Monthly Events
Negotiating Cultural Practices Between Local Customs and Imperial Influence at Tell Halaf/Guzana during the Iron Age
Some Challenges in the Studies of Metallurgy in Bronze Age China
1000 ways to die in human evolution: from crocodiles to cancer
Writing a People's History of the First Intermediate Period: Challenges and Benefits
From large scale remote spectral imaging to the history of the wall paintings on the Silk Road
Primate responses to death: insights into death awareness
A New Way of Making Silver: Experiments in Medieval Islamic Metallurgy based on the Manuscript of Al-Hamdani
What’s Mind is Yours: Intersubjectivity and Social Complexity in the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
Mixing apples and oranges: Integrating Bayesian confirmation and classification algorithms to combine incompatible, high dimensional data
Sealand Space Syntax: spatial analysis of the fortified building at Tell Khaiber
Discovery of Archaeological Landscape of Kutlug Khagan (7th c. CE): the Renovator of the Turkic Khaganate Dynasty
Biological diversity among modern human populations
Fire, Fields and Fertilizer

The Department of Archaeology runs a diverse and lively events programme that reflects the many-faceted subject. Termly Seminar Series and Discussion Groups (link to Seminar Series) see visiting and local scholars delivering thought-provoking lectures on a daily basis. Enhancing these, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research aims to provide a shared intellectual home for archaeologists at Cambridge with eminent, international speakers delivering the McDonald Annual Lecture as well as hosting multiple conferences and workshops throughout the year.