Dung and desert copper - Evaluating 3rd millennium BCE desert subsistence at the macro- and microscales

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEscuiprzkiEtGgkyFFkjUZy8ap3Eq0QWG1

Dr Zachary Dunseth (Brown University).

Online via zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:15-14:00

Recipes for Success: Paleoethnobotanical Evidence for Women’s Wealth through Root Processing on the Canadian Plateau

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdOGqpz4jG9Nr7b8gdXBwsHmeXnyy_8mZ

Dr. Monica Ramsey (University of Cambridge).

Online via zoom.

Friday 26 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pressing Concerns: Urartian Wine Production Equipment

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlcOqvpjkrG9z4d1rumXxKk3sTV_gYCGAc

Victoria Newson (University of Sheffield).

Online via zoom.

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Iron Age (1100-300BC) in Oman and the United Arab Emirates: a discussion on the ceramics and columned halls

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocu2uqD8jGt3sP3CCcDZeCNvOvZ6Qnfi7

Sam Botan (Leiden University) .

Online via zoom.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Seeing the woods for the trees: a palaeoecological investigation of native woodlands to inform present and future woodland conservation management strategies in Northern Scotland

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcOqgpjIrHdJmhUaSHCXLXYyCbyw6N5wo

Dr. Jasmijn Sybenga (University of the Highlands and Islands).

Online via zoom.

Friday 29 January 2021, 13:15-14:00

The Genomics of Megaliths: Hierarchy and Heterogeneity in Irish Neolithic Society

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArd-2vqDssGN3r3r9JzlCL9w3NoHlB21an

Dr. Lara Cassidy (Smurfit Institute of Genetics Trinity College Dublin).

Online via zoom.

Friday 22 January 2021, 13:15-14:00

Medieval medicine and leprosy: new insights from dental calculus analysis

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcO-upzktE91PIXfWQSFyh_QYmqGvI0Hq

Elena Fiorin (Sapienza University of Rome).

Online via zoom.

Friday 04 December 2020, 13:15-14:00

A short-lived but memorable style: Lapita Pottery in Vanuatu (NOTE: Unusual time)

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucOGqpzMsGdRESX34ueGDCwtWH8rrgwv2

Dr. Mathieu Leclerc (Australian National University).

Online via zoom.

Friday 27 November 2020, 11:00-11:45

The mobility of Upper Palaeolithic prey in the Siberian Arctic

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud-irpjIjEtBorycKWN69meITA9IZKBXO

Wouter Bonhof, University of Exeter.

Online via zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Early food production and human-animal relations: Isotopic insights into Neolithic social reconfiguration in the Near East

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlceusqzooH905h9NRiWPbSPG8PFLv3a--

Prof. Cheryl Makarewicz (University of Kiel).

Online via zoom.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Copper metallurgy at Kerma: Technological innovation in the Nile Valley

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErce2upjkqGtwWK_MOXgoBzaU-1rzVtxoD

Dr. Frederik Rademakers (KU Leuven).

Online via zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Heritage Quest: An Archaeological Survey of the Veluwe based on Data Science and Citizen Science

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdeqqrTIiH9a-LWlPoRjSNt8LfztjLuE5

Dr. Karsten Lambers (Leiden University).

Online via zoom.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

The Genetic History of the Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkceipqjsqE91n7OeMQQGolXXy3lkmDX5w

Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute).

Online via zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Palaeoproteomics in Archaeology: Recent Applications and Future Directions

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkd-msqD4vGNyztfdId5Czxcle1PhOY5Ab

Dr Jessica Hendy (Department of Archaeology - University of York).

Online via zoom.

Friday 16 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Roundtable discussion on Myths of meritocracy, friendship and "fun work": Performative informality in North American archaeological communities

Dr Mary Leighton, University of Michigan.

South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER.

Friday 15 May 2020, 13:15-14:00

Social enterprise, consultancy and commercialisation as research impact: a guide for humanities and social science researchers

Dr Emma Salgard Cunha, Cambridge Enterprise.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-14:00

[CANCELLED] Diversity, identities, and social structure: investigating Indus Civilisation rural ceramic industries, traditions and communities of producers in Northwest India

Alessandro Ceccarelli, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-14:00

Investigating how Neanderthal’s subsistence was affected by MIS3 climatic oscillations and the arrival of AMH

Dr Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, University of Cambridge & University of Cantabria.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-14:00

Enviro-ethnoarchaeology and archaeology: scientific approaches in archaeology utilising an ethnoarchaeological approach.

Dr Sarah Elliott, Bournemouth University.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-14:00

The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford’s 17th century scientific community. An archaeological science approach.

