The Agenda for this meeting is:

• A demonstration of Anchurus II support for finds processing
• Review of the draft Anchurus II user manual page: Anchurus II support for working with finds

This should be of interest to anybody who plans to start working with Keith on Wickham finds later in September.

If you would like a copy of this document before the meeting you can download it from my Dropbox by emailing Andrew for a link.

Please note that the meeting fee is £3 per head

Committee Room, Woosehill Community Centre, Emmview Cl, Wokingham RG41 3DA. Starting 19:30 and ending 21:30 (please don’t arrive before 19:15). There is ample parking alongside the Community Centre and in the adjacent Morrisons supermarket car park.

Also on Zoom

Anyone else wishing to join should contact Andrew Hutt on andrew_hutt(at)talktalk.net

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2:30 to 4:30pm. Please do not arrive before 2:15pm

The agenda for this meeting is:

•    A demonstration of Anchurus II
•   A presentation on stratigraphic analysis

This meeting will also be available on zoom. To register to attend please email Andrew on andrew.hutt(at)berksarch.co.uk*

Committee Room, Woosehill Community Centre, Emmview Cl, Wokingham RG41 3DA. There is ample parking alongside the Community Centre and in the adjacent Morrisons supermarket car park.

*For security we are not publishing email addresses as direct links. Please re-type substituting the @ symbol for (at)

by Professor Katie Sampeck, University of Reading

Chocolate has a complex history of profound social, economic, and political impacts on the societies who produce and consume it. Central America is pivotal to this global story, but its place in chocolate’s history has been neglected because we have lacked the material evidence and the interpretive tools to evaluate its real contribution.

My current project will integrate archaeological, documentary and other contextual sources and, in collaboration with the British Museum, use cutting-edge biomolecular techniques to build a multi-scalar interpretation of Mesoamerican cuisine networks through time, from 1000 BCE-1900 CE. This will recentre the story on Indigenous societies’ agency in the global commodification of chocolate. By providing a deep-time perspective on issues of sustainability and structural inequality, the results will speak directly to social and ecological challenges surrounding chocolate today.

2.00 pm for 2.30 pm at the RISC Centre, London Street, Reading RG1 4PS and from 2:15 on Zoom

Google map reference

Image: An image from a vase. A Mayan lord is presented with a bowl of frothing cacao, or chocolate (Wikipedia Commons)