Our Academic Experience sessions are designed to deliver specific subject insight to your students from our range of academics.
Sessions can be offered remotely; we use Microsoft Teams but are happy to offer on whichever platform is suitable to your students place of learning.
Our Expert Experience sessions for Anthropology and Archaeology are offered with 4 options.
Human evolution: exploring our origins
Explore fossil discoveries of a variety of hominin species including Australopithecus (Lucy), early Homo species in Africa, and the Neanderthals of Eurasia, before discussing their place in the human family tree. If this can be delivered in person this will include a handling session with casts of fossil skulls. Relevant KS5 Subjects: Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology
Humna bioarchaeology: interpreting evidence from skeletal remains
The study of human remains can tell us a lot about an individual and aid in our understanding of the lives of people in the past. Using archaeological skeletal remains in our university laboratory we will demonstrate how to determine age-at-death, sex, and stature as well as discussing human variation and evidence for disease and trauma that can be seen on the skeleton. This is a practical session that takes place on-campus in the science labs.
Material Worlds
We are surrounded by material objects in our everyday lives. From our everyday clothing choices to our most valued personal possessions, objects of material culture are an important window into our lives and how we understand the world around us. In this talk we will look at how anthropologists have used examples from around the world, and from closer to home, to gain insights into how material objects shape our relationships with other people and how they inform and express our identities.
Relevant KS5 Subjects: Sociology, History, Philosophy
The Origins of Conflict and Warfare
There are many models about why conflict exists between individuals and particularly between groups, which we often call warfare. These come from history, anthropology/sociology and psychology, and often argue for universals of human behaviour or base themselves in modern-day ethnographic or primate observations. Surprisingly, there is a significant body of evidence from prehistoric archaeology, going back many thousands of years, which is often side-lined, yet is highly relevant to this fundamental question. Relevant Subjects: Sociology, History, Psychology