Archaeology Research Seminars 2024-25

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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 

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