Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series


2010-10-29 13:15: Production and Trade of Olive Oil during the Roman Period (Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar, PhD Candidate, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain))

2010-11-05 13:15: 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)

2010-11-12 13:15: 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)

2010-11-19 13:15: Shipping Greek Sheep: Greek Colonization and Faunal Translocation in the Adriatic Region (Jane Sanford, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-26 13:15: 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)

2010-12-03 13:15: An archaeogenetic pilot study on diversity and domestication in the tuber crop taro (Dr Harriet Hunt, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-28 13:15: 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)

2011-02-04 13:15: The tea plant, Camellia sinensis:  its origin and introduction into human culture (Dr Derek S. Bendall, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-11 13:15: Isotope analysis for migration and diet during the crusades (Dr Piers Mitchell, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-18 13:15: Dendrochronology and Palaeoenvironment - What's Important? (Professor Mike Baillie, Queen's University Belfast)

2011-02-25 13:15: Four million years of back pain (Dr Asier Gómez Olivencia, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge)

2011-03-04 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Ankica Oros Sršen, Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology, Zagreb, Croatia)

2011-03-11 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Rhiannon Stevens, University of Cambridge)

2011-03-18 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor Tony Legge, Department of Archaeology)

2011-05-13 13:15: 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)

2011-05-20 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Françoise Barbira-Freedman, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-27 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Toomas Kivisild, LCHES, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-10 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Hugo Oliveira, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-17 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Dr Sue Colledge, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

2011-11-04 13:15: Origins and dispersals: the archaeobotany of early farming (Dr Sue Colledge, UCL)

2011-11-11 13:15: The agricultural economy during the Longshan period: an archaeobotanical perspective from Shandong and Shanxi (Jiaxiang Song, UCL)

2011-11-18 13:15: Dietary clues in chimpanzee poo: The value of phytolithic and stable isotopic analyses (Caroline Phillips, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-25 13:15: Plant resources and the economics of power in Viking Age Scotland and Norway (Dr Rachel Ballentyne, University of Cambridge)

2011-12-02 13:15: Detecting epigenetic activity in the barley archaeogenome: small RNA and local adaptation (Oliver Smith, University of Warwick)

2012-01-20 13:15: 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)

2012-01-27 13:15: Needle in a Haystack: Searching for Farming Pathways in Central Asia (Prof. Martin Jones, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-03 13:15: Landscape and climate analysis: Egypt and beyond (Dr Judith Bunbury, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-10 13:15: The Adriatic Plain: An LGM-Late Glacial human refugium? (Victoria Pia Sray-Marques, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-17 13:15: When were the Faroe Islands first settled and by whom? Archaeological and palaeobotanical solutions (Prof. Kevin Edwards, University of Aberdeen)

2012-02-24 13:15: Iberian Islam: A bioarchaeological investigation of emerging Islamic identity in Andalucia (Sarah Inskip, University of Southampton)

2012-03-02 13:15: Wild and domestic: the fauna of Grooved Ware pits (Vida Rajkovaca, Cambridge Archaeological Unit)

2012-03-09 13:15: Re-thinking food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia (Dr Amy Bogaard, University of Oxford)

2012-03-16 13:15: In search of ancient cultivated soils in north and south China (Yijie Zhuang, University of Cambridge)

2012-04-27 13:15: Environmental and Hydrologic Change in the West Baray, Angkor (Cambodia) (Mary Beth Day (Dept Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2012-05-04 13:15: Experimental Archaeometallurgy (Dr Simon Timberlake (Cambridge Archaeology Unit))

2012-05-11 13:15: Getting from A to 'Beyond': Telling the Story of Icelandic Boat Graves through Mineralised Wood Remains (Dawn Mooney (University of Aberdeen))

2012-05-18 13:15: Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Late Glacial-Holocene in Pali Aike and Tierra del Fuego, Chile (Dr Charly French  (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge))

2012-05-25 13:15: 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))

2012-06-01 13:15: 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))

2012-06-08 13:15: Exploring Upper Palaeolithic Plant Foods at the Site of Dolní Vĕstonice II using Scanning Electron Microscopy (Dr Alex Pryor (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge))

