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Today (Thursday 1st May) is a national holiday in Tanzania so James and I had a more relaxed day visiting the galleries of the National Museum of Tanzania. The museum is an impressive place with really up to date galleries on human evolution and rock art. I took a lot of photos which will make their way into my lectures. The ethnographic collection also impressed me with the range and variety of material on display, reflecting Tanzania’s rich cultural heritage both past and present. Continue reading →

Saturday was a really memorable day. We finally got to see the Isimila Acheulean site. I’d been reading about it for decades so I was very excited and James, who told me he had been literally dreaming about the place for years, was like a kid on Christmas Eve. It’s the rainy season at the moment and Tanzania is very green, particularly in the highlands. The mountains and kopjes are blanketed in forest and dense thorn bush. Continue reading →

A few months ago CAHO was invited to form a collaboration through Dr James Cole of the University of Brighton (James is a CAHO alumni) and Dr Pastory Bushozi of the University of Dar-es-Salaam. The project is to re-examine the famous Acheulean site of Isimila in Tanzania. Picture taken from Dr James Cole twitter feed (@JamesColeArch) So James and I flew out on the 23rd of April to meet Pastory and to plan our campaign at Isimila. Continue reading →

We have updated the next two seminars for our CAHO seminar series. Dates and times and abstract for our next talk on the 14th March are available to view now with more to follow…. Continue reading →

CAHO next seminar series will be presented by Dr Rivka Rabinovich of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Visit http://cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk/events/tbc/to view her abstract and all other details. Continue reading →

The first seminar of 2014 will be given by Natasha Reynolds from the University of Oxford. She will talk about the exiting yet lesser known Upper Palaeolithic of Russia. For further details see the abstract below. The seminar will take place as usual on Friday, 17th January  at 5pm in the Wymer Lab (bld 65a). Continue reading →

  Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the annual CAHO Christmas Lecture will be given by dr Penny Spikins from the University of York. In the spirit of  the festive season she will talk about: Angels or Demons?:  Can the archaeological record tell us what motivated our earliest ancestors? For more details please see the abstract below. The lecture will take place on 12 December (Thursday) 2014 at 4pm in the Wymer Lab, bld 65a, Avenue Campus. Wine and mince pies will be served. Continue reading →

Its been great to see so many of you at the seminars. Thanks once again to Mac and Nick for the first two sessions. Continue reading →

    The first CAHO seminar of the new academic year will be given by our own John “Mac” McNabbwho will talk about the new site that him and his team have been working on this summer. This is really exciting as it represents the first major Lower Palaeolithic site in Greece, so don’t miss out! You can read up on it here. Title:  ”Recent work on Lesvos, the Lower Palaeolithic of Greece.” Place: Wymer Lab. Time: this Friday, 25 October, at 5 p.m. Continue reading →

This year’s speakers list starts to look very promising. Nick Ashton, curator of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections at the British Museum, will be visiting us in early November to talk about Early Palaeolithic in Britain. Continue reading →