China was one of the centres for the origin and initial dispersal of farming lifestyles, based on the domestication of rice, millets and pigs. Professor Guiyun Jin will present new...Read More >
Of all the ancient human technologies fire is perhaps the most evocative, and a critical part of the human evolutionary journey. It is also one of the hardest to detect!...Read More >
Archaeology Leverhulme Trust Lecture, The Origins of Farming Communities in the Haidai Region of Northern China: New Discoveries and New Interpretations. In the second lecture in this series, Professor Guiyun...Read More >
Archaeology Seminar Series – Autumn 2020, Science and Archaeological Materials All sessions will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email Gabor Thomas (gabor.thomas@reading.ac.uk) for more information. Sessions: 1 October 2020...Read More >
Archaeology Seminar Series – Autumn 2020, Science and Archaeological Materials All sessions will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email Gabor Thomas (gabor.thomas@reading.ac.uk) for more information. Sessions: 8 October 2020...Read More >
Archaeology Seminar Series – Autumn 2020, Science and Archaeological Materials All sessions will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email Gabor Thomas (gabor.thomas@reading.ac.uk) for more information. Sessions: 15 October 2020...Read More >
Annual Percy Ure Lecture: Pompeii of the Syrian Desert: Rethinking Dura-Europos for the 'decolonial' era, Professor Simon James, University of Leicester All are welcome to join University of Reading’s Classics...Read More >
Histories of collections present an opportunity to present inclusive narratives that are not usually part of museum interpretation. This is particularly true in relation to archaeology collections and histories of...Read More >
Reading was home to one of Europe’s greatest medieval monasteries, established in 1121 by Henry I. It has been subject to many small-scale archaeological excavations yet remains poorly understood. Archaeologist...Read More >
Close to 30 years ago Prof Roberta Gilchrist published ‘Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women’. This influential book has been a cornerstone of gender and medieval archaeological...Read More >