Fifty Shades of Archaeology: An Evening with Dr Jim Leary

Enrichment Through Archaeology are pleased to welcome Dr Jim Leary from the University of York. Jim completed a BA in Archaeology at the University of Cardiff in 1998 and the same year joined Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd gaining experience in the field.

In 2005 he joined the Research Department at what was then English Heritage as ‘Archaeologist (Prehistory)’, conducting major excavations into Silbury Hill in 2007 and 2008, as well as in the Pewsey Vale. Alongside this, between 2007 and 2013 he undertook a part-time PhD at Manchester, which looked at perceptions of and responses to sea-level rise in the Mesolithic. In 2012 Jim took a sabbatical to be the ‘Field Archaeologist in Residence’ at the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, and then left in 2013 to join the University of Reading as the Director of the Archaeology Field School, conducting major excavations in Wiltshire. Among these were the excvations at Marden, a large Neolithic henge on the River Avon. The work revealed many interesting discoveries, including a large hearth surrounded by the debris of feasting.

He took up his latest post as Senior Lecturer in Field Archaeology at the University of York in 2018. His research focuses on later prehistoric landscapes, monuments, and mobility and movement in archaeology. Jim will be reading from and talking about his book 'Footmarks - A Journey into our Restless Past', which traces how the movement of people has driven change across our past, and the world.

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