Seminar list for semester 2 announced!

UCD School of Archaeology & Archaeological Society Research Seminar Series 2014/15

Thursdays at 5:30 pm, Room A109, Newman Building, UCD

All welcome

For further information contact: archaeologysoc@gmail.com stephen.davis@ucd.ie

Semester Two

• Thursday 22^nd January 2015

Prof. Elizabeth Graham, UCL

“Maya Coastal Change and its Impact: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”

• Thursday 29th January 2015

Dr. Riaan Rifkin, Witwatersand University and University of Bergen

“Early modern human behaviour in south Africa from 100 000 years, Blombos cave and Klipdrift shelter”

• Thursday 5^th February 2015

Dr James Barrett, University of Cambribge

“Clontarf, Orkney and the Age of Piracy in the Late Viking age”

• Thursday 12^th February 2015

Prof. Bill Hanson, University of Glasgow

“Rome's Most Northerly Frontier: The Antonine Wall”

• Thursday 26^th February 2015

Dr Chris Fowler, Newcastle University

“Interpreting Change and Diversity in Early Bronze Age Burial Practices: Northeast England, c.2500-1500 BC”

Mid-Term Break

• Wednesday 25^th March 2015

Dr Michael Ort, Northern Arizona University

“Eruptions and Distributions: The Interaction of Humans with the Eruption of Sunset Crater”

• Thursday 2nd April2015

Dr Julia Best, University of Bournemouth

“Matters Most Fowl: Investigating Chickens in the archaeological record”

• Thursday 9^th April 2015

Dave Cowley, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

“Algorithms, feature detection and interpretation - what role in landscape archaeology?”

• Thursday16th April 2015

Nick Overton, University of Manchester

“Getting to Know You: The Role of Environmental Experiences and Daily Interactions in the Development of Human-Nonhuman Relationships in the Early Mesolithic”

• Thursday 23^rd April 2015

Dr Marion Dowd, IT Sligo

“Bewitched by an elf-dart:  prehistoric artefacts in traditional Irish folk magic and medicine”