Schedule of Events
Lecture Season 2018/19
2018
October 12th
Shrines, fortresses, and shifting towns: archaeology of the Upper Casamance, Senegal (7th-19th centuries).
Sirio Canós Donnay
November 2nd
The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain.
Mike Parker Pearson
November 16th
North-West England and the Irish Sea in the Viking Age.
David Griffiths
November 30th
Timber Framed Buildings in Hertfordshire and Essex.
Helen Gibson
December 14th
The not-so-mysterious Etruscans: from Winckelmann to transport amphorae.
Dr Corinna Riva
Followed by Christmas drinks and nibbles.
2019
January 25th
Matters of Life and Death: Demography and Society in Lower-Middle Palaeolithic Europe.
Jennifer French
February 8th
Islands of stone: Neolithic crannogs in the Outer Hebrides.
Duncan Garrow
This talk has been funded by The Prehistoric Society.
February 22nd
TBC
March 8th
The Roman Empire – Off Limits.
Sam Moorhead
March 29th
AGM and special event (TBC)
The meetings are held at the United Reformed Church Hall, Church Road, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 6PS (opposite Sainsbury’s, WGC town centre). 19:45 for a 20:00 start.
Annual WAS memberbership:
£15 individual membership.
£20 family membership
Email: wasmembership@hotmail.co.uk with any queries.
