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Programme 2025: Key events

Prehistory Research Section events:

2025
February

Saturday 1st February. Zoom talk from Dr Seren Griffiths, Manchester Metropolitan University. Forged in Conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory. 

The meeting link will be sent to PRS and YAHS members nearer to the date.

Any enquiries please email info.prehist@yahs.org.uk

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

 

 

25th September Talk. Dr Melanie Giles: ‘Bog Bodies: face-to-face with the past.’

  • Posted On: 1 August 2021
25th September Talk. Dr Melanie Giles: ‘Bog Bodies: face-to-face with the past.’
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Prehistory Research Section & The Prehistoric Society
25th September 2021, 2 pm
Note: This will no longer be held at Leeds Museum. It will be delivered via Zoom. Contact info.prehist@yahs.org.uk for information on joining.
‘Bog Bodies: face-to-face with the past’
Talk by Dr Melanie Giles, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Manchester

Dr Melanie Giles encourages us to revisit the iconic phenomenon of bog bodies, through the story of Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’ from Astley Moss, Worsley. By thinking differently about these landscapes, the many different kinds of artefacts also found in bogs, and the meaning of violence in later prehistoric and early Roman worlds. She will encourage us to tell more subtle stories around these discoveries, which addresses both their lives and deaths. She will end with some of the more creative ways in which museums have been responding to concerns about if and how we display human remains, encouraging us to see our archaeological work as a kind of ‘care’ for the ancient dead.

Any enquiries contact John Cruse, Hon Secretary YAHS, Prehistory Research Section john.cruse1@btinternet.com

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