Conferences & Events
Prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales
Our autumn conference 2009 was held in the Devonshire Institute (Town Hall) in Grassington on Saturday 31st October 2009. It was organised jointly with the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. 184 people attended the event. The theme was:
The Prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales.
Programme of talks:
- Terry O'Connor: The changing environment of the Dales during the late- and post-glacial periods.
- Roger Jacobi and tom Lord: The earliest humans in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
- Tom Lord: The Early Neolithic skeletons from Elbolton Cave, Wharfedale: Europe's oldest mummies?
- Tim Taylor: Caves in context: research agendas for the underground environment.
- Tim Laurie: Coaxial field systems in Swaledale: a reassessment in the light of further fieldwork.
- Roger Martlew: Upper Wharfedale in Late Prehistory: problems, prospects and progress.
- Alan King and Mark Simpson: The Prehistoric and Romano-British field evidence on the Ingleborough massif: a new survey.
- Robert White: The archaeology of the Yorkshire Dales: an overview.
