Rob Foley
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Professor of Human Evolution and Fellow of King's College Cambridge. Emeritus, so I now do the research there was never time to do before. Interested in anything evolutionary, from humans to lithics to ecology and stars.
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Prof. Clive Gamble brings 1960s/70s Cambridge archaeology to life—a rapidly shrinking world transformed by new technology. It was an era of fierce college rivalries and cutting, witty critique constantly batted back & forth between peers and colleagues.
Show PostProf. Stephen Shennan rounds up session 1 showing how David Clarke’s Analytical Archaeology reframed culture as an information system—novel then, standard now. Clarke was ahead of his time, “constrained as astronomy without a telescope," but big data are now allowing his questions to be explored! 🔭
Show PostEnrico highlights Clarke’s 1973 insight on radiocarbon dating: we must think in terms of "kinked & distorted time surfaces." Instead of throwing out high-error data or relying on mid-points, Crema calls for approaches to be honest about chronometric uncertainty. ⌛💻 2/2
Show PostSession 2: Prof. Cameron Petrie chairs on Quantitative & Computational Archaeology, contrasting Clarke’s era with today’s thriving department. First up, Dr Enrico Crema revisits Clarke’s famous definition: recovering unobservable behaviour from "indirect traces in bad samples."
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