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Committee Elections

Members of the committee are the backbone of the whole Archaeological Society, sacrificing a bit of their free time to organise all the...

Archaeologist as a storyteller

The potential of archaeology for storytelling is often omitted in academic circles because we tend to be too focused on exploring...

A Dead White Man

Whenever a mundane object in our surroundings stops working the way it should be, we start to look at it from a totally new perspective....

Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Poetry

The Tale of Sinuhe is a poem written around 1850 BC and is considered a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian literature. It served as...

Inscribing Ancient Egyptian Underworlds

Topics related to ancient Egypt belong to one of the most publicly popular ones in the field of archaeology. The lecture on Egyptian...

Labelling Matters

Wandering through the Pitt Rivers Museum, we would encounter over 500 000 artefacts from collections made mostly between 1870 and 1960....

On evolution of leave-taking

Have you ever wondered how fascinating it would be to research a topic that anyone barely touched upon? Lucy Baehren found herself in a...

Early Colonisation of the Americas

In our first talk of the Hillary Term, Dr Lorena Beccera Valdiva presented us with her recent research on the emergence of the first...

Are we there yet?

Talk bearing the same provocative title took place on the 19th of October as the first of the online events series held by the Oxford...