Reassessing Kura-Araxes pastoral practices and mobility in the Caucasus & Levant
09 October 2024, 4:15 pm–5:30 pm
The first seminar in the UCL Institute of Archaeology Thematic Research Seminar series for Term I, 2024-25, will be given by Gwen Maurer (Cardiff University) on 9 October.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Katie Hemer
Location
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Room 612UCL Institute of Archaeology31-34 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PYUnited Kingdom
UCL Institute of Archaeology Thematic Research Seminars Programme | Term I, 2024-25
The Term I seminar series willÌýhighlight thematic research looking at 'Life Histories' and 'Human Planetary Transformations'. These are scheduled toÌýbe in-person events.
Seminars on 'Life Histories' will explore research related to areas includingÌýtransition from hunting to herding; demographic instabilities in early farming societies; diet; health and variation in past populations; death and burial.
Those seminarsÌýonÌý'Human Planetary Transformations'Ìýwill highlight research related toÌýenvironmental transformations and sustainability; early human archaeology and evolution; domestication of animals and plants, human demography and migration.Ìý
Wednesdays, doors open 4pm for a 4.15pm start
- 9 October: Reassessing Kura-Araxes pastoral practices and mobility in the Caucasus & Levant using zooarchaeology, ZooMS and stable isotope analysisÌý- Gwen Maurer (Cardiff University)
- 16Ìý°¿³¦³Ù´Ç²ú±ð°ù:ÌýCombining Bioarchaeology and Immunology to explore the disease burden of past populations - Katie Hemer &ÌýThomas McDonnell (UCL)
- 23 October:ÌýÌýDeath and burial in ancient Egypt: the role of black goo - Kate Fulcher (UCL)
- 30 October:ÌýWhat's theoretical/ ethical/ political about writing people's life stories archaeologically?Ìý - John Robb (University of Cambridge)Ìý
[6ÌýNovember: Reading Week - no seminar]
- 13ÌýNovember:ÌýWho's transforming who? Nomads and metals at the dawn of the Silk Roads tradeÌý- Miljana RadivojevicÌý(UCL)
- 20ÌýNovember:ÌýMonumentality and Landscape: Case Studies in the Creation of Lineage and Genealogy from Early Medieval England -ÌýAndrew Reynolds (UCL)
- 27ÌýNovember: The Archaeosphere - Matt Edgeworth (University of Leicester)
- 4 December:ÌýLow-density urbanism in Amazonia - Carla Jaimes Betancourt (Bonn University)