After the Relational Museum: A Question of Identity
Seminar
The Relational Museum project was conceived of as a way of exploring the inherent dynamism of museums. They were not sets of static objects, out of contexts, but objects on the move with a series of links within the museum and beyond which could be activated and re-activated. This seemed especially…
Adventus Saxonum - Material Culture, DNA and Identity in the Migration Period
Seminar
British population history has been shaped by a series of periods of immigration, including the early Anglo-Saxon migrations which are assumed to start around AD 410, after the disappearance of Roman administration. By the end of the twentieth century two theoretical narratives have emerged, a…
The Great Ape Dental Scoring System and a single case-study of its application to human evolutionary research
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM
What is anthracology anyway? The potential of wood charcoal analysis for investigating the history of human-forests interactions in Oceania
Seminar
Archaeobotany is a key method for understanding the long-term history of the human use of plants and the dynamics of human-environment relationships – including key archaeological questions such as human evolution and dispersal around the world, or the complex management practices of so-called “…
The Spice Islands in Prehistory: New Data and Thoughts, 25 years later
Seminar
Between 1991 and 1996, archaeologists from ANU and the formerly-named Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional in Indonesia undertook excavations in a number of sites (both caves and open sites) in the northern Moluccas (Maluku Utara), eastern Indonesia. Important results were obtained from the sites of…
What do we do when we dig up mass graves?
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM
Sexual selection and primate multilevel societies
Seminar
Part of the Biological Anthropology Research Seminars 2017 Every thursday at 4PM