Research carried out at the School of Anthropology and Conservation will feature in the British Academy’s annual Summer Showcase in June.<\/p>\n
Now in its second year, the\u00a0Summer Showcase<\/a>\u00a0aims to bring the best in new humanities and social sciences research\u00a0to a public audience.<\/p>\n In one of Kent\u2019s two featured projects,\u00a0Dr Alastair Key<\/a>, a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biological Anthropology<\/a>, will seek to answer the question, ‘What prompted humans to start developing the first stone tools\u00a0and how these did these\u00a0evolve over time?’<\/p>\n His interactive exhibit, presented in collaboration with\u00a0Ian Farr,<\/a> a PhD student\u00a0at the University\u2019s\u00a0School of Sport and Exercise Sciences<\/a>,\u00a0will allow visitors to\u00a0handle Palaeolithic artefacts\u00a0and\u00a0test their muscle activity\u00a0using different prehistoric stone tools. These exhibits will demonstrate\u00a0how and why early human technology evolved\u00a0over time.<\/p>\n In addition to the\u00a0interactive exhibits designed by academics, the Summer Showcase, which runs from 21-22 June, will also feature\u00a0pop-up talks and performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"