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CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINARS

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4.30pm in Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics.  All welcome.

29 January
Robyn Veal (McDonald Institute): Timber and Fuel in Rome: History, Archaeology, Economics

12 February
Nick Soderberg (Classics): The Emergence of Minoan Palatial Society: an Architectural Perspective

19 February
Jane Hjarl Petersen (Copenhagen): In at the Deep End? Assessing Expressions of Identity in Funerary Contexts from the Black Sea Region and Beyond

26 February
Maria Perez Ruiz (Madrid): Family, House and Gods: Picturing Domestic Religion in the Roman Provinces Baetica and Tarraconensis

5 March
Lucilla Burn (Fitzwilliam Museum): Walruses in Uniform: Researching the History of the Fitzwilliam Museum

12 March
Astrid van Oyen (Classics): Pots and Possibilities: Terra Sigillata and 'Rhenish' Wares: Production, Distribution and Consumption

14 May
Dominic Powlesland (Landscape Research Centre, Yedingham): Landscape to Lostscape: Exceptional or Prosaic? The Late Prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement of the Vale of Pickering

21 May
Kim Bowes (American Academy at Rome): Excavating Roman Peasants: Theory and Practice

Michaelmas 2012 programme

9 October: No Seminar

NOTE: Saturday 13 October: Celebratory day seminar (60 years of Mycenaean Studies) – details to follow

16 October    

Jane Sanford (Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology): ‘Colonists, Settlement and Livestock: Zooarchaeological Evidence for Greek Settlement of Magna Graecia.’

23 October    

Lídia Colominas-Barbera (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research): ‘Animal husbandry practices between the late Iron Age and the early Roman period in the Iberian Peninsula trough the analyses of faunal remains’

30 October: No seminar

6 November 

Ian Haynes (Newcastle University): 'The Transformation of Rome from Severus to Constantine: Perspectives from the Lateran Project'

13 November: No seminar

20 November

Alessandro Launaro: ‘A Roman town and its hinterland: Interamna Lirenas in Southern Lazio, Italy’

27 November

Jane Fejfer: “The power and agency of collecting: classical sculpture in English country houses”