Semester 2, 2025
The Centre for Archaeological Research (CAR) Seminar Series is convened by Dr Anna Florin (anna.florin@anu.edu.au)
Seminars are on Fridays, 3:30pm-4:30pm,in AD Hope building Conference Room (Rm 1.28) and online via Zoom (see individual events in case of changes)
Zoom details: https://anu.zoom.us/j/89310466848?pwd=KwyXKZpSFLBSTbaCCLQGyKH52eLNbo.1
Meeting ID: 893 1046 6848
Password: 858113
1 August
Marie Descottes, Graphic production and underground area during Gravettien in western Europe: track as a new heuristic approach
In person/online
29 August
Assoc Prof James Flexner, Archaeology of domestic life in Polynesia’s first Catholic kingdom: Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia 1830-1900
In person SRWB 3.03/3.04 + online
19 September
Emily Nutman 50,000 years of stone: A deep time perspective on geographical sourcing in Sahul
In person/online
3 October
Honours Students poster presentations
In person/online
17 October
Prof. Dougald O'Reilly, Unearthing the Plain of Jars: New Dates, New Finds, New Questions
In person/online
Contact
- Dr Anna Florin
Past Events
Towards an Australian Ochre Charter: Australian Indigenous Community Archaeologies from Within
Towards an Australian Ochre Charter: Australian Indigenous Community Archaeologies from Within A presentation by Dave Johnston on his proposed…
Understanding the appearance of ceramics on mainland New Guinea: Outline of recent research
Professor Glenn Summerhayes (University of Otago)
Over the last 15 years archaeological research on the north coast and inland areas of mainland New Guinea and offshore islands has produced…
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…