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20th February (Wednesday) Damien Flas Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium “In Terra Incognita. Continue reading →

25th January Prof. Paul Pettitt University of Durham “The Aesthetics of Surfaces. Continue reading →

  7th December, Christmas Lecture   Dr. William Davies   CAHO, Southampton   “Fifty shades of mobility and behavioural modernity: the ties that bind”  I shall explore the potential effects of individual and group mobility on the transmission of ideas.  How are innovations transmitted in these situations, and what implication does this mobility have for the manifestation of traits of “behavioural modernity” (art, personal ornament, music, etc. Continue reading →

9th November, Wymer Lab (Archaeology Building 65a, Avenue Campus) The second CAHO seminar will be given by Professor Uzy Smilansky from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel   “Computer-based documentation and analysis of stone artefacts in 3D” This talk will review recent work carried out at the Computerized Archaeology Laboratory at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) together with Dr Leore Grosman and others. Continue reading →

The inaugural seminar of this year’s CAHO seminar series will be presented by our very own Dr John McNabb (Mac). source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Piltdownpainting.jpg   “Piltdown; Nationalism, Human Origins and the Faking of the Earliest Englishman” This year sees the centenary of the Piltdown man. In December 1912 a tremendous discovery was announced. Continue reading →