ENHG Lecture: Abu Dhabi and the World 8000 years ago: How recent discoveries are changing our understanding of the Global Neolithic, by Dr Peter Magee

Join us for the last lecture of the 2018-2019 season! Membership sign up for the new season and Tribulus copies will be available before the lecture. The 2019-2020 season will kickstart again in early September 2019.

Venue: Saadiyat Rotana Resort - Emerald Meeting Room 

Membership available from 7pm, lecture begins at 7:30pm

Title: Abu Dhabi and the World 8000 years ago: How recent discoveries are changing our understanding of the Global Neolithic, by Dr Peter Magee

About the talk: Recent archaeological evidence from Neolithic sites in Abu Dhabi has resulted in a fundamental change in the way we understand the period during which humans began to settle in one place and intensively exploit the environment. In this lecture we explore this new evidence in the context of 100 years of scholarship on the Neolithic period. 

About the speaker: Dr. Peter Magee is Head of Archaeology and Palaeontology with the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi. He is the author of over 50 publications on Arabian prehistory, including The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He has held academic positions in Australia, Belgium, and, most recently in the USA where he served as Chair and Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College (Philadelphia) from 2002 to 2019. Dr. Magee was the recipient of the 2017 ENHG Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Award for Natural History for his work on UAE archaeology for over 25 years, excavating at Muweilah (where he welcomed some ENHG and DNHG groups), at Tell Abraq (where he also welcomed ENHG/DNHG visitors) and elsewhere. His work has been published widely in academic journals.

All lectures are open and free to all; however, we ask that you register so that we have an idea of the number of attendees.  This talk is generously sponsored and hosted by the Saadiyat Rotana Resort & Villas.