Events 2011

5th January 2011: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Michael Coles: Excavation of Mr Ratford's house: a 17th century farmstead at Wimpole
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)
Open meeting - all welcome!
Contact Michael Coles (C. 871403) or Susan May (C. 843121) for more details

10th January 2011: Prehistoric Society
Cambridge Antiquarian Society Lecture
Christopher Evans (CAU): 'Time and the River': Environmental Change, Monumentality and Prehistoric Land-use at Needingworth Quarry, Over
(6.00pm, Room LG17, Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge)

15th January 2011: History Meeting
You are invited to join a history-of-archaeology discussion this Saturday, the 15th, at 10am in the South Lecture Room. Members of the Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN) will give short papers and then open debate. (agenda .pdf)
HARN is an interdisciplinary research initiative dedicated to producing innovative, new historical analyses.
Contact: Pamela and Jodi Reeves Flores from Exeter

20th January 2011: Heritage Research Group
Masaaki Okada: Japanese and European defence heritage: its reuse and potential

Abstract
Defence heritage has been paid little attention in the past, even though it has made a contribution to daily life, as have other examples of industrial heritage. However, since defence heritage also tends to be related to the concept of "military affairs" or "the war", people have expressed strong opinions when these structures have been re-evaluated. In Japan, for instance, defence heritage built at the end of the 19th or the beginning of the 20th centuries has been hidden or more or less ignored for a long time. On the other hand, it has been re-evaluated in different ways especially in the last 10 years. This has lead to an obvious change in social recognition of defence heritage. Some sites have been reused for historical-educational, recreational or even artistic purposes. Defence heritage has assumed a peculiar atmosphere in its spaces or landscapes, and this has attracted artists or photographers to create fascinating works related to the sites' superficial properties, perceiving them as 'charming ruins'. Defence heritage has also been reused as observatories or places for fishing and has even been mentioned in general travel guidebooks. In summary, this seminar will exemplify, compare and analyse some case studies of the reuse of military heritage in the Far East and Europe.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

21st January 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Xiuzhen Janice Li (UCL): Standardisation and Labour Organisation in the Bronze Weapons of the Qin Terracotta Warriors, China
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang
Abstract

24th january 2011: African Archaeology Group
Matthew Davies (BIEA and University of Cambridge): 'Historical archaeology in the Southern Sudan: Emin Pasha’s fort at Laboré and other sites of interest'
(4.30pm, McDonald Seminar Room)
All Welcome

25th january 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Jeanne Pansard-Besson (Faculty of Classics)
Where is the Lupercal?
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

25th January 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Details tbc
(5.00pm, McDonald Seminar Room, reception in coffee room from 6pm)
Contact: Adam Stone abs27@cam.ac.uk

26th January 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Postdoc Discussion Forum
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

26th January 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Dr Helen Wickstead, University of Kingston: Making an exhibition of ourselves: working with visual artists
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)

27th January 2011: Heritage Research Group
Britt Baillie:Dangerous spaces and terrible places: remaking Vukovar's heritagescape

Abstract
In the ethnically mixed city of Vukovar, the destruction of cultural heritage was used as a means of claiming territory and ridding the city of the unwanted 'Other'. Simultaneously, this destruction altered the city's existing cultural heritage, resulting in the advent of a new form of monument: the ruin. This paper will explore the creation of new monuments and the re-imagining Vukovar¹s existing cultural heritage since the three-month siege of the city in 1991. In Vukovar, violence has not been expunged from the landscape, but has rather metamorphosed into monumental form. Here, 'reconstruction' was a part of what Adrian Forty calls 'counter-iconoclasm, remaking something in order to forget what its absence signified.' Yet, (partially) rebuilt Vukovar is not a pure facsimile of the pre-war city. The city's unwanted pasts continue to undergo processes of erasure, incorporation into the dominant narrative, and 'neutralisation'. This paper will conclude by examining the role of the counter-practices of the minority Serb community some of which further entrench ethnic divisions and others which seek to transgress this reified divide.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

27th January 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Dr Simon Thurley, Chief Executiveof English Heritage: The birth of Heritage and the fabrication of History
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)

27th January 2011: Garrod Seminar
Oliver Craig (York): From foraging to farming in Northern Europe: molecular and isotopic contributions to the debate
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

28th January 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Thomas Davies (PhD candidate), Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge: Physique and morphological integration in human long bone variation: A 3D laser scan approach
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

31st January 2011: Medieval Archaeology Group
Stuart Brookes (UCL): Beyond the Burgal Hidage: West Saxon civil defence in the 9th and 10th centuries
(1pm, West Building Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology)

1st February 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Sophie Buchanan (Faculty of Classics)
Roman Battle Sarcophagi Revisited
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

1st February 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
POSTPONED TILL FURTHER NOTICE
David Wengrow (Reader in Comparative Archaeology, UCL): Why did cross-cultural trade matter in the ancient Near East?
(5.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, followed by wine reception)
Contact: Adam Stone abs27@cam.ac.uk

2nd February 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Emanuele Vaccaro: Philosophianis-Sofiana and central Sicily in the longue duree
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

2nd February 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Professor Steven Mithen, University of Reading: Communal and monumental architecture at the origin of the Neolithic in the Near East: New evidence from Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)

2nd February 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Dr Rune Nyord (University of Cambridge)
Ancestral ties - experiences and conceptions of the dead in the ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom
(5.00-6.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar room)
Contact: Sian Thomas, Amy Bahe and Renate Fellinger.

2nd February 2011: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Dr Susan Oosthuizen: Landscape insights into the origins of the manor at Kingston
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site, Downing Street, Cambridge)
Open Meeting - All Welcome
Contact: Michael Coles (C. 871403) or Susan May (C. 843121) for more detail

3rd February 2011: Heritage Research Group
Dominic Walker: The Local and the Universal: Community Involvement in the Management of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site

Abstract
In recent years, heritage policy discourse in the UK has particularly focused on the idea of 'including' local communities. Indeed, heritage management is now considered to be a practice which can provide broad economic and social benefits. UNESCO has also adopted such thinking and encourages the consideration of local needs alongside the conservation of 'universal values' at World Heritage Sites. This talk analyses these developments and considers how effectively the local community at Blaenavon, South Wales, has been included in the management of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape WHS. As a result of processes of deindustrialisation, the Blaenavon community has suffered from economic and social decline, and has been subject to various heritage-led regeneration initiatives aiming to address this. I explore what true collaboration means, and how heritage managers and local governments might more effectively achieve aims such as 'community empowerment', 'social cohesion' and 'social wellbeing'.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

4th February 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Dr Derek S. Bendall, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge: The tea plant, Camellia sinensis: its origin and introduction into human culture
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

4th February 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Hazel Reade (Department of Archaeology)
Isotopic Analysis of Tooth Enamel: Insights into North African Palaeoclimate
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

8th February 2011: African Studies seminar
Matthew Davies: Specialised herding and farming in Eastern Africa: Archaeological contributions to the present
(1.00pm Seminar Room, Mond Building, New Museums Site)

8th February 2011: Public and Popular History Seminar
Helen Geake (Finds Advisor, CU Department of Archaeology):Antiquities, archaeology and the public
(5pm, Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex)

9th February 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Ryan Rabett: Tracking the late history of palaeo-lake Algonquin in northeastern Ontario
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

9th February 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Dr Francisco Calo-Lourido,the Museum of the Galician People (Museo do Pobo Galego), Santiago de Compostela Galiza (Spain): The Castrexo Culture (Hillfort Culture) in the Framework of the Iberian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium B.C.
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)

10th February 2011: Heritage Research Group
Saruhan Mosler A Landscape Architect's Perspective: Acknowledging the Past Today with the Examples of Archaeological Landscapes from West Turkey.

Abstract
Throughout the course of time, working landscapes have been transformed into conserved archaeological heritage sites through natural, but mostly anthropogenic, forces. In Western Anatolia, archaeological heritage sites with ecologically rich areas, countryside, coastlines and seascapes are the most essential visual, spatial and structural features of cultural (historical) landscapes. Moreover, western Anatolian landscapes have retained their authentic character regarding intangible cultural diversity, ecology, rural traditional systems and agricultural practices. Today, they are subject to many pressures caused by developmental changes as well as improper conservation and planning strategies. One reason is that heritage conservation is still heavily focused on architectural features and less on the landscape setting. Wider landscape components set an authentic backdrop for cultural heritage and make the setting vivid and legible. The presentation will focus on the visual values of archaeological sites from the tripartite conceptualization view of visual landscape integrity, namely considering the archaeological landscape setting as an artefact, three-dimensional space, and scenery.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

10th February 2011: Garrod Seminar
Richard Hingley (Durham): Hadrian's Wall: A biography from the second century to the Internet
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

11th February 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Dr Piers Mitchell, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge: Isotope analysis for migration and diet during the crusades
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

11th February 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Dr Jason Hawkes (CAU): Buddhism and its social contexts in Central India during the early historic period: the example of the Buddhist site of Bharhut.
4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room.
Contact: Danika Parikh (dp375), Yijie Zhuang (yz330)

11th February 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Clea Paine (University of Cambridge)
Gravettian responses to fluctuating climate: soil micromorphological evidence from Dolni Vestonice and Pavlov
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)

14th February 2011: Medieval Archaeology Group
Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide (Centre for Medieval Studies, Bergen): Man to man, man to land in Romsdal, Norway, c.560-1200: Christianization and Landscape
(1.00pm, McDonald Institute seminar room)

14th February 2011: Late European Prehistory Group
Prof. Mina Weinsein-Evron (University of Haifa): Archaeology in the Archives: Unveiling the Natufian Culture of Mount Carmel
(4.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)

14th February 2011: World Oral Literature Project
Patrick Sutherland (University of the Arts London): Disciples of a Crazy Saint: Photographing the Buchen of Spiti
(4.30pm - 6pm, 14 February, 2011 )
Seminar Room @ CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
All are welcome!

