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SUMMARY:Traces of humans in the Ice Age landscapes of southern England
DESCRIPTION:PROFESSOR MARTIN BATES\, University of Wales reviews the evidence for the earliest people in southern England. \nEvidence of early human occupation in southern England began to appear in the mid-19th century and by 1900 a number of sites were known in an area of the country south of a line between the Severn and the Trent.  Towards the end of the 20th century significant changes in our understanding of this record came about through new excavations at existing sites and the discovery of new sites such as Boxgrove\, Pakefield and Happisburgh.  Today we have a record that spans perhaps 1 million years of intermittent activity that is controlled in part by the major changes in climate and where the contemporary landscape was dramatically different to that of today.  Despite the progress in understanding this record the traces of the humans themselves is still thin on the ground and many\, major\, challenges still face the Palaeolithic archaeologist of the 21st century.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/traces-of-humans-in-the-ice-age-landscapes-of-southern-england/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20240908T080119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T131408Z
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SUMMARY:The Picts: Ethnogenesis AD300-900
DESCRIPTION:PROFESSOR GORDON NOBLE\, our 2024 Mitford lecturer will tackle the question who were the Picts? Using evidence collected over twelve years of the Northern Picts Project\, Gordon will highlight some of the major advances that have been made in understanding the development of the Pictish kingdoms. This includes work on the dating and meaning of the Pictish symbol stone tradition\, and the discovery of major settlements and fortifications. \nLecture starts at 8pm. \nDoors open for refreshments from 7:15pm \nBuy or renew your £10 membership for the whole year. \nOr £5 for the lecture only. \nStudents free.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-picts-ethnogenesis-ad300-900/
LOCATION:Lower Parliament Hall\, 66 South Street\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9QW\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240509T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240509T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T151709Z
UID:322-1715277600-1715283000@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Persian Parthenon
DESCRIPTION:PROFESSOR TOM HARRISON\, British Museum\, looks again at the old thesis that the iconography of the Parthenon took inspiration from the art of Persepolis. He does so by taking a wider view of the role of Persia as a model for Athenian imperialism. By examining the evidence for other Persian architectural and artistic influence on the Greek world\, and reviewing the role of Persia in Aeschylus’ Persians\, Old Comedy and Herodotus’ Histories\, he argues that Persia served as an inevitable point of reference for Athens’ imperial ambitions.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-persian-background-to-the-parthenon/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T153321Z
UID:320-1712858400-1712863800@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts
DESCRIPTION:Our knowledge of the period of European history conventionally called the Middle Ages rests\, in a large part\, on the writings that survive from that time\, all of them manuscript. In this talk PROFESSOR ROBERT BARTLETT\, Emeritus\, University of St Andrews\, explores cases in which large numbers of such manuscripts were destroyed in a day\, not by accident of fire or flood but by human destructive force – arson\, shelling and bombing. It will look at the political and military events that led up to the moment of destruction\, the nature of the material that was lost and how it came to be where it was. Finally\, more cheerfully\, there is discussion of the heroic efforts made by scholars and archivists to save something from those catastrophes. Historical knowledge rests on material remains\, which include manuscripts\, and they are vulnerable.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-precarious-past-the-destruction-of-medieval-manuscripts-through-arson-shelling-and-bombing/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240406T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T095725Z
UID:324-1712395800-1712422800@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Spring Outing
DESCRIPTION:The April 2024 Spring Outing is regrettably cancelled.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/spring-outing/
LOCATION:Fife
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T144819Z
UID:318-1710439200-1710444600@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unearthing the Past: Insights from the 2023 Vindolanda Excavation Season
DESCRIPTION:PENNY TRICHLER\, Vindolanda Trust looks back at the 2023 season of digging at Roman Vindolanda Fort on Hadrian’s Wall. She explores the archaeological progress and remarkable discoveries\, within the setting of Vindolanda’s complex history and takes a closer look at the plans for upcoming excavation and research projects at the Vindolanda Trust.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/latest-discoveries-from-vindolanda/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T230236Z
