Archaeologist Kevin Colls will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Thursday, April 9 at 5:30 p.m. in Sheldon Art Museum’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Colls is an archaeologist and reader of archaeology working for the Centre of Archaeology based at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. For 24 years, he has directed and published archaeological projects throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and has widely travelled to sites across the world.
He specializes in the application of new and innovative digital techniques for archaeological survey, forensic and conflict archaeology and community archaeology. He has trained undergraduate and postgraduates students in a number of key subjects (including forensic archaeology, archaeological science, archaeological surveying, geophysical survey and archaeology and heritage management).
He has completed investigations at Treblinka Death and Labor Camps in Poland, mass grave investigations in Ukraine, Poland and Croatia, and completed field investigations at the forced labor camps on the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. Colls also works with numerous police forces as an external consultant associated with the search for buried human remains.
Of his recent global archaeological projects, the highest profile is the prestigious “Finding Shakespeare” Project in Stratford upon Avon, U.K. This internationally important project focuses on locating evidence about the Bard and his life and times, including the key sites of the final residence of William Shakespeare (New Place) and the house in which the Bard passed away, and his grave site at Holy Trinity Church, his final resting place of Shakespeare.
More details at: https://arts.unl.edu/art/news/archaeologist-colls-presents-hixson-lied-visiting-artist-lecture-april-9/