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PAST 112

Spring 2026

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Investigating a Bronze Age jet-worker’s toolkit: the role of copper alloy awls in the manufacture of Early Bronze Age personal ornaments
Emma Jones (emma@ancientcraft.co.uk), University of York
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From erratic to extraordinary: a response to ‘A Recumbent Stone Circle at Side Pike, Great Langdale, Cumbria, and related rock markings’ by Steve Dickinson
Adam M Ibbotson (adamibbo789@outlook.com), University of York
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A Bronze Age lunula from Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales
Debbie Hallam (Debbie.hallam@btopenworld.com), independent researcher
5-6
Struck quartz and recovery practice: evidence from four Scottish excavations
Murray Cook (m.j.cookstirling35@gmail.com), Torben Ballin, Lindy McNair and Dominic Farrugia, independent researchers
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Notice of AGM and Europa conference 2026
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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The Prehistoric Society 2025
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Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
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Peopling the past: reflections from Tom Björklund on receiving The Prehistoric Society President’s Award 2025
Tom Björklund (tom@bjorklund.fi), artist and illustrator
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Traces of touch: from Palaeolithic embodied markings to Amazonian decorated hands, 24th Sara Champion Memorial Lecture, Dr Barbara Oosterwijk
Lindsey Büster (lindsey.buster@york.ac.uk), University of York
14-15
Tracing early farming practices in Neolithic Croatia: report from the 2nd conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe (ENE2025), Zadar, Croatia
Kelly Reed (kreed.arken@gmail.com), independent researcher
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