2012-10-19 13:15: Sheep Breeds in Bronze Age Kazakhstan: A Geometric Morphometric Approach (Ashleigh Haruda )

2012-11-02 13:15: In and Out and In-between: isotopic studies of humans of known diets.  (Dr Tamsin O'Connell)

2012-11-09 13:15: Diet, Dating and Death: some thoughts on Ukrainian Prehistory. (Dr Malcolm Lillie)

2012-11-16 13:15: Heavy Rainfalls in a Desert(ed) City – a climate-archaeological case study from Naga, Sudan (Dr Jonas Berking)

2013-01-18 13:15: Molecular Analysis of Resin: an organic aterial on artefacts frm Oceania (Fiona Bradshaw)

2013-01-25 13:15: Health, Lifestyle and Social Interaction in North Chilean Prehistory: morphological insights from the living and the dead (Emma Pomeroy)

2013-02-01 13:15: Articulating Must Farm: an iterative and mootable archaeological survey methodology (Donald Horne)

2013-02-08 13:15: New Methods, Old Materials: the application of modern scientific technique to the biological material from the Cardo V sewer in Herculaneum (Erica Rowan)

2013-02-15 13:15: Geoarchaeological Investigation in the Al Marj Basin, Libya (Lucy Farr)

2013-02-22 13:15: World's Apart? Biographies of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition (Katie Hall)

2019-01-18 13:15: The Domestic Pig: Selective Breeding and Prevailing Tastes, Morphological and Genetic Variation over 100 Generations (Dr Ashleigh Haruda, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)

2019-02-01 13:15: A Tale of Two (Bronze Age) Settlements: interpreting the faunal remains from development-led excavations (Vida Rajkovača, Project Officer and Zooarchaeologist, Cambridge Archaeological Unit)

2019-02-15 13:15: Iron, fire, steel and rust. Ferrous technology in pre-Roman Iberia: framing the problem (Dr. Marc Gener-Moret, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-01 13:15: Prehistoric Land-Use History and Food Production in Early Agricultural Societies (Dr Nicki J. Whitehouse, University of Plymouth)

2019-03-15 13:15: The Frustrating Geography of Bees in Chinese History (Dr David Pattinson, University of Leeds)

2019-05-03 13:15: A winter's tale - shellfishing in the Stone Age (Dr Emma Loftus, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-10 13:15: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Dates as Data approach (Dr Enrico Crema, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-17 13:15: 65,000 years of human-environment interaction: An archaeobotanical investigation of human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia (S. Anna Florin, University of Queensland)

2019-05-24 13:15: *CANCELLED* Lives in the landscape: translating pollen records into understandings of land cover and landscape resources in the British Neolithic (Dr Jane Bunting, University of Hull)

2019-05-31 13:15: New developments in compound specific analysis of ancient biomolecules in archaeology (Dr Thibaut Deviese, University of Oxford)

2019-06-07 13:15: A Tale of Two Regions: The Living Landscapes of Jordan and Oman in the Bronze Age (Dr Caroline Cartwright, British Museum)

2019-06-14 13:15: Grains of truth: rethinking past agriculture through stable isotope and geometric morphometric approaches (Dr. Michael Wallace, University of Sheffield)

2019-10-02 13:15: 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)

2019-10-25 13:15: Study of organic residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India (Akshyeta Suryanarayan, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-08 13:15: Farming by numbers: multi-proxy analyses of Anglo-Saxon agriculture (Dr Mark McKerracher, University of Oxford)

2019-11-22 13:15: From Cyprus to Central Asia: Revisiting the spread of glaze technologies (Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge)

2019-12-06 13:15: Our daily glazes: revisiting how and why glazed ceramics become a popular household item since the medieval times (Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-17 13:15: The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford’s 17th century scientific community. An archaeological science approach. (Umberto Veronessi, UCL Institute of Archaeology)

2020-01-31 13:15: Enviro-ethnoarchaeology and archaeology: scientific approaches in archaeology utilising an ethnoarchaeological approach. (Dr Sarah Elliott, Bournemouth University)

