Seminars in Prehistory and related disciplines – Agenda UC

The Laboratory of Prehistory, CIAS, in collaboration with the Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, presents the Public Lecture Series:

Mar – Jul 2021

Online • Free

Encounters with our past: Seminars in Prehistory and related disciplines is a public lecture series on anthropological and archaeological explorations of the human past. The invited speakers cover a range of topics spanning the Early Pleistocene to the recent past and engage with a diverse array of state of the art methodologies and theoretical approaches to anthropological and archaeological data.

Organizers

• Ana Maria Silva (CIAS, DCV, UC)
• John Willman (CIAS, UC)

The complete program (BELOW) will be available soon.

Mar 5th • Dmanisi hominids through Time, Teeth, and Tooth Wear • Ann Margvelashvili • HERE

Mar 19th • Investigating Iberian prehistory using Ancient DNA • Rui Martiniano • HERE

Mar 26th • Medieval medicine and leprosy: new insights from dental calculus analysis • Elena Fiorin • HERE

Apr 2nd • Patterns and Impacts from the Cultural Use of Cinnabar in Late Neolithic to Bronze Age Iberia • Steven D. Emslie • HERE

Apr 9th •Poblaciones del Vº – IIº milenio a.n.e. a través de sus manifestaciones funerarias y sus restos óseos en la banda atlántica de Cádiz • Adolfo Moreno Marquez • HERE

Apr 16th • What can archaeology tell us about Islamic engagements with megalithic landscapes in al-Andalus? • Katina T. Lillios • HERE

Apr 30th • Modos de vida y muerte en una población calcolítica mediterránea: El enterramiento colectivo de Camino del Molino (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia) • Sonia Díaz-Navarro • SOON

May 14th • New approaches to analyse prehistoric mobility: isoscapes and spatial analysis • Marta Zorita Bonilla • SOON

May 28th • Finding Biological Markers of Mobility in Late Prehistoric populations of the Iberian Peninsula: A Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Approach • Anna Waterman • SOON

June 4th • To be announced • Emanuela Cristiani • SOON

June 11th • Rest In Pieces: archaeobotany in funerary contexts • João Tereso • SOON

June 18th • To be announced • Teresa Fernandez-Crespo • SOON

June 25th • Under the Aten: Diet of the South Tombs Cemetery individuals at Amarna, Egypt • Kristin Krueger • SOON

July 2nd •Body Modifications, Social Identities, and Beauty in Ancient Mesoamerica • Vera Tiesler • HERE

July 9th • Gender, mobility and residential patterns in Copper Age Iberia • Marta Cintas Peña • SOON

July 16th • Mortuary practices in Transylvanian Neolithic and Eneolithic: an overview • Mihai Gligor • HERE