Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Fractured bones: Trauma Analysis in Forensic Anthropology

Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Cranfield University.

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

Friday 15 March 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Holding up half the sky? Female scholars and their contributions to Chinese archaeology

Anke Heine, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Archaeological textiles and what we can learn from them

Margarita Gleba, University of Padova.

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

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Tobacco, Health and History: identifying the use and impact of tobacco in Post-Medieval Britain

Sarah Inskip, University of Leicester.

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

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Meat, milk and plant oils: characterising products in Early Bronze Age pottery from the Oman Peninsula through lipid residue analysis

Akshyeta Suryanarayan, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 16 February 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Technology of Polychrome Glazed Ceramics in Tunisia: New data from Chimtou

Veronica Occari, University College London.

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

Friday 09 February 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Guidelines for the technical study of bronze sculpture: How scientists, archaeologists, conservators, craftsmen, curators and art historians come together to synthetize their skills.

David Bourgarit, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

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

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

An ecological perspective on the beginnings of cereal management in southwest Asia

Alexander Weide, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 26 January 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Testing Uniformitarianism to destruction: Reflections on experimental archaeology

Andrea Dolphini, Newcastle University.

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

Friday 19 January 2024, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

On the wing: Morphological variation in the osteology of Anatidae (excluding Anserinae) of the Levant

Dr Ashleigh Haruda, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 01 December 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Colours in Medieval stained glass: The Canterbury story

Dr Agnese Benzonell, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 24 November 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Constructing Identity in Death: A Case-study from Metal Period Philippines

Prof. Marc Oxenham, University of Aberdeen.

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

Friday 17 November 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Another step on geometric morphometrics: applications on material culture

Dr Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 10 November 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The peopling of the Americas: A chronological perspective

Dr Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, University of Oxford .

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

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Luxury technologies and collective action: the REVERSEACTION project

*Change of speaker*

Prof Marcos Martinón-Torres (Department of Archaeology).

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

Friday 27 October 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Embodiment of Marginalisation: What human and textual archives can tell us about the lived experience of South Africa's oppressed

Dr Linda Mbeki, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 20 October 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Reconstructing post-marital residence with strontium isotopes in the Later Stone Age in northern Malawi

Professor Stanley Ambrose, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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

Friday 13 October 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Systematic analysis of medieval manuscripts using X-ray Fluorescence and multivariate techniques

Georgios Magkanas, Universitat de Barcelona .

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

Friday 16 June 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Integrated analyses on the plasters and mortars of the Nea Paphos theater (Cyprus)

Paola Pizzo, Charles University (Prague).

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

Friday 09 June 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Pottery and Plaster technologies and traditions from the Neolithic site of Makri, Thrace, Greece

Archontoula (Dia) Barouda, UCL.

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

Friday 02 June 2023, 13:30-13:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Early ceramic technologies and traditions in the Edom Lowlands Region of southern Jordan: a diachronic perspective

Sara Carrion Anaya, UCL.

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

Friday 02 June 2023, 13:15-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The analysis of Australian faunal assemblages with ZooMS: potentials and challenges

Carli Peters, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology.

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

Friday 26 May 2023, 13:15-13:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Ceramic Technologies of Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Plain White Pottery from Enkomi

Chase Minos - The Cyprus Institute (Nicosia) .

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

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:30-13:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Reverse-engineering Egyptian blue production – technical ceramics and workshop organization

Ilia Kovalev - The Cyprus Institute (Nicosia) .

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

Friday 19 May 2023, 13:15-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and culture?

Miranda Evans - University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 12 May 2023, 13:30-13:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Challenges in reconstructing Past Exploitations of Atlantic Cod: a Zooarchaeological Case Study from Early Medieval England

Rachel Blevis - University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 12 May 2023, 13:15-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New advances in the development and testing of green cleaning materials for cultural artefacts

Silvia Prati - Università di Bologna .

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

Friday 05 May 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Minimally invasive sampling for the proteomic analysis of archaeological and museum objects

Catherine Gilbert - Bordeaux University.

