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| Lecture Programme 2016-2017 |
The 2016/2017 season of lectures is held in the McDonald Institute seminar room, Division of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge at 7.30 pm. This season's talks arranged to date are:
12/10/16 Dr Robyn Veal - Provisioning the Roman villa: management of land resources to support urban and country villas in ancient Campania.
The provisioning of Roman villae in Campania for food and fuel relied substantially on regional resources, although some rare foods associated with otium arrived from extra-regional sources. Country villae (villae rusticae) tended to obtain provisions quite locally, while the supply possibilities for city villae (villae urbane) appear more complex and may have involved a range of self-supply and market supply options. Food and fuel are detected in the archaeological record through recovery of plant remains in mineralized or carbonized form, as well as animal and fish bones, and shells. This presentation will offer an overview of the types of organic remains recovered in Pompeii and Campania, and the ways in which these are studied.
2/11/16 Ant Haskins, Project Officer Oxford Archaeology East - Excavation of X4593 - The Holme Fen Spitfire.
OAE's excavations of the site of the Spitfire crash in 1940 revealed details of the way the original recovery was carried out by hand and omissions from the current guidance on digging such sites. A 3-D image of the crater was produced; a number of parts of the aircraft were found, including 2 blades of the propeller, together with personal items of the pilot, including his cigarette case. Most finds are with the RAF Wyton museum. Some human remains were found and these have been cremated in Brighton.
7/12/16 Jonathan Tabor, Cambridge Archaeological Unit - The Prehistory of the the Addenbrookes' Environs: Excavations at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
The area around Cambridge's southern fringe has seen an unprecedented
amount of archaeological investigation over the last decade associated
with residential development and the expansion of Addenbrookes/The
Cambridge Biomedical Campus. This talk will focus on the Bronze Age and
Iron Age remains unearthed at the Biomedical Campus before considering
their context within the wider prehistoric landscape.
January 2107 no lecture
1/02/17 Paddy Lambert, Oxford Archaeology East - Nisi Vita Sanguine: Curse Tablets in Roman Britain
The curse tablet phenomena is well attested throughout the Roman world. They are the private messages, never to be read, to the exotic gods who controlled all things. Whether for retribution or for luck, they are the gloriously opaque windows into the lives of the. Over 300 have been recovered from Roman Britain, and these are unique in the entire Roman world, and they provide a glimpse into a thoroughly modern ancient world, 1900 years ago. From the petty theft of a humble ring, to unrequited love, the curse tablets from Roman Britain are the real Romans, warts and all.
1/03/17 Kimberley Watts, PhD,Cambridge University - Reconstructing the built environment and institutions in Eighteenth Dynasty Amarna (Egypt) through textual data.
5/04/17 Paul Spoerry, Manager OAE and CAFG president - recent investigations of Fenland medieval salterns
3/05/17 Bill Franklin - The 18th Century Surveyor and Parliamentary Enclosure
5/06/17 Martin Davies - Lines in a Landscape. A look at hedgerows
and other lines in the landscape of Great and Little Gransden. |
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