Our next monthly meeting will take place on Wednesday, 9th October at 7:00 pm in the Observatory Library.

Our speaker this month is Lisa White.

Lisa specialises in in Human Osteoarchaeology and funerary rites and is currently undertaking a PhD at Queens University Belfast, investigating funerary rites in Middle to Late Neolithic Ireland. 

She recently undertook a placement at Armagh County Museum reviewing and cataloguing their human remains collections. Her talk is entitled: Grave Matters: the secrets held in ancient bones andshe will be discussing her research, what information can be gleaned from ancient human remains, and the role of Museums in facilitating this type of research.