UID:313-1707415200-1707420600@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Excavation of a Neolithic salt factory at Street House\, Loftus\, North Yorkshire
DESCRIPTION:STEPHEN SHERLOCK\, Independent Archaeologist presents new evidence for Early Neolithic (3800–3700 BC) salt-making at Street House\, Loftus\, in north-east England. This deeply stratified coastal site has yielded the remains of a brine-storage pit and a saltern with at least three associated hearths\, together with an assemblage of flint and stone tools\, ceramic vessel sherds and briquetage. A process of production is suggested and parallels are drawn from contemporaneous European and later British sites. This discovery has the potential to influence future Neolithic studies considering subsistence\, early technologies and exchange mechanisms.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/street-house-north-yorkshire-from-neolithic-to-saxon/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231214T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231214T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T140821Z
UID:310-1702576800-1702582200@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Early Neolithic Timber Halls in Scotland: Dr Brian Hope-Taylor\, Yeavering\, Doon Hill\, Balbridie and fifty years of confusion or worse
DESCRIPTION:PROFESSOR IAN RALSTON\, Abercromby Professor of Archaeology\, School of History\, Classics & Archaeology\, University of Edinburgh. \n  \nIn July 1959\, while Brian Hope-Taylor\, Ministry of Works digger and soon-to-be Assistant Lecturer in Archaeology at Cambridge\, was still in course of excavating the great Anglo-Saxon palace complex at Yeavering in Northumberland\, his future colleague\, Dr Kenneth St Joseph\, recorded from the air the first evidence for the foundations of a similar timber building\, here within a stockaded enclosure\, in Scotland. This lay on Doon Hill\, near Dunbar\, on a hill which effectively closed off the eastern end of the Lothian Plain. In the mid-1960s\, with three labourers and a small crew of Cambridge undergraduates\, and at the zenith of his career as an excavator\, Hope-Taylor investigated Doon Hill\, identifying not one\, but two superimposed\, timber buildings\, the polygonal palisaded enclosure\, an external cemetery of long graves\, and some other features. Having been presented by Hope-Taylor on the first extended TV series on British archaeology\, his Who were the British?\, the Doon Hill evidence was subsequently marked out on the ground in coloured concrete by the antecedent bodies to Historic Environment Scotland. \nDoon Hill was initially presented to the public according to Hope-Taylor’s interpretation of what he had found: as a ‘native’ British\, post-Roman hall site\, burnt down and taken over by the Northumbrian Angles\, who constructed their own hall there to a plan very similar to the Yeavering examples. The replacement would have happened c. AD 640\, when the early English extended their control northwards to Lothian. Hope-Taylor died in 2001\, without having published the site. His hypothesis has\, bit by bit\, crumbled over the intervening fifty-odd years. The speaker\, who first dug at Doon Hill as a schoolboy\, will outline the winding path that has led from ‘the-past-as-wished-for’ in the context of what was known archaeologically half a century ago to the radically different interpretation of the site today.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/doon-hill-neolithic-halls-and-balbridie-neolithic-long-house/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T140758Z
UID:308-1699552800-1699558200@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Loaves and fishes in St Andrews: excavations at 100 North Street
DESCRIPTION:JULIE FRANKLIN\, Headland Archaeology presents results from recent excavations at 100 North Street. Located within the medieval burgh of St Andrews the site contained evidence for medieval and post-medieval activity. Occupation predominantly dates to the later 12th and 13th centuries but there are also hints of pre-burghal activity. Features included boundary ditches\, extraction pits\, water management features and a possible bread oven. A 16th-century stone-built latrine pit contained waterlogged cess deposits. There was evidence of luxury items such as grapes and a decorative glass vessel\, while a large fish bone assemblage allowed comparison of fishing practices between the medieval and post-medieval periods.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/excavations-at-st-andrews-police-station/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230712T130037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T120508Z
UID:304-1697137200-1697146200@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Green treasures from the magic mountains . . .  and other stories from the Scottish Neolithic
