# Event Details

- **Event Name**: REVOLUTIONS IN NEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE FERTILE CRECSENT AND BEYOND (online)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am – Sun, 19 Apr, 2026 at 04:15 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Saturday 18 to Sunday 19 April (online and video recorded) 

Course Director: Dr Christoph Bachhuber (University of Oxford)

This is a 2-day weekend course to be held online, and will also be available on video recording afterwards.

When Gordon Childe introduced the concept of a ‘Neolithic Revolution’ almost a century ago, he was describing that period in global history when humans abandoned hunter-gatherer lifeways to take up a settled, farming-based way of life. In this 2-day online course in which we revisit the concept of a revolution in the light of spectacular discoveries in Neolithic archaeology since Childe’s time. Join Christoph in exploring the archaeological sites, excavations, and assemblages from the original (first) Neolithic landscapes of Western Asia — including Jericho (in Palestine), Tell Sabi-Abyad (in Syria), Göbekli Tepe (in southeastern Turkey), and Çatalhöyük (in central Turkey). Learn about pioneering archaeological methodologies and thought experiments that have revolutionised our understanding of this time period and the discipline of archaeology more broadly.

This course includes an optional exclusive-access visit to the Ashmolean Museumin Oxford on Friday 15 May. You will have the special opportunity to learn through handling Neolithic artefacts from the Museum’s collections in a 2-hour session with Dr Christoph Bachhuber and Nancy Highcock, the Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Middle East (Assistant Keeper) in the Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum. Two slots are available (11:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 – 16:00). Afterwards, participants are invited to join Christoph and BSS&A Director, Dr Kathryn Piquette, for drinks (self-funded) and discussion at a historic Oxford pub. Places are limited and open to anyone (booking a place on Dr Bachhuber's course is recommended but not required).

Timetable:

Saturday 18 April

9:45* – 10:00
Participants login to Zoom; BSS Director’s Welcome Address

10:00 – 11:15
1. Introduction and Aims / Gordon Childe’s Neolithic Revolution

11:45 – 13:00
2. Jericho in the Neolithic: Kathleen Kenyon breaks ground

14:00 – 15:15
3. James Mellaart’s Çatalhöyük: A triumph ends in scandal

15:45 – 17:00
4. The Neolithic ‘Mega-Site’ and the Problem of the Stone Age City

 

Sunday 19 April

10:00 – 11:15
5. Scientific Revolutions in Neolithic Archaeology

11:45 – 13:00
6. The Göbekli Tepe Enigma

14:00 – 15:15
7. Ian Hodder’s Çatalhöyük: New ways of thinking through the Neolithic

15:45 – 17:00
8. What’s New in the Neolithic? A narrative for the 21st century

17:00 – 18:00
End-of-Course Online Social (you are welcome to invite guests)

 

*All times are London UK time; Zoom opens 15 minutes prior to the start of class

NB: Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london-united-kingdom/revolutions-in-neolithic-archaeology-in-the-fertile-crecsent-and-beyond-online/200029385342626
- **Event Categories**: workshops, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 175

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## Event venue details

- **city**: London, United Kingdom
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 8 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6DP, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom

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- **Q**: When and where is REVOLUTIONS IN NEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE FERTILE CRECSENT AND BEYOND (online) being held?
  - **A:** REVOLUTIONS IN NEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE FERTILE CRECSENT AND BEYOND (online) takes place on Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sun, 19 Apr, 2026 at 04:15 pm at Online event, 8 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6DP, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom.
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