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2017
February
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NARSS Talk: Sarah Pederzani, Reconstructing Pleistocene Palaeoclimate and Palaeoseasonality using Oxygen Isotope Zooarchaeology
-There will be isotopes
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Earth Science Research Seminar: Prof Jose Eduardo Soares (University of Brasilia)
-Please join us on Thursday, 2nd of February for a research seminar presented by Prof Jose Eduardo Soares of the University of Brasilia on “The deep structure of the Parnaiba Basin, Brazil: some insights/constraints on its tectonic evolution”. All are welcome to attend.
January
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Earth Science Research Seminar: Dr Christian Schiffer (Durham University)
-Please join us on Thursday, 26th of January for a research seminar presented by Dr Christian Schiffer of Durham University on “A model for the formation of the Jan Mayen Microplate”. All are welcome to attend. Abstract: The opening of the North Atlantic is one of the dominant geodynamic events that...
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NARSS Seminar: The Walrus in the Walls and Other Strange Tales: House-Rites in the Viking-age North Atlantic
-Research into structured deposits that have been found under or within early Medieval Norse houses across the North Atlantic region. The deposits in question are connected to ritual actions through which Norse people manipulated the agency of their homes. The mnemonics and agency of the house further negotiated the sense...
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NARSS Talk: Jomon Identities
-The foraging societies of the Japanese Jomon period (ca. 16,500~2500BP) were mostly egalitarian; archaeological data provide tantalising insights into various levels and types of social identities. For example, intergroup identities may have been expressed in regional ceramic styles; portable ornaments (made of stone, animal bone, antler, teeth, and shell) and...
2016
November
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NARSS Seminar: Breasts, Babies and New Norms: Archaeological Insights into Changing Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices in Britain's Past
-Using bioarchaeological and isotopic data from St Nicholas Kirk in Aberdeen Dr Britton will trace changing relationships between mothers and infants and its impact of on the history and society of Britain, Scotland and the City of Aberdeen.
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NARSS Talk: Geoarchaelogical quest for seasonal occupation: shielings in the North Atlantic region
-In this talk I will discuss the results of my doctoral project, which contributed new archaeological evidence to the debate on transhumance in the Viking and Medieval Periods in Iceland and the Outer Hebrides. I will examine shielings in these two regions at new levels of detail, and with new...
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NARSS: Studies of The Galloway Hoard
-The most impressive Scottish Viking Age hoard of recent years...
October
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NARSS Seminar: Upper Palaeolithic Economics and Climate in Northern Spain: A view from Ungulates
-Jeanne Marie Geiling (Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain) will present aspects of her ongoing zooarchaeological work at the key Magdalelian site of El Miron Cave.
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NARSS Seminar: Ongoing Archaeological Research from University of Aberdeen Archaeology
-Dr Gordon Noble and Dr Joshua Wright will present recent work and discoveries from their field programs in Scotland and Mongolia.