Renewal
Our old and inadequate museum cabin has recently been replaced.
Read more.
Conference
There is a conference soon on Ancient Burial Practices in the Ancient
Mediterranean and Near East.
Read more.
Recent Articles
Jean E. Jost, of the Department of English, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA has recently completed an article on the
authorship of the medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Read more.
2011 Autumn Newsletter
Our Autumn newsletter summarising the events of this year's 'season' has been
recently published. Read
it on-line.
AGM 2011
The 2011 AGM was held
on
Saturday 5th November 2011. It went extremely well with a number of interesting
reports. The 2011
Human Remains Report and
Student
Satisfaction Report are now available.
Poulton Field Courses
2012
Our 2012 Field Course dates have been decided. The spring courses will run from
26 March to 27 April. The summer season will run from 25 June to 31 August.
Regrettably, we are revising our fees for next year. The new charges are:
£115 per week if attending 1 week
£100 per week if attending 2 weeks
£90 per week if attending 3 weeks
£80 per week if attending 4 weeks
For full details, please read
and/or go here.
Further Investigations
We recently approved another investigation of our human skeleton collection in
support of post-graduate research. See the
investigation in action.
New Investigation and Methodology
Earlier this year we received a proposal to support an MSc dissertation by using
many of the mandibles (jaws) to explore "Growth modelling patterns of the
mandible via surface histology". That work was approved and
recently carried out.
