By Way of the Sea: Exploring a Bronze Age maritory in NW Europe

By Way of the Sea: Exploring a Bronze Age maritory in NW Europe
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As part of the King's Museum evening lecture series Peter Clark and Anne Lehoërff provide a free lecture on a Bronze Age maritory in NW Europe

Extensive archaeological fieldwork and research on either side of the English Channel over the last twenty years or so has brought to light exciting new evidence of the close cultural links between Bronze Age communities on either side of the sea. Close similarities in material culture, settlement types and funerary rites seem to suggest a maritime ‘culture’ focussed on the Transmanche coastal zones during the 2nd Millennium BC. In 2012 a major international project, ‘BOAT 1550 BC’, was launched to examine the evidence for this putative ‘maritory’, involving archaeologists and other Heritage professionals from the UK, France and Belgium. The project came to an end in June 2014, and this paper will review and assess the results of this endeavour, examining the evidence for cross-channel connections which was brought together in a major exhibition, the construction and sailing of a replica of the Dover Bronze Age boat and a far-reaching programme of education and outreach.

Organised by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Speaker
Peter Clark, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, and Anne Lehoërff, University of Lille 3
Hosted by
University of Aberdeen Museums
Venue
Regent Building Lecture Theatre
Contact

T: 01224 274330

E: kingsmuseum@abdn.ac.uk

No booking required