News and meetings

Later prehistoric ceramics - beyond the digital resource?

June 27, 2019

Derek Hurst

The final installment in today's conference paper bonanza is Derek's paper on the Worcestershire Ceramics Fabric Reference Collection, where he reflects on its design, use, and how the model may be applied to other material in future. Enjoy!

Meetings and conferences

The carbon footprint of our 2018 conference in Worcester

June 27, 2019

Derek Hurst

The calculation below is indicative of the level of carbon footprint relating to attendance at the 2018 conference. To this end I have estimated the total accumulated travel of those attending the conference to be 6087km (3782 miles). Using the calculator on www.carbon...

Meetings and conferences

Projects

Iron Age

conference paper

A view from the hills

June 27, 2019

Jane Evans

Another paper from the Worcester meeting was Jane Evans' exploration of Iron Age pottery from hillforts in Herefordshire, featuring some excellent bird-stamp decoration.

Meetings and conferences

Projects

Bronze Age

Pots for life and pots for death

June 27, 2019

Julie Dunne et al.

Continuing on the theme of PCRG conference papers as PDFs (see previous post by Elaine Morris) here is the script of the paper by Julie Dunne, Alistair Barclay, Elina Brook, Grace Jones, and Richard Evershed on residue evidence from Kingsmead Quarry pottery in Berkshir...

Projects

Work in progress

Developing a national prehistoric pottery form typology - some thoughts

June 21, 2019

Sarah Percival, David Knight, Adam Tinsley

At our Lancaster meeting in 2018, we discussed the development of a national typology for pottery forms. You can read about the discussion points here, and get in touch if you have comments or want to contribute to this project.