Monthly Events
Mastodon migrations and mysteries
Decolonisation of Archaeological Heritage Management in Zimbabwe: Legal Frameworks and Practices
Death and the Afterlife: the cult of animal sacrifice in Mesopotamia
Applications of X-ray imaging in Archaeology and palaeontology
Science in Egyptology: a fundamental tool to understand the past. The cases of 18th Dynasty Nubian kohl and pastes from Third Intermediate Period Thebes
Identifying periosteal new bone formation (PNBF) in fetal and infant individuals to explore health and wellbeing in past societies.
Marginality, Connectivity, and Long-Term Settlement History on Polyaigos: The Largest 'Uninhabited' Island in the Aegean
A new set of Bayesian modelling tools for compositional legacy data in archaeology: the case study of Muisca metalwork from Colombia (AD 600-1600)
Two Samnitic warrior burials from northern Apulia (Italy); anthropology, stable isotopes, and archaeology
Form, pattern and performativity in Early Bronze Age ceramics from mainland Greece
POSTPONED Recovering Scents & Lingering Tastes (Scent/Smellscapes/Taste)
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: Eugenics, and the Misuse of Mendel
Globalisation in Deep Time: Postdisciplinary Lessons from the 'Palaeolithic'
Ancient Bioinvasions: Can We Improve Evidentiary Standards for Species Introduction Research in Archaeology?
Analysis of spatio-temporal changes in the ecological niches of major domesticated crops in China: application of Species Distribution Modelling'
Human-environment entanglements in the late Neolithic Yilan Plain, NE Taiwan
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: Constructing Identity in Death: A Case-study from Metal Period Philippines
BORDERSCAPE: Egyptian state formation and the changing socio-spatial landscape of the First Nile Cataract region in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE
Bantu Expansion: A Migration and More Questions
From the Big to the Small: Big data and Compound-Specific Isotopes to understand Pleistocene Ecology
Exploring Technological Variability in the Lower Palaeolithic: A Multi-Scalar Approach
POSTPONED Archaeologies in Sight (Sight/Visuality)
Life Histories in the Neolithic Mediterranean

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.