University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies | The Institute of Archaeology, Oxford Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe St Anne’s College Oxford, 10 July 2010 ONE-DAY FORUM – Programme Dafydd Johnston (CAWCS) — Welcome 9.15 J. P. Mallory (Queen’s University, Belfast) The Indo-Europeanization of Atlantic Europe 9.20 Andrew FitzPatrick (Wessex Archaeology) The Arrival of the Beaker Folk in Britain 9.55 Catriona Gibson (CAWCS) Beakers into Bronze: Tracing connections between western Iberia and the British Isles 2800–800 BC 10.30 tea 11.05 John T. Koch (CAWCS) Out of the flow and ebb of the European Bronze Age: heroes, Tartessos, and Celtic 11.30 Dirk Brandherm (Queen’s University, Belfast) Westward Ho? Swordbearers and all the rest of it...12.05 Morning session discussion (chair: Marc Vander Linden, University of Leicester) 12.40 lunch 1.00-2.00 Jacqueline McKinley, Jörn Schuster, Alistair Barclay (Wessex Archaeology) Dead sea connections: a Bronze- and Iron Age ritual site on the Isle of Thanet 2.00 Dagmar S. Wodtko (CAWCS) Models of language spread and language development in prehistoric Europe 2.35 William O’Brien (UC Cork) Celts, Romans and the indigenous Iron Age and Late Bronze Age of south-west Ireland 3.10 *Book launch and refreshments 3.45 Colin Renfrew (McDonald Institute, Cambridge) Thoughts on early Celtic in the west and early Indo-European 4.45 Barry Cunliffe (Institute of Archaeology, Oxford) Respondent/discussion leader 5.20–6.00 The programme will include a launch of the collection *Celtic from the West Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language, and Literature edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch OXBOW BOOKS, 2010 Limited space: Book Now! Registration: £29.00 (includes tea/coffee breaks and“finger” buffet); £22.00 (sans frills) Contact: [email protected] — 01970 636543.