14th February 2011: Magdalene Arch and Anth and CUBASS
Prof Phyllis Lee (Department of Psychology, University of Stirling)
The value of primate studies for understanding human evolution
(5.30pm, Benson Hall, Magdalene)
All welcome. Wine will be served
bioanth.wordpress.com

15th February 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Henry Hurst (Faculty of Classics)
The NW corner of the Palatine Hill in imperial times: towards a solution?
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

15th February 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Alasdair Livingstone (Reader in Assyriology, University of Birmingham): Topic - Hemerologies
(5.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, followed by wine reception)
Contact: Adam Stone abs27@cam.ac.uk

16th February 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Dr Ulla Rajala and Dr Phil Mills
Defining a ceraminiscene landscape - the analysis of the Roman pottery from the Nepi survey
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room )

16th February 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Professor Julian D. Richards, University of York: Digging into Data: new developments at the Archaeology Data Service
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)

16th February 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Dr. Glenn Godenho (University of Liverpool): Ankhtifi of Hefat: Archaeology, History, Identity
(5pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, followed by wine reception)
Contact: Sian Thomas

17th February 2011: Heritage Research Group
Sam Walls: A landscape of memory: Commemorating disaster and hardship

Abstract
Disaster and hardship form key components in the construction of individual and communal identities, be it candidates on the Apprentice telling Lord Sugar "they're just like him in coming from nothing" or national and regional identities being strongly influenced by oppression or warfare. The importance of disaster and death in the creation of identities is often materially evident in the landscape, with the commemoration of these events through places, monuments and place-names. This paper will discuss the commemoration of communal tragedies in the formation and re-formation of identities in the Southwest of England. A history of shipwrecks, warfare and loss have strongly shaped the areas identity and its landscape and the use and re-use of sites of memory in the formation and re-shaping of these identities offers us the opportunity to analyse the nature of memory and its manipulation.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

17th February 2011:
CANCELLED
Professor Lynette Russell (Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, Monash Indigenous Centre): Remembering Places Never Visited: Connections and context in imagined and imaginary landscapes
(4.30pm McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

18th February 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Professor Mike Baillie, Queen's University Belfast: Dendrochronology and Palaeoenvironment - What's Important?
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

18th February 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Rui WEN (University of Oxford): The Relationship between the Blue Pigment on Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain and Islamic Ceramics
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang
Abstract

18th February 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Luiseach Nic Eoin
How to avoid Total Eclipse of the Hearth: Neanderthal pyrotechnology as material culture
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

19th February 2011: Professional Zooarchaeology Group meeting
The theme of the day is butchery. Speakers in the morning/round-table discussion in the afternoon.
More info (.pdf)
Any queries contact Vida Rajkovaca

19th February 2011: Archaeological Field Club
AFC Feast Lucy Cavendish College
For more details/to book tickets: afcfeast2011@gmail.com

21st February 2011: African Archaeology Group
John Mack (University of East Anglia): Africa's pirate seas
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome
Contacts: Brian Stewart, Shadia Taha, Laurence Smith

22nd February 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Jakub Szamalek (Faculty of Classics)
Greeks and the Peoples of the Black Sea Region. Beyond Ethnicity, Beyond Identity: Archaeology of Commonalities
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

22nd February 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Ronan Head (Research Fellow in Ancient Law, Brigham Young University) : The Babylonian Merchant-Slave
(5.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, followed by wine reception)
Contact: Adam Stone abs27@cam.ac.uk

23rd February 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Professor Tony Legge
Bos for the bosses and pork for the poor
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

23rd February 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Professor Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge: Visiting Göbekli Tepe: the World's First Temple?
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)

23rd February 2011: Biological Anthropology Seminar
Tanzania's Hadza: Why Men hunt and Women Gather
(4.30pm in the Seminar Room, LCHES, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street)

24th February 2011: Heritage Research Group
Ian McNiven: The ancestral present: Managing a sacred islet using scientific and Indigenous knowledge in Torres Strait

Abstract
In 1898, Alfred Haddon was escorted to the sacred islet of Pulu by senior men from nearly Mabuyag island in western Torres Strait. His detailed recordings of ceremonial features have been central to interpreting archaeological materials excavated on the islet over the past 10 years. Due to the immense cultural significance of Pulu, and the results of anthropological and archaeological research over the past century, the people of Mabuyag decided to establish Pulu as an Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in 2009 under Australia's National Reserve System. This talk discusses how scientific knowledge has been combined successfully with traditional laws and customs by a Torres Strait Islander community to create best practice cultural heritage management.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

24th February 2011: Special LCHES-Garrod Joint Seminar
Joao Zilhao (Barcelona): From the delta of the Danube to the estuary of the Tagus: Neandertals, early moderns, symbolic behavior and why the 'Human Revolution' is wrong
(4pm, LCHES Seminar Room)

Followed by:
Clive Gamble (Royal Holloway): The evolution of male control of resources: an archaeological case study
5.00pm, LCHES Seminar Room

Followed by wine reception at the McDonald Institute
All are welcome to these talks, which will explore issues related to the evolution of modern humans, neanderthals and their behaviour.

25th February 2011:
Dr Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (University of Leicester) will be speaking on anthropomorphic imagery in Hallstatt art
(10-11am, West Building Seminar Room)
All Welcome

25th February 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Dr Asier Gómez Olivencia, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge: Four million years of back pain
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

25th February 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr Ian McNiven (Monash University, Australia)
Identifying ritualised middening practices in Torres Strait, NE Australia: theoretical and methodological concerns
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

26th February 2011: Historic Environment Research Conferences 2010-11
Place-names and Landscape: Recent Research
The second of three one-day research conferences spread across the academic year, the programme aims to bring together leading scholars, academic and professional, to discuss new and/or unpublished, innovative research, as well as to provide an opportunity for all those interested in the historic environment to engage with this work, including members of the public, professionals, scholars, policy-makers, and volunteers. This year's programme also includes Designing with Water: New Work in Garden History (Saturday 21st May 2011). All conferences are held in the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ. For further information, download the conference programme flier or contact Dr Susan Oosthuizen by e-mail at smo23@cam.ac.uk, by telephone on 0758 315 1685, or by post at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER. A limited number of places will be available free of charge to students in the Department of Archaeology, who should contact Dr Oosthuizen in advance to ensure that a place will be reserved for them.

1st March 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Belinda Crerar (Faculty of Classics)
Contextualising Britannia's decapitated dead: The expression of social deviancy in Roman Britain?
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

1st March 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Frances Reynolds (Shillito Fellow in Assyriology, University of Oxford): Title TBC
(5.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site, followed by wine reception)
Contact: Adam Stone abs27@cam.ac.uk

2nd March 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Dr Tim Flohr-Sorensen: Elusive Solidity: Atmosphere as an archaeological object
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

2nd March 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Tim Schadla-Hall, University College London: A future for the Past and a Future for Archaeologists?
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)

2nd March 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Carl Walsh - 'Playing Games; Inter-regional contacts in the Middle Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean.'
Miriam Müller - 'Deir el-Medina in Amarna: The workmen's community on the move'
(5.00-6.00pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, followed by wine reception)

2nd March 2011: Archaeology Field Group
Sarah-Jane Harknett and Heather Donoghue: The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology redevelopment (This is your chance to give feedback on the objects proposed for display and influence some of the changes taking place at your local museum)
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
OPEN MEETING - ALL WELCOME
Contact: Michael Coles C. 871403 or Susan May C. 843121

3rd March 2011: Heritage Research Group
Uilleam Blacker: Memory at war: heritage sites and memory conflicts in Eastern Europe

Abstract
The fall of communism in Eastern Europe brought about a wave of remembering. Multiple interpretations of the past, and their open expression, once more became possible. This was expressed in the rediscovery and creation of heritage sites. While this process showed that societies were moving on from the traumatic history of the twentieth century, these sites also became spaces of intense conflicts of memory, as these multiple narratives of the past clash. The pre-communist architectural heritage was restored and reconstructed, yet conflicts arose as to which history should be remembered. What should be done with the architectural legacy of the Jews of Poland and Ukraine, or that of the Germans of Poland's western cities? The communist past also created division between those who would erase it from the landscape, and those for whom its monuments were still important, as testimonies for example, to the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany. The challenges of dealing with the 'heritage' of trauma also arose: what to do with the remains of concentration camps and KGB prisons, the marking and memorialisation of sites of mass murder. The paper will explore these diverse and complex processes to demonstrate the central role that heritage sites have played in post-communist Eastern Europe, and suggest how these processes might develop in future.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

4th March 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Ankica Oros Sršen, Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology, Zagreb, Croatia
Comparison of two avifaunal assemblages from different parts of eastern Adriatic coast, Croatia: Šandalja II (Istria) and Vela spila (Korčula)
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

4th March 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou (LCHES)
The Adriatic Plain as a Last Glacial Maximum Refugium: the view from Grotta Paglicci (Italy)
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

4th March 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
John MacGinnis (McDonald Institute): The Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project
The site of Ziyaret Tepe was a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire in the 9th-7th centuries BC. The talk, which will last approximately 30-40 minutes, will review some of the work undertaken by the international expedition which has been working to learn from the site as much as possible prior to its now imminent destruction by the floodwaters of the Ilisu Dam.
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang.