Umberto Veronessi, UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:15-14:00

Our daily glazes: revisiting how and why glazed ceramics become a popular household item since the medieval times

Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 06 December 2019, 13:15-14:00

From Cyprus to Central Asia: Revisiting the spread of glaze technologies

Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-14:00

Farming by numbers: multi-proxy analyses of Anglo-Saxon agriculture

Dr Mark McKerracher, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-14:00

Study of organic residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India

Akshyeta Suryanarayan, University of Cambridge.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-14:00

Compound-specific carbon isotope analysis of lipid combustion residues from herbivore dung. An experimental approach

Dr Natalia Égüez, University of Cambridge & University of La Laguna.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 13:15-14:00

Grains of truth: rethinking past agriculture through stable isotope and geometric morphometric approaches

Dr. Michael Wallace, University of Sheffield.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 14 June 2019, 13:15-14:00

A Tale of Two Regions: The Living Landscapes of Jordan and Oman in the Bronze Age

Dr Caroline Cartwright, British Museum.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 07 June 2019, 13:15-14:00

New developments in compound specific analysis of ancient biomolecules in archaeology

Dr Thibaut Deviese, University of Oxford.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

*CANCELLED* Lives in the landscape: translating pollen records into understandings of land cover and landscape resources in the British Neolithic

Canceled

Dr Jane Bunting, University of Hull.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

65,000 years of human-environment interaction: An archaeobotanical investigation of human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia

S. Anna Florin, University of Queensland.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Dates as Data approach

Dr Enrico Crema, University of Cambridge.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

A winter's tale - shellfishing in the Stone Age

Dr Emma Loftus, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

The Frustrating Geography of Bees in Chinese History

Dr David Pattinson, University of Leeds.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:15-14:00

Prehistoric Land-Use History and Food Production in Early Agricultural Societies

Dr Nicki J. Whitehouse, University of Plymouth.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-14:00

Iron, fire, steel and rust. Ferrous technology in pre-Roman Iberia: framing the problem

Dr. Marc Gener-Moret, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-14:00

A Tale of Two (Bronze Age) Settlements: interpreting the faunal remains from development-led excavations

Vida Rajkovača, Project Officer and Zooarchaeologist, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-14:00

The Domestic Pig: Selective Breeding and Prevailing Tastes, Morphological and Genetic Variation over 100 Generations

Dr Ashleigh Haruda, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:15-14:00

World's Apart? Biographies of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition

Katie Hall.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 22 February 2013, 13:15-14:00

Geoarchaeological Investigation in the Al Marj Basin, Libya

Lucy Farr.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 15 February 2013, 13:15-14:00

New Methods, Old Materials: the application of modern scientific technique to the biological material from the Cardo V sewer in Herculaneum

Erica Rowan.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 08 February 2013, 13:15-14:00

Articulating Must Farm: an iterative and mootable archaeological survey methodology

Donald Horne.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 01 February 2013, 13:15-14:00

Health, Lifestyle and Social Interaction in North Chilean Prehistory: morphological insights from the living and the dead

Emma Pomeroy.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 25 January 2013, 13:15-14:00

Molecular Analysis of Resin: an organic aterial on artefacts frm Oceania

Fiona Bradshaw.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 18 January 2013, 13:15-14:00

Heavy Rainfalls in a Desert(ed) City – a climate-archaeological case study from Naga, Sudan

Dr Jonas Berking.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 16 November 2012, 13:15-14:00

Diet, Dating and Death: some thoughts on Ukrainian Prehistory.

Dr Malcolm Lillie.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 09 November 2012, 13:15-14:00

In and Out and In-between: isotopic studies of humans of known diets.

Dr Tamsin O'Connell.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 02 November 2012, 13:15-14:00

Sheep Breeds in Bronze Age Kazakhstan: A Geometric Morphometric Approach

Ashleigh Haruda .

