The Palaeolithic-Mesolithic seminar series (PalMeso) is the longest running format of talks within the Department of Archaeology. PalMeso present talks on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, and is open and free to anyone who is interested to come along. Talks are given by internal MPhil and PhD research students, as well as post-docs, visiting scholars and university lecturers from UK and overseas academic institutions.
Future events will be announced here.
The seminar series organisers are Anna Mika & James Clark (arm200 & jc2012)
Event location:
McDonald Institute, Seminar Room / Zoom
Events In This Series For This Academic Year
| Session Name | Date | Event speaker |
|---|---|---|
| New insights on the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa | Friday, 10 November, 2023 - 16:30 | Dr. Lucy Timbrell, University of Liverpool |
| Understanding the knapper: what can the biface manufacturing process tell us about hominin behaviour | Friday, 24 November, 2023 - 16:30 | Kate Anderson, University of Southampton |
| Neanderthal life and death in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan | Friday, 2 February, 2024 - 17:00 | Professor Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge |
| Ecological drivers of hunter-gatherer lithic technology from the Middle and Later Stone Age in Central Africa | Monday, 5 February, 2024 - 16:00 | Cecilia Padilla Iglesias, University of Zurich |
| Unravelling human ancestry: Exploring Palaeolithic technological shifts through laboratory experimental replication and archaeological insights | Friday, 16 February, 2024 - 16:30 | Dr. Joao Marreiros, Leibniz Centre for Archaeology |
| The broad-spectrum species: Plant resource use and processing as deep time adaptations | Monday, 19 February, 2024 - 17:00 | Dr. Anna Florin, Australian National University |
| In search of mechanisms: Ecological approaches to the evolution of hominin behaviour | Friday, 23 February, 2024 - 16:30 | Dr. Jonathan Reeves, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| In search of mechanisms: Ecological approaches to the evolution of hominin behaviour | Friday, 23 February, 2024 - 16:30 | Dr. Jonathan Reeves, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Neanderthal Legacy: Genes, cultures and archaeological sites | Friday, 8 March, 2024 - 16:30 | Professor Marie Soressi, Leiden University |
| Rock, Paper, Semantics: How aliens and origami inform our understanding of lithics and language evolution | Friday, 15 March, 2024 - 16:30 | Jamie Scott, University of Cambridge |
| Long-Term Human Interactions with the Earth System | Wednesday, 8 May, 2024 - 17:00 | Dr Patrick Roberts, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology |
