Robert appeared an an expert panellist speaking on the evolution of the human diet on Thursday the 14th of November for the Power of Variety: Diet Diversity Food Demo & Expert Q&A at Airfield Estate. He spoke, alongside UCD researcher and dietian Aoife Courtney and chef Siobhain Foley as part of Ireland’s Science Week 2024. …
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Robert will deliver a talk entitled ‘How representative of diets are starch from dental calculus: an archaeological perspective’ at the Lorentz Centre international workshop ‘Archaeological starch research at 25‘ at Leiden University, Netherlands on the 22nd of August. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from across the world to share their work on starch …
Robert visits project partner Domingo C. Salazar-García at the Departament de Prehistòria, at the Universitat de València in València in 12th–17th April for project planning, sampling and to give a lecture to Universitat de València staff and students (Aula F0.1 Facultad geografia e Historia, planta baja, 6 pm Monday 15th April).
Meaghan and Stephen are attending the UK Archaeological Sciences Conference 2024. Meaghan will be presenting a poster about her PhD work entitled ‘Towards the Co-Extraction of Proteins and Lipids from Dental Calculus for Maximising Dietary Information’.
On 28th of March the Ambassador of Japan in Ireland, Mr. Norio Maruyama, and The Cultural Affairs Officer of the Embassy of Japan in Ireland welcomed Robert and scholars engaged with Japan, Seán Ó Riain (Mathnooth University), Simon O’Connor, Benedict S. Connolly (Both Museum of Literature Ireland) and Hideki Kuwajima Hiroshima University. ありがとう ございます!
Meaghan is presenting a poster entitled ‘Exploring Dietary Change in Ireland through Proteomic and Lipid Analysis of Dental Calculus’ in collaboration with the ERC-funded FoodCult Project at ISBA10 on the 13th of Sept (Session: Diet & environment poster ID code:DENP-003).
Robert will be presenting on the origin of mustelids in Holocene Ireland at the upcoming Origins of Ireland’s Biodiversity conference at the Western Gateway Building, University College Cork, Cork from 8–9th September, 2023.
Robert is co-chairing a session entitled ‘Diversity in the Spread of Neolithic Lifeways: Regional Differences Across Eurasia’ at the EAA 2023 meeting Saturday 2nd of Sept. The session will be from 8:30–12:30 am at Maths and Physics Teaching Centre, room G017. Included in this session is a talk he is giving on Dental calculus perspectives on Neolithic …
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