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GA Events – lectures 2019

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February 5th
HENRY STOPES MEMORIAL LECTURE
Breaking the time barrier of Human antiquity

Prof Clive Gamble
Royal Holloway College
Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture next Friday 5th February at the Geological Society Lecture Theatre at 6.00 pm with tea at 5.30 pm.

On “Breaking the Time barrier of human antiquity”

Clive Gamble is a professor in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway and one of the world's leading authorities on early stone age (Palaeolithic) archaeology and the origins of human society. He has undertaken research in many parts of the world to answer the question; when and why did we become the only human species to achieve a global distribution? His work combines elements as diverse as archaeology, anthropology, high-precision dating techniques, climate change and genetics to investigate human evolution and dispersals. He has published widely, including five major books charting elements of distant human prehistory such as the extinction of the Neanderthals, the origins of human identity and global colonisation, as well as fronting the TV series "Where Do We Come From". His award of the Henry Stopes medal in 2009 coincided with the 150th anniversary of the occasion when Sir Joseph Prestwich and Sir John Evans established humanity’s geological antiquity in a gravel pit in northern France, and Clive's exciting rediscovery, in the collections of the Natural History Museum, of the very artefact on which they based their monumental findings.
 

March 5th
The African – South American break up
Potential evidence for one of the largest volcanic eruptions ever

Michael Mawby
Durham University

 

 

April 9th
Preserving the unpreservable
A lost world rediscovered at Christian Malford, Wiltshire

Dr Phil Wilby
British Geological Society

 

 

May 7th
President's Lecture
Caves and cannibals: a Mendip perspective

Dr Danielle Schreve
Royal Holloway College

 

 

June 4th
In the search of ancient amber and other treasures from the Dinosaur beds of East Sussex
Professor Martin Brasier
Oxford University

 

 

July 2nd
The strange history of bivalve evolution
Professor John Cope
Cardiff University

 

 

October 1st
Professor Bob Stoneley Memorial Lecture
The habitat of oil in the Wessex basin

Professor Richard Selley
Imperial College

 

 

December 3rd
Snowball Earth
Dr Gabrielle Walker
Cambridge University

 

 

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All GA lecture meetings are held in The Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1

Tea served at 5.30pm and the lectures start at 6pm.
Non-members are charged £5.

 

 

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