Dr. Seren Griffiths | Science in Archaeology | PODCAST #32 |

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We met Seren in 2019 at the Prehistoric Society’s 'Landscapes of the Dead' conference at the Society of Antiquaries in London where she gave a fantastic talk. In fact, the first thing Rupert said to Michael after her presentation was that he really wished she had been one of his lecturers!

It really is no surprise that Seren was the youngest person ever to be invited to give the very prestigious Golson Lecture at Australia National University in Canberra in 2018.

Seren's specialities are science in archaeology and public archaeology, and her work on the mesolithic neolithic transition is something we’re interested in as well. However, we're particularly fascinated by what she has to say about a site that we're slightly (infamously!) connected to - Bryn Celli Ddu. Together with Ffion Reynolds, she has been lead archaeologist on the excavations there over the last 5 years.

00:00 Introduction
02:28 "What was it that first brought you into archaeology?"
05:56 Mesolithic/Neolithic transition
07:59 Areas of interest
12:23 Philosophy of archaeology
15:20 Bryn Celli Ddu
36:00 Accuracy in archaeological dating
42:36 Disrupting the archaeological narrative
50:50 "Tell us about your book."
52:35 Academia adjusting to new information
55:27 Public expectations of prehistoric archaeology
56:56 Finishing up

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