Events and Activities
Conference
The Painted Forest: Amazonian cosmovision journeys in San José de Guaviare, Colombia
29th August - 2nd September 2022
Non-Society event, supported by the Prehistoric Society.
Rock art offers a glimpse into the earliest artistic expressions of humans around the world. Art gives a voice to people, a voice that can endure over time. Around the world, the genesis of artistic expression is recorded in rock art, providing a gateway to how early humans sought to navigate and understand their place in the world. These images record the voices that shaped and influenced burgeoning cosmologies, social norms and relationships with nature, laying the cultural foundations for generations to come.
Lecture
Staging the World of Stonehenge: reflections on the British Museum exhibition
Annual joint lecture with Welwyn Archaeological Society
Dr Neil Wilkin (British Museum)
Lecture
‘I see the hands of the generations’ - perceiving the past through later prehistoric artefacts
The 22nd Sara Champion memorial Lecture
Dr Sophia Adams (British Museum)
Lecture
Prehistoric communities and monuments on the Fenland Ouse
Christopher Evans, Emeritus Director / Director of Research of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at the University of Cambridge
Non-Society event, supported by the Prehistoric Society.
Informed by the subject’s historiography, and arguing that our fieldwork needs to be imbued with a greater experimental ethos (i.e. ‘failing better’), the talk will address a number of themes arising from over 40 years of investigation along the River Great Ouse at its junction with the Fens.
News and social media
New Prehistoric Society website launched!
Monday, 11th October 2021
We are thrilled that you are visiting us on our new website, and hope you like our new look.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society collections
Wednesday, 6th October 2021
The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society is our flagship publication – an international academic journal that has been published since 1935.