Archaeology Research Seminars 2024-25

Semester 1, 2024-25

Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 4.00-5.30pm (Room 507 (Lecture Theatre C), Boyd Orr Building
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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