Sessions
There are two separate venues for the festival; Cardiff University and National Museum Cardiff. It will therefore be necessary to choose a session for the morning and one for the afternoon each day.
Click the following links to view the session details:
Saturday
| Session | Cardiff University | National Museum Cardiff |
| 8:00am | Doors open; registration for late ticket purchases | Doors open |
| 8:15 | Tea & coffee served | Tea & coffee served in Main Building |
| 8:45 | Welcome | Welcome |
| Romans on the Frontiers | Bio-Archaeology | |
| Moderator: Dr Peter Guest, Cardiff University | Moderator: Christopher Catling, Current Archaeology | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Dr Andy Gardner, Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology UCL. Exploring Isca: New excavations at Caerleon Roman Fortress | Dr Stephen Oppenheimer, Author, affiliated with Oxford University & Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Can we define Celts genetically? |
| 9:30-10:00 | Dr Richard Hingley, Reader in Archaeology, DurhamUniversity. Tales of the Frontier: The reception of Hadria' Wall | Mark Jobling, Professor of Genetics, University of Leicester. Magic bullet or blank? What genetics can and can't tell us about the past |
| 10:00-10:30 | Dr Simon James, Reader in Archaeology, University of Leicester. Death in the sun, death in the dark: The siege of Dura-Europos, Syria | Dr Bruce Winney, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oxford University. Genetics and the peopling of the British Isles |
| 10:30-11:00 | BREAK | BREAK |
| Romans on the Frontiers | The Magic of Stone | |
| Moderator: Dr Ben Roberts, British Museum | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Dr Eberhard Sauer, Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. Ancient superpower: new light on the army of Late Antique Persia | Dr Alison Sheridan, Head of Early Prehistory, National Museums Scotland. Treasures from the magic green mountains: Project JADE |
| 11:30-12:00 | Professor David Breeze, Co-ordinator of The Antonine Wall WHS Historic Scotland. The Antonine Wall - a World Heritage Site | Dr Clive Waddington, Managing Director, Archaeological Research Services Ltd. Enchanting the land: rock art and landscape in Neolothic Britain |
| 12:00-12:30 | Tony Wilmott, Senior Archaeologist, English Heritage. The Roman Amphitheatres of Britain | Dr George Nash, Lecturer, Dept of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol. Pobil y Cwm: artistic spaces and ritual places |
| 12:30-2:00 | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| Stonehenge and the British Copper Age | Digging the Docks: Britan's portals to the world | |
| Moderator: Dr Alistair Barclay, Wessex Archaeology | Moderator: Andrew Selkirk, Current Archaeology | |
| 2:00-2:30 | Dr Stuart Needham, Honorary Research Fellow, National Museum Wales. Magnetic Monuments meet mysterious metals: the British Chalcolithic | Jamie Quartermaine, Senior Project Manager, Oxford Archaeology North. The Old Dock and the 18th century rebirth of Liverpool |
| 2:30-3:00 | Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, Head of Communications, Wessex Archaeology. Stonehenge and the Beaker Folk | Ian Miller, Senior Project Manager, Oxford Archaeology North. Cotton: Lancashire’s Import and Export Commodity |
| 3:00-3:30 | Jaqueline McKinley, Osteoarchaeologist, Wessex Archaeology. The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowman: the Bare Bones | Jonathan Coad, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute. Building the Royal Navy's Overseas Bases, 1700-1850: the Architectural Legacy |
| 3:30-4:00 | BREAK | BREAK |
| The Archaeology of Homer's Greece | Archaeology and Identity in Medieval Wales | |
| Moderator: Dr Nadia Durrani, Current World Archaeology | Moderator: Dr Richard Brewer, National Museum Cardiff | |
| 4:00-4:20 | Professor Irene S Lemos, Oxford University. Excavating Homeric Greece: the site at Lefkandi | 4:00-4:30 Dr Alan Lane, Cardiff University, and Dr Mark Redknap, National Museum Wales. The Llangors Crannog - an island residence of the kings of Brycheiniog. |
| 4:20-5:00 | Bettany Hughes, Historian & Broadcaster, Visiting Research Fellow King's College. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore | 4:30-5:00 Nancy Edwards, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Bangor University. Why study sculpture? New research on the early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture of Wales |
| 5:00-5:30 | Discussion | 5:00-5:30 Rick Turner, Inspector of Ancient Monuments, Cadw. How to build a Castle - Roger Bigod's work at Chepstow Castle |