2020-02-07 13:15: 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)

2020-02-28 13:15: [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)

2020-03-06 13:15: Social enterprise, consultancy and commercialisation as research impact: a guide for humanities and social science researchers (Dr Emma Salgard Cunha, Cambridge Enterprise)

2020-05-15 13:15: Roundtable discussion on Myths of meritocracy, friendship and "fun work": Performative informality in North American archaeological communities (Dr Mary Leighton, University of Michigan)

2020-10-16 13:15: Palaeoproteomics in Archaeology: Recent Applications and Future Directions (Dr Jessica Hendy (Department of Archaeology - University of York))

2020-10-23 13:15: The Genetic History of the Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century (Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute))

2020-10-30 13:15: Heritage Quest: An Archaeological Survey of the Veluwe based on Data Science and Citizen Science (Dr. Karsten Lambers (Leiden University))

2020-11-06 13:15: Copper metallurgy at Kerma: Technological innovation in the Nile Valley (Dr. Frederik Rademakers (KU Leuven))

2020-11-13 13:15: Early food production and human-animal relations: Isotopic insights into Neolithic social reconfiguration in the Near East (Prof. Cheryl Makarewicz (University of Kiel))

2020-11-20 13:15: The mobility of Upper Palaeolithic prey in the Siberian Arctic (Wouter Bonhof, University of Exeter)

2020-11-27 11:00: A short-lived but memorable style: Lapita Pottery in Vanuatu  (NOTE: Unusual time) (Dr. Mathieu Leclerc (Australian National University))

2020-12-04 13:15: Medieval medicine and leprosy: new insights from dental calculus analysis (Elena Fiorin (Sapienza University of Rome))

2021-01-22 13:15: The Genomics of Megaliths: Hierarchy and Heterogeneity in Irish Neolithic Society (Dr. Lara Cassidy (Smurfit Institute of Genetics Trinity College Dublin))

2021-01-29 13:15: Seeing the woods for the trees: a palaeoecological investigation of native woodlands to inform present and future woodland conservation management strategies in Northern Scotland (Dr. Jasmijn Sybenga (University of the Highlands and Islands))

2021-02-05 13:15: Iron Age (1100-300BC) in Oman and the United Arab Emirates: a discussion on the ceramics and columned halls (Sam Botan (Leiden University) )

2021-02-12 13:15: Pressing Concerns: Urartian Wine Production Equipment (Victoria Newson (University of Sheffield))

2021-02-26 13:15: Recipes for Success: Paleoethnobotanical Evidence for Women’s Wealth through Root Processing on the Canadian Plateau (Dr. Monica Ramsey (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-05 13:15: Dung and desert copper - Evaluating 3rd millennium BCE desert subsistence at the macro- and microscales (Dr Zachary Dunseth (Brown University))

2021-03-12 13:15: Understanding domestication in the genomic era (Dr. Laurent Frantz  (1,2))

2021-04-30 13:15: Making and trading iron in the Swahili world: an archaeometallurgical study of iron production technologies in coastal Tanzania (Dr Ema Bauzyte, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-07 13:15: Open Brainstorming Session: Reconstructing an Iron Age burial ritual. Kurgan 4, Early Saka-Scythian burial complex -Eleke Sazy, Kazakhstan (Saltanat Amirova, University of Cambridge.)

2021-05-14 13:15: Hominin behavioural dynamics in the insular rainforests of eastern Wallacea (Dylan Gaffney, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-21 13:15: Archaeological Science and Repatriation: collaboration and connection (Dr Trish Biers )

2021-05-28 13:15: New evidence and model for the early medieval "Adventus Saxonum" (Dr Sam Leggett, University of Oxford)

2021-06-04 13:15: ‘The Uruk Phenomenon’: Ceramic Variation and Cultural Connections  in the 4th Millennium BCE in the Zagros Foothills (Michael Lewis, University of Cambridge.)

