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
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…
Of Spriggans, Periwigians and Cornish ancient monuments: Hidden treasures in British Library Additional Manuscript 51020 of the early 18th Century
Emeritus Professor Matthew Spriggs
This is a hybrid seminar co-hosted by the Centre for Archaeological Research and Centre for Early Modern Studies. Please register if …