
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 - 6 pm (check event for more details)
CAS/CAR Science Week - Prof. Ali Crowther, University of Queensland
Stepping Stones in the Indian Ocean: New Archaeological Evidence for Trade and Interaction in the Comoros Archipelago, East Africa
- August 28
Assoc. Prof. Danilyn Rutherford, Wenner-Gren Foundation
Reckoning with Anthro-Cast: A Progress Report from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
- 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
Reckoning with Anthro-Cast: A Progress Report from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Associate Professor Danilyn Rutherford, Wenner Gren Foundation
In 2024, Chip Colwell and I convened a Wenner-Gren Seminar that scrutinised the Foundation's ethical obligations in connection with the Foundation's…
Ritual Places, Ancestral Knowledge, and the Archaeological History of the Torres Strait Meriam Dauareb People
Duncan Wright (ANU)
In Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992), Meriam plaintiffs claimed that they had “continuously inhabited and exclusively possessed” the Murray Islands…
Past Events
Lithic miniaturization provides a universal signature of an MIS4-3 southern dispersal of Homo sapiens
Dr Ceri Shipton, School of Culture, History and Language (ANU)
Presented in person and online, details below.Fossil and artefactual evidence shows Homo sapiens in Eurasia well before 75 ka. …
Unearthing the Plain of Jars: New Dates, New Finds, New Questions
Dougald O'Reilly, ANU
Recent excavations at the Plain of Jars have changed our understanding of this unique megalithic landscape. Archaeological investigations have…
2025 Honours Students poster presentations
This week's Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) seminar will be poster presentations by the School of Archaeology and Anthropology's…