2021-06-11 13:15: Tracing the copper trade in Central Africa during the 2nd millennium CE: a cross-disciplinary approach (Dr Nicolas Nikis, Université libre de Bruxelles & Africa Museum)

2021-10-08 13:15: Deep time proteins: an eggcellent resource for reconstructing past human-environment interactions (Beatrice Demarchi, University of Turin)

2021-10-15 13:15: Exploring the genetics of the extinct Darwin’s ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) population from Cueva del Milodón, Chile (Maria Zicos, Natural History Museum)

2021-10-22 13:15: New Directions in Coastal and Underwater Geoarchaeology. (Ruth Shahak-Gross, University of Haifa)

2021-10-29 13:15: Specialized aquatic animal exploitation at Nahal Ein Gev II, Israel and the division of labor at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic crossroads (Natalie Munroe, University of Connecticut)

2021-11-03 13:15: Humans think through and with materials. So what? (Maikel Kuijpers, Leiden University)

2021-11-05 13:15: Practices, techniques and productions of a brass founder in a 15th century Brussels workshop (Lise Saussus, University of Louvain)

2021-11-12 17:00: Understanding human adaptation from modern and ancient DNA sequences (Rasmus Nielsen, University of California Berkely)

2021-11-19 13:15: Large-Scale Migration into Britain During the Middle to Late Bronze Age (David Reich, Harvard Medical School)

2021-11-26 13:15: Under the Surface: X-ray Imaging in the British Museum (Dan O'Flynn, British Museum)

2021-12-03 13:15: Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome (Anne Kathrine Runge, University of York)

2022-01-21 13:15: Identification of ancient silks using proteomics and immunoassays (Bing Wang, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University)

2022-01-28 13:15: Microbial lipids and their application to study ancient microbiomes and environments (Ainara Sistiaga, University of Copenhagen / Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2022-02-04 13:15: Prehistory of the Eastern European Plain (Lehti Saag, UCL / Tartu University)

2022-02-11 13:15: A talk about some Very Good Dogs (Audrey Lin, Smithsonian Institution)

2022-02-18 13:15: POSTPONED: Pierced or perforated: Using 3D models to differentiate anthropogenic piercing from natural perforations in shells (Marjolein Bosch, Austrian academy of sciences)

2022-02-25 13:15: 65,000 years of changing plant food and landscape use at Madjedbebe, Mirarr Country, northern Australia ( Anna Florin, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-04 13:15: Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome (Anne Kathrine Runge, University of Copenhagen)

2022-03-11 13:15: Four legs good: ancient animal genomics and the Near Eastern origins of cattle, sheep and goat. (Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin)

2022-03-15 16:30: Dietary Change in Human Evolution (Mark Thomas, University College London)

2022-04-29 13:15: Strontium isotopes and bioarchaeology – Baselines and limitations (Christophe Snoeck, Vrie Universiteit Brussel)

2022-05-13 13:15: 65,355 Shades of Scrimshaw (Laura Courto, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-13 13:35: A Glimpse into the lives of 'Leprosy' and Hansens disease sufferers through time (Alette Blom, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-20 13:15: Pierced or perforated: Using 3D models to differentiate anthropogenic piercing from natural perforations in shells (Marjolein Bosch, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

2022-05-27 13:15: Rethinking the migration period at the order of the late Roman Empire: A multi-proxy biomolecular approach (Margaux Depaertmentier, University of Basel)

2022-05-27 13:35: 3D Scanning to Preserve Subterranean Heritage (Jonathan Lester, Cambridge Archaeological Unit)

2022-05-30 13:15: Title to be confirmed (Jasmine Lundy, University of York)

2022-06-10 13:15: A tale of multiple alloys: modelling metalurgical practices in the Eastern Highlands of Columbia (AD600-1600) (Jasmine Vieri, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-10 13:35: Title to be confirmed (Julia Montes-Landa, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-17 13:15: Regional Practices in an Interconnected World: Middle Islamic Ceramics (1000-1500CE) from the Erbil Plain (Kyra Kaerchar, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-17 13:35: Palaeoenvironmental change and stability at Shanidar Cave: The evidence from the micromammals (Emily Tilby, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-24 13:15: Painting on glass: from recipes to magic lanterns, a contribution to conservation and the history of knowledge (Márcia Vilarigues, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

