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LECTURE MEETINGS ARE HELD AT 7.30PM AT TONY COOPER SUITE, COTTENHAM VILLAGE COLLEGE UNLESS SHOWN
- please check the FEAG blog (https:// feagblog .wordpress.com) for late changes and the impact of Covid
Tuesday 21 January
‘Under the fen, under the sand: Excavating prehistoric land surfaces’
Lesley McFadyen
NB This meeting will be held at Willingham Baptist Church
Thursday 13 February
‘Medieval northern journeys: From Arctic and mountain hunting grounds to Eastern
England and beyond’
James Barrett
Wednesday 4 March ‘Conington: The excavation of a Mercian king’s enclosure’
Richard Mortimer
Online archaeology and history events.
Rhind Lectures
The Rhind Lectures are an annual series that have been presented by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for about 150 years. The 2020 series will be presented by Alison Sheridan, from Sunday 13th December to Friday 18th December, and are about Neolithic Scotland. The lectures will be freely available on the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland YouTube channel, where many previous lectures can be seen. However, you must register for the final lecture.
Full details at:
https://www.socantscot.org/event/rhind-lectures-2020/
Winter Solstice
You can watch the winter solstice being streamed live for free on Facebook by English Heritage from Stonehenge.
20 Dec at 15:16 GMT– 21 Dec at 08:54 GMT
https://www.facebook.com/events/157169579436386
Online talks already available:
Pembrokeshire:
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Archaeology Day 2020, in English and Welsh, was on Saturday 7 November and was held entirely online.
General information about the conference is at: https://www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/event/archaeology-day-2020-diwrnod-archaeoleg/
The talks are available at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyDlzMF-5-pTebMDX8GoYQ
Scotland:
The Highland Archaeology Festival took place in autumn 2020. Over 450 people from all over the world watched the talks. Many of the talks were recorded and can be viewed on the Highland Archaeology Festival YouTube channel.
https://www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org/index.asp?pageid=713660
Archaeosoup Productions is a site to learn about archaeology, history and our remarkable shared heritage. It is owned and managed by Marc Barkman-Astles. Check the YouTube channel for videos on a huge variety of topics. The shortest videos are only a few minutes long so you can easily dip in; the longest give much more detail.
https://archaeosoup.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up
For something completely different, covering archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, and much else, take a look at the Lindybeige’s idiosyncratic presentations on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/lindybeige/videos
Other resources:
Archaeology on Furlough provided professional archaeologists with access to volunteer projects that they could work on from home. Results and resources are available on the website. Archaeology on Furlough was devised and organised by Rob Wiseman, of Cambridge Archaeological Unit and Cambridge Antiquarian Society. He has recently been nominated for Current Archaeology magazine’s Archaeologist of the Year award.
https://www.archaeology-on-furlough.com/
Archaeopress
Archaeopress is an Oxford-based publisher specialising in scholarly books and journals in the field of archaeology and related heritage subjects. They publish books on all aspects of archaeology from round the world. Their publications are often open access – that is PDFs of whole books, or sometimes chapters, can be downloaded free or you can buy printed copies.
https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/defaultAll.asp?Series=Access+Archaeology
For the open access publications:
https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/defaultAll.asp?Series=Access+Archaeology