Division of Archaeology

Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Discussion Group

Current schedule

Contact

Robyn Inglis and Alex Pryor.

About the Pal-Meso Discussion Group

The Pal-Meso Discussion Group has been meeting for more than a decade. The group is open and free to anyone who is interested to come along. Talks are given by internal MPhil and PhD research students, as well as post-docs, visiting scholars and university lecturers from UK and overseas academic institutions.

The group meets every Friday afternoon at 4:30 (usually in the South Lecture Room, but sometimes the West Building Seminar Room). The meetings normally last for an hour or so, split between a presentation and informal questions. Tea and cookies are provided, and the pub tends to beckon afterwards.

Past speakers

Here is an incomplete list of past speakers:

  • 2005/10/21 Lars Larsson Zvejnieki cemetery (northern Latvia) in the Mesolithic and early Neolithic, and the study of tooth pendants
  • 2005/10/28 Clea Paine Bone chemistry and palaeodiet of Mesolithic inhabitants at Pupicina Cave, Croatia
  • 2005/11/04 Sam Benghiat Experimental perforation of shells
  • 2005/11/11 Ryan Rabett When pigs mate with flowers
  • 2005/11/18 Lisa Marlow Lower Palaeolithic hominin dispersal into western Eurasia
  • 2005/11/25 Nellie Phoca-cosmetatou Subsistence strategies during the Late Glacial in the Italian and Iberian peninsulas
  • 2005/12/02 Franceso D'Errico + Marian Vanhaeren Personal ornamentation in the early Upper Palaeolithic
  • Fiona Coward
  • Naama Goran-Imbar
  • Professor Mokhtar Saidin The Palaeolithic of Malaysia: palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and lakeshore sites from the Lenggong Valley, Perak
  • Tamsin O'Connell Isotope Analysis of Palaeolithic sites, with special focus on Dolni Vestonice II
  • 2006/10/13 Ole Grun Underwater archaeology, North European Mesolithic
  • 2006/10/20 Becky Farbstein Pavlovian portable art: recent discoveries from Předmostí, Czech Republic
  • 2006/10/27 Dusan Boric Mesolithic Balkans
  • 2006/11/03 Felix Riede Arhmarian, northern Europe
  • 2006/11/10 Lila Janik Changing perspectives? Eurasian rock art through prehistoric and modern eyes
  • 2006/11/17 Paul Pettitt Current Middle and Upper Palaeolithic excavations at Church Hole, Creswell Crags, and new interpretations of the cave art and behaviour in Magdalenian Britain
  • 2006/11/24 Patrick Skinner Cave bears in Palaeolithic Europe
  • 2006/12/01 Marian Vanhaeren The Skhul and Oued Djebbana shells: personal decoration 135-100kya
  • 2007/01/26 Laural Basell New research into the Palaeolithic of SW Britain
  • 2007/02/02 Becky Farbstein Reconstructing social and technical chaines operatoires in Pavlovian portable art
  • 2007/02/09 Chris Stimpson Pleistocene small vertebrate remains from Niah Cave, Borneo
  • 2007/02/16 Elizabeth Blake Flint tools as portable sound-producing objects in the Upper Palaeolithic context: an experimental study
  • 2007/02/23 Geoff Bailey Coastal Prehistory in the southern Red Sea
  • 2007/03/02 Chantel Conneller Assembling bodies: humans and animals in Mesolithic Britain (cancelled)
  • 2007/03/09 Paul Mellars Archaeology and genetics in the Palaeolithic
  • 2007/03/16 Jeff Oliver Beyond the water's edge: Towards a social archaeology of landscape on the Northwest coast
  • 2007/10/19 William Banks Eco-cultural niche modelling as a tool to predict the potential distribution of Upper Palaeolithic techno-complexes
  • 2007/10/23 Meg Conkey and Ruth Tringham Recollections in archaeology
  • 2007/11/02 Rhiannon Stevens
  • 2007/11/09 Victoria Ling Population discontinuity in Lower Palaeolithic Europe
  • 2007/11/16 Alison Blyth Geochemical analyses of cave sediments and past human environments (cancelled)
  • 2007/11/23 Patrick Skinner Cave bear ecology in Upper Palaeolithic Moravia
  • 2007/11/30 William Davies Recent developments in dating the Aurignacian
  • 2008/02/01 Alex Pryor
  • 2008/02/07 Ehud Weiss Who's in the shade? Gender, plants, and flints in Upper Palaeolithic Ohalo II, Israel (McDonald/Pal-Meso)
  • 2008/02/08 Tim Reynolds Initial re-examination and potential at the Haua Fteah, Libya
  • 2008/02/15 Lisa Mahr Epipalaeolithic sites in Jordan
  • 2008/02/22 Ariane Burke Neanderthal occupation of the Crimean peninsula
  • 2008/02/29 David Lewis-Williams Religion and science
  • 2008/03/07 Richard Leakey