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DESCRIPTION:Each quarter\, the Stanford Archaeology Center invites prominen
 t archaeologists from around the globe to be in residence for a week as a D
 istinguished Lecturer. During their residency\, the Distinguished Lecturer 
 gives two lectures and interacts with faculty\, postdoctoral scholars and s
 tudents. Stanford Archaeology Center will host Emeritus Prof. Richard Hingl
 ey from  Durham University\, UK over two days (Jan 14 and Jan 15) for the W
 inter Quarter of this academic year. \n\nAbstract:\n\nThis talk pursues the
  fashion for re-constructing Iron Age-style roundhouses across Britain. Iro
 n Age houses have been re-constructed since the 1930s\, but the main period
  of interest commenced in the mid- to late-1970s with the creation of the I
 ron Age Farm at Butser (Hampshire\, England) and the broadcasting of the po
 pular TV programme ‘Living in the Past’\, which featured a community living
  in a re-constructed Iro Age village\, supposedly for a whole year. Since t
 his time\, one or more full-sized Iron Age re-constructed houses have been 
 built at (a minimum of) 65 sites in England\, Scotland and Wales (Hingley 2
 024). This is part of a broader global fashion for re-constructing historic
  and prehistoric buildings at open-air museums. \n\nThe Iron Age has been a
  particularly popular period for re-constructions in Britain\, linking in p
 artly to origin myths that relate to the ‘Celtic’ origins of some of the pe
 oples of the UK. Another strong tradition has established the Iron Age as a
  powerful model of egalitarian living and sustainable lifestyles which has 
 proved a particularly strong message for education in British schools. The 
 occurrence of roundhouses in pre-colonial and colonial Africa and in the US
 A also provided a link to draw upon a period of the British past that long 
 predated the development of British imperialism. Alongside the construction
  of Iron Age roundhouses\, approaches to living history have developed to c
 ommunicate the later prehistoric past to visitors of all ages. In the recen
 t project\, Ancient Identities\, we have explored this idea of living in th
 e past by developing the concept of experiential authenticity (Hingley\, Ya
 rrow and Sharpe 2025).\n\nThis paper will review the distribution\, history
  and character of the fashion for re-constructing roundhouses (this is more
  fully addressed in the Ancient Identities monograph)\, and address my more
  recent research into architectural practices that offer to build roundhous
 es for clients. These buildings are used for educational and domestic purpo
 ses and particularly appear to appeal as holiday homes. The impact of the c
 oncept of Living in the Iron Age illustrates the considerable impact of arc
 haeological research and the presentation of the ancient past at open-air m
 useums over the past half century.\n\nHingley\, R. (2024). ‘Table 4: Recons
 tructed Iron Age houses’\, Durham University Collections. (https://collecti
 ons.durham.ac.uk/files/r19c67wm84v).\n\nHingley\, R.\, K. Sharpe and T. Yar
 row (2025). Ancient Identities: Exploring heritage in the making. London\, 
 UCL Press. (accessible open access from https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/epri
 nt/10215081/).\n\n \n\nFor more details please visit https://archaeology.st
 anford.edu/events/distinguished-lecture-series
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series | Living in the Past: The re-construct
 ion of Iron Age living and experiential authenticity 
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