7th March 2011: Medieval Archaeology Group
Adolf Fridriksson (Institute of Archaeology, Reykjavik): Title tbc
(1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

7th March 2011: African Archaeology Group
Brian Stewart (University of Cambridge): Afromontane foragers of the late Pleistocene: recent work at Melikane and Sehonghong Rock Shelters, Lesotho
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome
Contacts: Brian Stewart, Shadia Taha, Laurence Smith

8th March 2011: Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar
Prof Boudewijn Sirks (All Souls, Oxford)
Can we Reconstruct the Colonate?
(2.30pm - 4.30pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge followed by tea, coffee)
As usual, this will be followed by tea, coffee, and vigorous discussion.

8th March 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Michael Hatt (University of Warwick)
In Search of Lost Time: Displaying Antique Sculpture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

9th March 2011: Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit: Extra Seminar
Yashaswini Chandra (SOAS): The Vernacular Religious Culture of the Sangla Valley in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh
(11.00-12.30, MIASU, The Mond Building)
More info…

9th March 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Zakirullah Jan: Archaeological Explorations in the Gomal Plain, Pakistan
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

9th March 2011: Archaeological Field Club
In anticipation of this year's Personal Histories with Jane Goodall, historian Amanda Rees (Senior Lecturer, University of York) will give a lecture on the history of primatology: Putting primates in their place: the artful science of primatology
Field site research was fundamental to the modern emergence of primatology. Jane Goodall's Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve was, without doubt, the most famous of these projects, but it was neither the first nor even the most controversial of the dozens of field sites that were founded in the post-war period. In this seminar, we will explore the wider history of field site research in primatology.
(4.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)
Tea at 4.15pm in the North Lecture Room
For information please contact Pamela

10th March 2011: Heritage Research Group
Brigid Ward: Civic Identity, Memory and the Urban Landscape in Portsmouth since the Blitz

Abstract
Portsmouth's urban landscape is a palimpsest: the surface has been destroyed, constructed, reconstructed and ultimately rewritten by the Luftwaffe, the postwar planners and the citizens themselves. Because of the massive destruction of the Blitz, there is a city that exists now only in the memories of those who were alive and aware before Portsmouth's first air-raid. In places, thanks to the efforts of the local history groups and the City Council, there are echoes of that city. An example of this is the George Hotel: after its destruction in the raids of 1940 and 1941, much of the ground where it stood has not been rebuilt on. As the hotel where Lord Nelson spent his last hours in England, it is celebrated with plaques and a garden and sculpture and gas-lights on either side of where the front door used to be. In other places, there are buildings preserved and conserved because of their importance in the narrative of the city's history: they help make meaning and help contextualize civic identity. My PhD project seeks to find out how history, memory and architectural heritage have functioned in the development of this identity in the late twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.

10th March 2011: Museum of Classical Archaeology Lunchtime Lectures
Carenza Lewis (Senior Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology): What did the Romans do for our villages? - an archaeological hunt for Roman antecedents to today's rural settlements
(1:10 - 1:50 Museum of Classical Archaeology, Sidgwick Avenue )

10th March 2011: Garrod Seminar
Stephanie Moser (Southampton): Designing Antiquity: Exhibiting Ancient Egypt at the Crystal Palace, London 1854
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

11th March 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Dr Rhiannon Stevens, University of Cambridge: Investigating the synchronicity of the late-glacial climate warming and the Magdalenian re-colonization of North West Europe
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

11th March 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Dr.Xiaoyan YANG (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
The ancient starch grains from the Tribe Triticeae
abstract:
Wheat-related grasses, the Tribe Triticeae, including wild varieties of wheat (Aegliops spp. and Triticum spp.) and barley (Hordeum spp.)(AHT grasses), were exploited as early as 23,000 years before present (YBP) and domesticated ca. 10,000 YBP in southwest Asia, after which the domesticated grains spread to East Asia by 5,000 YBP or so. Here, we report ancient starches from wheat and/or closely related grasses recovered from milling stones and ceramic sherds excavated from 7 sites in China dating from 11,000 to 6,000 cal YBP. Our results indicate the AHT grasses were also being exploited as food resources in the early Holocene in East Asia and were taken as one of foods by ancient peoples in China from the Early through the Middle Neolithic.
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang.

11th March 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Jacob Morales (Department of Archaeology)
Plants and subsistence of North African hunter-gatherers during the Upper Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic: preliminary investigations on the macro-botanical remains from Haua Fteah (Libya) and Ifri Oudadane (Morocco)
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

15th March 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Philip Boyes (Faculty of Classics)
Collapse, Continuity and Transformation: Social change in 'Phoenicia' during the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age transition
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All welcome

16th March 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Dr Matthew Davies
The archaeology of in-between: missing people in the African Archaeological record
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

17th March 2011: Heritage Research Group
!Schedule change
Dr Chiara De Cesari: A Heritage by NGOs: the politics of the Past in Palestine.
1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Guohua Yang.
Abstract…

18th March 2011: Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Professor Tony Legge (Department of Archaeology)
Back to Basics; the fauna of the Haua Fteah in Libya
(1.15-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site)

18th March 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr Matt Grove (University of Liverpool)
Hominin evolution in fluctuating environments
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

18th March 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Dr. Kuang-Jen Chang (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
From kundika to kendi, or a China-centred misunderstanding?: A case study of pottery production in China and beyond
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang.

19th March 2011: Science on Saturday
The Science of Archaeology
Were Neanderthals fussy eaters? Was the skeleton in your cupboard a man or a woman? Science can help archaeologists answer these questions and many others. Learn how by enjoying displays and hands-on activities to discover the secrets revealed by pots, plants, soil, bones and even fossilized poo! All ages, drop in, demo and hands on.
(10.30am-4.00pm, McDonald Institute)

19th March 2011: Table Ethnosciences network
POSTPONED TILL FURTHER NOTICE
Developing a cross-disciplinary 'network initiative' on traditional knowledge and ethno-sciences within the University
(11.00am-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Dr Francoise Barbira Freedman, Department of Social Anthropology.

15th-16th April 2011: The 12th Cambridge Heritage Seminar
The Heritage of Memorials and Commemorations
For the past ten years the Cambridge Heritage Seminars have brought together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to explore the most pressing issues in heritage studies today. Seminars are hosted by the University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology's Heritage Research Group. This year's seminar is co-hosted by the Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of Identity After Conflict (CRIC) project.
The 12th Cambridge Heritage Seminar seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide array of disciplines and communities of practice to explore what and how we choose to commemorate and the impact that this has on our own memories and identities, and thus on heritage.
More info…

16th April 2011: AEA day-meeting, Spring 2011
CANCELLED
Theme: The Archaeology of Hunger.
The conference will start at 9.30 for 10.00am.
Please would those wishing to present papers send titles and abstracts to Dr Preston Miracle by 31 March, 2011.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for discussion. Conference fee: £33.00 to include morning and afternoon tea/coffee and a light lunch. Please email Preston Miracle to reserve a place and arrange payment. Venue: The Old Music Room, St John's College, Cambridge, UK, seats 40. There is easy public parking nearby at the Park Street garage.

18th April 2011: Bring and Buy Plant Sale in aid of the British Red Cross
Please bring your spare seedlings, young plants etc. - or if you didn't get round to sowing your own this year, come and buy some! All proceeds will go to the British Red Cross.
Any questions - contact Harriet (hvh22) or Jo (jepw3)
(9.30 - 11.30 McDonald Institute Coffee Room)

19th April 2011: Ancient India and Iran Trust
Professor Robin Coningham (Durham University): Lumbini: preserving and protecting a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal
(5.30pm, Ancient India and Iran Trust, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BG)
The lecture is free and open to all, no registration required, and will be followed by a reception at the Trust's offices on Brooklands Avenue.
More info…

28th April 2011:
"Oral History of Primatology and Ethology" with Prof Robert Hinde, his former Ph.D student, Dame Jane Goodall, and two 'younger' colleagues, the brilliant Prof Richard Wrangham of Harvard University and our own Cambridge's Prof Bill McGrew.
The discussion is in the Babbage Lecture Theatre on the New Museum site off Downing Street from 3.30 to 6pm on the 28th of April.
The BBC will be screening footage of Jane Goodall in the field from around 2.30pm in the Babbage.
If you did not reserve a seat yet and would still like to, send an e-mail message to Alex.
IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND ON THE 28th AND HAVE A SEAT, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
Contact: Pamela, Harriet, Owen and Hannah; 07976 919083

3rd May 2011: Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar
Marios Costambeys (Liverpool), 'Lacrimans Karolus'? Charlemagne and Hadrian I'
(2.30pm, CRASSH (the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities), 17 Mill Lane)
As usual, this will be followed by tea, coffee, and vigorous discussion.

4th May 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Dr. Christina Riggs (School of World Art Studies and Museology University of East Anglia): Making mummies make sense: Archaeology, museums, and the unwrapped object
(5pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, followed by wine reception)

4th May 2011: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Professor Tony Legge (McDonald Institute): What mean these bones?
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Open meeting - all welcome!

