Provisional Timetable 10.15 – 11.15: Bronze Age Beginnings – starting around 8000 BC, this will be an exploration of the first metal-using societies in the eastern Mediterranean area, featuring such key sites as Varna in Bulgaria, Alaca Höyük in Turkey, Knossos in Crete and Akrotiri and Mycenae in Greece, but also exploring lesser-known sites in the Russian steppes and the linguistic and DNA contexts of these societies.
11.15-11.45: Coffee-break.
11.45 – 12.45: Exceptional Evidence from Central and Northern Europe – a look at how sites with exceptional preservation and objects can widen our perception the lifestyles of the people of this period, focusing especially on the Copper Age ‘Iceman’ from the Alps and the wealth of organic materials, including clothing, from barrow burials in Denmark.
12.45-13.45: Lunch-break.
13.45-14.45: Life and Death in Bronze Age Britain – how the rich archaeological evidence from both settlement and burial sites casts light on life in Bronze Age Britain. This section will feature some of the key national sites, but will have a strong emphasis on East Anglian sites, including the speaker’s own work on a settlement site at West Row Fen, where the first Bronze Age house in Suffolk was discovered.
About Edward Martin
Edward Martin worked as an archaeologist with Suffolk County Council for many years, specialising in both prehistory and historic landscape studies. He co-edited An Historical Atlas of Suffolk (3rd edition published 1999) and has written a wide range of monographs and articles. He excavated a Bronze Age settlement at West Row Fen in Mildenhall (article published in the journal Antiquity in 1988) and several Bronze Age burial sites (published in the East Anglian Archaeology series). He was chairman of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History from 2005 to 2013 and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
with Dr Richard Hoggett FSA MCIfA;
Saturday 5th February: The Archaeology of Late Iron Age and Roman Colchester -
with Howard Brooks FSA MCIfA;
Friday 11th February: The Reckoning of Time in Anglo-Saxon England -
with Stephen Pollington; Saturday 12th March: The Art of the Isles: Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon, and Viking-Age Visual Culture,
Part 1, c. 500-900 - with Professor Michelle Brown FSA;
Saturday 19th March: The Art of the Isles: Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon, and Viking-Age Visual Culture,
Part 2, c. 900-1050 - with Professor Michelle Brown FSA.
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Study-days will continue online for the time being.
Online study-days start at 10.15 and usually finish at 14.45, with a timetable of three, one-hour sessions with breaks in between. Precise timings may vary depending on discussion and potential broadband signal blips.
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Study-Days in Zoom-land
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