BACAS Lecture: Exploring the lakeshore Neolithic of south east Europe

This lecture explores recent archaeological research into the lakeshore Neolithic of south east Europe, focusing on the southwest Balkans, including northern Greece, North Macedonia and Albania. It looks at Europe’s earliest lakeshore pile-built settlements and the ways wetland archaeology, organic preservation and high-resolution dendrochronology are helping researchers reconstruct everyday life in the Neolithic.

The talk is based on work from the EXPLO project, a collaboration involving the universities of Thessaloniki, Bern and Oxford, and centres on research around Lake Ohrid. Professor Amy Bogaard, Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford, will share findings from her multi-country project and discuss early farming practice, resilience and inequality in the deep past.