Chew on this: The evolution of human feeding biomechanics
Seminar
Human skulls are exceptionally odd. In addition to our large and rounded neurocranium, humans are unusual in having a small and posteriorly retracted facial skeleton that is "tucked" beneath the anterior portion of the braincase, giving it flattened appearance in profile. Unlike other primate…
Family Ecology and Children’s Growth in Rural Timor-Leste
Seminar
This talk will cover three aspects of the relationship between family ecology and children’s growth in rural Timor-Leste: Rural households in Timor-Leste depend to varying degrees on subsistence farming. Development programs target the expansion of market agriculture. Despite numerous…
Revising our understanding of the population history of Cape York
Seminar
There are unique patterns in the population history of Cape York that we have been able to uncover through our recent ARC funded research. It is emerging that these patterns would never be apparent from a study of the archaeological record alone. The story from human biology provides important new…
2018 CNTA Annual Conference: Innovation in Native Title Anthropology
Conference
Innovation in Native Title Anthropology The Centre for Native Title Anthropology (CNTA) holds an annual conference in February each year. In 2018 the Conference theme is Innovation in Native Title Anthropology and will be held at Queen's College, University of Melbourne on 8-9 February. …
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