Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site

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

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

User Jess Hider, Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University.

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

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

Optical Coherence Tomography for Heritage Science

User Piotr Targowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University.

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

South Asia: Women in the Field

Positionality and fieldwork

User Raksha Pande (Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University) and Debangana Bose (Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 17 November 2022, 10:00-12:00

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

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

User Alice Rose, Durham University.

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

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

Applying a multiscale approach to Meroe’s archaeometallurgical remains

User Jane Humphris, University of Cambridge.

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

South Asia: Women in the Field

Early career research and fieldwork

User Debolina Majumdar (PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) and Shahina Farid (Archaeologist, Historic England).

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 10:00-12:00

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

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

User Yoshi Maezumi, Max Plank Institute for Geoanthropology.

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

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

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

User Stephen Merkel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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

South Asia: Women in the Field

Identity and the histories of Archaeology and fieldwork

User Prof. Sudeshna Guha.

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

Thursday 20 October 2022, 10:00-12:00

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

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

User Márcia Vilarigues, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

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

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

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

User Emily Tilby, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Kyra Kaerchar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Julia Montes-Landa, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Jasmine Vieri, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Jasmine Lundy, University of York.

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

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

3D Scanning to Preserve Subterranean Heritage

User Jonathan Lester, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

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

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

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

User Margaux Depaertmentier, University of Basel.

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

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

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

User Alette Blom, University of Cambridge.

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

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

65,355 Shades of Scrimshaw

User Laura Courto, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Strontium isotopes and bioarchaeology – Baselines and limitations

User Christophe Snoeck, Vrie Universiteit Brussel.

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

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

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

User Dr Emma Salgard Cunha, Cambridge Enterprise.

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

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

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

User Alessandro Ceccarelli, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Dr Sarah Elliott, Bournemouth University.

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

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

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

User Umberto Veronessi, UCL Institute of Archaeology.

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

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

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

User Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Dr Mark McKerracher, University of Oxford.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Dr. Michael Wallace, University of Sheffield.

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

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

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

User Dr Caroline Cartwright, British Museum.

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

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

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

Canceled

User Dr Jane Bunting, University of Hull.

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

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

A winter's tale - shellfishing in the Stone Age

User Dr Emma Loftus, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Dr Nicki J. Whitehouse, University of Plymouth.

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

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

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

User Dr. Marc Gener-Moret, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Alison Leonard, Faculty of History.

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

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

The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History

User Various: Prof D.Abulafia, Prof Y.Hamilakis, Issam Kourbaj, S. Eckersley, F.Desmarrais....

Saturday 14 May 2016, 09:00-19:00

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

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

User Deborah Banham, ASNC.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tracing medieval population movements through ancient DNA: the Lombard Example

User Patrick Geary, Institute for advanced Study, Princeton.

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

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

Absences in the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2017

User Dr Alys Cundy, Independent Scholar.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Recognising sincerity in Aleppo: the role of emotion and heritage In cultivating trust networks before the conflict

User Dr Paul Anderson, Prince Alwaleed Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

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

User Alexandra Chavarria, Università degli Studi di Padova.

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

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

Memory, Work, and the Significance of Communist Heritage in Post-Socialist Albania

User Dr Francesco Iacono, Post-doctoral researcher, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

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

User Dubravko Lovrenović, University of Sarajevo .

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

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

Medieval super-attractions: a meeting of the physical & mental

User Andreas Bonde Hansen, University of Copenhagen & Museum Vestsjælland.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Between local and global: the challenges arising from becoming a World Heritage site

User Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Return of Chinese Cultural Relics Taken from the First Opium War to the end of Japanese Occupation (1840-1945)

User Hui Zhong, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

The Place of Prehistory: local engagements with archaeological heritage at the Land's End

User Liz Pratt, Assistant Heritage Consultant, Cotswold Archaeology.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Annual Heritage Fair

User Various.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 17:00-19:00

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

Some thoughts on continental reliquary caskets

User Anna Gannon, Department of History of Art, Cambridge .

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

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

Saying something new about Bodiam Castle

User Matthew Johnson, Northwestern University .

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

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

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

User Gabor Thomas, University of Reading.

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

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

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

User Charlotte Behr, University of Roehampton.

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

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

Fish in early Anglo-Saxon art

User Helen Geake, Portable Antiquities Scheme/McDonald Institute.