DESCRIPTION:DR ALISON SHERIDAN\, Emerita Principal Curator of Early Prehistory at National Museums Scotland is our 2023 MITFORD LECTURER. \nHer lecture deals with the fascinating story of Scotland’s earliest farmers who lived here between around 4000 BC and 2500 BC\, during what we call the Neolithic (New Stone Age) period. Who were these people? How did they live? Why did they build monuments? How did they get on with each other? And what on earth did they do with their carved stone balls?\nThis was no normal ‘everyday story of country folk’: the ‘archers’ we encounter were serious with their bows and arrows! Our understanding of this period is being transformed by new discoveries and research\, especially through the application of advanced scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis and spectroradiometry. This lecture will share with you the results of this exciting work. \nWine and snacks from 7pm. \nLecture starts at 8pm. \nRenew your £10 membership for the whole year. \nOr £5 for the lecture only. \nStudents free.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/recent-developments-in-understanding-the-scottish-neolithic/
LOCATION:Lower Parliament Hall\, 66 South Street\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9QW\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230409
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20221011T171234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230331T143140Z
UID:228-1680912000-1680998399@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Spring excursion to explore the archaeology of the Antonine Wall
DESCRIPTION:Geoff Bailey\, former Keeper\, Falkirk Museums and a leading authority on the archaeology of the Antonine Wall will be taking us on an insider tour of Scotland’s biggest building project. \nWe will visit Rough Castle Fort\, the Antonine Wall exhibition at Callendar House and Kinneil fortlet and Museum. \nThis is an all day excursion departing from St Andrews. \nCoach transport for the whole day is a very good value £15. All museums are free. \nTo book a seat please contact Joanna Hambly jh105@st-andrews.ac.uk.   Pay on the day. \nThere will be cafe options for refreshments at Callendar House and/or bring a picnic. \nItinerary (please note\, except for departure time from St Andrews and Kinneil House\, other timings are advisory only) \n09:30am Depart St Andrews (Petheram car park near the round University Gateway Building) \n11:00am Arrive Falkirk Wheel. (Toilets available) \n11:00am-1:00pm Site visit to Rough Castle Fort. (This involves a 20 minute walk each way to and from the Fort) \n1:00pm-2:30pm Callendar House Antonine Fort exhibition\, cafe and toilets. \n2:30pm-4:30pm Site visit to Kinneil Fortlet\, Museum and Designed Gardens (toilets available) \n4:30pm Depart Kinneil House \n6:00pm Arrive back in St Andrews (Petheram car park) \n 
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/spring-excursion-to-explore-the-archaeology-of-the-antonine-wall/
LOCATION:Fife
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230406T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230406T190000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220919T105328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230320T130904Z
UID:202-1680804000-1680807600@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Seggie Farm\, Guardbridge: Multiperiod settlement within the shadow of a multivallate fort
DESCRIPTION:Maureen Kilpatrick\, GUARD Archaeology \nIn our final lecture of the programme\, Dr. Maureen Kilpatrick of Guard Archaeology will tell us about the amazing archaeological finds in advance of the Eden Woods housing development in Guardbridge. Not to be missed for all those who live in the area. \nBetween 2019 and 2021 GUARD Archaeology excavated an Iron Age fort overlooking Guardbridge. The excavations revealed the deep ditches defining the fort and many other features beyond. Traces of a palaeolithic site\, a Neolithic long house\, a large timber circle\, numerous Bronze Age hut circles and a large Iron Age roundhouse. Artefacts included several polished stone axes\, evidence of metal working and a significant prehistoric pottery assemblage.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/seggie-farm-guardbridge/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220919T104136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T105204Z
UID:200-1678384800-1678390200@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Excavation of a Neolithic tomb at Tresness\, Sanday\, Orkney
DESCRIPTION:THIS TALK IS CANCELLED FOR MARCH 9 AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED \nWe are delighted to welcome Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark (National Museums Scotland) who will be telling us about recent excavations of an eroding Neolithic tomb on the island of Sanday\, Orkney. The excavations have revealed an exceptional sequence of deposits within the chamber that shed considerable light on activities undertaken at the monument.  Artefacts recovered include two polished stone balls\, that allow several comparable finds to be set in context. \n 
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/excavations-at-tresness-cairn-sanday/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230209T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230209T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20230131T102631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T105606Z
UID:263-1675965600-1675971000@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Behind the scenes at Wardlaw Museum
DESCRIPTION:A special behind the scenes visit to the Wardlaw Museum with the St Andrews University Museums team
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/behind-the-scenes-at-wardlaw-museum/
LOCATION:Wardlaw Museum\, 7 The Scores\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AR\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230120
