Centre for Archaeological Research Seminar Series
Contacts
Semester 2, 2024 Schedule
The Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) Seminar is co-convened by Anna Florin (anna.florin@anu.edu.au) and Ben Shaw (Ben.Shaw@anu.edu.au) in 2024.
The seminars in 2024 Semester 2 are all on Fridays, 3:30pm-4:30pm. Please see the schedule below:
26th July
Prof Tim Denham, 'The domestication of vegetatively propagated field crops: Theory, method and practice'
Location: Sir Roland Wilson Building 3.03/04 (Seminar Room 2/3)
9th August
Assoc. Prof. Ray Tobler, ’The genetic origins and impacts of historical Papuan migrations into Wallaceae’
Location: Sir Roland Wilson Building 3.03/04 (Seminar Room 2/3)
23rd August
Prof. Phil Piper, Title TBC
Location: TBC
20th September
Assoc. Prof. Cate Frieman, ‘Kin and connections: Bodies and relations in archaeology and ancient genetics’
Location: TBC
4th October
TBC
18th October
TBC
25th October
Dr Sofia Samper-Carro, ’Neanderthal lifeways on the dark side of the Pre-Pyrenees’
Location: TBC
No events in this series are currently scheduled. Details of future events will be posted as they become available.
Past events
The domestication of vegetatively propagated field crops: Theory, method and practice
26 Jul 2024
Vegetatively propagated field crops are some of the most important in terms of global food production, and are especially important subsistence crops in the...Towards an Australian Ochre Charter: Australian Indigenous Community Archaeologies from Within
28 Jun 2024
Towards an Australian Ochre Charter: Australian Indigenous Community Archaeologies from Within A presentation by Dave Johnston on his proposed PhD Research (...Understanding the appearance of ceramics on mainland New Guinea: Outline of recent research
24 May 2024
Over the last 15 years archaeological research on the north coast and inland areas of mainland New Guinea and offshore islands has produced interesting...Prof David Wengrow: What might an archaeology of freedom look like?
20 May 2024
What might an archaeology of freedom look like? In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and I describe three basic forms of human freedom: to move away, to...The Rite to know: Pushing for an archaeology of rituals in Central-East Polynesia
17 May 2024
The archaeology of ceremonial sites (marae) has been a focus of the discipline in Central-East Polynesia since the late 19th century. Pioneer work by K.P....European Travellers to Greece and the Tomb of the Athenians at Marathon
3 May 2024
This paper traces the interpretations applied to the mound or soros on the plain of Marathon from the later eighteenth century through the nineteenth century...Of Spriggans, Periwigians and Cornish ancient monuments: Hidden treasures in British Library Additional Manuscript 51020 of the early 18th Century
27 Mar 2024
This is a hybrid seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Archaeological Research and Centre for Early Modern Studies. Please register if you are attending...Postgraduate Student Short Talks
22 Mar 2024
In this seminar, we will be having three prostgraduate students to give short talks: Iona Claringbold: Zooarchaeology and Polynesian Ritual Sites: New...A Late Quaternary faunal sequence from Lachitu Cave, PNG: Advances in understanding biodiversity and human subsistence in the northern New Guinea lowlands
15 Mar 2024
The cave site of Lachitu (RIQ) on the Vanimo coast of New Guinea preserves a large faunal assemblage covering the last few centuries to ~30,000 years ago,...Uncovering Kuwae’s Past: recent fieldwork on Epi Island, Vanuatu
8 Mar 2024
In the fifteenth century CE, a massive volcanic eruption on the island of Kuwae reshaped the physical and social landscapes of Central Vanuatu. The disaster...