5th May 2011: Heritage Research Group
Professor Ian Lilley (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, University of Queensland): "Putting their money where our mouths are (or how global mining companies will save the world's cultural heritage)".
(1 to 2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
All welcome

6th May 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Dr Elizabeth Moore (SOAS): A new 12th century Bagan temple near Kyaukse The talk describes the discovery by a local monk of a 12th century temple, Shin Bin She-gu-gyi, in the fertile rice-fields of Kyaukse, Upper Myanmar (Burma). While the '11 rice-fields' that supplied Bagan are widely recognized for their economic role, the temples of the rice-field walled sites are little known. As seen from survey of several rice-field sites, politics and religion worked in tandem with cultivation. The architecture and stucco-work of what was probably a local 'forest-dwelling' sect, Shwe-gu-gyi highlights the unique art of wider Bagan.
(4-5pm, Friday, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

6th May 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr Philip Hopley (University of London)
Hominin palaeoecology in the Plio-Pleistocene - new insights from South African cave deposits (4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

9th May 2011: African Archaeology Group
Jamie Hampson (University of Cambridge): Rock art, regionalism, and heritage in Kruger National Park
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome
Contacts: Brian Stewart, Shadia Taha, Laurence Smith

9th May 2011: Special Seminar
Department of Biological Anthropology
Paul Pettitt (University of Sheffield): Using primatological observations to develop a longterm model of Hominin mortuary activity
(5.00pm, Lecture Theatre, Dept of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke St)

10th May 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Lindsay Lloyd-Smith, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge
The Megaliths of Central Borneo The megalithic monuments of central Borneo are as varied as they are numerous. They include stone mounds, stone tables, hollow-carved stone jars, standing stones, as well as rock carvings. Many of the megaliths are known as burial sites and Chinese pottery found at some sites suggests that they date to the last 500 years. However, the origins of the megalithic tradition and how this changed over time have remained, until now, a mystery. This paper presents the results of survey and excavation carried out by the Cultured Rainforest Project between 2006 and 2010 in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak.
(5-6pm, Note the time is different from what it used to be. The venue will be in South Lecture Room)

10th May 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Dr. Yoram Cohen (Dept of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures,Tel Aviv University) will be discussing the Emar Scribal School
(5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

11th May 2011: McDonald Institute lunchtime seminar
Jo Appleby: Life and death in 19th century Mauritius
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

11th May 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Professor Matthew Johnson (University of Southampton): Understanding Bodiam Castle
(3.30pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology)
Members free, non-members £1

11th May 2011: CU Biological Anthropological Society
CANCELLED
Professor Maurice Bloch ( Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics) will be speaking to CUBASS about Kinship and Commensality and putting these ideas into an evolutionary framework.
Professor Bloch is one of the most prolific and respected anthropologists of the Twentieth Century. He is editor of key texts as “Death and the Regeneration of Life” and “Money and the Morality of Exchange”. Recently, his work has expanded to include research on cognitive psychology.
It is rare indeed for social anthropologists to engage with biological ideas, and so we hope that the chance of seeing a speaker as renowned as Professor Bloch breaching the academic divide will be sufficient to rouse you from revision.
There will be a small charge of £1 for non-members of CUBASS to cover the speaker's transport costs.
(5pm, Leverhulme Centre for Evolutionary Studies, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge)

11th May 2011: THE THIRD R.R. INSKEEP MEMORIAL LECTURE IN AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Professor Nicholas David (University of Calgary): The Archaeology of the Intangible: recent developments and monumentality in Cameroon
(5pm Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, followed by a wine reception at the McDonald Institute)
ALL WELCOME!
Abstract

!NEW DATE 11th May 2011: VON HÜGEL LECTURE
Professor Ruth Phillips: MUSEUMS AND THE MULTICULTURAL MODERN: The Work of Art in Cultural Translation Chair: Professor Nicholas Thomas, Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
(5.30 pm, Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane, University of Cambridge)
With the generous support of Peter Chapman RSVP, inquiries to Liz Haslemere, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, tel: 01223 764956/333516
More info… (.pdf)

12th May 2011: Heritage Research Seminar
Michal Murawski: From Resistance to Heritage: 'Cosmopolitan Deviations' from Socialist Realist Architecture and the Making of 21st Century Warsaw
Abstract: Polish architecture in the first decade after the Second World War was characterized (especially after 1949) by the supremacy of socialist realism. Architecture was to be 'socialist in content, national in form' and modernist buildings were routinely condemned for their 'formalism' and 'cosmopolitanism'. After 1989, but especially during the past several years, these very modernist 'deviations' are being celebrated as examples of an architectural 'resistance movement' against socialist realism. Many buildings from the 1950s are being painstakingly renovated to restore their faded 'avant-garde' glamour. Architects, critics, journalists and developers are citing these buildings as examples of Polish architecture's 'innate' embeddedness in international (or western) architectural 'trends', unshaken even in the face of 'imposed', 'totalitarian' (or eastern) aesthetico-political 'doctrines'. Moreover, the rebirth of Warsaw's 1950s modernist architecture is bolstering the notion that contemporary Warsaw is in the process of re-becoming a cosmopolitan, global city. These bastions (or 'Trojan horses') of modernity and 'worldliness' are being enlisted in attempts to construct a heritage for this new Warsaw, to prove that this is the kind of city it 'always was' at the core. Consequently, resistance and dominance are fused: the buildings which are being lauded as the physical embodiments and agents of historical 'defiance' are simultaneously being deployed to construct a heritage testifying to the 'naturalness' and historical continuity of a burgeoning, late capitalist, global Warsaw.
(1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

12th May 2011: Museum of Classical Archaeology Lunchtime Lectures
Mr Nick Denyer (Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy): Origins of Justice
(1:10 - 1:50 Museum of Classical Archaeology, Sidgwick Avenue )

12th May 2011: Archaeological Review from Cambridge Launch Party
The members of the editorial committee of the Archaeological Review from Cambridge request the pleasure of your company for Pimms, snacks and other refreshments on the lawn outside the McDonald Institute for the launch of the latest edition, 26.1, Archaeology and Economic Crises. Should the weather go against us, we will be holding the launch in the coffee room of the McDonald Institute at the same time. In addition to the highly interesting newest publication, past issues and subscriptions will also be available on the day for anyone interested.
(From 2.30pm, lawn area outside McDonald Institute)

12th May 2011: LCHES Seminar
Professor Tim Clutton-Brock: The Origin of Society
(4pm, LCHES seminar room, Fitzwilliam St, Cambridge)

12th May 2011: Garrod Seminar
David Wengrow (UCL): What can we learn from monsters? Cognitive Anthropology and the Bronze Age
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

13th May 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Seminar
Professor Marijke van der Veen, University of Leicester
The Roman and Islamic Spice Trade: Exploring the Botanical Remains from the Roman and Islamic Ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt
(1.15-2.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

13th May 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr. Rebecca Harrision (University of Sheffield)
Decoding Upper Palaeolithic hand stencils
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

16th May 2011: Personal Histories 2011
You are invited to view the BBC's footage of Jane Goodall as well as the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Personal Histories films, all day MONDAY, the 16th, from 9am in the McDonald Seminar Room. Drop in anytime. The BBC film will be screened from 1pm to 2pm. It is still possible to buy "Fifty Years at Gombe" for £15 cash.
Photos of the 28th by Patricia Duff, Suzanne Pilaar Birch and Sarah McEvoy can be viewed on facebook

16th May 2011: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Professor Anders Andrén (Stockholm): Whirls, horses and ships: Solar aspects of Old Norse religion
(5pm, GR06-7, Faculty of English)

17th May 2011: Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar
Stuart Airlie (Glasgow), 'Masters of Time and Space: The Universal Authority of the Carolingian Dynasty, 751 to 888'
(2.30pm, CRASSH (the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities), 17 Mill Lane)
As usual, this will be followed by tea, coffee, and vigorous discussion.

18th May 2011: Postdoc Discussion Forum
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

19th May 2011: Heritage Research Seminar
Claudia Theune: 'Archaeology and remembrance: Archaeological research at former concentration camps Abstract: Archaeological excavations have taken place in former concentration camps and extermination/death camps over the last 15 - 20 years. Extensive excavations have been carried out in the former camps at Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald in Germany, at Mauthausen in Austria, and in the former death camps at Belzec and Sobibor in Poland. Small excavations have taken place in other camps such as Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Flossenbürg (all Germany). Research is also now beginning to take place at other such sites.The excavations have been carried out partly in the context of research projects, and partly by the state office for the preservation of heritage.
Most of unearthed sites are of particular importance for memorial and remembrance. Examples are the site of execution in Sachsenhausen, or the ramp where the prisoners arrived in concentration camps, such as at Flossenbürg. Many archaeological objects from victims and the perpetrators are frequently found at these sites. These objects give us an insight into life and survival in the camp. The objects of the perpetrators are symbols of power; the finds of the victims indicate self-assertion, or can be seen as symbols of powerlessness.
(1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

19th May 2011: Garrod Seminar
Roberta Gilchrist (Reading): Heirlooms and ancient objects:connecting the lives of medieval people and things
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

20th May 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Seminar
Dr Françoise Barbira-Freedman (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Title tbc
(1.15-2.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

20th May 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Tim Williams (UCL): The forgotten city of ancient Merv, Turkmenistan: 2,500 years on the Silk Roads of Central Asia"

Abstract: For over two decades The Institute of Archaeology, UCL, have been undertaking research at the ancient Silk Roads cities of Merv, in collaboration with the Turkmenistan Ministry of Culture. Occupied from the 6th century BCE onwards, a sequence of cities provides a remarkable testimony to the complex urban centres which developed along the Silk Roads, and the empires that sought to control this pivotal location. The research project has explored numerous aspects of the cities, most recently focusing on the development of the Islamic city of Sultan Kala between the 8th to 13th centuries CE.
Tim Williams
Merv Project
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang

20th May 2011: Ancient India and Iran Trust
Dr Christiane Esche-Ramshorn (independent scholar)
Christian Art between Europe and the Middle East (14th-15th c). Nakhitchevan and its sacred geography explored in a multi-faith contex
As usual, the lecture begins at 5.30pm, with light refreshments available from 5pm. All welcome, admission free.
Ancient India and Iran Trust, 23 Brooklands Avenue
More info…

21st May 2011: Historic Environment Research Conferences 2010-11
Designing with Water: New Work in Garden History
The last of three one-day research conferences spread across the academic year, the programme aims to bring together leading scholars, academic and professional, to discuss new and/or unpublished, innovative research, as well as to provide an opportunity for all those interested in the historic environment to engage with this work, including members of the public, professionals, scholars, policy-makers, and volunteers. The conference is held in the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ. For further information, download the conference programme flier or contact Dr Susan Oosthuizen by e-mail at smo23@cam.ac.uk, by telephone on 0758 315 1685, or by post at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER. A limited number of places will be available free of charge to students in the Department of Archaeology, who should contact Dr Oosthuizen in advance to ensure that a place will be reserved for them.

