第一讲：Emergence and Spread of “Modern Humans” from Africa into Western Asia and Europe

现代人类从非洲向西亚和欧洲的扩散

This will briefly examine the fossil and genetic record for the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa and subsequent spread into Western Asia and later into Europe where there was a resident neanderthal population. It will look in detail at archaeological/cultural developments from the period between c 120,000 and 30,000 BP in those regions and attempt to identify the factors which may have lain behind the final disappearance of neanderthals.

时间：2025年10月23日 18:30—20:30

地点：考古楼A座101

主持：沈睿文

第二讲：Ice Age “Art” in Western Europe

西欧冰河时代的“艺术”

There is evidence of symbolic imagery amongst early “Modern Humans” from many areas of the world, but it is particularly well preserved in the Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe between c. 40,000 and 12,000 BP. This lecture will look in detail at the portable “art” objects and the painted and engraved images in caves in this region and their history of interpretation.

时间：2025年10月24日 09:00—11:00

地点：红五楼5201

主持：宁超

第三讲：Earliest Colonization of North and South America

北美洲与南美洲的最早“殖民”

This will look briefly at the fossil and genetic data but particularly at the archaeological/cultural evidence for the spread of humans from eastern Asia across into North and South America. It will examine their adaptations to the wide range of habitats in those two continents through the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene and the interpretation of the large mammal extinctions which occurred in those areas.

时间：2025年10月30日 18:30—20:30

地点：红五楼5201

主持：冯玥

第四讲：The Emergence of Farming Societies in South-West Asia

西亚农业社会的兴起

The “Fertile Crescent” of South-West Asia along with areas of China have amongst the earliest well documented evidence for the development of farming societies in the World. This lecture will look closely at the major economic and cultural developments which occurred through the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in western Asia (between c. 23,000 and 7,500 BP). It will interpret these against the backdrop of changing environments, demography and cultural evolution.

时间：2025年10月31日 09:00—11:00

地点：红五楼5201

主持：冯玥

主讲人介绍

Professor Andrew Garrard is the Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He obtained a BSc in Zoology and Geology from Newcastle University (1971) and a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from Cambridge University (1981) both in the UK. He was appointed to the Assistant Directorship and then Directorship of the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History in Jordan between 1982-89. In 1990 he obtained a Lectureship and later a Readership (Associate Professorship) at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London focusing on teaching and research in early prehistory. He has directed major survey and excavation projects relating to the Palaeolithic and Neolithic time periods in various areas of South-West Asia including Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. He has published extensively on themes relating to the transition from hunting and gathering to farming societies in this region between the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, as well as on earlier Paleolithic periods.