Events archive
See below for a list of past Prehistoric Society events.
Lecture
Excavations at Star Carr 2004-15: New insight into an old site
Annual joint lecture with Cambridge Antiquarian Society
Dr Chantal Connellar (Newcastle University)
Star Carr has dominated our understanding of the British Mesolithic. Since its excavation by Grahame Clark between 1949 and 1951 it has been subject to extensive debate and reinterpretation. These led to new questions for the site that could only be addressed through excavation.
Lecture
Un-Erasing the Indigenous Paleolithic: Re-Writing the Ancient Past of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)
Global Pasts lecture
Dr Paulette Steeves (Algoma University)
In the Americas, the deep Indigenous past prior to 12,000 years before the present has been aggressively denied by American anthropologists for over a century. Anthropologists’ denial of the deep Indigenous past of the Americas, has cleaved Indigenous people’s links to their homeland and created them as recent immigrants to the Americas, on a global scale of human history.
Lecture
Recent Advances in our understanding of the Neolithic in North-West and South-West England
Annual joint lecture with Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Dr Gill Hey (University of Oxford) and Dr Jodie Lewis (Bradford University)
Lecture
Early China and Prehistoric Silk Routes
Global Pasts lecture
Prof. Li Zhang, Zhengzhou University, China
The Silk Routes were one of the most marvellous phenomena in Eurasian history. Over them flowed a huge number and variety of artefacts and customs between China and various parts of the vast Eurasian continent. There has recently been a growing number of striking archaeological discoveries which have demonstrated the existence of such long-distance interactions stretching back several millennia, even to the prehistoric period.
Booking coming soon
Conference
Sourcing prehistoric materials – new perspectives: the contribution and legacy of Joan Taylor
Lecture
Bronze Age Forum 2022
12-13th November 2022
Non-Society event, supported by the Prehistoric Society.
Details and timings TBC
The Bronze Age Forum is for everyone with an interest in the Bronze Age—university academics, commercial archaeologists, museum curators, postgraduate students, independent scholars, and the public. The Forum is a chance to showcase new finds and excavations, present survey results, discuss emerging research, try out different interpretations, and to meet others in the field.
Conference
*CANCELLED* Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Research Student Symposium (NEBARSS)
11-12th November 2022
Non-Society event, supported by the Prehistoric Society.
Details and timings TBC
Lecture
Using visual psychology to interrogate early prehistoric art
Annual joint lecture with Norwich and Norfolk Archaeological Society
Dr Lisa-Elen Meyering (Durham University)
This talk will illuminate ways in which two very different disciplines, Archaeology and Psychology, can help us arrive at an unprecedented understanding of early art in Europe.
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.
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)
This event will be in person and live streamed on our YouTube channel :
4.30pm Presentation President’s Awards and the Student Dissertation Prizes.
5-5.45pm: Lecture
5.45-6.45pm: Wine reception.
Free to attend and no need to book for in person or online: just turn up.