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

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

Rethinking the earliest Silver Pennies

User Rory Naismith, Fitzwilliam Museum.

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

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

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

User James Barrett, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

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

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

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

User Dubravko Lovrenovic , University of Sarajevo.

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

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

Spong Hill and the fifth century invasion of England

User Catherine Hills, Division of Archaeology.

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

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

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

User Axel Christophersen, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim.

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

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

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

User Susan Oosthuizen, Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

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

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

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

User Letty Ten Harkel, University of Oxford.

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

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

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

User Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton.

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

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

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

User Dr Anne Haour, University of East Anglia .

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

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

tbc

User Anne Haour, University of East Anglia.

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

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

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

User Mads Holst, Aarhus University.

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

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

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

User Lars Pilø, Oppland Fylkeskommune.

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

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

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

User Susanne Hakenbeck, McDonald Institute for Archaelogical Research.

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

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

Designs upon the Land? Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages

User Oliver Creighton, University of Exeter.

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

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

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

User Katie Hall.

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

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

Geoarchaeological Investigation in the Al Marj Basin, Libya

User Lucy Farr.

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

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

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

User Erica Rowan.

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

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

Articulating Must Farm: an iterative and mootable archaeological survey methodology

User Donald Horne.

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

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

Seventh-century Finds from Trumpington in their Broader Context

User Sam Lucy, Newnham College.

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

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

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

User Emma Pomeroy.

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

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

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

User Fiona Bradshaw.

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

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

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

User Duncan Sayer, University of Central Lancashire.

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

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

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

User Dr Jonas Berking.

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

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

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

User Dr Malcolm Lillie.

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

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

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

User Dr Tamsin O'Connell.

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

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

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

User Emanuele Vaccaro, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

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

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

Sheep Breeds in Bronze Age Kazakhstan: A Geometric Morphometric Approach

User Ashleigh Haruda .

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

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

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

User Dr Alex Pryor (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Tom Birch (University of Aberdeen).

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

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

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

User Dr Charly French (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Dawn Mooney (University of Aberdeen).

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

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

Experimental Archaeometallurgy

User Dr Simon Timberlake (Cambridge Archaeology Unit).

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

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

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

User Mary Beth Day (Dept Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

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

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

In search of ancient cultivated soils in north and south China

User Yijie Zhuang, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Re-thinking food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia

User Dr Amy Bogaard, University of Oxford.

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

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

Wild and domestic: the fauna of Grooved Ware pits

User Vida Rajkovaca, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

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

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

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

User Sarah Inskip, University of Southampton.

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

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

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

User Prof. Kevin Edwards, University of Aberdeen.

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

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

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

User Victoria Pia Sray-Marques, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Landscape and climate analysis: Egypt and beyond

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

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

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

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

User Prof. Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Dr Chris Hunt, Queen's University, Belfast.

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

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

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

User Oliver Smith, University of Warwick.

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

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

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

User David Wengrow (Reader in Comparative Archaeology, UCL).

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

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

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

User Dr Rachel Ballentyne, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Caroline Phillips, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Jiaxiang Song, UCL.

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

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

Origins and dispersals: the archaeobotany of early farming

User Dr Sue Colledge, UCL.

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

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

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

User Johanna Tudeau (University of Cambridge).

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

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

TBC

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

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

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

New parallels in Hittite and Sumerian praise of the Sun

User Christopher Metcalf (University of Oxford).

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

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

Reconstructing multilingualism in ancient societies

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Toomas Kivisild, LCHES, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

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

User Professor Marijke van der Veen, University of Leicester.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Tony Legge, Department of Archaeology.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Rhiannon Stevens, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

TBC

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

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

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

Four million years of back pain

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

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

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

"The Babylonian Merchant-Slave

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

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

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

Dendrochronology and Palaeoenvironment - What's Important?

User Professor Mike Baillie, Queen's University Belfast.

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

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

TBC

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

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

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

Isotope analysis for migration and diet during the crusades

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User David Wengrow (Reader in Comparative Archaeology, UCL).

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

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

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

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

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

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

TBC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tabal and the Limits of Assyrian Imperialism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berossos and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Dr Anna Russell, Leiden University.

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

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

Topic: Proto-Elamite

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

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

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

Production and Trade of Olive Oil during the Roman Period

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

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