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Programme 2024/2025: Key events

Prehistory Research Section events:

2025
March

Saturday 22nd March. Talk from Clive Waddington 'How Britain became an island: the Storegga Slide tsunami and Mesolithic catastrophe'.

 

Possible Archaeological Events for Your Diary:

Saturday 29th March 2025: AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE in SHEFFIELD - Exploring Archaeological Landscapes: Celebrating the legacy of Derrick Riley and William Arnold Baker. Further details will be coming soon on how to book a place.

 
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.

Please note - Your E-Mail Address:

The majority of members now receive their notices and newsflashes electronically. If your contact details have changed, please let me know, so that our address list remains up-to-date. If you wish to change the way you receive your section information, please drop me a line - either by email, or by post: John Cruse, 26 Logan Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9AR

Above programme updated 6th January 2025

 

 

September joint meeting of the Prehistory Research Section and The Prehistoric Society in collaboration with Leeds City Museum.

  • Posted On: 13 July 2024
September joint meeting of the Prehistory Research Section and The Prehistoric Society in collaboration with Leeds City Museum.

Saturday 7th September 2024, 2 pm – 3.15 pm 

Thoresby Room, Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH 

Annual joint meeting of the Prehistory Research Section and Historical Society and The Prehistoric Society in collaboration with Leeds City Museum.

In-person talk open to all:

Jake Rowland: ‘Beyond Symbols of Power: Life in Middle Neolithic grave goods in Eastern Yorkshire’ 

Jake Rowland is a PhD student at the University of Southampton working on reconstructing the life histories of Middle Neolithic grave goods. His research integrates technological, contextual and use-wear analysis to explore prehistoric technology, materiality, depositional practices and the relationships between people and objects.

The round barrows, flat graves and mortuary features of Eastern Yorkshire have yielded some of the largest and most elaborate Neolithic grave assemblages ever found in Britain. From the extraordinary array of axeheads, knives and arrowheads from Duggleby Howe, Whitegrounds and Ayton East Field, to more unusual objects; worked boar tusks, antler ‘maceheads’ and jet beads and ‘belt sliders’. But what were these objects used for? How did they function in Neolithic society? And what do their lives tells us about the people they were interred with and the communities that deposited them?  This talk presents new evidence that challenges many of the previously held assumptions about these objects and places them within their broader context in Middle Neolithic Britain.

Booking required - book your free place:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/leeds/leeds-city-museum/archaeology-talk-beyond-symbols-of-power-life-in-middle-neolithic-grave-goods-in-eastern-yorkshire/2024-09-07/14:00/t-avmkrgr

Any enquiries to info.prehist@yahs.org.uk

See attached flyer.

 

Categories: Pre History
Tags: Yorkshire archaeology prehistory prehistoric neolithic grave goods
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