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20221213T134837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221213T134837Z
UID:253-1674086400-1674172799@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The precise power of the rings: Dendrochronological insights into the last millennium in Scotland
DESCRIPTION:Dr Coralie Mills\, \nA shared talk with the University of St Andrew’s Institute for Scottish Historical Research. \nDr Coralie Mills will present results from the Southeast Scotland Oak Dendrochronology project which have much to excite the archaeologist and historian.  Of particular interest are timber sourcing\, which reveals so much more about Scotland’s past including her international trade connections\, and how the precision of tree-ring dating\, with felling dates to a year often possible\, can enhance the historical and archaeological evidence. \nThis talk is online\, and a link will be emailed to you prior to the event.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-precise-power-of-the-rings-dendrochronological-insights-into-the-last-millennium-in-scotland/
LOCATION:Online via Teams
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T193000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20221124T174424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221124T174424Z
UID:245-1670522400-1670527800@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:In Search of Medieval Religious Women: From Text to Teeth
DESCRIPTION:Professor Alison Beach\,  University of St Andrews presents new and exciting research on how the analysis of dental calculus from the teeth of medieval religious women has revealed their work as scribes and illuminators of medieval manuscripts. The collaboration of scientists and archaeologists is helping to tell a fuller story of life in medieval women’s monasteries and their active role in book production.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/in-search-of-medieval-religious-women-from-text-to-teeth/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220919T092600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T135758Z
UID:191-1668103200-1668106800@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Coring Early Rome: geoarchaeological investigations into the origins of the Eternal City
DESCRIPTION:Dr Andrea Brock\, \nSince 2013\, I have led a collaborative project of a deep coring survey in the heart of Rome. The results are shedding new light on Rome’s pre-urban landscape\, as well as evidence for significant instability and change in the Tiber River valley that occurred alongside urban growth at Rome in the mid-1st millennium BCE. The early Romans\, therefore\, had to adapt to a dynamic riverine environment and significant urban flooding.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/coring-early-rome/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T190000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220919T091944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T135837Z
UID:185-1665684000-1665687600@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Unlocking the Past with Geophysics
DESCRIPTION:Professor Richard Bates\, \nFrom the oldest footprints in Africa to mega-pits in the Stonehenge landscape and lightning strikes at the heart of Calanais\, geophysical investigations are providing new views of the past. In this lecture\, Professor Richard Bates will present recent studies using remote sensing tools that are being used to unlock the past.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/unlocking-the-past-with-geophysics/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220512T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220512T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T091727Z
UID:40-1652385600-1652391000@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Western Wadis of the Theban Necropolis
DESCRIPTION:Dr Piers Litherland \nIn our May lecture\, Piers Litherland\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University and head of the New Kingdom Research Foundation\, presents new findings about senior royal women and evidence of climate change in the Western Wadis of the Theban Necroplis. Investigation of the Wadi Bairiya shaft tombs has brought to light a hitherto unknown group of court women of the period of Amenhotep III\, including a Great Chief Wife of the King\, Nebetnehet\, a Son of the King\, Menkheperre\, a Wife of the King\, Henut\, a Daughter of the King\, Tia\, and at least 28 other individuals whose burials were deliberately destroyed in pharaonic times. Further study of the site and its surroundings\, and additional work in the Western Wadis and Wadi 300\, has produced evidence of a cycle of wetter weather in at least four periods\, the most extreme of which was the XVIIIth dynasty (1550-1292 BC).  Re-analysis of graffiti has disclosed that the western wadis were filled with water during this time for watching and trapping live falcons. As well as advancing our understanding of this landscape and its development\, this wetter weather may account for a marginal expansion in the hunting and gathering constituents in the economy and provide a model for explaining the extraordinary expansion of the economy in the early XVIIIth dynasty and its subsequent contraction through the XIXth and XXth dynasties (1292-1077 BC).
