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Winter lectures are held on Monday evenings at 7:00 pm in the Devonport Lecture Theatre
of the Portland Square Building, Plymouth University. Non-
5th October 2009
THE SILCHESTER ROMAN TOWN LIFE PROJECT
Prof Mike Fulford
Mike Fulford is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading where he has research interests in Roman archaeology, particularly of urbanism, economy and trade. This lecture will outline the main results of the continuing excavation (now in its 13th year) to explore a large residential block (insula) of the Iron age and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) from its origins in the late Iron Age to its demise between the 5th and the 7th century AD.
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2nd November 2009
DEFENDING THE ISLES OF SCILLY
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden is a Senior Archaeological Investigator for English Heritage. He has
undertaken a number of research projects in the north of England but now works in
the West Midlands and the South-
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7th December 2009
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SILBURY HILL
David Field
David Field is an Archaeological Investigator for English Heritage where he specialises in the study of ancient landscapes, in particular, of the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. This lecture will describe the history of excavations at the site including the extraordinary work that has recently taken place in response to the hole that appeared in the summit in the year 2000 and he will place the site in its contemporary context and describe subsequent developments at and around the site.
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1st February 2010
THE 8,OOO YEAR SUBMERGED LANDS OF THE SOLENT
Gary Momber
Garry Momber is the Director of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology
and a Research Fellow in the University of York. The discovery of submerged occupation
sites in a drowned forest 11m below the Solent, showed the potential of the seabed
to preserve archaeological and palaeo-
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1st March 2010
THE HUMAN OCCUPATION OF THE BRITISH ISLES
THE CHANNEL RIVER AND SOUTHWEST ENGLAND
Prof Tony Brown
Professor Brown works in the School of Geography at the University of Southampton
where his research interests cover floodplain & alluvial geomorphology, palynology
and human environmental relationships and changes -
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29th March 2010
FRAGMENTATION OF THE BODY
Comestibles, compost, or customary rite?
Prof Chris Knüsel & Dr Alan Outram
Christopher Knüsel is Associate Professor in Bioarchaeology and Dr. Alan Outram is
Head of the Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter. In cases where human
remains have become heavily fragmented and mixed with apparently similarly fragmented
animal remains, interpretations could range widely from suspected cases of cannibalism,
through to unusual or non-
(This lecture was originally scheduled for 12th April but has been rescheduled due to
a change in the commitments of one of the speakers)
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