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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.

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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

 

 

Who were Britain’s First Farmers? The Genetics of the British Neolithic - Dr Tom Booth of the Crick Institute

YAHS: Prehistory Research Section & The Prehistoric Society Joint Open Meeting

  • Posted On: 19 July 2019

Saturday, 21st September 2019

2pm - Thoresby Room, Leeds Civic Museum

  • YAHS: Prehistory Research Section & The Prehistoric Society Joint Open Meeting
  • Dr Tom Booth of the Crick Institute: “Who were Britain’s First Farmers? The Genetics of the British Neolithic”

"Advances in techniques of extracting, sequencing and analysing DNA extracted from ancient human remains over the last 10 years have revolutionised our understanding of the demographic history of prehistoric Europe. These techniques have identified several major large-scale population changes, suggesting that ancient migrations had a significant influence on the demographic and cultural prehistory of Europe. A persistent point of contention in British archaeology is the extent to which the development of Neolithic farming practices in Britain around 4000 BC was driven by migrations of established farmers from continental Europe. Here I will discuss how recent studies of ancient human DNA contribute to the debate about the origins of British Neolithic, as well as the nature of the first farming societies in Britain and Yorkshire specifically."

  • This meeting is free and non-members are welcome.  
  • Please book your place for this event before 19th Sept, via Eventbrite - click here
  • NB: Free Refreshments will be available after the talk
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