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Alan Blackwell and Maya Indira Ganesh, University of Cambridge.
Thursday 19 March 2026, 16:00-17:30
Computational and Digital Archaeology Lab (CDAL)
The Computational and Digital Archaeology Lab (CDAL) is a hub for doctoral, post-doctoral and faculty levels that are committed to advancing the application of digital, computational, and quantitative methods in archaeology. The workshop series brings together experts of the field from around the world showcasing their latest research in the field.
Evening lectures take place on Monday evenings at 4:00 pm, and will be all hybrid.
Contact: Lydia Clough ; Imogen Badley
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Fireside Chat: Roundtable Discussions & Reflections
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Palaeoclimate Forecasting and the Next Stage of AI in Archaeology
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Between Codices, Archives and Algorithms: On How AI is Transforming Historical Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
The COST Action Managing AI in Archaeology (MAIA): Building an International Network
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Machine Heritage: Controversies in AI-Generated Meanings and Values of the Past
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Governing the Future: Ethics, Power and Responsibility in Archaeological AI
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An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa
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The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways
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Meat consumption and the shaping of a Romano-British culture
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Culinary Archaeologies of Chocolate: Holistic Approaches to Food Histories of Mesoamerica
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Pots, bones and biomolecules: multiproxy dietary reconstructions in the Baltic region
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
The Social Life of Food
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Where Land and Waters Meetβ; 10,000 years of βWildscapeβ human eco-dynamics and implications for sustainability and land use change
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
βRewildingβ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in current nature recovery
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Prehistoric Lakeshore Settlements of the Alpine Region and the Balkans Six Millennia of Human History Preserved in Lakes and Wetlands
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Understanding long-term spatio-temporal ecological changes in degraded peatlands to inform restoration
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
An animal-oriented perspective on the Neolithic transition in the Dutch wetlands
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
From deep past to future horizons: the practical role of wetland archaeology in peatland restoration
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Archaeology, (Absence) Heritage and the Capitalocene Bog
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
The 'Wood Age' at Kalambo Falls, Zambia
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Intersectionality in past populations: Examining frailty at the intersections of identities
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
βWe were shaped by spaceβ: An archaeological perspective of presence, identity and the materiality of Black life
Sapiens and Neanderthal: a comparative study of climate resilience
β οΈ Shared with PalMeso and BioAnth
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Girls, girls, girls: The importance of (modern) bodies in envisaged Viking Age social experience
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Before, during and after gender: Towards a non-essentialist history of difference
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Playing with things: The Moche sex pots
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Animals, ancestors and plants: Shaping genders in the more-than-human worlds of Bronze Age Northern Europe
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Itβs biocultural all the way down: Understanding the Pleistocene hominin niche
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Finding difference in kinship and gender in the European Neolithic: Posthumanist approaches to biomolecular data
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Thinking evolutionary laws: technological trajectories and anthropological regularities
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Why be a monk?
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Ancient DNA and cultural transmission
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Archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution
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Operationalising archaeological taxonomies using cultural evolutionary approaches β and why it matters
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Culture and Evolvability: A Brief Archaeological Perspective
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Shiny pebbles and Nordic aperitifs: case studies in multidisciplinary cultural evolution
SagaScape: Simulating human impact and community formation in southwest Anatolia during the first millennium BCE
β οΈ Hybrid: Seminar Room from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online
Layering computational techniques for the analysis of non-urban communities in hillfort sites
β οΈ Hybrid: Seminar Room from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online
The chronology of cultural, agricultural and demographic change in ancient SΔmoa indicates that population rise is the proximate origin of Polynesian chiefdoms
β οΈ Hybrid: Seminar Room from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online
Mixing apples and oranges: Integrating Bayesian confirmation and classification algorithms to combine incompatible, high dimensional data
β οΈ Hybrid: Seminar Room from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and online,
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
TERRANOVA from the last and current Interglacial periods into the Anthropocene: an Atlas database drawing lessons from ancient land use for future European landscape management
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Documenting land-Use legacies in the Pacific Northwest of North America: coupled archaeological and ecological signatures of indigenous forest gardens
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Landscape history, archaeology and storytelling
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Historical ecology and changes in Jomon landscape practice: examples from northeastern Japan
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Modeling βThe Dawn of Everythingβ: how simulating a complex yesterday might (or might not) help us with a complicated tomorrow
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Low-density urbanism, risk and climate instability
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Toward an acknowledgement of the invisible social metabolism of prestige-goods exchange in the Prehispanic Andes
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Enduring Structures, Patterns of Change: βEnglishβ Landscapes in the Northern Atlantic, 1000-1800CE
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Dissonance and Convergence in the North Atlantic: Ireland and the Archaeology of European Expansion
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Living on Atlantic Time: Commerce and Daily Life on the Gambia River
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Sociality of Merchant Capital and Archaeology of Early Modernity in Atlantic Africa
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
The Presence of Absence: Interrogating and interpreting forced and free migration in the Atlantic Caribbean
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
No Dollar Too Dark: Free Trade, Piracy, Privateering and Illegal Slave Trading in the Northeast Caribbean, Early 19th Century
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Landscapes of freedom: Kinship-relations and Geographical Imagination of the Maroons of βla Sierra de la MarΓaβ during the 17th-18th century, Colombia.
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Afro-descendants on the Move: Archaeologies of Afro-Atlantic Secondary and Reverse Diasporas
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Entangled histories: Archaeology, modern politics, and heritage in Vietnam
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
From reindeer antlers to tea light candles: Multiple users at the SΓ‘mi offering places
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
It might have been like this? Experimental archaeology: Making, understanding, storytelling
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Do you know who knows what you don't?: Construction of negotiated archaeological narratives
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Historical Landmarks and national history: The case of Kazakhstan
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Gold from the Great Steppe: new discoveries that changed the course of a regional museum
β οΈ This seminar will be given in Russian, with live translation. The webinar format will be used to enable the translation function to be enabled.
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
What the Archaeology of Decolonization Can Teach Us About the Decolonization of Archaeology
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Colonialism and Meta-Narratives in the Philippines: Decolonizing History through Community Archaeology among the Ifugao
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Decolonising Archaeological Practice Beyond Community Engagement: towards a theory of the future
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Indigenous & Archaeological Futures: Creating Equity through Community-Based Storytelling with Grand Ronde
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Ethics of archaeology: a post-Soviet (Central Asian) experience
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Engaging custodians of coloniality in archaeology: an African experience
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Towards a Kuleana Anthropology: Responsibility and Relationality in Hawaiβi and Oceania
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Galisonian logic devices as affordances for decolonizing archaeology
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
On the Right of Refusal: Decolonizing Archaeology and Equitable Practices
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Black Culinary Resistance in the French Caribbean during the Slavery Era
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
The Society of Black Archaeologists: Envisioning a Diverse and Inclusive Discipline
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Of Apes and Tools: Insights into the Evolution of Technology
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
New Neanderthal discoveries at Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Australopithecus from Sterkfontein Caves (South Africa): An evolutionary species?
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Panel Discussion: Embedding Black History and Archaeology in British schools
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Slavery, emancipation, and the quest for reparations in Antigua and Barbuda
Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
Africa and the discourse of inventiveness: Deep Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
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