Below is the timetable for Current Archaeology Live! 2012, with titles where confirmed.
Friday 2 March
Registration from 9am
Sessions run from 9.30am to 6pm
Stonehenge and megalithic monuments
Professor Timothy Darvill (Bournemouth University) - Stonehenge and Preseli: its only rock ‘n’ roll
Dan Lee (Orkney College UHI)
Julian Richards (Meet the Ancestors) - West Kennet Long barrow – an old megalithic friend
Re-excavating Roman urbanism
Professor Mike Fulford (University of Reading) - Silchester: into the Iron Age, a Roman town before the Roman conquest?
Dr William Bowden (University of Nottingham) - Town life according to the Iceni: recent excavations at Venta Icenorum
Tony Wilmott (English Heritage)
Rescuing the past
The most exciting sites discovered by archaeologists from three of Britain’s top units:
Oxford Archaeology (Richard Mortimer) - Clay Farm, Trumpington, Cambridge: Middle Bronze Age Strip Fields, Enclosure and Settlement
Wessex Archaeology (Professor Andrew Fitzpatrick) - From the Minch to the Channel: highlights from Wessex Archaeology
Museum of London Archaeology (Sadie Watson) - London’s Temple of Mithras: Excavations 1954-2012 and new opportunities to study the Roman landscape.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Mark Horton
University of Bristol, Coast
Friday night: Reception, awards ceremony, and entertainment
Saturday 3 March
Registration from 9am
Sessions run from 9.30am to 6pm
Vikings in the Irish Sea
Dr Stephen Harrison (University College Dublin) - ’New findings from old finds – The Irish Viking Graves Project
Dr Eamonn Kelly (National Museum of Ireland) - Finding the Viking Fortress of Linn Duachaill
Dr Hannah Cobb (University of Manchester) - Swords and Seascapes: The Vikings and more in Ardnamurchan, Western Scotland
Bodies and battles
Dr Piers Mitchell (University of Cambridge) - Weapon injuries and disease in the Crusades
Dr Nicholas Saunders (University of Bristol) - Bodies in Conflict: Materialities of Absence in First World War Archaeology.
Tim Sutherland (University of York) - Treasure or Treasured? Who is protecting our historic battlefield heritage?
Malin Holst (York Osteoarchaeology) - Towton Revisited – the Human Remains
Ceramics, coins, cargoes and emporia: Ancient trade in the Mediterranean
Professor Andrew Wilson (University of Oxford) - Trade and per capita growth in the Roman economy
Professor Simon Keay (University of Southampton/British School at Rome) - Rome’s Mediterranean Ports
Dr Philip Kenrick (University of Oxford) - Only Arretine will do!” The trade in Italian Sigillata pottery
Living in the Iron Age
Dr Rachel Pope (University of Liverpool)
Julia Farley (British Museum) - Coins and Conquest in Late Iron Age Britain
Frank Hargrave (University of Leicester) - Shrines, Temples and Sanctuaries; an Iron Age mystery
