Getting to Know the Gozitans: Bioarchaeological approaches to exploring fragility and sustainability in Neolithic Malta (ca. 4400-2200 BC)
Seminar
Human history is punctuated by the succession of changing cultures and civilisations, many of which emerged and disappeared within decades or centuries. But why did some cultures manage to sustain themselves for centuries or millennia, while others collapsed in response to changing conditions in…
Biological Anthropology Public Lecture 2018 - New insights into nutrient balancing of apes and monkeys in tropical forests
Lecture
Dr Rothman is broadly interested in primate feeding and diet. The focus of her research program is understanding how primates meet their nutritional needs through interactions with their environment, and she is specifically interested in how ecology, sociality, movement and disease intersect with…
Claims and counter claims - a review of the scientific process of enquiry in the case of Homo floresiensis
Seminar
Thirteen years ago the discovery of a small partial skeleton and other comparable bones were attributed to a new hominid species, Homo floresiensis. This caused a sensation - headlines swept around the world, blog pages were crammed. Such a tiny, archaic-looking species comprising individuals only…
The Masks of Mer - Documentary about the first ethnographic film made by Alfred Haddon the the Torres Strait Island of Mer in 1898
Performance
This is the story of a film - a film shot over a hundred years ago, lasting for less than a minute, but a visual document whose uniqueness transcends the long age and short duration.In 1888 the young biologist Alfred Haddon undertook a research trip to the islands in the Torres Strait between New…
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,…