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-western-wadis-of-the-theban-necropolis/
LOCATION:School 1\, St Salvators Quadrangle\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220421T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220421T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220421T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T142910Z
UID:38-1650571200-1650576600@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Mitford Lecture: Rome’s Eastern Frontier
DESCRIPTION:Tim Bruce Mitford \nWild\, mountainous\, and  accessible only on horseback or on foot\, Rome’s remotest frontier ran across eastern Turkey to the Black Sea. \nThis terrain has long remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world\, barely visited and effectively unknown. In the early 1960s  Tim Bruce Mitford embarked on a lifetime of fieldwork\, culminating in ‘Discovering Rome’s Eastern Frontier’ which offers an account of his half a century of research and exploration over sensitive territory\, in challenging conditions\, to discover the material remains of Rome’s last unexplored frontier. \nIn this 2022 Mitford Lecture\, Tim will take us on a journey through the monuments of this vast frontier: fortresses and forts\, roads\, bridges\, signalling stations\, and navigation of the Euphrates\, enriched with encounters of the many people met along the way and observations of ways of life little changed since antiquity. \nThe Mitford lecture will be held in All Saints Church Hall\, North Castle Street St Andrews. Free to Archaeology Society Members and Student Archaeology Society members\, £2 suggested donation for non-members
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-mitford-lecture-romes-eastern-frontier/
LOCATION:All Saints Church Hall\, North Castle Street\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9BG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220310T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220310T200000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220311T102540Z
UID:36-1646942400-1646947800@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Galloway Hoard: new discoveries
DESCRIPTION:Dr Martin Goldberg Principal Curator\, National Museums Scotland \nIn December 2018 Andrew Nicholson\, the archaeologist who excavated the Galloway Hoard\, gave a talk to the Society about the discovery and early findings from the hoard. \nFour years of painstaking conservation and research has restored these rare and unique treasures to their full glory and revealed the incredible stories of the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland. \nJoin us on Thursday 10th March when Dr Martin Goldberg\, Principal Curator\, National Museums Scotland will take us through the some of the latest findings. \nSign up for programme reminders on the Society Home Page to receive the link
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-galloway-hoard/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20220210T200000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220130T183539Z
UID:34-1644523200-1644528600@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Steatite Rocks: vessels\, pioneers\, and trade in the Norse North Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Dr Manda Forster\, DigVentures \nSteatite\, or soapstone is a material that can tell us a great deal about the people of the North Atlantic region from the 8th to the 14th centuries. This presentation investigates steatite artefacts and raw material to trace the life stories of objects from across the Viking diaspora. Through understanding the location of quarries and the distribution of products\, especially artefacts recovered from Viking-period sites in northern Britain (York to Orkney)\, Ireland\, Faroe\, and Iceland\, we can spot distinct typological classes of vessels and map movement of objects and people. \nThe talk will also present results from the recent Homeland to Home project\, undertaken in collaboration with Richard Jones of the University of Glasgow.  The project has applied archaeological\, typological\, and scientific analysis to link vessel types to a likely source region.  Results linked to several quarries on Shetland and southeast Norway are presented here\, with a discussion of the evidence relating to artefacts from Shetland (Sandwick\, Unst)\, York\, Orkney (Quoygrew\, Westray)\, Kaupang and the Faroes. \nFor several reasons\, including the still limited size of the quarry chemical database\, positive assignments of origin to individual artefacts remain difficult to propose based on chemical composition alone. However\, more progress has been made in a process of association\, by close consideration of groups of artefacts that are likely to have a similar origin owing to their similarity of composition.  Can this combined approach help us identify the origins of Viking pioneers and map subsequent networks across the North Atlantic? And does it overturn previous assumptions based on typological analysis?
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/steatite-rocks-the-story-so-far/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20211209T200000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211203T193501Z
UID:27-1639080000-1639085400@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Tracing the Lines: Pots and People in Late Neolithic Scotland
DESCRIPTION:Mike Copper\, University of Bradford \nIn the final centuries of the 4th millennium BC a new style of pottery known as Grooved Ware appeared in Orkney. Known from sites including the Standing Stones of Stenness\, the village of Barnhouse and the dramatic enclosure of the Ness of Brodgar\, Grooved Ware was subsequently\, and rapidly\, adopted across the whole of Britain and Ireland\, replacing all previously existing regional styles. What\, then\, was so special about Grooved Ware? What was the significance of Orkney and of the Balfarg/Balbirnie ritual complex in Fife? And how does the adoption of this new style of pottery fit in with the appearance of other widely shared forms of artefact and monuments after 3\,000 BC? In this talk\, Dr Mike Copper will address these and other Grooved Ware-related questions in the light of the results of recent  – Tracing the Lines: uncovering Scottish Grooved Ware trajectories beyond Orkney.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/tracing-the-lines-pots-and-people-in-late-neolithic-scotland/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20211111T200000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T184152Z
UID:29-1636660800-1636666200@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Down to the Wire: Rescue Excavation of the Pockoy Island Shell Ring Complex
