Archaeology Research

Archaeology Seminar Series 2023-24

Wednesday 28 February 2024 at 4pm
in the new Adam Smith Business School and Postgraduate Hub, room 281 (next to the ARC building).

Dr Anwen Cooper, Oxford Archaeology
Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in contemporary nature recovery

Amidst a high-profile eco-climate crisis, archaeology is rightly revisiting its relationship with ecology and seeking to orient its work towards pressing environmental concerns. This talk will present initial findings from the UKRI-funded ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project – a collaboration between Oxford Archaeology, the Universities of Oxford, Exeter and York, Centre for Ancient Genomics, Toulouse, Historic England and Knepp Castle Estate. Focusing on evidence from the Bronze and Iron Ages in Britain, we hope to bring to light the ‘wonder and enchantment’ (Monbiot 2013) of past wildlife and to outline varied pathways for reconnecting archaeological research with current nature recovery practices.

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All welcome

Anwen leads the ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project at Oxford Archaeology. Her main research interests are in later prehistoric Britain and Ireland, in interpretative approaches to landscape, material culture, and archaeological practice, and in interdisciplinary working. She has worked across the sector in British archaeology as a fieldworker, landscape archaeologist, curator, finds analyst, and researcher. Most recently, she worked with a team at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in publishing the fabulous findings from the Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement at Must Farm, Cambridgeshire.

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First published: 23 February 2024