23rd May 2011: Medieval Encounters Series
Andrew Reynolds (Professor of Medieval Archaeology at UCL):'The mystery of Wansdyke'
(1pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
This lecture forms a part of the on-going Medieval Encounters series. Further details of future events can be obtained through the Ucam-medieval-encounters mailing list.

23rd May 2011: Medieval Archaeology Group
Johanna Bergqvist (Department of Archaeology, Lund University, Sweden): The art of healing in Sweden ca 1100-1600. Gendered attitudes towards hygiene and ill health amongst the piously religious in medieval Sweden
(5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

24th May 2011: HERCULANEUM: CHALLENGES AND DISCOVERIES
All-Day Workshop at the Cambridge Classics Faculty - Tuesday 24 May 2011
More info… (.pdf)

24th May 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Jon Taylor: Squeezed, broken and lovingly preserved: Neo-Babylonian copies of ancient inscriptions
(5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

25th May 2011: McDonald Lunchtime Seminar
Philip Nigst: Title tba
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

25th May 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
E.R. O'Connell (British Museum):The living and the dead in magical practice in the Late Antique Theban Necropolis
(5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, followed by wine reception)

26th May 2011: Heritage Research Seminar
Dark heritage and Identity Panel Discussion
Dr. Gilly Carr (Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge): Dark identities in the Channel Islands
Dr. Paola Filippucci (Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge): Heart of darkness? Death and heritage on the Western Front
Wayne Cocroft (English Heritage): Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, explorations in the Stasi's forbidden suburb
Dr. Philip Stone (University of Central Lancashire): Dark Heritage and (Re)Presenting the Macabre: Kitsch and the Commodification of Tragic Memories
(1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

27th May 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Seminar
Dr Toomas Kivisild (Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge): Shared and unique genetic adaptations in populations of South Asia
(2.00-2.45pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

27th May 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Robyn Inglis (University of Cambridge, Archaeology)
Scales of Environmental Reconstruction in Rockshelters: The Middle-Upper Palaeolithic at the Haua Fteah, Libya
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

31st May 2011: Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar
John Hines (Cardiff), 'Counting the Treasure: a Late Antique Framework for Valuing Gold and Silver in Germanic Europe'
(2.30pm, CRASSH (the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities), 17 Mill Lane)
As usual, this will be followed by tea, coffee, and vigorous discussion.

1st June 2011: McDonald Lunchtime Seminar
Bernadette McCall (University of Sydney): Mamasani, the missing years: continuing research into the Mamasani region, south-western Iran
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

1st June 2011: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
John MacGinnis: Excavating a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site)
Open Meeting - All Welcome

3rd June 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Seminar
Amy Prendergast, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge "A palaeoclimatic framework for the late Pleistocene human occupation of the North African Mediterranean: correlating marine and terrestrial proxies from the stable isotope analysis of molluscs"
(1.15-2.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

3rd June 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Chrissy Collins (University of Sheffield)
The more the merrier? Population dynamics and human innovation in Late Glacial France
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

3rd June 2011: Ancient India and Iran Trust
Special Friends only event
One of our Trustees, Sir Nicholas Barrington, will be talking about his time as a diplomat in Pakistan and Afghanistan - 'A Diplomat's Contacts with History and Archaeology, with a few personal artefacts'. This event will begin at 5.30pm and will be followed by a reception.
If you would like to attend this event, we ask that you join the Friends of the Ancient India and Iran Trust scheme. The Trust is a completely independent institution and we rely entirely on our own resources, so this is one of the best ways in which people can support our work. Annual membership is just £30.
For more information please contact Dr Anna Collar | Administrator
Ancient India & Iran Trust |Registered Charity no: 276295
23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BG
Tel: +44 (0)1223 356841 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 361125
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6th June 2011: Medieval Archaeology Group
James Gerrard (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Cambridge): From villa to hillfort in the fifth-century South West
(1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

6th June 2011: SARA Seminar
Chiara De Cesari, new Lecturer in Heritage Studies
"The Politics of Prefiguration: Forging the Palestinian Nation-State through Heritage and Artistic Performance"
Chiara's short paper (which participants should try to read in advance) can be found here. The sections highlighted in grey are the bits that people in a hurry can afford to skip! Seminars will consist of a brief presentation by the speaker followed by a Q&A and discussion of her pre-circulated paper. We'll then move on to drinks at the University Centre.
All welcome! For further information, contact Liana Chua (lclc2) or Holly High (hh352).
(5.00-6.30 pm, Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology)

8th June 2011: McDonald Lunchtime Seminar
Chris Stimpson: The green desert and the Great Cave of Niah
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

8th June 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Dr. Kasia Szpakowska (Swansea University): "Serpents of Fire and Ancient Egyptian Demonology"
(5pm in the McDonald seminar room, followed by wine reception)

10th June 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Seminar
Hugo Oliveira (PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge)
The spread of farming in Northwest Africa: the contribution of wheat genetics
(1.15-2.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

10th June 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Ivy Owens, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge
Botai: A site of early horse domestication in Eneolithic North Kazakhstan
(4-5pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

10th June 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Michelle Langley (University of Oxford)
Patterns of Modernity: Taphonomy, Sampling and the Archaeological Record of Pleistocene Sahul
(4.30pm SLR, Department of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade and Kate Connell

13th June 2011: Medieval Archaeology Group
CANCELLED
Russell Ó Ríagáin: Irish round ecclesiastic towers: a discussion of their dating and functions
(1.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

14th June 2011: Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar
Ian Wood (Leeds), 'The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages'
(2.30pm, CRASSH (the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities), 17 Mill Lane)
As usual, this will be followed by tea, coffee, and vigorous discussion.

15th June 2011: McDonald Lunchtime Seminar
Chiara De Cesari: Memory Voids and the Transnational Heritage of Europe
(1.15pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

16th June 2011:
How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet
Nancy Campbell will discuss her latest artist's book, How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic' which celebrates the endangered Kalaallisut language.
17:00 - 19:00, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
More info…

17th June 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Seminar
POSTPONED until Michaelmas Term
Dr Sue Colledge (Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
Title tbc
(1.15-2.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

10th September 2011:
Insular Economics: Ireland in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
An interdisciplinary early-career workshop held by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research This workshop is dedicated to exploring an overlooked element of the history and archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland, its economies, economics and their wider Insular contexts, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Papers by early career researchers, working in a number of different fields - will explore topics such as numismatics, exchange networks, administrative documentary traditions, settlements, environmental impact and the application of theoretical economic models.
The workshop is free to attend but places are limited so please contact Andrew Woods as soon as possible to reserve your place. Deadline for application is 2nd September. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided.
Further details
Programme (.pdf)
Abstracts (.pdf)
Poster (.pdf)

23rd-25th September 2011: Fingerprinting the Iron Age
Magdalene College and McDonald Institute, Cambridge A conference to explore Iron Age identity in South Eastern Europe in the broader context of the European Iron Age.
Futher details can be found here or email Catalin Popa or Simon Stoddart.

30th September-2nd October 2011:
The 2011 Fifth International Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past Child Labour in the Past: Children as economic contributors and consumers As in previous years, the conference will include sessions addressing the conference theme and other aspects of research into children and childhood in the past.
Programme and Registration Form (pdf) Registration Form (Word doc)
Venue: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

5th October 2011: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Mark Hinman: Skeleton Green revisited: Excavations at Braughing Roman Cemetery
(7.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Open Meeting - All Welcome
Contact Michael Coles (C. 871403) or Susan May (C. 843121) for more detail

7th October 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Prof. Tom Higham (University of Oxford): Recent developments in radiocarbon pretreatment chemistry: implications for the chronologies of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
(1:15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Contact: Lauren Cadwallader (lc340) or Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (gm327)

7th October 2011: ZHAO Zhijun (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): Learning to eat bread: New data on the eastward spread of wheat into China
Abstract: Wheat originated in West Asia. After its introduction into China, it eventually became the dominant crop in Northern China, replacing the major native crops of foxtail millet and broomcorn millet. This resulted a significant change in cooking traditions in China, i.e., from boiling/steaming whole grains of rice or millets to grinding flour. Yet, neither the time when it arrived in China nor the routes through which it was introduced are clear. The important role the so-called Silk Road played in cultural contacts between West and East during historical times has led to an assumption that the eastward spread of wheat into China followed a similar route. However, hard evidence to confirm this hypothesis, such as wheat remains, has been lacking. In the past ten years, flotation techniques have been introduced and implemented in Chinese archaeology. As a result, a tremendous quantity of plant remains has been recovered from archaeological sites in North China, providing new data about early wheat in the region. This new data provides direct archaeological evidence for the study of the eastward spread of wheat into China. One conclusion that can be drawn from this is that wheat was most likely brought to China around 4500 BP. The new data also suggests several possible routes by which wheat may have been brought into China, such as the Eurasia Steppe route, through the Hexi Corridor, as well as along the coastal areas of South Asia and Southeast Asia.
(3.30 pm Needham Research Institute, Cambridge)

10th November 2011: Heritage Research Group
Yannis Galanakis, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Christos Tsirogiannis, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
Christopher Chippindale Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Panel Discussion: Looted Antiquities: Past, Present, Future
(1-2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street )
Organisers: Dr. Britt Baillie, Dr. Gilly Carr & Liz Cohen.
Please contact Liz Cohen to receive our Heritage Bulletin.

