Monthly Events
Neanderthal life and death in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
Ecological drivers of hunter-gatherer lithic technology from the Middle and Later Stone Age in Central Africa
Ecological drivers of hunter-gatherer lithic technology from the Middle and Later Stone Age in Central Africa
Bison Eyes and a Beard of Lapis Lazuli: Aesthetics and Art for the Senses in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Political Pattern in Eastern Asia and Xiongnu Archaeological Culture
Unpacking the Beauty Premium: A multidimensional and evolutionary exploration of the impact of physical attractiveness on social and economic outcomes
Playing with things: The Moche sex pots
The Contemporary Archaeology of Smallholder Innovation in Elgeyo Marakwet, Kenya
Asia's Heritage Trend: Key Components and Questions
Looking at Andean South America from new lenses: Inka Architecture & Asymmetrical codependencies
The Water Insecurity Experiences Scales (wwwWISEscales.org): The Value of Globally Comparable Data on Water Access, Use, and Reliability.
Dams, Digging, and Dispossession: The History and Politics of Archaeology in Egyptian Nubia (cancelled)
Before, during and after gender: Towards a non-essentialist history of difference
Unravelling human ancestry: Exploring Palaeolithic technological shifts through laboratory experimental replication and archaeological insights
Modeling routes and timing of Neaderthal expansions in Eurasia between MIS6 and MIS3
The broad-spectrum species: Plant resource use and processing as deep time adaptations
Classical Archaeology Seminars, Lent 2024
Highland societies against the state: outlining an archaeology of resistance in the Zagros Mountains
Plump Beads and Gleaming Earrings: The Development and Cultural Exchange of Prehistoric Jade in Taiwan
Between Créolité and Indigeneity: Social movements for reviving French and Creole in Louisiana
Human remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation
Human Remains from Pompeii. Excavation, research and valorisation
Girls, girls, girls: The importance of (modern) bodies in envisaged Viking Age social experience
In search of mechanisms: Ecological approaches to the evolution of hominin behaviour
In search of mechanisms: Ecological approaches to the evolution of hominin behaviour
Modelling Primate Tool Transportation
Classical Archaeology Seminars, Lent 2024
From the ground up: Spatialized Practices of La Tène communities in the Paris Region
Rethinking Heritage Diplomacy on the Maritime Silk Road
The Evolution of Locomotion Through the Development Lens: Insights into the Morphology of the Human Talus and Calcaneus

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.