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The Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminars are well-established as a relatively informal and highly dynamic meeting point for archaeological scientists of all kinds who share their research as it happens – often, before it has made it to publications. Our speakers include researchers based in or around Cambridge as well as visitors from around the world.

The orgainsers are Dr Kate Klesner (ck645), Rosie Crawford (rrc31), and Frijda Schmidt (afs42)

Location: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room

Time: Fridays during term-time, 13:15-14:00

Talks are in person but will be live-streamed at: https://zoom.us/j/95506595957?pwd=S0tzL2ZJcUp5eDRxNmpxYWpaL0VZUT09

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Taylor Peacock; Rosie Crawford. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

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Colours in Medieval stained glass: The Canterbury story

UserDr Agnese Benzonell, University of Cambridge.

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

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

The peopling of the Americas: A chronological perspective

UserDr Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, University of Oxford .

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

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

Luxury technologies and collective action: the REVERSEACTION project

*Change of speaker*

UserProf Marcos Martinón-Torres (Department of Archaeology).

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

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

Mastodon migrations and mysteries

UserEmil Karpinski - Harvard University .

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

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

Optical Coherence Tomography for Heritage Science

UserPiotr Targowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

UserJulia Montes-Landa, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

UserJasmine Lundy, University of York.

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

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

3D Scanning to Preserve Subterranean Heritage

UserJonathan Lester, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

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

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

65,355 Shades of Scrimshaw

UserLaura Courto, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Dietary Change in Human Evolution

In conjunction with the Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

UserMark Thomas, University College London.

HouseLCHES Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street.

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

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

UserAnne Kathrine Runge, University of Copenhagen.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

User Anna Florin, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

A talk about some Very Good Dogs

UserAudrey Lin, Smithsonian Institution.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Prehistory of the Eastern European Plain

UserLehti Saag, UCL / Tartu University.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Microbial lipids and their application to study ancient microbiomes and environments

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Identification of ancient silks using proteomics and immunoassays

UserBing Wang, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserAnne Kathrine Runge, University of York.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserDan O'Flynn, British Museum.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserDavid Reich, Harvard Medical School.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserRasmus Nielsen, University of California Berkely.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserLise Saussus, University of Louvain.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Humans think through and with materials. So what?

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

UserMaikel Kuijpers, Leiden University.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserNatalie Munroe, University of Connecticut.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

New Directions in Coastal and Underwater Geoarchaeology.

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

UserRuth Shahak-Gross, University of Haifa.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserMaria Zicos, Natural History Museum.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

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

UserBeatrice Demarchi, University of Turin.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

‘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

UserMichael Lewis, University of Cambridge..

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

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

UserDr Sam Leggett, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Archaeological Science and Repatriation: collaboration and connection

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

UserDr Trish Biers .

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Hominin behavioural dynamics in the insular rainforests of eastern Wallacea

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

UserDylan Gaffney, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserSaltanat Amirova, University of Cambridge..

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

UserDr Ema Bauzyte, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Understanding domestication in the genomic era

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

UserDr. Laurent Frantz (1,2).

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

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

UserDr Zachary Dunseth (Brown University).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserDr. Monica Ramsey (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Pressing Concerns: Urartian Wine Production Equipment

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

UserVictoria Newson (University of Sheffield).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserSam Botan (Leiden University) .

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserElena Fiorin (Sapienza University of Rome).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserDr. Mathieu Leclerc (Australian National University).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserWouter Bonhof, University of Exeter.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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--

UserProf. Cheryl Makarewicz (University of Kiel).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserDr. Frederik Rademakers (KU Leuven).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

UserDr. Karsten Lambers (Leiden University).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 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

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

Palaeoproteomics in Archaeology: Recent Applications and Future Directions

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

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

HouseOnline via zoom.

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

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

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

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

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

Experimental Archaeometallurgy

UserDr Simon Timberlake (Cambridge Archaeology Unit).

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

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

Wild and domestic: the fauna of Grooved Ware pits

UserVida Rajkovaca, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

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

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

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

UserVictoria Pia Sray-Marques, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Landscape and climate analysis: Egypt and beyond

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Toomas Kivisild, LCHES, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Tony Legge, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Rhiannon Stevens, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Four million years of back pain

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

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

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

Dendrochronology and Palaeoenvironment - What's Important?

UserProfessor Mike Baillie, Queen's University Belfast.

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

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

Isotope analysis for migration and diet during the crusades

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Production and Trade of Olive Oil during the Roman Period

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

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

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

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