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

Friday 28 April 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Recovering DNA and proteins from ancient books to explore livestock management and craft

Laura Viñas - University of Copenhagen.

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

Friday 17 March 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Raman spectroscopy analysis of Cultural Heritage Materials

MariVega Canamares - CSIC Madrid .

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

Friday 10 March 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Identifying periosteal new bone formation (PNBF) in fetal and infant individuals to explore health and wellbeing in past societies.

Claire Hodson - University of Reading .

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

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-13:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Can amino acid δ13C succeed where bulk δ13C fails? Testing “freshwater diet” signals against known 14C reservoir offsets

Corrie Hyland - Oxford University .

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

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

From the Big to the Small: Big Data and Compound-Specific Isotopes to Understand Pleistocene Ecology

Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne - Sheffield Hallam University .

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

Friday 24 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Ancient Bioinvasions: Can We Improve Evidentiary Standards for Species Introduction Research in Archaeology?

Christina Giovas - Simon Fraser University .

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

Friday 17 February 2023, 15:30-16:15

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Mastodon migrations and mysteries

Emil Karpinski - Harvard University .

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

Friday 03 February 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Elemental, immunochemical and Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging (NIR-HSI) analyses to characterize diagenetic alteration patterns and map collagen in ancient skeletal remains

Rocco Mazzeo - Università di Bologna.

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

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A geochemical approach for provenancing mortar raw materials: a case study from Sagalassos

Matilde Quilici - KU Leuven .

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

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A diachronic analytical study of table wares from the site of Sagalassos (SW Anatolia) from Hellenistic to Early Medieval times: preliminary results

Christiana Kelepeshi, KU Leuven.

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

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Non-invasive analysis of paintings and other cultural heritage objects

Nathan Daly, Fitzwilliam Museum.

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

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Do you have it or don't you? Walking the line of aDNA pathogen identification in low abundance samples

Jess Hider, Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University.

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

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Optical Coherence Tomography for Heritage Science

Piotr Targowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University.

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

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Identifying Foodways in Early Modern Ireland using a Multi-Isotope Approach: Preliminary Results of the 'FoodCult' Project

Alice Rose, Durham University.

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

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Applying a multiscale approach to Meroe’s archaeometallurgical remains

Jane Humphris, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Fire, Fields and Fertilizer: Exploring the Origins of Amazonian Landscapes

Yoshi Maezumi, Max Plank Institute for Geoanthropology.

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

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A New Way of Making Silver: Experiments in Medieval Islamic Metallurgy based on the Manuscript of Al-Hamdani

Stephen Merkel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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

Friday 21 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Painting on glass: from recipes to magic lanterns, a contribution to conservation and the history of knowledge

Márcia Vilarigues, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

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

Friday 24 June 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Palaeoenvironmental change and stability at Shanidar Cave: The evidence from the micromammals

Emily Tilby, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 17 June 2022, 13:35-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Regional Practices in an Interconnected World: Middle Islamic Ceramics (1000-1500CE) from the Erbil Plain

Kyra Kaerchar, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 17 June 2022, 13:15-13:35

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Julia Montes-Landa, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:35-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A tale of multiple alloys: modelling metalurgical practices in the Eastern Highlands of Columbia (AD600-1600)

Jasmine Vieri, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-13:35

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Jasmine Lundy, University of York.

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

Monday 30 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

3D Scanning to Preserve Subterranean Heritage

Jonathan Lester, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

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

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:35-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Rethinking the migration period at the order of the late Roman Empire: A multi-proxy biomolecular approach

Margaux Depaertmentier, University of Basel.

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

Friday 27 May 2022, 13:15-13:35

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Pierced or perforated: Using 3D models to differentiate anthropogenic piercing from natural perforations in shells

Marjolein Bosch, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Online through zoom.

Friday 20 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A Glimpse into the lives of 'Leprosy' and Hansens disease sufferers through time

Alette Blom, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 13 May 2022, 13:35-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

65,355 Shades of Scrimshaw

Laura Courto, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 13 May 2022, 13:15-13:35

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Strontium isotopes and bioarchaeology – Baselines and limitations

Christophe Snoeck, Vrie Universiteit Brussel.

