SPEAKERS UPDATE

The Bronze Age Forum 13th & 14th November 2004 University of Southampton

Please see our website for all information regarding programme, registration
and suggested accommodation www.soton.ac.uk/~baforum1/. Places are limited
and
you advised to book early to avoid disappointment.

Confirmed Speakers:

Fleshhooks: technological complexity and forging chiefly authority (Stuart
Needham & Sheridan Bowman – British Museum)

Croft Moraig and the chronology of stone circles (Professor Richard
Bradley -
University of Reading & Alison Sheridan University of Edinburgh)

Deconstructing the Irish Bronze Age rapier...literally (Barry Molloy -
University College Dublin)

The role of barrows and bronze deposition in the shaping and valuing of
Bronze
Age landscapes (David Fontijn – University of Leiden)

A comparative study of Hungarian and British/Irish Bronze Age ceramics (Jo
Sofaer Derevenski – University of Southampton)

Llanmaes: a newly discovered Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age site in the
Vale of Glamorgan (Adam Gwilt – National Museums & Galleries of Wales)

Personal Appearance in Prehistory: the Middle Bronze Age ‘ornament horizon‘
in
context (Ben Roberts – Cambridge University)

Investigating Arable Agricultural Systems of Bronze Age Ireland (Meriel
McClatchie – University College London)

Where have all the flowers gone? Empty landscapes, sacred places and
contemplation in the Bronze Age landscape of Somerset (Clive Bond – King
Alfred’s College)

Aspects of the Bronze Age Landscape of the North West English Midlands
(David Mullin – Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service)

Standing Stones and Islandscapes in Western Scotland (Joanna Wright -
University of Manchester)

A recently discovered and fairly substantial complex of funerary and
ceremonial monuments at Damerham, Hampshire (Martyn Barber – English
Heritage)

The recent excavation of a Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial site at
Eweford, East Lothian (Gavin MacGregor – GUARD University of Glasgow)

Forgotten Land: What’s going on in Bronze Age Cumbria? (Helen. L. Loney &
Andrew W. Hoaen – University of Glasgow)

New light on depositional practices and the treatment of metalwork in SE
Wales
(Mark Lodwick – National Museums & Galleries of Wales)

The first wave of metalworkers – new evidence for Beaker/EBA prospecting and
mining within the UK (Simon Timberlake – Coventry University)

Biographies in stone: rock art, landscape and the Neolithic/Early Bronze Age
transition in Kilmartin, Scotland (Andy Jones – University of Southampton)

Approaching later prehistoric ritual traditions c.1500-600 BC (Rachael
Pope -
University of Wales)

From Dorchester to Dieskau: Relations between Britain and Central Europe in
the Early Bronze Age (Brendan O’Connor)

Atlantic swords: a technological approach for Late Bronze Age societies
(Bénédicte Quilliec – Universite de Nanterre)

Revisiting Bronze Age Gwithian 50 Years On (Jacky Nowkowski – Cornwall
Archaeology)