The final lecture of the 2022/23 Society’s winter series will be held on Tuesday 14th March 2023 in the Council Chambers, Sandwick Road at 7pm. Our guest speaker is Dr Alison Sheridan who will be talking about “Some Archaeological Treasures from Lewis” that are in the National Museum of Scotland. Doors open at 6.30pm. All welcome. Donations taken at the door.
Dr Alison Sheridan FBA FRSE FSA FSAScot AcIFA Corr FDAI is a retired Principal Curator of Early Prehistory (where she was part of the curatorial team that created the Early People gallery in the National Museum of Scotland) and now Research Associate with National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. She has specialised in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland and has written and lectured extensively about the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition and about 4th to 2nd millennium BC material culture. You may have seen her on Time Team, Meet the Ancestors and Digging for Britain…and on Harry Hill’s TV Burp, as TV Expert of the Week! She was President of the Prehistoric Society 2010–2014 and is currently a Vice-President of Archaeology Scotland and a member of the Board of Trustees of Urras nan Tursachan, the Calanais Stones Trust. In 2018 she was awarded the British Academy’s Grahame Clark medal for prehistoric research; in 2019, the Prehistoric Society’s EUROPA prize; and in 2020, she was voted Current Archaeology’s Archaeologist of the Year. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2020, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She delivered the 2020 series of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Rhind lectures on Neolithic Scotland (https://www.socantscot.org/event/rhind-lectures-2020/). In 2018–19 she was Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded Network Project looking at gold in Britain’s auriferous regions, 2450–800 BC, and has been a member of several national and international projects including the Beaker People Project and Project JADE.
Photo: Shulishader Axe, National Museums of Scotland.