Archaeological Science Seminars

The Martin Aitken Seminar Series

Michaelmas Term 2022, Thursday 12-1pm in Lecture Theatre, 1 South Parks Rd

Ashleigh Haruda

HT1: Dr Ashleigh Haruda, University of Oxford

19 Jan 2023: Geometric morphometrics: Linking functional morphologies to palaeoecology in the archaeological record

Photo of Pandanus tectorius

HT3: Dr Anna Florin, University of Cambridge

2nd Feb: An ~11,000 year record of plant use at Matja Kuru 2, Timor-Leste

Image: photo of Pandanus tectorius, from Wikipedia

glass beads

HT5: Dr Tunde Babalola (British Museum)

16 Feb: Glass production south of the Sahara

 

doctor schnabel of rome plague doctor

HT7: Dr Christiana Scheib (University of Cambridge)

2nd March: New frontiers in palaeo proteomics

Image from Wikipedia.

Illustration from Natural History Museum Vienna

MT 1 - Dr Penny Bickle, University of York

13 Oct: What happened as the Neolithic went west? 

Image credit: Natural History Museum Vienna

 

Photo of a forest

MT3 Dr Rachel Wood, University of Oxford

27 Oct: Building chronologies in the tropics and what radiocarbon can tell us about enamel diagenesis

 

guiry image

MT6 - Dr Eric Guiry, University of Leicester

17 Nov: Biogeochemical complexities of past freshwater environments: Challenges and opportunities for archaeologists and historical ecologists