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| Lecture Programme 2018- 2019 |
The 2018/2019 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:
3rd October Dr Paul Spoerry on "Aspects of some recently excavated Anglo-Saxon cemeteries from Cambridgeshire."
6th November NOTE - Tuesday. Bill Franklin on "Landscape Archaeology - learning from documents: the example of a 14th century terrier from Wimpole".
During background research for CAFG's Heritage Lottery Funded project at Wimpole a document in Latin relating to Wimpole was found at King's College. The front page was missing but it was identified as a terrier of one of the manors in Wimpole. (A terrier is a medieval manorial record containing a topographical description of each individual piece of land held by each tenant.) Bill translated the document and working with members of CAFG related it to what was known about the parish. A paper about the research will be published in the forthcoming Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
5th December Paddy Lambert (Oxford Archaeology East)on the summer's excavations at Lamp Hill, Wimpole - Wimpole at the time of the Roman Conquest
9th January Mike Coles and Terry Dymott on a review of the Group's work over the last year and the previous 40 years.
6th February Paul Lane, new Professor of Global Archaeology, on Desirable Teeth - Archaeological Perspectives on the 19th Century Trade in East African Elephant Ivory
The East African littoral has been linked to other parts of the world via global connections for at least two millennia, and ivory has long been an important export commodity for certain East Africa societies. During the early decades of the nineteenth century, East Africa’s ivory became both the most readily available and desirable in Western Europe and North America, and Zanzibar became the main port of export. This occurred through a combination of circumstances including the entry of Salem-based merchants into the Indian Ocean sphere, the relocation of the Sultan of Oman’s court to Zanzibar, technical inventions, accelerating industrialisation and changing patterns of social distinction. The talk presents an overview of the archaeological traces of the escalation of the trade in elephant ivory and the commodity chains that emerged, while also examining some of the long-lasting social ecological consequences of the trade and the implications of these for current landscape management in East Africa.
6th March Patricia Hart, director of Archaeolink, on Building a Future from the Ruins of Slavery
The rich trade in elephant tusks as discussed by Prof. Paul Lane in February, together with the flow of other commodities, including slaves,led to an economic boom on the East Coast of Africa in the second half of the C19. This is evidenced by the construction of a number of stone town entrepôt along the Swahili Coast. Pangani is one of them, however, unlike the splendid Zanzibar, it lacks World Heritage Status, so its buildings are falling into disrepair and dilapidation.
ArchaeoLink has been invited to collaborate with local academics and teachers in creating educational resources specific to Pangani's archaeology and built heritage. You will learn about Phase 1 which was completed in July; and about plans for the next two phases, should funding be found.
In order to raise funds to complete their mission, Patricia has launched a Go Fund Me page and you are invited to make a contribution.
3rd April Dr Paul Spoerry - presidential address on Investigating the Medieval Salterns of Kings Lynn, following the AGM
1st May Paddy Lambert on Graffiti in the Roman world
5th June Jody Joy on Snailwell - a Late Iron Age Elite Burial from Southern England
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