10th October 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Jennifer Bates (Dept of Archaeology, University of Cambridge): Villages, daily food production and exchange: a new approach to Indus social organisation.
Abstract
The nature of social organisation in the Indus Civilisation of Bronze Age South Asia (3000-1500BC) is still hotly debated, with studies focusing mainly on evidence from urban sites. Rural settlements and their role in society are often neglected. By focusing on only one element of this complex social system, the cities, the wide variety of relationships that may have existed has been overlooked, providing a skewed view of Indus social organisation. This project examines the role played by rural sites through analysis of phytolith samples from Masudpur VII, a small village in northwest India, in the hinterland of the city of Rakhigarhi. The results suggest that the relationship between city development and village life was not as simple as had previously been assumed.
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang

11th October 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Carrie Vout: Unfinished Business: Revisiting Medea in Roman Wall Painting
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All Welcome

11th October 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Dr Ilya Yakubovich (Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology at the University of Oxford): Reconstructing multilingualism in ancient societies
(5.30pm, McDonald Seminar Room, reception in coffee room from 6pm)
Contact: Adam Stone

12th October 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
David Orton
Trading, crusading, and the origin of the modern Eastern Baltic Cod Fishery
(1.15pm McDonald seminar room)

12th October 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Dr Mark Collier (University of Liverpool):"Stop, I will tell": From unpublished fragments to the analysis of testimony in the study of the late XIXth Dynasty tomb robbery papyri
(5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar room, followed by reception)

13th October 2011: Annual Heritage Fair
The Heritage Research Group would like to invite you to join us for our annual Heritage Fair.
The Fair is an opportunity for the heritage community of Cambridge to meet, mingle and learn about each other's work. The event will consist of a series of short presentations by research groups whose work is heritage-related. The presenters this year include: English Heritage, Scientific Heritage Project, Cambridge Museums Fitzwilliam Museum, Taking Place Graduate Research Group, Institute of Continuing Education, and the Cambridge Historic Buildings Group
(5-8pm 2011 McDonald Institute, Division of Archaeology, Downing Site,Cambridge, CB2 3DZ)
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Liz Cohen.

13th October 2011: Medieval History Seminar
Dr Chris Briggs: Usury, property rights and the land market: mortgages in medieval Europe
(5-6 pm, Faculty of History, Board Room)

14th October 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Prof. Jimmy Zhao (Chinese Academy of Social Science): Agricultural Development for the Rise of Chinese Civilisation
(1:15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Contact: Lauren Cadwallader (lc340) or Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (gm327)

14th October 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr Philip Nigst, University of Cambridge
Willendorf II: Excavations 2006-2011
(4.30pm South Lecture Room)
Contact Hazel Reade (hr296) or Kate Connell (kbc29)

17th October 2011: Art Group Meeting
The Art Group provides a forum for the exchange of ideas about visual art, including prehistoric as well as contemporary art. Alongside presentations focusing on prehistoric art of the world, we will also consider how our existing understanding of contemporary art influences the way we look at and construe interpretations of prehistoric imagery and vice versa.
(1.00 pm in the Material Culture Lab West Building, second floor, room 2.2)
ALL WELCOME
Contact: Lila Janik, Mark Sapwell or Jess Cooney

17th October 2011: Medieval History Seminar
ANGLO-SAXON, NORSE AND CELTIC
GRADUATE SEMINAR
For the first seminar of the year we welcome two speakers: Dr Rory Naismith (Cambridge) 'Money, economy and exchange at the dawn of the second millennium' Dr Andrew Woods (Cambridge), 'Assessing the unquantifiable: considering the scale of Ireland's early medieval economy' All welcome. The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception in the ASNC Common Room.
(5 pm, Faculty of English, room G.R-06/07)
(Please note that this event replaces the previously advertized lecture by Dr Amy Mulligan, who has had to postpone her visit owing to unforeseen circumstances.)

18th October 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Christopher Metcalf (University of Oxford): New parallels in Hittite and Sumerian praise of the Sun
(5.30pm, McDonald Seminar Room, reception in coffee room from 6pm)
Contact: Adam Stone

19th October 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Lila Janik
In search of mythological reality: rock art of southern Siberia
(1.15pm McDonald seminar room)

19th October 2011: African Archaeology Group
John Alexander Seminar Series 2011-2012
Professor Tim Insoll (University of Manchester): The Archaeology of Ritual Context in Northern Ghana
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Rom, Downing Site, followed by wine reception)
Contact: Brian Stewart (bas29); Matt Davies (md564); Shadia Taha (st446)

19th October 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Cameron Petrie - Land,Water and Settlement: approaching urbanisation in North-West India from the ground up.
(4.30pm South Lecture Room, Division of Archaeology)

20th October 2011: Heritage Research Group
Gabriel Moshenka (Department of Archaeology, University College London): Air Raid Shelters and the Heritage of British Communism
(1-2:30pm, McDonald Institute, Division of Archaeology, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ )
All Welcome! For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Liz Cohen.

20th October 2011: Graduate Seminar
John Creese: Building Identities in the Northern Iroquoian Longhouse
Abstract: I will present evidence for enduring connections between the spatial disposition of routine domestic practices, and the constitution of personhood, power, and community in a North American 'Neolithic' society. The spatial order of Iroquoian longhouse life was, I suggest, integral to the process of defining and naturalizing dualistic or 'conjoint' ideals of personhood and power in a wider context of sedentarization and village development. Specifically, the peculiar multivalent quality of longhouse space seems to have been productively engaged in mediating tensions between part and whole, ego and collective, that lay at the heart of Northern Iroquoian social reproduction.
(4:30 - 5:00pm - McDonald Seminar Room, followed by Wine Reception)

20th October 2011: Medieval History Seminar
Prof. Alexandra Walsham: History, Memory and the Reformation
(5-6 pm, Law Faculty, Room LG19)

21st October 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Dr Jo Appleby (University of Cambridge): LIfe and death on Cape Verde: excavations at Alcatrazes 2011
(1.15pm-2.00pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute)

21st October 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr. Chris Hunt, Queen's University Belfast
Epipalaeolithic Shell from the Haua: Environment, Diet and Adornment
(4.30pm South Lecture Room)
Contact Hazel Reade (hr296) or Kate Connell (kbc29)

22nd October 2011: Festival of Ideas: Prehistory Day
Please come along to Prehistory Day -- another contribution from Archaeologists in Cambridge to the Festival of Ideas. It's at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, 34A&B Storey's Way, CB3 0DT and we're open from 10.30-16.00.
More info…

22nd October 2011: Festival of Ideas, Girton College
Girton College warmly invites you to a day of talks, tours, exhibitions and craft activities as part of the University's Festival of Ideas
Anglo-Saxons and Egyptians at Girton College
Saturday 22 October, 10.00am—4.00pm
Trace the graves of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors under the tennis courts; get messy and create a bejewelled Eyptian mask, model a clay shabti to serve you in the afterlife, or draw your own skeleton. See the Portrait Mummy named Hermione, and hear a talk about ancient pottery.
Hands-on craft activities run all day from 10am to 4pm
The Lawrence Room antiquities collection (including Hermione) open from 10am to 4pm
Talks at 11am and 2pm
Finding the Bodies Tours at 12 noon and 3pm
All ages welcome; Free of charge: No need to book

22nd October 2011: Festival of Ideas: CRIC Project
"Do Memorials Matter?"
As part of the Festival of Ideas the CRIC project invites people to join them for a workshop and presentation in which they will ask the question "Do Memorials Matter?"
The CRIC Research Project, base in the Department of Archaeology, is investigating the reconstruction of societies after conflict. The research shows that memories, memorials and anniversary events play important roles in societies. They are a way of dealing with past conflict, a means of public mourning and can help people move on; this is not, however, a straightforward process.
As part of the Festival of Ideas the CRIC project will be holding a workshop and presentation on Saturday 22 October 2011. The event will be held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research between 2pm and 5:30pm and provides the opportunity for everyone to engage in the research. Project leader Marie Louise Stig Sorensen will be opening the 5 'memory boxes' which have been on display around Cambridge over the last few weeks. These boxes have been collecting information and opinions on the town's memorials and the responses will be discussed and analysed at an open workshop.
Presentations from members of the CRIC project will introduce aspects of memorial culture in Germany, Spain and Denmark and videos will show the variety of other types of memorials under investigation by the CRIC research project.
The event starts at 2pm and is open anyone over the age of 12.

24th October 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Sun Woo Kim (School of Archaeology, Oxford): Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c.1500 - 400 BC): An analysis of settlements and monuments in the mid-Korean peninsula Abstract Is it possible to read the worldview of the Bronze Age people in the Korean Peninsula through the analysis of the locations of their settlements and monuments in the landscape? To address this question, Bayesian modelling was utilised for time analysis and GIS for spatial analyses. Environmental elements such as pedology, hydrology, and topography, were examined and cultural elements embodying landform preference, viewshed, movements and orientation, were investigated. Reviewing the results, monuments tended to be distributed within the boundary of a 5km site catchment for each settlement, adjusted for energy expenditure, and these boundaries seem to correspond to the so-called auspicious area, as defined by the concept of Pungsu, which is the traditional Korean version of Chinese Feng-shui. It is suggested that the origin of this worldview lies within the Korean Bronze Age.
(4-5pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room )

25th October 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Veli Köse (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Ankara): Aspendos
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All Welcome

25th October 2011: The Cambridge History of Art Post-Graduate Medieval Research Seminars
Jack Hartnell: Statis Crisis, or 10 Different New Ways of Doing the Same Thing
(5.30-7.30 pm, Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street )

26th October 2011: Medieval Encounters
Prof. Peter Godman: The Rubbish of the Reich and German Cultural Identity in the High Middle Ages
(1-2 pm, St Catharine's College, Ramsden room)

26th October 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Professor Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen)
Did the Norse irrigate in Greenland? (and my holiday snaps from the Middle Settlement)
(1.15pm McDonald seminar room)

26th October 2011: HARN/Archaeological Field Club
The Histories of Archaeology Network (HARN) and the Archaeological Field Club invite you to Histories of Archaeology with speakers from English Heritage, UCL, Cambridge and France presenting short historical case studies.
Event poster (.tif) Tea begins at 4pm in the NLR.
Workshop begins 4.30pm in the SLR.
All Welcome
Contact Pamela Smith

27th October 2011: Heritage Research Group
Greta Lawrence: 'Remembering and Forgetting at Concentration Camp Sites: A Case Study from the Netherlands'.