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

Friday 29 April 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Dietary Change in Human Evolution

In conjunction with the Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Mark Thomas, University College London.

LCHES Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 16:30-17:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Four legs good: ancient animal genomics and the Near Eastern origins of cattle, sheep and goat.

Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin.

McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology.

Friday 11 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome

Anne Kathrine Runge, University of Copenhagen.

Online via zoom.

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

65,000 years of changing plant food and landscape use at Madjedbebe, Mirarr Country, northern Australia

Anna Florin, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Friday 25 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

POSTPONED: Pierced or perforated: Using 3D models to differentiate anthropogenic piercing from natural perforations in shells

Marjolein Bosch, Austrian academy of sciences.

Online via zoom.

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A talk about some Very Good Dogs

Audrey Lin, Smithsonian Institution.

Online via zoom.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Prehistory of the Eastern European Plain

Lehti Saag, UCL / Tartu University.

Online via zoom.

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Microbial lipids and their application to study ancient microbiomes and environments

Ainara Sistiaga, University of Copenhagen / Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Online via zoom.

Friday 28 January 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Identification of ancient silks using proteomics and immunoassays

Bing Wang, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.

Online via zoom.

Friday 21 January 2022, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oce6uqT4tE90DfFgL4c46ogL7fVq9Xn9E

Anne Kathrine Runge, University of York.

Online via zoom.

Friday 03 December 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Under the Surface: X-ray Imaging in the British Museum

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-mhpj0qEtzlqAZTCsh2t1hCvtPSYrkF

Dan O'Flynn, British Museum.

Online via zoom.

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Large-Scale Migration into Britain During the Middle to Late Bronze Age

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsfuurrD4sHdU5CdQT7wGxOi9KJH5w_wV1

David Reich, Harvard Medical School.

Online via zoom.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Understanding human adaptation from modern and ancient DNA sequences

5pm start. Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkf-2przsjG9JE-RQnUJgSUdiiz2AiodMd

Rasmus Nielsen, University of California Berkely.

Online via zoom.

Friday 12 November 2021, 17:00-17:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Practices, techniques and productions of a brass founder in a 15th century Brussels workshop

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuf-CspzotHtPJx89wyDFPL-7oX1cY0IxV

Lise Saussus, University of Louvain.

Online via zoom.

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Humans think through and with materials. So what?

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsceyprTorH9J4NbrVQZsiascNDsx1rnYJ

Maikel Kuijpers, Leiden University.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Specialized aquatic animal exploitation at Nahal Ein Gev II, Israel and the division of labor at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic crossroads

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYude6sqz8pH9doiA7b3hfD8rraUO_qqwxb

Natalie Munroe, University of Connecticut.

Online via zoom.

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New Directions in Coastal and Underwater Geoarchaeology.

Email organisers for zoom link: rkb34@cam.ac.uk

Ruth Shahak-Gross, University of Haifa.

Online via zoom.

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Exploring the genetics of the extinct Darwin’s ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) population from Cueva del Milodón, Chile

Email organisers for zoom link: ram88@cam.ac.uk

Maria Zicos, Natural History Museum.

Online via zoom.

Friday 15 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Deep time proteins: an eggcellent resource for reconstructing past human-environment interactions

Email organisers for zoom link: mae52@cam.ac.uk

Beatrice Demarchi, University of Turin.

Online via zoom.

Friday 08 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Oil, Sugar and Failed Revolution in the City of the Sun God: Empowering Heritage and Community in Si Thep Thailand

Michael Leadbetter, University of Oxford.

Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpde-vpzspGtHkO1hrnQX_Wb-_23iXP80q.

Monday 14 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Tracing the copper trade in Central Africa during the 2nd millennium CE: a cross-disciplinary approach

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tdeGqqD0oG9LTOUmtpDqjNplXbg-jUtK3

Dr Nicolas Nikis, Université libre de Bruxelles & Africa Museum.

