Archaeology Research Seminars 2024-25
- Time: Wednesdays 16:00-17:30
- Place: Room 587, Adam Smith Building
- Livestream link and recordings of semester 1 seminars
Semester 2, 2024-25
All seminars will take place from 4pm in Room 587, Adam Smith Building, and will also be shown live and recorded via Echo360
Wednesday 15 January 2025
Dr Kenny Brophy, University of Glasgow
The archaeology of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival
Wednesday 22 January 2025
The Govan Old Research Group, University of Glasgow
A View from the Trenches
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Greg Michaelson, University of Edinburgh
Public understanding of prehistory through cartoons
Wednesday 5 February 2025
Dr Sheahan Bestel, Powerful Plants Project, University of Glasgow
Subsistence - plant and animal - in ancient China prior to the established farming period: detailed information on the Palaeolithic and on the origins of agriculture from residues and flotation samples
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Dr Jonathan Gardner, University of Edinburgh
Making Mountains and Gaining Ground: an Archaeology of Waste Modified Landscapes
Wednesday 26 February 2025
Jenna Kirk, Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
Exploring the legacies of steel slag at Glengarnock, North Ayrshire
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Dr Astrid Nyland, Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger
More than a disaster story? Investigating social impact of the Storegga tsunami and Mesolithic communities on the Norwegian west coast
Wednesday 12 March 2025
Dr James O'Driscoll, University of Glasgow
Navan Fort: Landscapes of Power and Ceremony in Later Prehistoric Europe
Wednesday 19 March 2025
Professor Katherine Forsyth and Dr Megan Kasten, OG(H)AM Project, University of Glasgow
OG(H)AM: Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st
Wednesday 26 March 2025
Dr Claire Nolan, University College Cork
Touching the Numinous: finding meaning through engagement with archaeology
Semester 1, 2024-25
Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 4.00-5.30pm.
Livestream link and recordings
Wednesday 2 October 2024
Cauldrons, kailyards and microphones: Excavation, survey and creative media in Glencoe, 2024
Derek Alexander (National Trust for Scotland); Gareth Beale, Michael Given, Elizabeth Robertson, Nicole Smith and Eddie Stewart (UofG)
Wednesday 9 October 2024
Recent investigations of the Drumadoon and Machrie Moors (Arran) prehistoric landscapes and their wider significance
Nicki Whitehouse, James O’Driscoll & Kenny Brophy (Archaeology, UofG)
Wednesday 16 October 2024 - CANCELLED!Mummification Embalming Balms – Text vs Science, Fact vs Fiction
Margaret Serpico (UCL)
Wednesday 23 October 2024
Late Holocene hunter-gatherer interactions through oxygen and strontium isotopes: cautionary tales, machine learning and mobility in the South American Cone
Alejandro Serna (Archaeology, UofG)
[Wednesday 30 October 2024: reading week - no seminar]
Wednesday 6 November 2024
The beginnings of bureaucracy: new approaches to clay tablets and sealings in Mesopotamia and Iran
Amy Richardson (University of Reading)
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Stable isotopes as tools to reconstruct natural environments and the lives and ecology of prehistoric humans from the arid Atacama coast
Chris Harrod (Director, SCENE)
Wednesday 20 November 2024
Mummification Embalming Balms: Text vs Science, Fact vs Fiction
Dr Margaret Serpico
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Power in this Place: Unfinished Conversations
Zandra Yeaman (Hunterian Museum)
Wednesday 4 December 2024 - special events: Night of Archaeology
- at 4pm in the Boyd Orr Building (room 507)
Professor Tony Pollard, University of Glasgow: Waterloo 1815: The Archaeology of a Battle and its Aftermath - at 5.30pm in the Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson medical School Building
Professor Karen Hardy's Inaugural Lecture: Paleo fact or flintstone fantasy? The Palaeolithic and its relevance to today’s world - Please register on Eventbrite