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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 analysis - Gwen Maurer (Cardiff University)
• 16Ìý°¿³¦³Ù´Ç²ú±ð°ù:ÌýCombining Bioarchaeology and Immunology to explore the disease burden of past populations - Katie Hemer & Thomas McDonnell (UCL)
• 23 October:ÌýÌýDeath and burial in ancient Egypt: the role of black gooÌý- 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)