Online via zoom.

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

From ‘robbed in antiquity’ to archaeothanatological recognition and recording of secondary interventions in inhumation burials. Cases from early medieval Europe.

Dr Alison Klevnäs and Dr Astrid Noterman, Stockholm University.

Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvce-uqzwrHdOlWr-RzikBut8MBaz__JMI%C2%A0.

Monday 07 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

‘The Uruk Phenomenon’: Ceramic Variation and Cultural Connections in the 4th Millennium BCE in the Zagros Foothills

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtduGqrjMrH9GGMdDCoq5KW41YIplLr1Ot

Michael Lewis, University of Cambridge..

Online via zoom.

Friday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New evidence and model for the early medieval "Adventus Saxonum"

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAocuqtpj0sGdDbft7sFvwZ6ctdJzgWVWz-

Dr Sam Leggett, University of Oxford.

Online via zoom.

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sophie Moore, Newcastle University.

Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqf-2gqj0tEt2s-ZnW8vCoEDeUWbCSBVZu.

Monday 24 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Archaeological Science and Repatriation: collaboration and connection

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

Dr Trish Biers .

Online via zoom.

Friday 21 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Hominin behavioural dynamics in the insular rainforests of eastern Wallacea

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrcOiprzsqGNNqDLBbPSs7qp2Wq0HuZlua

Dylan Gaffney, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Friday 14 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Isotopic approaches of diet during early medieval times: Examples from Mediterranean France

Dr Leïa Mion, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université .

Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudOypqDguGtbOxAlMe05mZfvqWiX6fUsR%C2%A0.

Monday 10 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Open Brainstorming Session: Reconstructing an Iron Age burial ritual. Kurgan 4, Early Saka-Scythian burial complex -Eleke Sazy, Kazakhstan

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqd--trTssGdVniqax6zfKk7KwBHShd7fF

Saltanat Amirova, University of Cambridge..

Online via zoom.

Friday 07 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Making and trading iron in the Swahili world: an archaeometallurgical study of iron production technologies in coastal Tanzania

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctceuvrj0jGNUXmaepR0CFYq_aXUUR46e9

Dr Ema Bauzyte, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Friday 30 April 2021, 13:15-14:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Ceramics and the City: Industry, society and space in Fustat, Egypt

Associate Professor Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton.

Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcuqsrj8sHdO5xPi43fA6yjy8ZGial615.

Monday 15 March 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Understanding domestication in the genomic era

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrc-2hqjkjGtYroR2imIYvJZ9Wb9ECRVG5

Dr. Laurent Frantz (1,2).

Online via zoom.

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Settlement Dynamics and Processes of Change in Early Medieval Ireland: New Insights from Radiocarbon Chronologies

Emma Hannah, Queen's University Belfast.

Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcuCtrzwuGNfHqCBIhkDlQIdIgKpNANqo.

Monday 08 March 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Fragments of the sacred: the Material Culture of the Early Medieval Church

Dr Adrián Maldonado, National Museum of Scotland.

Zoom - register via https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqduGurzstHdc_HYyIul097q1Hop_nfJb5.

Monday 01 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Life in Medieval Cambridge: evidence from isotopic analysis

Alice Rose (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Weighty Matters: Bullion economies in Scandinavian Scotland

Tom Horne, University of Glasgow.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The bioarchaeology of an 'agricultural revolution’

Helena Hamerow, University of Oxford.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Early Medieval Transitions: An isotopic perspective on change and social complexity

Sam Leggett (University of Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

[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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

*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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Connecting the dots? Tracing early medieval connectivity through portable material culture

Alison Leonard, Faculty of History.

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

Monday 23 May 2016, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Ploughs, plant remains and place names: yes, there *is* some evidence for Anglo-Saxon farming, and what it tells us

Deborah Banham, ASNC.

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

Monday 25 April 2016, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Sedgeford: a new-model estate of 'the long 8th century'?

Neil Faulkner, University of Bristol/Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project.

