Events

LUNCHTIME LECTURE The First Pharaohs of Egypt by Professor Aidan Dodson FSA Egypt was unified around 3100 BC, and the following five centuries – the first three dynasties – saw […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Khotan: A neglected Silk Road kingdom by Professor Susan Whitfield In 1900 the archaeologist Aurel Stein (1862-1943) carried out preliminary excavations at sites in the Taklamakan Desert in eastern Central Asia dating to the period of the kingdom of  Khotan (first millennium AD). He was enticed by the possibility […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Beyond the debiles: Writing dis/ability stories from skeletons by Stephanie Evelyn-Wright This talk describes a project that explores impairment and disability in Roman Britain through the study of human skeletal remains. The lecture showcases data obtained from the 3rd-4th century AD cemetery site of Alington Avenue, Dorset, UK. The […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE The shell middens of the northern and western coasts of the Arabian Sea (Pakistan and Oman) by Professor Paolo Biagi The research carried out since the beginning of the 2000s in Sindh and Las Bela in Balochistan (Pakistan) have shown that shell middens do exist also along the northern […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE The Archaeological Heritage of Slavery in the United States by Professor Theresa Singleton FSA        Archaeologists have studied slavery in the United States […]

LUNCHTIME LECTURE The Mirror in the Bike Shed: Arts and Crafts, Ladies and Bicycles by Anthony Davis FSA This lecture is about a listed bicycle shed used by the single […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Rapa Nui’s (Easter Island) archaeology and heritage: changing narratives and current issues by Professor Sue Hamilton FSA Rapa Nui is renowned for its colossal […]

ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE This event will now take place online only  Join us on 16 December to celebrate the end of the year with our Annual Christmas Miscellany. […]