Speaker Dr Jens Beutmann, archaeologist and exhibition manager at smac
An excavation in the centre of the city is research on a living object. While archaeologists usually investigate long-abandoned settlement and burial sites, urban archaeologists try to fathom the history and origins of our cities that still exist today. Because our predecessors literally "lived on top" of their rubbish over many centuries, it is a complicated and exciting business to read their legacies backwards, so to speak, during excavation. The lecture gives an introduction to the special methods of this discipline using mostly Saxon examples.
Note: An audio loop has been installed in the lecture theatre.
