Programme 2025: Key events
Prehistory Research Section events:
2025
March
Saturday 22nd March 2025 at Swarthmore Education Centre
AGM preceded by a TALK at 2pm from Clive Waddington:
‘How Britain became an island: the Storegga Slide tsunami and Mesolithic catastrophe’
The recognition of the combined impacts of the ‘8.2kyr Event’ and the Storegga Slid tsunami around c.8175 cal BC had a profound effect on what was a north-west peninsula of Continental Europe and the Doggerland embayment. The impacts of these natural events on the geography, climate, flora, fauna, fish and human populations was extreme. This talk will bring together a wide range of data to document these pivotal events and discuss the research that has led to the recognition of these catastrophic impacts on what appears to have been a thriving Mesolithic world, and the beginning of our island story.
Biography
Clive is a well-known archaeologist who has published widely on prehistoric Britain as well as some later periods. He achieved his PhD from the Universities of Durham (Archaeology) and Newcastle (Geography) where he focused on geoarchaeology and landscape archaeology in north-east England. His research interests include landscape archaeology, Stone Age archaeology, rock art, field methods and prehistoric material culture. He founded, and is the Managing Director of, Archaeological Research Services Ltd following spells working in academia, for the public and third sectors and in commercial archaeology. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes and lectures regularly for academic, professional and public audiences.
Saturday 29th March 2025: AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE in SHEFFIELD - Exploring Archaeological Landscapes: Celebrating the legacy of Derrick Riley and William Arnold
Baker:
A day conference focussing on two significant aerial photographers, and the evolving aerial archaeology techniques and research inspired by them.
To be held in the Creative Lounge, The Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
For the programme and to book a place see https://sites.google.com/site/hunterarchaeologicalsociety/news
Possible Archaeological Events for Your Diary:
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Guest Lectures (open to all)
Bradford University: School Archaeological and Forensic Science guest lectures series.
Lectures start at 5.30pm in Richmond Building (room E59) and as a webinar.
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Above programme updated 23rd February 2025