Schedule
You can also download the conference booklet with schedule and abstracts via this link.
Day 1: Thursday 2nd June
| 9.30-9.40 | Introduction: Prof. Yannis Hamilakis | |
| Session 1: Experiencing the Past. Chair: Grant Cox. | ||
| 9.40-10.00 | Gareth Beale | The Herculaneum Amazon Project: One year on |
| 10.00-10.20 | James Miles | Transformations of the Winchester Cathedral Close from the Seventh Century Saxon Church to the current Cathedral through the analysis of visual representation |
| 10.20-10.40 | Jude Jones | The Stripping of the Box-Pews: Discovering the Lost Churches of the Long Reformation |
| 10.40-11.00 | Alex Walker | Beyond the Looking Glass: A question of tactile access to museum collections |
| 11.00-11.10 | Discussion | |
| 11.10-11.25 | Coffee | |
| Session 2: Living in the Past. Chair: Gareth Beale. | ||
| 11.25-11.45 | Catriona Cooper | Lived Experience at Bodiam, Scotney and Ightham in the Later Middle Ages |
| 11.45-12.05 | Ben Jervis | There’s No Place Like Home |
| 12.05-12.25 | Carolyn Felton | Sexual Dimorphism in Human Vertebral Morphology: Facet Joint Orientation and Degenerative Joint Disease |
| 12.25-12.45 | Bartomeu Vallori | Architecture and Urbanism in a provincial city: the Roman city of Pollentia (Mallorca, Spain) |
| 12.45-12.55 | Discussion | |
| 12.55-2.00 | Lunch | |
| Session 3: Living in the Environment. Chair: Eleanor Williams. | ||
| 2.00-2.20 | Emilie Sibbesson | The Inbetweeners: 4th millennium BC foodways in the Thames Valley, UK |
| 2.20-2.40 | Richard Chuang | A Study of Pig Bone Growth Rate in Iron Age and Roman Britain Contexts |
| 2.40-3.00 | Julie Walker | Congenital and developmental spinal defects in the Great Chesterford, Cambridgeshire population. |
| 3.00-3.10 | Discussion | |
| 3.10-3.25 | Coffee | |
| Session 4: Living on the Move. Chair: Dave Underhill. | ||
| 3.25-3.45 | Iza Romanowska | Modelling dispersal: what colourful sheep can tell us about the first out of Africa? |
| 3.45-4.05 | Eleanor Scerri | The Aterian of north-east Africa and its place in the story of modern human dispersals |
| 4.05-4.25 | Rodrigo Pacheco Ruiz | Scilly’s Iron Age: Some Considerations Regarding Connectivity |
| 4.25-4.45 | Paty Murrieta Flores | Understanding human movement through spatial technologies. The role of natural areas of transit in the Late Prehistory of South-western Iberia |
| 4.45-4.55 | Discussion | |
Book and Cake Sale (during coffee breaks and lunches)
In aid of Asociacion Mexicana de Lucha contra el Cancer, a well-established Mexican organisation that run hospices and offer support for people with cancer and their families. They also conduct research and run education campaigns.
Day 2: Friday 3rd June
Session 5: Living with Objects. Chair: Emilie Sibbesson |
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| 9.30-9.50 | Dave Underhill-Stocks | The Fauresmith of South Africa |
| 9.50-10.10 | Sarah Coxon | Deconstructing Diversity: The Role of Creativity in European Bronze Age Ceramic Craft |
| 10.10-10.30 | Rob Lee | Innovation, coincidence or tantalising connection? Potential relationships between boat building and the development of British tool kits in the Middle-Late Bronze Age |
| 10.30-10.50 | Rob Huber | Studying The Performative Qualities of Late Neolithic Enigmatic Art. |
| 10.50-11.00 | Discussion | |
| 11.00-11.15 | Coffee | |
| Session 6: Trade. Chair: Rodrigo Pacheco Ruiz | ||
| 11.15-11.35 | Dave Potts | Network Analysis of Roman Transport Routes in the Imperial Roman Mediterranean |
| 11.35-11.55 | Geoff Taylor | A Journey through the Romano-British Countryside |
| 11.55-12.15 | Carolyn Coulter | Cross-cultural relations between England and Northwest Europe AD c.400 – c.1200: with special reference to stone commodities |
| 12.15-12.35 | Seth Priestman | Indian Ocean Ceramic Trade: 500-1000 AD |
| 12.35-12.45 | Discussion | |
| 12.45-1.30 | Lunch | |
| Session 7: New Approaches to the Historic Environment. Chair: Eleonora Gandolfi | ||
| 1.30-1.50 | Costas Papadopoulos | Materialising Strategies in Archaeological Practice: Photography as a Recording Method and the Perception of Three-Dimensionality |
| 1.50-2.10 | Tom Frankland | Applying human-computer interaction methodologies to the study of archaeological research practices |
| 2.10-2.30 | Nicole Smith | The Cultural Heritage Sector and the Web: Does the Web really provide new solutions to old problems? |
| 2.30-2.50 | Katherine Robbins | Understanding the Past, Interpreting the Present: a study of the changing relationship between metal detectorists and archaeologists |
| 2.50-3.00 | Discussion | |
| 3.00-3.15 | Coffee | |
| Session 8: Mortuary Archaeology. Chair: Ben Jervis. | ||
| 3.15-3.35 | Marge Konsa | A chronotopic approach to burial analysis |
| 3.35-3.55 | Eleanor Williams | They came, they saw…they buried: Reconstructing French and English Cluniac funerary practices. |
| 3.55-4.15 | Lucy Shipley | Persons and Pots: Changes in the Tarquinian Funerary Record and the Performance of Elite Etruscan Self |
| 4.15-4.25 | Discussion | |
| 4.25-5.00 | Wine | |
5.00pm onwards: Key note address by Prof. Tim Champion and Prof. Matthew Johnson: “Reflections on Southampton’s Postgraduate Community”, followed by wine reception and the results of the photography competition.