Abstract: Camp Westerbork. Camp Vught. Camp Amersfoort. These are just some of the names of the transit and penal camps left behind in the Netherlands by the Nazis at the end of World War II. As the Dutch began the process of national recovery in the post-liberation era, the physical landscape was littered with the remnants of penal and transit camps, a reminder of the recent occupation and the baggage of victimhood, loss, and collaboration. The Dutch psychological landscape was deeply affected by the experience of occupation and the legacy of the perpetration of the Holocaust on Dutch soil. In The Netherlands, historians and heritage professionals processed and responded to the concentration camp sites and formed a national patriotic narrative of the Dutch wartime experience, including and sometimes excluding the story of the Holocaust. The camp sites became "les lieux de memoire" (Nora, 1989), sites of memory for remembering a national story of the Holocaust. This dissertation uses the penal and transit camp sites in the Netherlands as a lens for looking at the change in the Dutch national memory of the Holocaust from the immediate aftermath of the war to the present day; from "retrospective glorification" (Lagrou, 2000, 2) of résistance fighters and ordinary citizens' suffering to a narrative dominated by a recognition of the exceptionalism of the Jewish experience. This dissertation aims to shed light on how the Dutch views of the Holocaust affected the display and management of concentration camp sites under discussion here, focusing on current displays and their layers of past interpretation of the narrative of the Holocaust as perpetrated in The Netherlands. Date: 27th October 2011, 1-2:30pm Venue: McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site
All welcome!
For more information, to be added to the HRG email list, or if you would like to speak at a session in 2011, please contact: Gilly Carr, Britt Baillie or Liz Cohen.

27th October 2011: Medieval History Seminar
Thematic session: Death and Burial
(5-6 pm, Faculty of History, Board Room)

28th-30th October 2011: Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Call for Papers now open
More info… (.jpg)
Details (.pdf)
Registration (.pdf)
Schedule (.pdf)

28th October 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Collective collage: how both children and adults contributed to cave art at Rouffignac Cave, France.
(4.30pm South Lecture Room)
Contact Hazel Reade (hr296) or Kate Connell (kbc29)

28th October 2011:ASNC Graduate seminar
Prof. Bernhard Maier: Bringing the ends of the earth together: Celticists and Orientalists in Victorian Britain
(5-6.30 pm, G-R04, Faculty of English)

28th October 2011: Ancient India and Iran Trust
Dr Ilya Yakubovich (Moscow State University): The Invention of Old Persian
(5.30pm, with light refreshments available from 5pm. All welcome, admission free
Ancient India & Iran Trust
23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BG
Tel: +44 (0)1223 356841 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 361125 )

29th October 2011: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cannibal Forks
On Saturday 29th October, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will be staging an event in order to explore the myths and contested truths around one object in the collection, namely Fijian 'cannibal forks', collected in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by, amongst others, Maudsley, Von Hügel and Gordon.
More info…

29th October 2011: The Stephen Glanville Memorial Lecture 2011
From Ancient Egyptian to East African Headrests With Professor Jean-Michel Massing, Fellow of King’s College and Professor of History of Art.
Followed by a Reception in the Museum.
2pm Mill Lane Lecture Rooms
Free
Please e-mail Sally-Ann Ashton if you would like to attend

1st November 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Alicia Jiménez (Glasgow): The simulacrum is true: imitation and hybridism in Roman Spain
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All Welcome

1st November 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Johanna Tudeau (University of Cambridge): ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING IN ASSYRIA - according to the royal inscriptions, state archives and omen series
(5.30pm, McDonald Seminar Room, reception in coffee room from 6pm)
Contact: Adam Stone

2nd November 2011: Mini Personal Histories Event
We are delighted to invite you to our new "mini" Personal Histories, an oral-history of "The Bone Room's Past: 'Revolution' in Palaeoeconomics". We decided to produce a smaller event this term, 'dovetailed' with the curriculum on the history of zoo-archaeology, Palaeo-economic studies and "Bones" to augment the undergraduate reading and fit with the activities of postgraduates. Let us know how you like this idea.
The discussants are growing daily but, at this moment, we have Geoff Bailey, Graeme Barker, Iain Davidson, Robin Dennell, Andy Garrard, Annie Grant, Charles Higham, Tony Legge, Derek Sturdy, Ruth Whitehouse speaking briefly either as a panellist or from the floor.
No tickets but it might be wise to reserve a seat by sending an e-mail to personalhistories2009@gmail.com. (1.00pm, Biffen Lecture Theatre, Downing Site)
Map
If you do not know about the Project, you might view this exhibition
or our Facebook page
Pamela Jane Smith Tel: 07976 919083 Email: pjs1011@cam.ac.uk
Event poster

2nd November 2011: McDonald Annual Lecture
Professor Charles Higham (University of Otago): The long and winding road that leads to Angkor
5.00pm, Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, followed by reception at the McDonald Institute

2nd November 2011: Cambridge Archaeology Field Group
Richard Preece: The Earliest Human Occupation of Britain
(7.30pm, South Lecture Room, Division of Archaeology)
Open Meeting - All Welcome

3rd November 2011: Heritage Research Group
David Lowenthal, Department of Geography, University College London
Personal Reflections on the State of Heritage
(1-2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street )
Organisers: Dr. Britt Baillie, Dr. Gilly Carr & Liz Cohen.
Please contact Liz Cohen to receive our Heritage Bulletin.

3rd November 2011: Garrod Seminar
Gundula Mueldner (University of Reading): The 'Roman Diaspora Project': Multi-isotopic approaches to population diversity in Roman Britain
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

4th November 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Dr Sue Colledge (UCL): Origins and dispersals: the archaeobotany of early farming
(1:15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Contact: Lauren Cadwallader (lc340) or Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (gm327)

4th November 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Rosalind Wallduck, University of Cambridge
Post-mortem body manipulation in the Danube Gorges' Mesolithic and Neolithic
(4.30pm South Lecture Room)
Contact Hazel Reade (hr296) or Kate Connell (kbc29)

5th November 2011: Historic Environment Research Conferences 2011-2012
Landscapes of Anglo-Saxon Christianity
These conferences aim to bring together leading scholars in their fields, academic and professional, to discuss new and/or unpublished innovative research and to provide an opportunity for all those interested in the historic environment to engage with this work, including members of the public, professionals, scholars, policy-makers and volunteers. More information about this and the other conferences in the series…
To find out more contact Dr Susan Oosthuizen.
Phone enquiries (office hours only) 0758 3151685
More info…

7th November 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Min YIN (UCL): The earliest high-fired glazed ceramics in China, during the Shang and Zhou periods (c.1700-221 BC)

High-fired lime-rich glazes, with maturing temperatures in excess of 1200°C, begin to appear in China during the Shang dynasty (c. 1700-1027 BC) and become more widespread during the subsequent Zhou dynasty (1027- 221 BC). These glazes differ fundamentally from the relatively low-melting soda-lime-silica glazes of contemporary Egyptian faience and Mesopotamian glazed tiles. The differences in firing temperature and composition underpin the suggestion that the Chinese lime-rich glazes are an independent invention. The reasons for the emergence of lime-rich high-fired glazes during the early Shang dynasty are a matter of on-going debate.

The compositional analysis of archaeological samples of its kind from Deqing (Zhejiang, China) helped us to explore the mechanisms behind the formation of high-fired lime-rich glazes, and the later replication of the glaze-forming process in the lab further tested several possible parameters that would be necessary to control for the early potters when producing these glazes on a regular scale.
1.00-2.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room.
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME
Contact: Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang.

7th November 2011: Cambridge Philosophical Society
Professor Martin Jones: Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory
(5.30pm, Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry)
All welcome

8th November 2011: BOOK PEOPLE SALE
Many bargain books at up to 75% off high street prices! Core stock list
10.00am till 3.00pm but best to get here early!
Venue: McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site
Contact: Liz Farmar
Event poster (.pdf)
South Core Stock List (.pdf)

8th November 2011: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Marios Costambeys: Anglo-Saxons, Rome, and the coronation of Charlemagne
(2.30 pm. CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane)

8th November 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Jo Quinn (Oxford): Phoenicianism
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)
All Welcome

8th November 2011: The Cambridge History of Art Post-Graduate Medieval Research Seminars
Jessica Berenbeim: The Anxiety of Orthodoxy; or, English Art c.1400
(5.30-7.30 pm, Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street )

9th November 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Magdalena Naum
Translocals: Hansa merchants between Kalmar (Sweden) and northern German towns (ca 1250-1500)
(1.15pm McDonald seminar room)

9th November 2011: AFC and PalMeso Joint Event
Paul Bahn: New Advances in Ice Age Art
(4.30pm South Lecture Room, Division of Archaeology)

9th November 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Chloé Ragazzoli (University College, Oxford): Textual craftsmen: Glimpses at a scribal culture in the New Kingdom, Egypt
(5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar room, followed by reception)

10th November 2011: Heritage Research Group
Yannis Galanakis, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Christos Tsirogiannis, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
Christopher Chippindale Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Panel Discussion: Looted Antiquities: Past, Present, Future
(1-2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street )
Organisers: Dr. Britt Baillie, Dr. Gilly Carr and Liz Cohen.
Please contact Liz Cohen to receive our Heritage Bulletin.

