[AGM] Travelling Britannia: a materialist and experiential perspective
Lecture
James Gerrard
Lecture Room 3, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Description
This is also our Annual General Meeting. The formal meeting notice is available in the Members' Section now. Nominations for our Council are now closed.
Archaeology has long been concerned with studying the movement of past people. Our approaches have been in part governed by the movement of diagnostic objects. More recently scientific analyses, such as Ancient DNA and isotopes, have been used to answer questions about mobility.
In this lecture, James will argue that both approaches have been reductive, essentially provenancing people without paying due attention to the experiences and material needs that are an integral part of mobility and movement. Using the material remains and a broader experiential perspective provides new insights into how people travelled Britannia overcoming the tyranny of distance.
The image here is part of a 3D scan of the 'Neptune' Roman altar found in the Tyne in 1875. You can find out more here.