Saturday 17 September 2011
PLEASE NOTE PLACES STILL AVAILABLE If you plan to send a booking form in the period 9 Sept to 13 Sept please enclose a First Class SAE. We shall not post out tickets after 14 Sept but hold them for collection on the day. If you provide an email address or phone number we shall confirm receipt of your booking. If you want to make a booking after 13 Sept please email mortimer2011@cba-yorkshire.org.uk or phone 0773 555 9035 to reserve tickets for collection and payment at the door. A map and travel details are available on the Joining Instructions document attached at the bottom of this page. Tickets are £10 each and are available by downloading and completing and returning the attached booking form with payment and a SAE.
9:30 Registration 10:00 Opening remarks / safety notices etc Bryan Sitch, Head of Human Cultures & Curator of Archaeology, Manchester Museum 'Forty Years' Curating: Thomas Sheppard and the Mortimer Legacy Dr Cath Neal, Heslington East Fieldwork Officer, University of York A Geoarchaeological Approach to the Yorkshire Wolds Landscape Dr Nicky Milner, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York Star Carr: and the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of eastern Yorkshire 11:10 Tea break Dr Alex Gibson, Reader in British Prehistory, University of Bradford Creating a Radio-Carbon Dated Chronology Dr Amanda Jay, Research Associate, Durham University Isotopic Analysis of Skeletons in eastern Yorkshire: the Implications for Mobility and Subsistence Dr Vin Davis, Chairman and Chief Petrologist, Implement Petrology Group; University of St Joseph, Macau, China Stone Implement Studies in East Yorkshire: a Janus Look Dr Davis will examine aspects of implement petrology, typology and dispersal from past, present and future perspectives. Dr Alison Sheridan, President of the Prehistoric Society; Head of Early Prehistory, National Museums of Scotland 20 Years Research into Jet and Jet-like Artefacts from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland 13:15 Lunch 14:00 John Cruse, Co-ordinator, Yorkshire Quern Survey, Yorkshire Archaeological Society The Yorkshire Quern Survey: Current Work in East Yorkshire John Dent, East Riding Archaeological Research Trust The Ceremonial Monuments of Wetwang Slack Closer study of the Neolithic features at Wetwang Slack has revealed alignments of those features This suggests deliberate later neolithic alignment of quite small monuments over several hundred metres.Comparisons can be drawn between these and larger monuments around Rudston and in the Vale of York which are much larger, readily recognisable on the ground or from air photographs, and line up over much greater distances. Dr Peter Halkon, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Hull The Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes: The Foulness Valley and Beyond Prof Dominic Powlesland, Director, The Landscape Research Centre The Early Medieval Settlement of the Vale of Pickering and the Great Wold Valley 15:30 Short Comfort Break Kurt Hunter-Mann, Field Officer, York Archaeological Trust Anglian Kilham Dave Evans, Archaeology Manager, Humber Archaeology Partnership Urban archaeology in Hull and the East Riding Oliver Cooper, Northern Archaeological Associates Ltd The East Coast Water Pipeline excavations David Bull, Rural Communities Heritage Co-ordinator, East Riding of Yorkshire Council East Yorkshire Heritage at Risk Panel Questions (depending on time available) CLOSE No later than 17:30 |  JR Mortimer (1825 -1911) (c) Hull Museums and Art Gallery Image used with permission |