Monthly Events
Simulation modelling as a method to explain cultural transmission processes using sparse data: a case study from the Aegean Bronze Age looking at the transmission of pottery-making technologies.
Classical Archaeology Seminars, Lent 2024
Invisible Etruscans. A study on rural landscape and settlement organisation during the urbanisation of Etruria (7th - 5th centuries BC)
The River Flow Memory Book Project: integrating local and academic knowledge to study human/rivers entanglement in central Nicaragua
New insights into the social flexibility of chimpanzees and gorillas
“We were shaped by space”: An archaeological perspective of presence, identity and the materiality of Black life
International Women's Day 2024
Neanderthal Legacy: Genes, cultures and archaeological sites
The acceleration of cultural evolution: computational approaches
Archaeological Investigation of the pre-Historic period of a Frontier city, Yorubaland, Nigeria West Africa: Material Culture, Architecture and Chronology (500-1500 AD)
Wari People: Fiction and personal memoir as a way to tell local stories
Classical Archaeology Seminars, Lent 2024
Who was in charge? Identifying and distinguishing proto-Elamite administrative actors
Tacit Knowledge Spillover and Stakeholder Collaboration in Heritage Tourism Destination in Asia
Bones of Contention: Piecing together the puzzle of fossil hominin long bones
Egypt and Ugarit: Globalization Beyond Connectivities
Intersectionality in past populations: Examining frailty at the intersections of identities
Rock, Paper, Semantics: How aliens and origami inform our understanding of lithics and language evolution

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.