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
Postgraduate Student Short Talks
Iona Claringbold, Josh Wiltshire, Emily Nutman
In this seminar, we will be having three prostgraduate students to give short talks: Iona Claringbold: Zooarchaeology and Polynesian Ritual…
A Late Quaternary faunal sequence from Lachitu Cave, PNG: Advances in understanding biodiversity and human subsistence in the northern New Guinea lowlands
Dr Loukas Koungoulos (ANU College of Asia and the Pacific)
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…
Uncovering Kuwae’s Past: recent fieldwork on Epi Island, Vanuatu
Robert Henderson (PhD candidate at ANU College of Asia & the Pacific)
In the fifteenth century CE, a massive volcanic eruption on the island of Kuwae reshaped the physical and social landscapes of Central Vanuatu. The…