| 6:00-7:30 | Festival Drinks Reception and Current Archaeology Awards. Location: Julian Hodge Building, Cardiff University | |
Sunday
| Session | Cardiff University | National Museum Cardiff |
| 8:15am | Doors open | Doors open |
| 08:30 | Tea & coffee served | Tea & coffee served in Main Building room |
| Romans and Barbarians | Digging the Tudors | |
| Moderator: Dr Neil Faulkner, Current Archaeology | Moderator: Bruce Watson, MoLAS | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Dr Peter Guest, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University. Roman Gold and Hun Kings: Sacred subsidy or symbol of subservience? | Paul Drury, the Paul Drury Partnership. An archaeological approach to Elizabethan and Jacobean great houses |
| 9:30-10:00 | Sam Moorhead, Finds Adviser for Iron Age & Roman Coins, PAS, British Museum. Valentinian, British farmers, and the hungry Rhineland | Dr Glenn Foard, Visiting Lecturer, University of Leeds. The Origins of Firepower |
| 10:00-10:30 | Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins, Lecturer in Modern History, Oxford University. The Strange end of Roman Britain | Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London Archaeology Service. Excavating Shakespeare: the of archaeology of London’s Tudor playhouses |
| 10:30-11:00 | BREAK | BREAK |
| New light on Neanderthals | Digging the Tudors | |
| Moderator: Brian Fagan, University of California | ||
| 11:00-11:40 | Stephen Mithen, Professor of Early Prehistory, Dean of Faculty of Science, University of Reading. Neolithic Emergence: New insights into the origin of farming in the Near East | 11:00-11:30 Speaker and title TBD. |
| 11:40-12:20 | Nick Ashton, Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology, Dept Prehistory & Europe, British Museum. The cold front: the earliest human settlement of northern Europe | 11:30-12:00 Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces. 500 years of Henry VIII: celebrations at Hampton Court |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion | 12:00- 12:30 Bruce Watson, Senior Archaeologist, MoLAS. Tudor London: city of Shakespeare and Stow |
| 12:30-2:00 | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| Burials: Diseased, Damaged and Deviant | Lectures | |
| Moderator: Dr Mike Heyworth, Council for British Archaeology | ||
| 2:00-2:30 | Dr Louise Loe, Head of Heritage Burial Services, Oxford Archaeology. Life and Death in a Roman City: excavation of a cemetery and mass grave at Wotton, Gloucester | 2:00-2:45 Dr Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper, Dept of the Middle East, British Museum and Curator of Babylon, Myth and Reality. Exhibiting Babylon: new problems and questions. |
| 2.30-3.00 | Speaker and title TBD. | 2:45-3:30 Brian Fagan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California. The Quest for Sustainability |
| 3:00-3:30 | Alison Taylor, Editor, Institute for Archaeologists. Deviant burial in Roman Britain | |
| 3:30-4:00 | BREAK | BREAK |
| Heritage in Danger | Lectures continued | |
| Moderator: Brendon Wilkins, Headland Archaeology Ltd | ||
| Panellists: Gwilym Hughes, Cadw; Christopher Jones, Highways Agency; Janet Miller, Atkins Heritage and David Miles, retired Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage. | ||
| 4:00-4:40 | Case 1: Prof Gabriel Cooney, the Bremore Port development proposal, Ireland. | 4:00-4:45 Dr James Barrett, Deputy Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Viking Age Britain: Between Evidence and Ideas. |
| Case 2: Dr John C. Barrett, Heathrow Terminal 5 and beyond | ||
| 4:40-5:30 | Panel discussion. | 4:45-5:30 Achim Rost (University of Osnabrück) and Susanne Wilbers-Rost (Museum und Park Kalkriese). From 9 AD to 2009 AD: the Archaeology of the Battle of Varus |
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Special event! Sounds of the Neanderthals 8th February 2009 6:00-8:00pm, National Museum Cardiff Professor Steven Mithen, foremost expert in the study of past human minds and a lecturer at Archaeology Festival 2009, will talk about the role that music, especially singing, may have played in the lives of Neanderthals. The lecture will be followed by a premier performance of specially commissioned music by composer and sound artist Simon Thorne. The work Neanderthal was commissioned for the National Museum's Origins exhibition and has been inspired by the Early Neanderthal fossil remains found at Pontnewydd Cave displayed in the gallery. This is event is free, but booking is essential. Tel: 029 2057 3148. This event is supported by the G C Gibson Charitable Settlement. |
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