2022-10-21 13:15: A New Way of Making Silver: Experiments in Medieval Islamic Metallurgy based on the Manuscript of Al-Hamdani (Stephen Merkel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

2022-10-28 13:15: Fire, Fields and Fertilizer: Exploring the Origins of Amazonian Landscapes (Yoshi Maezumi, Max Plank Institute for Geoanthropology)

2022-11-04 13:15: Applying a multiscale approach to Meroe’s archaeometallurgical remains (Jane Humphris, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-11 13:15: Identifying Foodways in Early Modern Ireland using a Multi-Isotope Approach: Preliminary Results of the 'FoodCult' Project (Alice Rose, Durham University)

2022-11-18 13:15: Optical Coherence Tomography for Heritage Science (Piotr Targowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University)

2022-11-29 13:15: 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)

2022-12-02 13:15: Non-invasive analysis of paintings and other cultural heritage objects (Nathan Daly, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2023-01-20 13:15: A geochemical approach for provenancing mortar raw materials: a case study from Sagalassos (Matilde Quilici - KU Leuven )

2023-01-20 13:15: 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)

2023-01-27 13:15: 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)

2023-02-03 13:15: Mastodon migrations and mysteries (Emil Karpinski - Harvard University )

2023-02-17 15:30: Ancient Bioinvasions: Can We Improve Evidentiary Standards for Species Introduction Research in Archaeology?  (Christina Giovas - Simon Fraser University )

2023-02-24 13:15: From the Big to the Small: Big Data and Compound-Specific Isotopes to Understand Pleistocene Ecology (Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne - Sheffield Hallam University )

2023-03-03 13:15: Can amino acid δ13C succeed where bulk δ13C fails? Testing “freshwater diet” signals against known 14C reservoir offsets (Corrie Hyland - Oxford University )

2023-03-09 13:00: Identifying periosteal new bone formation (PNBF) in fetal and infant individuals to explore health and wellbeing in past societies. (Claire Hodson - University of Reading )

2023-03-10 13:15: Raman spectroscopy analysis of Cultural Heritage Materials (MariVega Canamares - CSIC Madrid )

2023-03-17 13:15: Recovering DNA and proteins from ancient books to explore livestock management and craft (Laura Viñas - University of Copenhagen)

2023-04-28 13:15: Minimally invasive sampling for the proteomic analysis of archaeological and museum objects (Catherine Gilbert - Bordeaux University)

2023-05-05 13:15: New advances in the development and testing of green cleaning materials for cultural artefacts (Silvia Prati - Università di Bologna )

2023-05-12 13:15: Challenges in reconstructing Past Exploitations of Atlantic Cod: a Zooarchaeological Case Study from Early Medieval England (Rachel Blevis - University of Cambridge)

2023-05-12 13:30: The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and culture? (Miranda Evans - University of Cambridge)

2023-05-19 13:15: Reverse-engineering Egyptian blue production – technical ceramics and workshop organization (Ilia Kovalev - The Cyprus Institute (Nicosia) )

2023-05-19 13:30: Ceramic Technologies of Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Plain White Pottery from Enkomi (Chase Minos - The Cyprus Institute (Nicosia) )

2023-05-26 13:15: The analysis of Australian faunal assemblages with ZooMS: potentials and challenges (Carli Peters, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology)

2023-06-02 13:15: Early ceramic technologies and traditions in the Edom Lowlands Region of southern Jordan: a diachronic perspective (Sara Carrion Anaya, UCL)

2023-06-02 13:30: Pottery and Plaster technologies and traditions from the Neolithic site of Makri, Thrace, Greece (Archontoula (Dia) Barouda, UCL)

2023-06-09 13:15: Integrated analyses on the plasters and mortars of the Nea Paphos theater (Cyprus) (Paola Pizzo, Charles University (Prague))

2023-06-16 13:15: Systematic analysis of medieval manuscripts using X-ray Fluorescence and multivariate techniques (Georgios Magkanas, Universitat de Barcelona )

2023-10-13 13:15: Reconstructing post-marital residence with strontium isotopes in the Later Stone Age in northern Malawi (Professor Stanley Ambrose, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

