Monthly Events
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: Neanderthal Technaesthetics: Material Minds and Complex Cognition
Can amino acid δ13C succeed where bulk δ13C fails? Testing “freshwater diet” signals against known 14C reservoir offsets
Prehistory of the Upper Jordan River - the First Million Years
Hellenistic mouldmade bowls from Thessaly: a comprehensive study of old and new material
Harvesting Proxies: The ecological niche for rice in Yayoi period Japan via multi-proxy species distribution modelling
Coffee Production and Consumption: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives from Southwest Ethiopia
The Library of the King of the World
CANCELLED! Early Iron Age in Kyrgyzstan: new discoveries, ideas, interpretations (2007-2022)
The status of 3D replicas of human bones and ethical considerations
What Do We Mean by Globalisation in the Prehistoric and Early Historic Mediterranean?
Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of Archaeological Materials
Fire, Culture, and Society: Excavations at the MIS 11 site of Barnham, Suffolk
A barrel full of monkeys - Animal identification in Aegean Bronze Age iconography
The Bukhara Oasis: a Story of Water and Peoples
IN DIALOGUE WITH THE LAND: The Passage tomb landscape of Co. Sligo - a potential World Heritage Site
CANCELLED (see next event) Sensory Overload: Double Dialogue
A Great Ape Dictionary: now what?
UPDATE Sensory Overload: Sight, Scents, and Tastes
Crop Migrations as a Globalising Process: The Case of Tropical Asian Crops in Ancient East-West Networks

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.