Semester 2, 2026
The Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) Seminar Series is convened by Dr Anna Florin (anna.florin@anu.edu.au)
Seminars are held on Fridays, 3:30pm-4:30pm, in AD Hope building Conference Room (Rm 1.28) and online via Zoom. See PDF and individual events for more details.
- July 31
Dr Tristen Jones, University of Sydney
Exploring Indigenous histories and cross-cultural collecting encounters in German art, archival and material culture collections: The Agnes S Schulz and Frobenius Expedition to Arnhem Land, Australia 1954-1995
- August 7
Makayla Harding, University of Queensland
People-plant relationship histories on Mithaka Country, southwest QLD: Building an archaeobotanical framework to investigate food production in Aboriginal Australia
- August 19
CAS/CAR Science Week - Prof. Ali Crowther, University of Queensland
TBC
- August 28
Assoc. Prof. Danilyn Rutherford, Wenner Gren Foundation
TBC
- September 25
Assoc. Prof. Duncan Wright (co-author: Alo Tapim, Senior Traditional Owner, Meriam Daureb) - School of Archaeology & Anthropology, CASS
Ritual Places, Ancestral Knowledge, and the Archaeological History of the Torres Strait Meriam Dauareb People
- October 9
Honours Students - School of Archaeology & Anthropology, CASS
Honours Student Short Talks
- October 23
Dr Stacey Ward, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, CASS
Skeletal Insights into Personhood and Power in Late Prehistoric Thailand
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Contact
- Dr Anna Florin
Upcoming Events
Exploring Indigenous histories and cross-cultural collecting encounters in German art, archival and material culture collections: The Agnes S Schulz and Frobenius Expedition to Arnhem Land, Australia 1954-1995
Dr Tristen Jones (University of Sydney)
In June 1954, Agnes Susanne Schulz, a member of the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, travelled to the Northern Territory, where,…
Past Events
Studying Maya Urbanism in the Age of Lidar: A Case Study of the Ancient City of Coba
Professor Travis Stanton (University of California)
Presented online only, Zoom details below.During the Late Classic period, the city of Coba was one of the largest and most powerful cities in the…
The evolution of the olive: domestication pathways and prehistoric human-environment dynamics
Dr Anne Dighton, School of Social Science (UQ)
Presented in person and online, Zoom details below.Olive (Olea europaea ssp. europaea L.) is a cornerstone of Mediterranean cultural and ecological…
Plant use in ancient northern Australia: evidence from linguistics
Nicholas Evans (CoEDL/ECDI, CAP, ANU), Alexandra Marley (AIATSIS)
Presented in person and online, details below.In many parts of the world, the matching of reconstructable words from ancestral 'proto-languages' to…