Join us in person on the 23rd April, 2022 for the Sussex Archaeological Society’s Annual Conference.
This year we will focus on the internationally important archaeology of the Early Neolithic flint mines in Sussex.
The hills between the River Adur and River Arun preserve a dramatic series of flint mine networks, excavated deep into the chalk around 6,000 years ago.
This record, which preserves far more than just evidence for flint extraction, offers an enormous and barely tapped resource through which we might understand the society and culture of the earliest Neolithic communities in Britain.
In a packed day of lectures we will hear from leading researchers into different aspects of the archaeology of the flint mines. We will learn about the most up to date studies on them, how public interest in them continues to grow and explore exciting directions for future research and discovery.
Speakers will include Professor Michael Parker Pearson, Dr Anne Teather, Dr Jon Baczkowski and Professor Martin Bell.
Other talks on the programme are:
Dr Robin Holgate: Archaeological excavations at the Sussex flint-mining sites in the 19th and 20th centuries
Dr Frances Healy: Beyond supply and demand? Possible drivers for the early initiation of the Sussex flint mines
James Sainsbury: Curating the Sussex Flint Mines: Public Engagement with a Prehistoric Past
Dr Anne Hauzeur: The Continental Origins of the Sussex Flint Mines
Dr Katharine Walker: The Language of Axes and the Place of Sussex Flint: Movement, exchange, and meaning
