Thursday 19 September 2024 at 7.30pm (This event has ended)

Star Carr – Changing perspectives on the early Mesolithic of Britain

A talk by Barry Taylor, University of Chester.

Cropped Starr Carr Image provided by Leicestershire Fieldworkers. https://leicsfieldworkers.org/about-us/programme/

LAHS members are welcome to attend this lecture which is being held jointly by The Prehistoric Society and The Leicestershire Fieldworkers.

Star Carr is one of the most important Mesolithic sites in Britain. Originally located on the shores of an ancient lake, the site was gradually buried beneath thick layers of peat, preserving an incredible array of artefacts made from bone, antler, and wood, as well as the remains of the plants and animals that inhabited this landscape. In this lecture we will discuss the role that Star Carr has played in the development of Mesolithic archaeology, and how seventy-five years after the first excavations at the site were published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, it continues to provide new information about the hunter-gatherer communities who inhabited Britain during the opening centuries of the Mesolithic.

FREE. All welcome, no booking necessary, doors open from 6.30pm. The lecture will be at the Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester (LE1 7RH)