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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Publications

Hopkinson, T. (in press). The transmission of technological skills in the Palaeolithic: insights from metapopulation ecology. In Roberts, B. and Vander Linden, M. (eds) Investigating archaeological cultures: cultural transmission and material culture variability. New York: Springer. (publication in May 2011)

Stephens, M., Hopkinson, T. and Cooper, L. 2010. Middle Devensian sediments at Sandy Quarry and speculation on the provenance of a handaxe find. Bedfordshire Archaeology.

Hopkinson T. 2007. The Middle Palaeolithic Leaf Points of Europe: Ecology, Knowledge and Scale. BAR International Series 1663. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges Publishing.

Hopkinson T. 2007. The Transition from the Lower to the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe and the Incorporation of Difference. Antiquity 81, 294-307.

Stephens M, Cooper L and Hopkinson T. 2006. The Waite Collection, Historic Environment Record and Pleistocene fauna of Leicestershire: A Critical Assessment by the National Ice Age Network. Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 80, 191-95.

Hopkinson T and White MJ. 2005. The Acheulean and the handaxe: Structure and agency in the Palaeolithic. In C Gamble and M Porr (eds.) The Individual Hominid in Context, pp13-28. London: Routledge.

Hopkinson T. 2004. Leaf points, landscapes and environment change in the European Late Middle Palaeolithic. In N Conard (ed.) Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Vol. II, pp227-258. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.