April 2017’s lecture, by Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy of Durham University, considers ‘Early Post-Glacial Hunter-Gatherers of Northern England – and Well Beyond’.
Professor Rowley-Conwy works in the department of Archaeology at Durham University as a professor of Environmental Archaeology. He has a particular interest in pigs and has won two major awards concerning the archaeology of pigs. His pig research determines the seasons of hunting through considering tooth eruption and bone growth.
Concerning a publication titled ‘Wild things in the North? Hunter-Gatherers and the tyranny of the colonial perspective’ he considers the spread and the origins of agriculture. One of his areas of interests includes hunter-gatherers, origins of agriculture and early agriculture.
(Photograph and information from Durham University staff biography page. Found at https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/?id=164)
excavation of the Roman villa at Woodchester, Gloucestershire, which contains the largest 
f the excavations on the scheme, including work at Cataractonium, Bainesse Cemetery and Scotch Corner.
Helen has been an archaeological consultant since 2001.Prior to that she worked as a field archaeologist in Northampton. She studied at the University of Bradford and was involved with a research project into hunter-gatherer mobility in the Yorkshire Dales.
Department. She later undertook an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology taught jointly between the Universities of Sheffield and Bradford. She returned to Durham to complete her PhD. Her studies became the subject of a book The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains that she co-edited with Dr Chris Knüsel (University of Exeter).
TAS member Steve Sherlock has been a professional archaeologist for 36 years and has spent much of that time working in North East England. Much of his research has been focused on East Cleveland where he has undertaken a number of major excavations particularly on Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon sites. Commercially he has also excavated and published on later sites including medieval settlements at Castleton and Long Marston. He has been the archaeological clerk of works, working on the A1 road improvements in North Yorkshire, as well as other projects in the area. His work is published in regional journals and conference proceedings and in 2012 he published two Tees Archaeology monographs.
Teesside Archaeological Society 