PLEASE NOTE MEMBERS MORNING CANCELLED. AFTERNOON TALK AND AGM FOR PRS MEMBERS VIA ZOOM ONLY
Saturday 25th March 2023
11 am – 12.15 pm: Members’ Morning
10.45 am tea/ coffee available, talks start 11 am
Sites in the upland landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors will be explored by PRS members, in two short talks followed by Q&A. This face-to-face meeting is open to all, but will not be online via Zoom. Download a flyer here. Please email info.prehist@yahs.org.uk if you will be attending to allow for catering.
Yvonne Luke: ‘A Druid's Temple near Ribblehead?: The Sleights Pasture Prehistoric Monument Complex’
Blaise Vyner: ‘The cross-ridge dyke on John Cross Rigg, Fylingdales Moor’
Talk also online via Zoom: 2 pm
Anna Bloxam, Assistant Professor in Archaeology, Dept Classics & Archaeology, University of Nottingham will talk on 'Yorkshire’s unusual Beaker burials: what can period-atypical funerary practices tell us about British prehistory?'
The Neolithic to Bronze Age transition in Britain is synonymous with the arrival of the Beaker people. Seen archaeologically through their standardised burial practices and distinctive material culture, their arrival heralds a period of sweeping cultural change across Britain – or so the traditional narrative goes. Recent DNA studies have lent support to the idea of dramatic change and population replacement over the period, but does the archaeology still fit this story? This talk sets out the evidence for overlooked burial practices in Yorkshire during the Beaker period, how they relate to other atypical practices from across Britain, and how this diverse set of strange and unexpected archaeological sites can shed new light on the nature of prehistoric cultural change.
This face-to-face talk is open to all and also online via Zoom. Download a flyer here.
Any enquiries to info.prehist@yahs.org.uk Please register in advance for Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkd-iprz0pE9fQljVD75eOV_Rw9XmH7eTR
AGM: c. 3.15 pm
Prehistory Research Section AGM for members only. This face-to-face meeting will not be available online via Zoom. Paperwork for the meeting and requests for nominations for posts will be sent out in late February. Any enquiries to Hon. Secretary John Cruse at john.cruse1@btinternet.com