Bioarchaeology, Mon 12pm-1pm
Mondays 12pm-1pm, every term.
In-person in the Lecture Theatre, 1 South Parks Road and streamed on Teams
Convenor: Hairong Yang and Dr Valasia Isaakidou
Click on the document link below to open the current term card schedule of talks for this series
The Bioarchaeology seminar series incorporates a range of topics relating to the study of archaeological organic remains and how they inform interpretations of past human diet, health, lifestyle and population history. Our seminars consider the biological impact of a range of issues including adaptive shifts, such as the development of agriculture, migration and colonisation, consequences of past climatic shifts and environmental conditions, availability of resources, violence and warfare. This series regularly hosts speakers who may be of interest to students and researchers in biological anthropology, biomolecular archaeology, human osteology, zooarchaeology, and archaeobotany.
Michaelmas Term 2026
(W2) 19th October
Paul Halstead, Prof Emeritus, University of Sheffield
Bioarchaeology: the Essential Roles of Modern Analogy and Ethnoarchaeology
(W4) 2rd November
Yu-chun Kan, University College London
Getting off the Austronesian Express Train: Archaeobotanical Perspectives on Mid to Late Neolithic Northern Taiwan
(W6) 16th November
Karolina Werens, University of Oxford
Isotopic Biographies in Archaeology and Forensic Science: Multi-Tissue Analysis of Diet and Mobility
(W8) 30th November
Dimitra Mylona, INSTAP-SCEC
From fish bones to fish in culture: issues of
ichthyoarchaeology today