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SUMMARY:Sara Champion Memorial Lecture: Traces of Touch
URL:https://observatory.wiki/Event:Sara_Champion_Memorial_Lecture:_Traces_of_Touch_2025
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DTSTART:20251021T163000
DTEND:20251021T184500
LOCATION:Society of Antiquaries\, London
DESCRIPTION:Traces of Touch: From Palaeolithic Embodied Markings to Amazonian Decorated Hands\n\nThe 24th Sara Champion memorial lecture & Awards evening (online & in person)\n\nThis lecture explores the archaeology of touch through embodied markings: non-figurative\, body-derived traces created through choreographed interaction with surfaces. From the gripping and grabbing impressions at Ardales and El Castillo to framed stencils at Pech Merle\, each mark captures a moment of bodily gesture with place. In the Colombian Amazon\, decorated handprints offer new perspectives on repetition and relationality—the hand itself becoming the canvas. Experimental replication—spraying pigment\, decorating palms\, testing paint mixtures and techniques—offers clues to posture and tactile engagement. Through them\, we glimpse how people once visited caves as sensory\, storied spaces.
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