2023-10-20 13:15: 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)

2023-10-27 13:15: Luxury technologies and collective action: the REVERSEACTION project (Prof Marcos Martinón-Torres (Department of Archaeology))

2023-11-03 13:15: The peopling of the Americas: A chronological perspective (Dr Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, University of Oxford )

2023-11-10 13:15: Another step on geometric morphometrics: applications on material culture (Dr Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, University of Cambridge)

2023-11-17 13:15: Constructing Identity in Death: A Case-study from Metal Period Philippines (Prof. Marc Oxenham, University of Aberdeen)

2023-11-24 13:15: Colours in Medieval stained glass: The Canterbury story (Dr Agnese Benzonell, University of Cambridge)

2023-12-01 13:15: On the wing: Morphological variation in the osteology of Anatidae (excluding Anserinae) of the Levant (Dr Ashleigh Haruda, University of Oxford)

2024-01-19 13:15: Testing Uniformitarianism to destruction: Reflections on experimental archaeology (Andrea Dolphini, Newcastle University)

2024-01-26 13:15: An ecological perspective on the beginnings of cereal management in southwest Asia (Alexander Weide, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-02 13:15: 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))

2024-02-09 13:15: The Technology of Polychrome Glazed Ceramics in Tunisia: New data from Chimtou (Veronica Occari, University College London)

2024-02-16 13:15: 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)

2024-02-23 13:15: Tobacco, Health and History: identifying the use and impact of tobacco in Post-Medieval Britain  (Sarah Inskip, University of Leicester)

2024-03-01 13:15: Archaeological textiles and what we can learn from them (Margarita Gleba, University of Padova)

2024-03-08 13:15: Holding up half the sky? Female scholars and their contributions to Chinese archaeology (Anke Heine, University of Oxford)

2024-03-15 13:15: Fractured bones: Trauma Analysis in Forensic Anthropology (Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Cranfield University)

2024-10-18 13:15: The ebb and flow of isotopes in archaeological science  (Patrick Degryse (KU Leuven))

2024-11-01 13:15: Beyond bronze and jade: Proto-porcelain production and trade in early China (Yi Bao (Fudan University))

2024-11-08 13:15: Isotope analyses of biological apatites: inflated expectations or disillusionment (Christophe Snoeck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel))

2024-11-15 13:15: Reanalysing old agent-based models of the evolution of human social behaviour (Mark Dyble (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-22 13:15: Unraveling Ancient Technology: A New Approach for Measuring Complexity (Sebastian Fajardo Bernal (Leiden University))

2024-11-29 13:15: Crop diversity, food plants and households in aceramic Neolithic central Anatolia (Müge Ergun (University of Oxford))

2024-12-06 13:15: Exploring technological variability in pre-Hispanic painted pottery from Nariño, Colombia (Catherine Klesner (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-24 13:15: Goldsmithing in Hierarchical and Heterarchical Iron Age Steppe Societies (Saltanat Amir (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-31 13:15: To be or not to be an ancestor? Osteobiography meets funerary taphonomy in prehistoric Italy (Jess Emma Thompson (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-07 13:15: Developmental plasticity under human management shaped cereal evolution prior to domestication in the Early Holocene southern Levant (Jade Whitlam (University of Oxford))

2025-02-14 13:15: The agroecology of subsistence in Japan during the 1st Millennium BC using ecological modelling (Leah Brainerd (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-21 13:15: Abauntz Cave (Navarre): New Excavations at a Classic Palaeolithic Site (Mikel Arlegi (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-28 13:15: Geoarchaeological insights into the start of crop cultivation in the Dutch wetlands (Hans Huisman (University of Groningen / Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands))

2025-03-14 13:15: Late Holocene hunter-gatherer interaction through oxygen and strontium isotopes: cautionary tales, machine learning and mobility in Patagonia ( Alejandro Serna (University of Glasgow))

2025-03-21 13:15: Analytical pyrolysis for characterising wood and textile: applications and methodological challenges (Deborah Roversi (University of York / Côte d'Azur University))

