6 October, 2–3.30 pm, via Zoom Speaker: Dr Aedeem Cremin Topic: Knowing when but not why
Archaeology is a good way to learn about humans and their behaviour over thousands of millennia. It is reasonably easy, though vastly expensive, to find out who did what and when, but it is very difficult to find out why anything was done. This problem has never been satisfactorily resolved and may never be. Therefore, this talk will be more descriptive than explanatory and will seek to give an overview of current issues worldwide.
About the Speaker: Aedeen Cremin studied archaeology and early medieval history in Dublin (BA, MA, NU Ireland). She did her PhD at the University of Sydney (1978), and taught there until 2000, establishing the Celtic Studies program in the 1990s. On retirement she taught at the ANU and UCanberra and worked with the greater Angkor Projecton its excavated ceramics (to 2015). She is interested in landscape, cultural transmission and industrial heritage.
Zoom link will be available nearer to the day of the talk.