Olfactory predator recognition in the Brown Mouse Lemur
Seminar
This study took place across 4 years in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar and tested how a primitive small nocturnal primate, the brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus), perceived snake, avian and mammalian predator odors. Fifteen predator and control stimuli were presented to more than 60…
Golson Lecture 2018
Lecture
Revolutions in understanding: a history of archaeological thought and radiocarbon dating Archaeology can be characterised in some ways as a very young discipline. The Cambridge academic Glyn Daniel suggested that archaeology "started again" in 1950 with the introduction of the technique…
CBAP 2018 Annual Conference
Conference
The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific A Hidden History Monday 26th March, 9am - 5pm Tuesday 27th March, 9am - 5pm This two day conference will present the current research and future plans of the ARC Project “The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP)” Team,…
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…
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…