Neolithic Studies Group

Autumn Meeting 2007

Between Settlement and Ceremony: the Universality of Ritual?
10am–4.55pm Monday November 5th 2007
The Stevenson Lecture Theatre (lowest level of the Great Court), The British Museum, London
Organiser: Stuart Needham

Programme
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Welcome Tim Darvill
10.35 Introduction: living with ceremony Stuart Needham
10.50 The residue of ritualised action: Neolithic deposition practices in the Middle Thames Valley Hugo Landin-Whymark
11.15 Materials that matter Oliver Harris & Phil Richardson
11.40 New evidence from north-west Wales Jane Kenney
12.05 The ceremony of settlement: the evidence from early Neolithic Ireland Jessica Smyth
12.30 Discussion
12.45 Lunch (make your own arrangements)
14.00 Settlement and ceremony in the Stonehenge landscape Mike Parker Pearson
14.25 Ritual inside Durrington Walls revisited Julian Thomas
14.50 'From house to henge: dwellings as metaphors for the great Wessex timber circles' Josh Pollard
15.15 Tea
15.45 More than a ‘chaîne opératoire’? Flint-knapping and the idea of ‘expenditure in Neolithic Britain Keith Ray
16.10 Ordered spheres of interaction: understanding ritual and social pilgrimage Hannah Lynch
16.35 Discussion
16.55 Close
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