Prehistoric communities and monuments on the Fenland Ouse
Christopher Evans, Emeritus Director / Director of Research of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at the University of Cambridge
Non-Society event, supported by the Prehistoric Society.
Informed by the subject’s historiography, and arguing that our fieldwork needs to be imbued with a greater experimental ethos (i.e. ‘failing better’), the talk will address a number of themes arising from over 40 years of investigation along the River Great Ouse at its junction with the Fens.
Lecture
Using visual psychology to interrogate early prehistoric art
Dr Lisa-Elen Meyering (Durham University)
Annual joint lecture with Norwich and Norfolk Archaeological Society
Lecture
Early China and Prehistoric Silk Routes
Global Pasts lecture
Prof. Li Zhang, Zhengzhou University, China
The Silk Routes were one of the most marvellous phenomena in Eurasian history. Over them flowed a huge number and variety of artefacts and customs between China and various parts of the vast Eurasian continent. There has recently been a growing number of striking archaeological discoveries which have demonstrated the existence of such long-distance interactions stretching back several millennia, even to the prehistoric period.
Booking coming soon
Conference
Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Research Student Symposium (NEBARSS)
11-12th November
Non-Society event, supported by the Prehistoric Society.