DESCRIPTION:Dr Meg Gaillard\, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources \nSince 2017\, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Archaeology team has been assisted by hundreds of volunteers\, students and professional archaeologists in a rescue excavation of the Pockoy Island Shell Ring Complex located on Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve\, Charleston County\, South Carolina\, USA. The excavation of this 4\,300-year-old site is necessary because Pockoy Island is eroding at a rate of 15m/year. Heritage at risk sites like the Pockoy Island Shell Ring Complex give archaeologists a chance to combine rapid excavation with community archaeology to recover knowledge before the opportunity is lost forever.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/down-to-the-wire-rescue-excavation-of-the-pockoy-island-shell-ring-complex/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20210513T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T171332Z
UID:89-1620936000-1620941400@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Archaeologies of animality: how animals shaped Iron Age and Romano-British landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Dr Adrian Chadwick \nTrackways were an important component of many Iron Age and Roman-period rural landscapes in Britain. They linked settlement enclosures and led to fields and areas of pasture. Such features not only indicate the economic significance of livestock and pastoralism but also the importance of routine herding journeys during periods when landscape inhabitation and tenure are usually assumed to be static and permanent\, focused on specific tracts of land. \nRoutes of trackways were ingrained into the muscle memories of people and animals\, and the social memories of communities\, and animal herds and flocks. People would have been alert to the movements\, moods\, and motivations of their beastly charges\, matching their pace and bodily dispositions to those of livestock. Animals too would have partly shaped the trackways\, fields\, funnels\, enclosures and pens through their behaviour. \nIn this presentation\, Dr Chadwick will explore how the interrelationships of people and animals\, their shared experience of movement and memory\, resulted in the creation of the agricultural landscapes of Iron Age and Roman-period Britain
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/archaeologies-of-animality-how-animals-shaped-iron-age-and-romano-british-landscapes/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210401T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210401T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20211026T171542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T171542Z
UID:92-1617307200-1617312600@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Curious Case of Achill Henge: Investigating the Strange Desire to Replicate a Wiltshire Landmark
DESCRIPTION:Dr Stuart Rathbone \nIn this talk\, Stuart Rathbone\, former Director of Field Work for the Achill Archaeological Field School\, tells the story of how the island gained an illegal replica of Stonehenge\, explores the wider phenomenon of making reconstructions of Stonehenge\, and asks if there is anything we can learn from the whole debacle. \nAchill Island in County Mayo in Western Ireland features a wide range of archaeological sites\, including Neolithic Tombs\, Bronze Age Houses and field systems\, Iron Age Promontory Forts\, Early Medieval Ringforts and Kilns\, a fine Tower House\, post-medieval rural settlements\, and several 19th and 20th century naval facilities. In November 2011 these existing sites were joined by a full size\, and illegally constructed\, concrete-built replica of the outer sarsen ring of Stonehenge. The then director of fieldwork at the Achill Archaeological Field school felt rather obliged to do something about the newly appeared structure\, but it was unclear what an appropriate response would be? Traditional recording of the site proved entertaining but far from enlightening. Less traditional techniques provided useful insights into how archaeologists respond to genuine Neolithic sites\, and raised serious questions about how archaeologically informed the creator of the replica may have been. These investigations led to a wider review of the phenomenon of replicating Stonehenge\, and a wide range of motivations were identified.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-curious-case-of-achill-henge-investigating-the-strange-desire-to-replicate-a-wiltshire-landmark/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210218T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210218T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20211026T172037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T172037Z
UID:95-1613678400-1613683800@archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Archaeology of Shetland's Sea Roads
DESCRIPTION:Esther Renwick and Marc Chivers \nShetland’s location and the geography of its island archipelago has meant that for most of the 6000 years that people have lived here a seafaring culture has prevailed. This is reflected in the archaeological record where strong cultural links can be seen with mainland UK and Norway. Until recently\, everybody used small boats for local transport and communication\, but today\, boat culture is an important part of Shetland’s heritage not a lived experience for modern communities. \nIn this talk\, archaeologist Esther Renwick and boat historian Marc Chivers\, both long-time Shetland residents\, will examine the traditional boat culture in Shetland and look at some of the archaeological evidence that helps us build a more complete seaward\, rather than landward narrative of an almost lost way of life.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-archaeology-of-shetlands-sea-roads/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124356
CREATED:20201203T200000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220311T103256Z
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SUMMARY:The Peebles Hoard
DESCRIPTION:Emily Freeman\, Treasure Trove Scotland \nIn June\, a metal detectorist near Peebles uncovered one of the most significant Late Bronze Age hoards ever found in Scotland. Comprising fittings from an elaborate horse harness and a sword\, this find will provide an insight into Bronze Age society and connections with the wider world. Emily Freeman\, manager of Treasure Trove in Scotland\, will discuss the Treasure Trove process and series of events from initial discovery to the eventual block lift.
URL:https://archsoc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-peebles-hoard/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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