Tales teeth tell: Diet, health and toxin exposure in our ancient ancestors
Seminar
Dental tissues contain remarkably faithful records of their development through time, best represented by daily incremental features in enamel and dentine. These have been used to determine the rate and duration of tooth formation, disruptions during development, and age at death in juvenile…
"Our Bula Spirit Awaits You!" (When Borders Reopen): Indigenous Wellbeing and Romanticised Inequality in Post-COVID Tourism Campaigns
Seminar
Zoom Linkhttps://bit.ly/2OEVSFr Meeting ID: 937 9210 4939 Passcode: 800615 Much recent commentary posits Covid-19 as an opportunity to reset the global economy and reimagine a more equitable tourism industry. This paper questions such optimism through analysis of place-based advertising for…
Talepakemalai Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania
Webinar/Online
In this presentation Patrick Kirch will present the highlights from his most recent book, Talepakemalai. Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania. Talepakemalai is a single integrated volume in which all of the results of the Mussau Project, including more recent…
Ancient human bone histology and behaviour in Holocene Asia-Pacific
Seminar
Bone remodelling processes are influenced by lifestyle, health, disease, and environmental factors. Dr Miszkiewicz’s research investigates these processes and factors using microscopy of ancient and post-mortem bone. In this talk she will present some of her DECRA (2019-2022) work focused on…
Real Time in Rear View: Temporal Acts in Markets of Electricity
Seminar
This paper explores what “real time” means to market actors. My focus is on the traders, market designers, and engineers acting in the electricity markets of the United States. For these actors, real time concerns the time interval in which they can no longer intervene using the instruments…
Villages and Environmental Water: using Archaeology for Conservation on the Murray River
Seminar
Aboriginal archaeology has a central role to play among the myriad government agencies and professional disciplines involved in land and water of the Murray River Basin. This is Australia's food bowl that today produces one third of our food supply while using four fifths of the water supply. We…
Micro-evolutionary changes in our hominin cousins
Seminar
Paranthropus robustus is a small-brained, large-toothed hominin species endemic to southern Africa. Thought to be well understood, recent discoveries have shed new light on this species and where it fits within the Paranthropine clade. New evidence seems to contradict the well-accepted idea of P.…