Project timeline
April 2020: EQuaTe project starts
July 2020: Dustin White joins the team, based in York/London
ESHE meeting online: presentation by Marc Dickinson on dating tooth enamel through the Wisdom Teeth and EQuaTe projects.
Winter 2020: Recruitment for thermoluminescence PDRA position at Aberystwyth University - come join the team! Deadline for applications 4.1.2021
15th December 2020: Project workshop (online)
Spring 2021: Recruitment for PhD student, based at York
June 2021: Debra Colarossi joins the team as the luminescence PDRA, based in Aberystwyth
2021: First field season: Barnham, Beeches Pit and Devereux's Pit
June 2021: International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA) conference (Toulouse): presentation by Marc Dickinson on dating tooth enamel through the Wisdom Teeth and EQuaTe projects.
Sep 2021: Ellie Nelson joins the team as a PhD student, based in York
ESHE meeting in Tubingen (online)
DEUQUA meeting (online); keynote by Geoff Duller
March 2022: Fieldwork on Norfolk coast
May 2022: Cryptotephra sampling in Suffolk
May 2022: EQuaTe work presented by Marc Dickinson & Geoff Duller at "Pathways to Ancient Britain" meeting, London
May 2022: Kirsty Penkman presented EQuaTe research at the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society
June 2022: Fieldwork in Germany
July 2022: Barnham fieldwork
July 2022: Dustin White attends "Climate Change and Early Humans in the North" project kick-off meeting
September 2022: Ellie Nelson gives a talk at the QRA postgraduate symposium, Sheffield
September 2022: Ellie Nelson & Kirsty Penkman attend the ROAD database workshop, Tubingen
October 2022: Trapped charge & AA geochronology review paper published in PNAS
December 2022: Fieldwork in the Netherlands
Mini-workshops: Germany, Hungary, Poland
January 2023: Advisory Board meeting
January 2023: Norfolk fieldwork
February 2023: Dustin White attends "Climate Change and Early Humans in the North" project launch meeting
May 2023: Germany fieldwork
May 2023: Geoff Duller & Debra Colarossi gives talks at the 17th Luminescence & ESR conference, Copenhagen
July 2023: Talks and posters by the EQuaTe team at the INQUA Congress in Rome
September 2023: Marc Dickinson gives a talk at the ISBA 2023 meeting, Estonia
September 2023: Radiation Measurements paper published
September 2023: Ellie Nelson gives a talk at the QRA postgraduate symposium, Durham
October 2023: Helen Roberts & Dustin White give talks at the ICDP MEME workshop, Italy
Mini workshops: UK, Germany, Hungary, Czechia
Summer 2024: Fourth field season
Summer 2024: Project workshop
2025: EQuaTe project ends, 31.3.25