Great Zimbabwe in popular imagination: revelations through the years (PS Global Pasts lecture), 7.30PM

Prof. Shadreck Chirikure (University of Cape Town and University of Oxford)

4 October 2021 - 4 October 2021. Lectures

Genetic change and relatedness in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain: The 21st Sara Champion Memorial Lecture, 6.30pm

Dr Tom Booth (Crick Institute)

20 October 2021 - 20 October 2021. Lectures

Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Myths and realities of an iconic past (5th Annual Pitt Rivers Lecture, supported by the Prehistoric Society), 6.30pm

Prof. Sue Hamilton (UCL Institute of Archaeology, London)

26 October 2021 - 26 October 2021. Non-Society events

Hot stone technology at Bucklers Park, Crowthorne, Berkshire: The use and re-use of a persistent place during the Bronze and Iron Ages (Joint Welwyn Arch Soc lecture), 7.30pm

Helen Chittock (AOC Archaeology) and Rob Masefield (RPS)

29 October 2021 - 29 October 2021. Lectures

Early Humans in the English Channel Region: La Cotte de St Brelade, Boxgrove & other La Mancheland sites (Joint CAS lecture), 6pm

Dr Matt Pope (UCL)

1 November 2021 - 1 November 2021, Online. Lectures

Human-ecodynamics and the rise of monumentality in the Central Andes (PS Global Pasts lecture), time TBC

Prof. Ana Cecilia Mauricio (University of Maine)

2 November 2021 - 2 November 2021. Lectures

Title TBC (Joint Norwich and Norfolk Archaeological Society lecture), 2.30pm

Dr Robert Johnston (Sheffield University)

6 November 2021 - 6 November 2021. Lectures

Are Genes Deep History? (Partnered event as part of the Being Human Festival, Queen Mary University of London) Date and time TBC

Panel discussion involving: Dr Tom Booth (Crick Institute), Prof. Joanna Brück (UCD), Subhadra Das (writer, historian, curator and comedian), Dr Adam Rutherford (UCL) and Prof. Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum). Additional names to be announced.

11 November 2021 - 22 November 2021. Lectures

Recent discoveries of archaeological canoes in Aotearoa New Zealand: Conservation, analysis of sailing technology and the implications for prehistoric voyaging in the Pacific (PS Global Pasts), time TBC

Dr Dilys Johns and Prof. Geoff Irwin (The University of Auckland)

6 December 2021 - 6 December 2021. Lectures

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Joint Leicestershire Fieldworkers lecture), time TBC

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes

20 January 2022 - 20 January 2022. Lectures

Piece Offerings: the Destruction and Deposition of Metalwork in Bronze Age Britain (Joint Cornwall Archaeological Society lecture), time TBC

Dr Matthew G. Knight (National Museums Scotland)

3 February 2022 - 3 February 2022. Lectures

Early China and Prehistoric Silk Routes (PS Global Pasts), time TBC

Prof. Li Zhang (Zhengzhou University, China)

7 March 2022 - 7 March 2022. Lectures

Connecting tools and materials in the Dutch Late Neolithic through use-wear analysis and experiments (Joint Society of Antiquaries of Scotland lecture), time TBC

Prof. Annelou van Gijn (Leiden University)

14 March 2022 - 14 March 2022. Lectures

Cotswold-Severn long barrows in the light of recent work (Joint Devon Archaeological Society lecture), time TBC

Professor Timothy Darvill, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Bournemouth University

23 March 2022 - 23 March 2022.

Pushing the Boundaries; new approaches in (studying) the prehistoric past: A day in honour of John Coles

26 March 2022 - 26 March 2022. Conferences