40 Years of Archaeology in Hong Kong: An anthropological lecture by William Meacham

Name: 40 Years of Archaeology in Hong Kong: An anthropological lecture by William Meacham
Start: 2025-10-03T19:00:00+08:00
Location: Hong Kong Museum of History 香港歷史博物館

Schedule

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Hong Kong Museum of History 香港歷史博物館 | Hong Kong, HK

The Hong Kong Anthropological Society in association with The Hong Kong Museum of History* presents:
40 Years of Archaeology in Hong Kong: An anthropological lecture by William Meacham
Friday, 3 October at 7:00 p.m.
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
All are welcome! Space, however, is limited to 139 seats.
The lecture is conducted in English.
Archaeologist William Meacham will describe his involvement in the important formative period of modern archaeology in Hong Kong. His discovery of the site at Sham Wan on Lamma in 1971
provided the impetus to a multi-disciplinary approach. As luck would have it, due to its deep stratigraphy, the site turned out to be most important in constructing a prehistoric chronology for
the territory. Several other major sites that he excavated will be discussed, including Chek Lap Kok, Sha Po Tsuen on Lamma, and Yung Long at Deep Bay. His talk will also describe how the “missing link” of 700 years in local history between the Han and Sung eras was revealed.
William Meacham has lived in Hong Kong since 1970, serving as Chairman of the HK Archaeological Society (1985-96) and Hon. Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, HKU (1986-2012). Among his publications are several site monographs, Rock Carvings in Hong Kong and The Archaeology of Hong Kong (HKU Press, 2009).
For more information, please contact [email protected], www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/hkas,
www.facebook.com/hkanthro,@HKASTalks
* The Museum makes no representations on the content of this lecture.