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Starts: 19:30
Ends: 21:00
Online talk organised by Highland Council Historic Environment Team
Online talk by Professor Duncan Garrow (U. of Reading) and Dr. Melanie Giles (U. of Manchester). Bookings via Eventbrite.
The AHRC-funded Boundary Objects project (BOP) sought to raise the profile of prehistoric grave goods in Scottish archaeology, improve access to digital information about grave goods and the burial sites they came from, and create new opportunities for community groups and the wider public to help out with research into prehistoric burial practices. In this talk, we outline how the project has worked out over the past 18 months, with specific reference to Highland Archaeology.
Duncan Garrow
Duncan Garrow’s research interests include the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition; long-term histories of deposition; burial practices; the integration of commercial sector and university-based archaeology; archaeological theory; and interdisciplinary approaches to material culture. He teaches later European prehistory (with a particular focus on Britain) and archaeological theory at the University of Reading. Duncan previously worked at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (1996-2002), which he left to undertake his PhD on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age pits in East Anglia. He recently co-directed (with Fraser Sturt) a number of excavations in the Channel Islands, the Outer Hebrides and the Isles of Scilly as part of the Neolithic Stepping Stones project, published by Oxbow Books in 2017. Duncan is currently working on a book exploring ‘ritual’ deposition in British prehistory, from the Palaeolithic through to the Iron Age.
Melanie Giles
Melanie Giles is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, and a specialist on the Iron Age, particularly Celtic art, crafting and power, the square barrow burials and chariots of Yorkshire, as well as the bog bodies of north-western Europe. She works not just on the analysis and interpretation of burials but on aspects of visualisation and display. Her publications include ‘A forged glamour: landscape, identity and material culture in the Iron Age’ (2012, Windgather Press) and the recent edited volume with Howard Williams ‘Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society’ (2016, Oxford University Press).
Highland Council Historic Environment Team
Phone 077888 35466
Email highlandarchaeologyfestival@gmail.com
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