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

Monday 22 February 2016, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Tracing medieval population movements through ancient DNA: the Lombard Example

Patrick Geary, Institute for advanced Study, Princeton.

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

Monday 14 December 2015, 16:30-17:30

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Conflict, negotiation and the creation of a christian lanscape in early medieval Spain

Alexandra Chavarria, Università degli Studi di Padova.

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

Monday 23 November 2015, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Stecci - Medieval Tombstones: "The Bosnian School of Death"

Dubravko Lovrenović, University of Sarajevo .

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:30-17:30

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Some thoughts on continental reliquary caskets

Anna Gannon, Department of History of Art, Cambridge .

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

Monday 18 May 2015, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Saying something new about Bodiam Castle

Matthew Johnson, Northwestern University .

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

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

From tribal centre to royal monastery: new perspectives on the changing biography of Anglo-Saxon central places from Lyminge, Kent

Gabor Thomas, University of Reading.

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Binham in Norfolk and its North Sea network in the early Anglo-Saxon period

Charlotte Behr, University of Roehampton.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Fish in early Anglo-Saxon art

Helen Geake, Portable Antiquities Scheme/McDonald Institute.

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

Monday 17 November 2014, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Rethinking the earliest Silver Pennies

Rory Naismith, Fitzwilliam Museum.

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

Monday 27 October 2014, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Northern Harvests: Hunting, Fishing and Long-term Economic Cycles in the Medieval North

James Barrett, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

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

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Stecci - Medieval Tombstones: "The Bosnian School of Death"

Dubravko Lovrenovic , University of Sarajevo.

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

Monday 12 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Spong Hill and the fifth century invasion of England

Catherine Hills, Division of Archaeology.

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

Monday 28 April 2014, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Countryman, townsman, citizen: Developing urban identity in Norwegian towns AD 950-1700

Axel Christophersen, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim.

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

Monday 24 March 2014, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Governance in Anglo-Saxon England through the lens of common rights

Susan Oosthuizen, Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

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

Monday 24 February 2014, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in't’. Landscapes and Identities: the case of the English Landscape c. 1500 BC – AD 1086

Letty Ten Harkel, University of Oxford.

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

Saturday 25 January 2014, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Paradigms Lost: Archaeologists, Historians and the 'Islamic City'

Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton.

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

Monday 25 November 2013, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Developments along the Niger river: thinking about networks at a first- millennium site in northern Benin, West Africa

Dr Anne Haour, University of East Anglia .

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

Monday 04 November 2013, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Iron Age Aftermath. The 1st century AD mass depositions of human remains at Lake Mossø, Alken, Denmark

Mads Holst, Aarhus University.

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

Monday 20 May 2013, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Secrets of the Ice: The Glacier Archaeology of Oppland, Norway

Lars Pilø, Oppland Fylkeskommune.

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

Monday 13 May 2013, 13:15-14:15

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Meat under the saddle: diet, subsistence and identity in early medieval Hungary

Susanne Hakenbeck, McDonald Institute for Archaelogical Research.

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

Monday 29 April 2013, 13:15-14:15

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Christine Hastorf.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 13:15-00:00

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

The meeting point of two different bone tool traditions and the spread of the Neolithic in the Balkans

Emanuela Christiani.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:15-00:00

Asian Archaeology Group

Title to be confirmed

Sayantani Neogi.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Downing Site.

Monday 04 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

Performance and fields of action in Mycenaean mortuary practices

Michael Boyd.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:15-00:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Designs upon the Land? Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages

Oliver Creighton, University of Exeter.

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

Monday 25 February 2013, 13:15-14:15

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

Examining Forest Exploitation in Province and Empire from the (Archaeological) Ground, Up

Robyn Veal.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:15-00:00

Asian Archaeology Group

Plants in Pits? An investigation into phytolith remains from the village of Burj, northwest India, looking at how past urbanisation may have affected the plant assemblage.

Alice Williams.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Downing Site.

Monday 18 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

Postdoc Forum

Speaker to be confirmed.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 13:15-00:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Asian Archaeology Group

The Yuchisi Site: remembering by forgetting in Late Neolithic China

Sascha Priewe.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Downing Site.

