5th Science & Archaeology Seminar
24 November 2021
9.30 - 16.30
University of Copenhagen
The purpose of the Science and Archaeology seminar is to promote dialogue between scientists and archaeologists and disseminate the research that is being conducted at the GLOBE Institute (SUND) and Dept. of Archaeology (HUM). We will emphasize interdisciplinary projects throughout the day and how science and archaeology can be integrated to understand different aspects of our past.
Organised by: Laura Viñas Caron & Eva Andersson Strand
GLOBE and Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
PROGRAMME
9:30 Registration and introduction
9:45 Helene Wilhelmson - A tale told by one, is a tale told only in half. A personal perspective on the use/misuse of isotopes and aDNA on human remains
10:15 Rune Iversen - The re-emerging migration narrative: lessons learned from linguistics, archaeogenetics … and archaeology
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Louise Le Meillour - Unravelling past subsistence strategies in arid environments: insights from bioarchaeology
11:45 Susanne Kerner - Foodways in the 5th and 4th mill. BCE in the Southern Levant
12:15 Tim Flohr Sørensen - Making the Floor Slippery: Conceptual dissonance and interdisciplinarity
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Jorune Sakalauskaite - Shell palaeoproteomics: tracing the origin of archaeological mollusc shell artifacts
14:00 Rob Dunn - Archaeology as context for the human far future
14:30 Break
15:15 Keynote Lecture by Christina Margariti - Fibres in Ancient European Textiles (FIBRANET), EUROPA NOSTRA AWARD, the 2021 Grand Prix in the category Research
Abstract
The project investigated the fibres used in textile production in Europe from Prehistory to the
Roman Empire and created a tool that can be used to aid European studies. The freely accessible
database provides information on diverse textile fibres and is supported by bibliographical
information and data on how these are affected in an archaeological burial context. This innovative
research deepened knowledge in material analyses of ancient fibres. The Jury was impressed by this
research project’s “clear and concise vision that yielded powerful and practical results”.
Fibre identification is very important for textile studies as it reveals socioeconomic information,
evidence on past trade routes, palaeoenvronmental data and even sheds light to the technological
development of the societies that produced and consumed the textiles. In the presentation Dr.
Margariti will present her project that involved collecting textile fibres from across Europe as
mentioned in ancient texts and contemporary publications; designed degradation experiments and
studied their effects on the fibres’ morphology, attempting to decode degradation and use it to aid
fibre identification. An online, freely accessible database was developed, including all outcomes of
the research and making them available to peer professionals.
c. 16:30 Unveiling award ceremony and reception at Centre for Textile Research
VENUE
Location: University of Copenhagen South Campus 4A-0-69
Please note that the keynote lecture will take place in room 22-0-11 and the reception at the Centre for Textile Research (11B-1-05)
Registration deadline: November 19, 2021