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 19 October 2012, 13:15-14:00

Exploring Upper Palaeolithic Plant Foods at the Site of Dolní Vĕstonice II using Scanning Electron Microscopy

Dr Alex Pryor (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 08 June 2012, 13:15-14:00

Animal Husbandry Practices between 450 BC-300 AD in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula: Studying the Change in Cattle Size through Osteometric and Molecular Analysis

Dr Lídia Colominas-Barbera (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 01 June 2012, 13:15-14:00

Ore, slag and inclusion: measuring variability in the direct process and assessing its implications for provenancing iron using the SI method

Tom Birch (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 25 May 2012, 13:15-14:00

Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Late Glacial-Holocene in Pali Aike and Tierra del Fuego, Chile

Dr Charly French (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:15-14:00

Getting from A to 'Beyond': Telling the Story of Icelandic Boat Graves through Mineralised Wood Remains

Dawn Mooney (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 11 May 2012, 13:15-14:00

Experimental Archaeometallurgy

Dr Simon Timberlake (Cambridge Archaeology Unit).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 04 May 2012, 13:15-14:00

Environmental and Hydrologic Change in the West Baray, Angkor (Cambodia)

Mary Beth Day (Dept Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:15-14:00

In search of ancient cultivated soils in north and south China

Yijie Zhuang, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 16 March 2012, 13:15-14:00

Re-thinking food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia

Dr Amy Bogaard, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 09 March 2012, 13:15-14:00

Wild and domestic: the fauna of Grooved Ware pits

Vida Rajkovaca, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:15-14:00

Iberian Islam: A bioarchaeological investigation of emerging Islamic identity in Andalucia

Sarah Inskip, University of Southampton.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

When were the Faroe Islands first settled and by whom? Archaeological and palaeobotanical solutions

Prof. Kevin Edwards, University of Aberdeen.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

The Adriatic Plain: An LGM-Late Glacial human refugium?

Victoria Pia Sray-Marques, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 10 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

Landscape and climate analysis: Egypt and beyond

Dr Judith Bunbury, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 03 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

Needle in a Haystack: Searching for Farming Pathways in Central Asia

Prof. Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 27 January 2012, 13:15-14:00

People, plants and the forest over the last 50,000 years in Borneo: evidence from plant microfossil studies

Dr Chris Hunt, Queen's University, Belfast.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 20 January 2012, 13:15-14:00

Detecting epigenetic activity in the barley archaeogenome: small RNA and local adaptation

Oliver Smith, University of Warwick.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 02 December 2011, 13:15-14:00

Plant resources and the economics of power in Viking Age Scotland and Norway

Dr Rachel Ballentyne, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 25 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

Dietary clues in chimpanzee poo: The value of phytolithic and stable isotopic analyses

Caroline Phillips, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

The agricultural economy during the Longshan period: an archaeobotanical perspective from Shandong and Shanxi

Jiaxiang Song, UCL.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 11 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

Origins and dispersals: the archaeobotany of early farming

Dr Sue Colledge, UCL.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 04 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sue Colledge, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 17 June 2011, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Hugo Oliveira, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 10 June 2011, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Toomas Kivisild, LCHES, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Françoise Barbira-Freedman, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 20 May 2011, 13:15-14:00

The Roman and Islamic Spice Trade: Exploring the Botanical Remains from the Roman and Islamic Ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt

Professor Marijke van der Veen, University of Leicester.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 13 May 2011, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tony Legge, Department of Archaeology.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 18 March 2011, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Rhiannon Stevens, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 11 March 2011, 13:15-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Ankica Oros Sršen, Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology, Zagreb, Croatia.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 04 March 2011, 13:15-14:00

Four million years of back pain

Dr Asier Gómez Olivencia, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 25 February 2011, 13:15-14:00

Dendrochronology and Palaeoenvironment - What's Important?

Professor Mike Baillie, Queen's University Belfast.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:15-14:00

Isotope analysis for migration and diet during the crusades

Dr Piers Mitchell, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 11 February 2011, 13:15-14:00

The tea plant, Camellia sinensis: its origin and introduction into human culture

Dr Derek S. Bendall, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 04 February 2011, 13:15-14:00

Physique and morphological integration in human long bone variation: A 3D laser scan approach

Thomas Davies, PhD Candidate, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 28 January 2011, 13:15-14:00

An archaeogenetic pilot study on diversity and domestication in the tuber crop taro

Dr Harriet Hunt, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 03 December 2010, 13:15-14:00

Food webs, subsistence and changing culture: the development of early farming communities in north China

Dr Xinyi Liu, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 26 November 2010, 13:15-14:00

Shipping Greek Sheep: Greek Colonization and Faunal Translocation in the Adriatic Region

Jane Sanford, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:15-14:00

New taphonomic and archaeological perspectives on bone accumulators: the bearded vulture

Dr Ana Belén Marín Arroyo, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:15-14:00

Late Neolithic Herders and Climate Change : The effects of the ‘8.2 ka event’ on animal husbandry at the Late Neolithic site of Tell Sabi Abyad

Dr Anna Russell, Leiden University.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:15-14:00

Production and Trade of Olive Oil during the Roman Period

Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar, PhD Candidate, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain).

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 29 October 2010, 13:15-14:00