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

New approaches to Neolithic tomb art in Europe: recent research in Ireland and Sardinia

Guillaume Robin.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 13:15-00:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Seventh-century Finds from Trumpington in their Broader Context

Sam Lucy, Newnham College.

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

Monday 28 January 2013, 13:15-14:15

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

People and Ideas in Movement: The Role of the Backed-bladelets Based Lithic Complexes in the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Economy of North Africa

Giuseppina Mutri.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 13:15-00:00

Asian Archaeology Group

Indus Identity and Material Culture: rural ceramic production in Bronze Age northwest India

Danika Parikh.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Downing Site.

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

McDonald Lectures & Seminars

Archaeology and the Common Good: Developing a Network for Integrated Landscape Research

David McOmish.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Monday 14 January 2013, 13:15-00:00

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Life on the edge: excavations at Oakington early Anglo-Saxon cemetery

Duncan Sayer, University of Central Lancashire.

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

Monday 26 November 2012, 13:15-14:15

Asian Archaeology Group

The Archaeology of River Floodplains in the Early Neolithic of North China: A Palaeo-ecological Perspective

Yijie Zhuang.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Downing Site.

Monday 19 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Asian Archaeology Group

Buddhism and Donation: Rock-cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats

Gethin Rees, Faculty of Divinity.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Downing Site.

Monday 05 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Medieval Archaeology Group Seminar Series

Sicily in the eighth and ninth centuries: a case of economic continuity in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods

Emanuele Vaccaro, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

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

Monday 29 October 2012, 13:15-14:15

Asian Archaeology Group

The archaeobotany of Khao Sam Kaeo and Phu Khao Thong

Cristina Castillo, UCL.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, Downing Site.

Monday 22 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Roman Arbury and Sylvia Plath

Sarah-Jane Harknett.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

The Roman and Anglo-Saxon Foundations of Girton Revealed

Imogen Gunn.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Sutton Hoo: A Personal Perspective

Peter Rooley.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Images between worlds: Egypt and Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC

David Wengrow (Reader in Comparative Archaeology, UCL).

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

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING IN ASSYRIA - according to the royal inscriptions, state archives and omen series

Johanna Tudeau (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Marie-Françoise Besnier (Research Fellow, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, University of Cambridge).

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

Saturday 22 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

New parallels in Hittite and Sumerian praise of the Sun

Christopher Metcalf (University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Reconstructing multilingualism in ancient societies

Dr Ilya Yakubovich (Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology at the University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

TBC

Frances Reynolds (Shillito Fellow in Assyriology, University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

"The Babylonian Merchant-Slave

Ronan Head (Research Fellow in Ancient Law, Brigham Young University).

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

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

TBC

Alasdair Livingstone (Reader in Assyriology, University of Birmingham):.

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

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Why did cross-cultural trade matter in the ancient Near East?

David Wengrow (Reader in Comparative Archaeology, UCL).

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

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

TBC

Professor Tony Wilkinson (Professor of Archaeology, University of Durham).

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

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Tabal and the Limits of Assyrian Imperialism

Mark Weedon (British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, SOAS).

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

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Berossos and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Johannes Haubold (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Durham).

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

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Topic: Proto-Elamite

Jacob Dahl (University Lecturer in Assyriology, University of Oxford).

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

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 17:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

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

Mesopotamian Seminar Series

Letters to the Gods: Royal Letters of Petition as a Genre of Sumerian Scholarly Literature

Nicole Brisch (University Lecturer in Assyriology, University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 17:00-18:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Postcolonial Trauma: the aesthetic prescriptions of Gordon Bennett's art

Professor Ian McLean, University of Western Australia.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, 18:00-19:00

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Paint Your Own Rock Art

Speaker to be confirmed.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 14:00-16:30

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Fathoming Finds and Observing Objects

Speaker to be confirmed.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Saturday 17 March 2007, 14:00-16:30

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Activities during February half term

Speaker to be confirmed.

Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 14:00-16:30