History and archaeology enthusiasts will have the opportunity to hear about the latest research of Carmel Schrire into the early European colonisation of South Africa later this week.

Professor Schrire, a South African archaeologist and Cambridge alumna now based at Rutgers 探花直播 in the USA, will give the inaugural Inskeep Memorial Lecture at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research on Thursday, 17 May.

Professor Schrire is perhaps best known for her widely acclaimed book 鈥淒igging Through Darkness鈥, which won the Society for American Archaeology Book Award in 1996. 探花直播book analysed the impact of European colonialism on indigenous peoples in various parts of the world, focusing in particular on the archaeological record.

Her last book, 鈥淭igers In Africa鈥, similarly used archaeology to explore the struggles and experiences of people who were denied their freedom through colonialism, slavery and apartheid in the Cape Peninsula - the first part of South Africa to be colonised by merchant capitalists in the mid-17th century.

She will return to this theme in Thursday's lecture, for which her subject will be 鈥 探花直播Archaeology of the impact of European Colonialism at the Cape of Good Hope鈥. 探花直播talk will draw on her own excavations at early European colonial sites in South Africa, and should appeal to archaeologists, historians and anyone interested in the impact of European colonialism on indigenous societies.

Beyond the study of colonial archaeology, Professor Schrire has carried out archaeological and anthropological research on topics relating to Australia, the Arctic and South Africa. She discovered the world's oldest ground-stone axes while researching in Australia, and is currently engaged in a long-term programme of research into the early colonial contact between Europeans and indigenous people in the Age of Mercantile Capitalism.

探花直播lecture will be the first in a series of biennial presentations devoted to the memory of Dr Raymond Inskeep and supported by a benefaction from his wife, Adi Inskeep. Ray Inskeep was a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge in the late 1950s and a member of St John's College. He went on to a distinguished career in the study of southern African archaeology.

Dame Marilyn Strathern, the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology and Mistress of Girton College, who studied Archaeology and Anthropology with Professor Schrire at Cambridge while they were both students at Girton, will introduce the lecture.

探花直播event will take place in Lecture Theatre 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, at 5pm on Thursday and will be followed by a wine reception at the McDonald Institute (Downing site). It is free to attend and open to all.

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