On 8 and 9 March 2022 a small workshop was held at Kings Manor and the YEAR Centre, University of York. 

The workshop saw key speakers give presentations on current research and gave Early Stage Researcher 3 and Early Stage Researcher 13 the opportunity to give a presentation and learn from the expertise and knowledge of academic practitioners. It also enabled networking and collaboration talks to take place between different project partners involved in ChemArch. 

Carl Heron (British Museum) keynote - Biographies of Birch Bark Tar

Andy Needham (University of York) - Contemporary hunter-gatherer uses of Pinus and Betula, with particular focus on mastics

Andy Langley (University of York) - Sensory approaches

ESR13 Tabea Koch (CNRS Nice) - Tracking adhesive technologies from the Late Glacial to Early Holocene

Maxime Rageot (University Delft/CNRS Nice) - Plant tars and resins exploitation in North-Western Mediterranean during recent Prehistory

Martine Regert (CNRS Nice) - The persistence of use of birch bark tar during Roman Antiquity

Rebecca Stacey (British Museum) - Birch bark tar adhesives on Roman pottery

Aimee Little (University of York) - Practical demonstrations at the York Experimental Archaeology Centre (YEAR)

Hannes Schroeder (University of Copenhagen) - Ancient birch tar genomics: Challenges and prospects

Theis Jensen (University of Copenhagen) - Tracking the hunters: biomolecular analyses of prehistoric hunting tools

ESR 3 Anna White (University of Copenhagen) - Ancient genomics of Mesolithic and Neolithic birch bark tar artefacts 

Geeske Langejans (University Delft) - Preservation biases of tar and resin products

Paul Kozowyk (University Delft) - Reusing adhesives: a dynamic mechanical thermal analysis of birch tar and pine resin