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The Discipline of Archaeology is delighted to announce that Professor Lakhdar Benbouzid, Full Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Biskra, Algeria, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies (CASSCS). With more than twenty years of fieldwork in the Sahara, his research addresses Saharan rock art, Neolithic pastoral societies, ancient migration, and Holocene environmental change. His current work examines Late Neolithic ritual and funerary monuments of the central Sahara. He is a member of ICOMOS and is the author of eleven books and more than twenty peer-reviewed articles.

Professor Benbouzid will be here for two weeks from the 10^{th of} August 2026 and is keen to meet with staff members and students with a particular interest in his areas of expertise, or their related and interrelated fields. With this in mind, his research will involve an examination of Irish Neolithic funerary architecture, Megalithic Art and Rock Art and an exploration of some of its famous sites and landscape environments. He will also be giving a lecture to the staff and students of the CASSCS and is particularly looking forward to meeting colleagues of our School to learn more of its range or research interests, towards possible collaborations in the future.

More details will follow.