10th November 2011: Garrod Seminar
Silvia Bello (Natural History Museum, London): Modified teeth at Boxgrove and human skullcups at Gough's Cave: Reconstructing prehistoric butchery strategies, new results from the examination of cut-marks using 3-Dimensional imaging
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

10th November 2011: Medieval History Seminars
Dr J.P. Canning: A new model for interpreting late medieval political thought: political reality, power and legitimate authority
(5-6 pm, Faculty of History Boardroom )

11th November 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Jiaxiang Song (UCL): The agricultural economy during the Longshan period: an archaeobotanical perspective from Shandong and Shanxi
(1:15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Contact: Lauren Cadwallader (lc340) or Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (gm327)

11th November 2011: Egyptian World Seminar
Dr Sarah Parcak: Egypt from above: pyramid, pits, and possibilities
(5.00-6.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Sian Thomas

16th November 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
Kate Spielmann
Sustainable Subsistence Agriculture in the Prehistoric Southwestern US and its Implications for the Present
(1.15pm McDonald seminar room)

16th November 2011: African Archaeology Group
John Alexander Seminar Series 2011-2012
Dr John Giblin (University of Gothenburg): A Cosmopolitan Archaeology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Restrictions, Responsibilities and Results?
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)

16th November 2011: Archaeological Field Club
David McOmish - "The Work of English Heritage Archaeological Investigation"
(4.30pm South Lecture Room, Division of Archaeology)

17th November 2011: Heritage Research Group
Marilena Alivizatou, Department of Archaeology, University College London
Intangible Heritage, Salvage Ethnography and Erasure
(1-2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street )
Organisers: Dr. Britt Baillie, Dr. Gilly Carr & Liz Cohen.
Please contact Liz Cohen to receive our Heritage Bulletin.

17th November 2011: Graduate Seminar
TBC
(4:30 - 5:00pm - McDonald Seminar Room)

18th November 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Caroline Phillips (University of Cambridge): Dietary clues in chimpanzee poo: The value of phytolithic and stable isotopic analyses
(1:15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Contact: Lauren Cadwallader (lc340) or Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (gm327)

21st November 2011: Asian Archaeology Group
Mary Beth Day (Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge): Environmental Change in the West Baray, Angkor
Abstract
Angkor, capital of the Khmer empire from the 9^th to 15^th centuries, is renowned for its monumental architecture as well as its complex hydroengineering system made of canals, embankments, dikes, and reservoirs, or barays. The West Baray is the largest of the four baray constructed at Angkor and the only one to hold water today. Geochemical analysis of a sediment core from the West Baray reveals variations in the hydrology, sedimentation, and ecology of the baray throughout the last millennium. These changes can be attributed to shifts in water management and land-use practices, as well as regional climate change.
(4.00-5.00pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room)
Contact: Danika Parikh, Yijie Zhuang

22nd November 2011: Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar
Alex Woolf: Barbarians and pseudo-Barbarians in Late Antiquity
(2.30 pm. CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane )

22nd November 2011: The Cambridge History of Art Post-Graduate Medieval Research Seminars
Miri Rubin: From Better to Worse: Ecclesia and Synagoga in the Long Middle Ages
(5.30-7.30 pm, Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street)

22nd November 2011: Mesopotamian Seminar Series
Dr Marie-Françoise Besnier (Research Fellow, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, University of Cambridge): Title - TBC
(5.30pm, McDonald Seminar Room, reception in coffee room from 6pm)
Contact: Adam Stone

23rd November 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
John Creese
Being and belonging: the politics of seventeenth-century Wendat bodily transactions
(1.15pm McDonald seminar room)

23rd November 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Martin Carver will talk on 'Design not Dogma'
(4.30pm South Lecture Room, Division of Archaeology)

24th November 2011: Heritage Research Group
John Schofield, Department of Archaeology, University of York
Beyond Heritage
(1-2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street )
Organisers: Dr. Britt Baillie, Dr. Gilly Carr & Liz Cohen.
Please contact Liz Cohen to receive our Heritage Bulletin.

24th November 2011: Garrod Seminar
Kate Spielmann (Arizona State University): Resistance and reorganisation: Pueblo responses to Spanish Colonisation in the 17th century
(4.30pm, McDonald Institute seminar room, followed by wine reception)
All Welcome

24th November 2011: Medieval History Seminars Desirée Scholten
' The editing policies of Cassiodorus in his Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita', Mark King: Richard II's use of the signet and privy seals, 1377-86: a Marcher perspective
(5-6 pm, Faculty of History Boardroom )

25th November 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Dr Rachel Ballentyne (University of Cambridge): Plant resources and the economics of power in Viking Age Scotland and Norway
(1:15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Contact: Lauren Cadwallader (lc340) or Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (gm327)

25th November 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr. Danae Dodge: Understanding Neanderthal Extinction
(4.30pm SLR, Division of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade (hr296) or Kate Connell (kbc29)

25th November 2011: ASNC Graduate Seminar
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe: Shaggy Breeks and Boneless Vikings: The Development of the Legend of Ragnar loðbrók
(5-6.30 pm, G-R04, Faculty of English)

28th November 2011: Medieval Encounters
Prof. Andrew Jotischky: East is East? Monastic Reform and the Shape of Europe 1050-1200
(1-2 pm, St Catharine's College, Ramsden room)

29th November 2011: D Caucus Seminar Series
Paul Johnson : Studying Urbanism through Geophysical Survey: the case of Ammaia, Portugal
(4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics)

29th November 2011: Joint Egyptian World/Mesopotamian Seminar
Dr. David Wengrow (University College London): Images between worlds: Egypt and Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC
(5:30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar room, followed by reception)

30th November 2011: Cambridge Archaeological Unit Open Day
The excavation of a Bronze Age river at Must Farm, Whittlesey View a flotilla of six Bronze Age boats!
Flyer
Location maps
(10.00-3.00pm Cambridge Archaeological Unit)

30th November 2011: McDonald Institute Lunchtime Seminar
CANCELLED
Postdoc Forum
(1.15pm McDonald seminar room)

30th November 2011: Archaeological Field Club
Matthew Johnson will give a special discussion piece
(4.30pm South Lecture Room, Division of Archaeology)

30th November 2011: Graduate Research Seminar in Art History
Prof. Michelle Brown: Eastern Influences on the Christian Cultural Identity of Britain and Ireland, c. 550-850
(5-8 pm, 4A Trumpington Street, Seminar Room)

30th November 2011: INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH
Please join the Director and staff of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to celebrate the publication of GIFTS AND DISCOVERIES: THE MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY a full colour guide-book and introduction to the Museum's history and collections, published by Scala, London.
The book will be on sale for a discounted launch price of £9.50
6-8 pm, Maudslay Gallery, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
RSVP Liz Haslemere 01223-764956

1st December 2011: Heritage Research Group
Beverly Butler, Department of Archaeology, University College London
Possessing Palestine
(1-2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street )
Organisers: Dr. Britt Baillie, Dr. Gilly Carr & Liz Cohen.
Please contact Liz Cohen to receive our Heritage Bulletin.

2nd December 2011: George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory Seminar
Oliver Smith (University of Warwick)
Detecting epigenetic activity in the barley archaeogenome: small RNA and local adaptation
(1:15-2pm McDonald Seminar Room)
Contact: Lauren Cadwallader (lc340) or Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (gm327)

2nd December 2011: Graduate Seminar
Tessa de Roo: Plenty of Fish, but Which Sea?
This study investigates the distribution of medieval cod trade in and around the Baltic Sea through isotopic identification of the catch region for cod over 1 metre in length consumed on Baltic sites from the 12th to 14th centuries. The provenancing of cod through analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes has been shown to be successful in previous studies and is used here to demonstrate distinct differences between geographic catch regions in Arctic Norwegian, Baltic, and North Sea waters. The results of this study show that large cod were being imported from Arctic Norway to Baltic settlements in the 12th to 14th centuries. A control study of modern cod bones is included here to demonstrate that no statistical difference exists in carbon and nitrogen values between skeletal elements of an individual cod. These results set alongside historical evidence support the hypothesis that long distance trade was being conducted over vast distances and probably through intricate trade networks in the medieval period.
(4:30 - 5:00pm - McDonald Seminar Room, followed by wine and nibbles in the McDonald Coffee Room)

2nd December 2011: Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group
Dr. Fotini Kofidi: People, places and things: understanding Lateglacial personhood and networks through mobility and exchange
(4.30pm SLR, Division of Archaeology)
Contact: Hazel Reade (hr296) or Kate Connell (kbc29)

2nd December 2011: Archaeological Review Launch
The editorial committee of the Archaeological Review from Cambridge cordially invite you all to join us at the McDonald Institute from 5pm for drinks and nibbles to celebrate the launch of the latest edition,'Collaborative Archaeology', edited by Dominic Walker.

7th December 2011: McDonald mulled wine and mince pie Christmas Party
Come and partake of warming seasonal cheer in the Institute's coffee room
12.00-2.00pm
All welcome

8th December 2011: Heritage Research Group
Bryan Lintott, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Badly Shaken: Christchurch's Built Heritage
(1-2.30pm, McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street )
Organisers: Dr. Britt Baillie, Dr. Gilly Carr & Liz Cohen.
Please contact Liz Cohen to receive our Heritage Bulletin.