The PalMeso Seminar Series for all things Palaeolithic–Mesolithic attracts guest speakers from all around Britain, as well as providing a forum for Cambridge MPhil and PhD students to present the results of their own research in a relaxed atmosphere.
- PalMeso Seminar Series Jan 25, 2019 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM — McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,
- Amos Frumkin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - When the desert was and where? Paleoclimate using cave deposits
- PalMeso Seminar Series Jan 30, 2019 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM — McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,
- Dennis Sandgathe (Simon Fraser University) - tbc
- PalMeso Seminar Series Feb 08, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,
- Emma Pomeroy (University of Cambridge) - New Neanderthal discoveries from Shanidar Cave
- PalMeso Seminar Series Feb 22, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,
- Robyn Inglis (University of York) - Preservation, exposure, visibility: Palaeolithic geoarchaeology at Wadi Dabsa, SW Saudi Arabia
- PalMeso Seminar Series Feb 25, 2019 from 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM — Seminar Room, LCHES, Fitzwilliam Street,
- Aitor Ruiz-Redondo (University of Southampton) - Out of prehistorians' comfort zone: Upper Palaeolithic rock art research beyond Western Europe
- PalMeso Seminar Series Mar 08, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,
- Policarpo Sánchez-Yustos (University of Cambridge) - The Early Acheulean in Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Past and present approaches
- PalMeso Seminar Series Mar 14, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, North Building, Downing Street,
- Pierre Noiret and Timothée Libois (Université de Liège) - Questioning the Aurignacian-Gravettian "Transition": New data from Mitoc-Malu Galben, Romania
- PalMeso Seminar Series May 10, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — Seminar Room, LCHES, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street,
- Cynthia Larbey, (University of Cambridge) - The Roots of our Starch Diet: Earliest Evidence of Hominin Consumption of Starch 120,000 years ago, Klasies River Cave, South Africa
- PalMeso Seminar Series May 17, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — Seminar Room, LCHES, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street,
- David Lubell, (St John's University of Waterloo) - Holocene Prehistory in the Telidjene Basin, Eastern Algeria: Capsian Occupations at Kef Zoura D and Ain Misteheyia
- PalMeso Seminar Series May 24, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — South Lecture Room, North Building, Downing Site,
- CANCELLED Charlotte Burnell, (University of Oxford) - Catch Me if You Can: Rethinking Approaches to Prey Choice in Palaeolithic Contexts
- PalMeso Seminar Series May 31, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — Seminar Room, LCHES, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street,
- Lucia Leierer & Rory Connolly, (Universidad de La Laguna) - Investigating Climate and Behaviour through Microscopic and Molecular Organic Matter at the Middle Palaeolithic sites of Abric del Pastor and El Salt (Eastern Iberia)
- PalMeso Seminar Series Jun 07, 2019 from 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM — McDonald Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,
- Laurie Hutchence, (University of Oxford) - Measuring Know-How and its Relevance to Interpreting the Acheulean: An Evaluation of Behaviours Considered Indicative of Skill in Mode II Biface Manufacture