Behaviour and Information in Middle Palaeolithic
Behaviour and information transmission in Middle Palaeolithic handaxes via Geometric Morphometrics
Seminars on 'Computational and Digital Frontiers' will explore research related to applications of data science; advanced landscape GIS; modern spatial and multivariate statistic; remote-sensing and geophysical prospection; agent-based modelling; human use of space as well as data infrastructure.
4 February: Xana Barroso (University of Southampton) - Measuring minds: exploring behaviour and information transmission in Middle Palaeolithic handaxes through Geometric MorphometricsAgenda
Wednesdays, 4pm
- 21 January: CAAL Project team - Central Asian Archaeological Urbanscapes: digital documentation, interpretation and monitoring
- 28 January: Pontus Skoglund (The Crick Institute) - Myth, materiality, and migration? - insights into the genetic histories of Britain, Scandinavia, and Egypt from ancient DNA
- 4 February: Xana Barroso (University of Southampton) - Measuring minds: exploring behaviour and information transmission in Middle Palaeolithic handaxes through Geometric Morphometrics
- 11 February: Francesco Carrer (Newcastle University) - Ethnoarchaeology and computer modelling to investigate long-term landscape dynamics
[18 February: Reading Week - no seminar]
- 25 February: Sarah Wolferstan (UCL ASE) - What tools are we using? ASE's approach to engagement and our Whitechapel project
- 4 March: Francesco Ripanti (University of Birmingham) - Roots and Routes: A View of Community-Led Archaeology from the Mediterranean
- 11 March: Harald Fredheim (University of York) - Foregrounding lived experience and relationships in museums for participatory heritage-making
- 18 March: Paola Giuseppantonio Di Franco (University of Essex) - Reimagining Place After Disaster: Community Voices, Immersive Technologies, and the Reconstruction of Belonging
Participants
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