
Semester 1, 2025
Laura Rademaker, Deep time in settler-colonial presents
In person/online
28 February
Michelle Richards, The history of archaeology and museums in the Pacific: Where are we now?
In person/online
14 March
Hendri Kaharudin, Prehistoric coastal resource dynamics in Island Southeast Asia
In person/online
28 March
Helen Martinsson-Wallin, Archaeology in Rapa Nui - Anakena excavations re-analysed
In person/online
9 May
Chris Urwin, et al., Uncovering the history of Makassan interactions with Yanyuwa people at Jalabuwaja (Crocodile's Net) southwest Gulf of Carpentaria
In person/online
16 May
Petra Vaiglova, Reconsidering how we can use developmental growth patterns in teeth to improve resolution of palaeodietary and palaeoclimate studies
In person/online
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Past Events
Prof David Wengrow: What might an archaeology of freedom look like?
Professor David Wengrow (University College London, UK)
What might an archaeology of freedom look like? In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and I describe three basic forms of human freedom…
The Rite to know: Pushing for an archaeology of rituals in Central-East Polynesia
Dr Guillaume Molle, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology
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…
European Travellers to Greece and the Tomb of the Athenians at Marathon
Estelle Strazdins (Lecturer in Classics, ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics)
This paper traces the interpretations applied to the mound or soros on the plain of Marathon from the later eighteenth century through the…