Jay Hall Annual Lecture
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You are invited to attend the Hall Annual Lecture:
Palaeoanthropological explorations in Africa: New light on fossils representing different relatives of humankind
Presented by Professor Francis Thackeray, Director, Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Hall Lecture is UQ Archaeology’s annual public lecture in honour of the founder of archaeology at UQ Associate Professor Jay Hall. The lecture also launches Queensland’s National Archaeology Week events. This is a free event. All welcome.
Date: Friday 18 May 2012
Time: 4.00pm for a 4.30pm lecture (a wine reception to follow at 5.30pm)
Place: Abel Smith Lecture Theatre (Building 23) The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus.
RSVP: Tuesday 15 May 2012 to Melanie Arumugam at m.arumugam@uq.edu.au or (07) 3365 3236
Abstract:
Palaeoanthropological explorations in Africa: New light on fossils representing distant relatives of humankind.
New fossil discoveries are constantly shedding additional light on the human family tree, deepening our understanding of the African origins of our species. This work began with Professor Raymond Dart, originally from our very own Toowong, QLD, and continues today with guest speaker Professor Thackeray from the Institute for Human Evolution in South Africa.
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Jay Hall
Associate Professor Jay Hall is the former Head of UQ's Archaeology program. As well as an award-winning teacher, Jay is the editor of Queensland Archaeological research - a publication he started in 1984. Jay retired in 2007 after more than 30 years at the University. He is currently an Adjunct Reader in Archaeology in the School of Social Science at UQ.