2025-05-02 13:15: What Promotes Human Migration? Spatial models to reconstruct the regional geographic variations in the sub-Saharan EIA ( Alexes Mes (University of Cambridge))

2025-05-09 13:15: Experimental Approaches to the Pyrotechnology of Ancient Ceramics:  A Look from the Prehistoric Balkans (Silvia Amicone (University of Tübingen))

2025-05-16 13:15: Combining computational modelling and archaeological evidence to infer meso-scale cultural interactions (Simon Carrignon (University College London))

2025-05-23 13:15: What mineralised textiles tell us about the Iron Age burial site at Creney... and about the future of advanced instrumentation in archaeology (Loic Bertrand (ENS Paris-Saclay))

2025-05-30 13:15: Spatial and Temporal Variation in Body Size Among Chinese Populations: Combined Insights from Archaeological and Modern Evidence (Doudou Cao (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-06 13:15: A combined palaeoecological and archaeological approach: reconstructing Bronze Age and Iron Age land use patterns around a Northumberland rewilding estate (Marguerite Waechter (University of Oxford))

2025-06-10 18:15: Reconstructing Land Use Histories in Mesopotamia: New Insights from Integrated Approaches in Iraqi Kurdistan (Dr Elise Laugier - Utah State University)

2025-06-13 13:15: Optical properties of high-fired glazes: composition, application methods and colouring agents (iron, titanium and copper) (Trinitat Pradell (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya))

2025-06-20 13:15: Rolling with the punches: the versatile chaîne opèratoire of the Baskerville typographic punches (Julia Montes Landa (University of Cambridge))

2025-10-17 13:15: From wood to glass: How Sr isotopes can trace material culture (Dr. Alicia Van Ham-Meert, University of Copenhagen)

2025-10-31 13:15: Palaeoecological dynamics of early Homo sapiens and their effects on the Out of Africa (Dr. Michela Leonardi, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-07 13:15: The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited? New evidence for farming as an agent of change in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean (Dr. Tom Maltas, University of Oxford)

2025-11-14 13:15: Early Fiber Technologies in the Americas: 12,000-Year-Old Plant and Animal Fibre Artefacts from the Atacama Desert (Dr. Camila Alday; University of Cambridge)

2025-11-21 13:15: The body shapes the tunic and the tunic defines the body: The significance of technique and shape in Early Medieval Egyptian tunics (Dr. Anne Kwaspen; University of Cambridge)

2025-11-28 13:15: Hydras, Statistics, and Archaeological Inference (Enrico Crema (Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge))

2025-12-05 13:15: A discussion about canvas and sailcloth weaving in 1600 and 1700 hundreds from a weaver's perspective (Dr. Marie Ekstedt Bjersing; University of Borås)

2026-01-23 13:15: China’s First Blue: A Story Buried in Ceramic Sherds and Data (Yun Zhang; University of Cambridge & Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2026-01-30 13:15: Advances in Underwater and Coastal Geoarchaeology: The Study of Submerged Neolithic Sites and Landscapes off the Eastern Mediterranean Coast (David Friesem; University of Cambridge)

2026-02-06 13:15: Knowing Thy Herd: Multi-methodological approaches for studying caprine management (Melina Seabrook; University of Cambridge)

2026-02-13 13:15: Tracing the geographic origins of ivory from Sanxingdui, SW China (Zihua Tang; Chinese Academy of Scienes)

2026-02-20 13:15: Diagnosing 7th Century Smallpox: Evidence of Osteomyelitis Variolosa in Early Medieval Britain (Rosie Crafword; University of Cambridge)

2026-02-27 13:15: Forgotten Histories: Tracing the lives and postmortem treatment of infants in anatomical collections (Siân Halcrow; University of Otago and University of Durham)

2026-03-06 13:15: Archaeological science of the Scythian perishable material culture of Ukraine (Margarita Gleba; University of Padua)

2026-03-13 13:15: Glass Supply at the Edge of the Roman Empire: Insights from a Small Assemblage from North West Cambridge (Qin-Qin Lü; University of Cambridge)

2026-03-20 13:15: Evolutionary analyses using geometric morphometrics (Nicole Barber; University College London)