Our team member Meaghan attended the 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA11), hosted at our partner institution, the University of Turin. She presented a poster entitled “Towards a More Sustainable Analysis of Dental Calculus,” showcasing her exciting PhD research on developing making o biomolecular archaeology making biomolecular archaeology more ethical through less destructive sampling. …
The 14th International Meeting on Phytolith Research will be held at the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, Spanish National Research Council (IMF-CSIC), in Barcelona from 14–19 July 2025. Organised by the International Phytolith Society, this biennial meeting is a major international forum for researchers in archaeobotany, palaeoecology, and related fields. As part …
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Robert will present on ‘Dental calculus microbotanical evidence of early agricultural diets’ at the Environmental Archaeology in Ireland conference on the 10th May 2025 at Helen Roe Theatre, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin. The deadline for submissions has been extended and submissions can be made here.
Meaghan will present exciting results from her PhD research in a podium talk entitled ‘Illuminating Irish Neolithic diet by preliminary dental calculus chemical analysis’ at the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland Conference 4–5th April at the Connacht Hotel in Galway City.
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).