Archaeology & Science Day

Welcome to the 8th Archaeology & Science Day at the University of Copenhagen – a day of inspiring talks, posters and networking opportunities, this year organized by students of the MA course Advanced Archaeological Methods EF2024. 

This event aims to bring researchers and students in archaeology together from across faculties and other institutions. Throughout the day you will experience different talks and presentations from talented researchers covering various topics in archaeology and science and introducing the future of the UCPH School of Archaeology. Poster sessions will be arranged by the students on the MA course Advanced Archaeological Methods (HUM)

Please register no later than 3 December 2024

Programme

09:00

Arrival

 

09:10

Welcome

Professor Eva Andersson Strand (Saxo Institute), et al.

09:20

Introduction to UCPH School of Archaeology

Professor Casper Sylvest (Saxo Institute) & Chair of the School of Archaeology

09:30

Do look a gift horse in the mouth - how we can use molecular methods, morphology and AI to develop the zooarchaeologists of the future

Professor Matthew Collins (GeoBiology, Globe Institute)

10:00

Poster session 1

 

11.00

The Greenland Norse: Far away, yet so similar

Professor Niels Lynnerup (Department of Forensic Medicine)

11:30

Title TBD

Senior researcher Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen (Globe Institute)

12:00

Lunch

 

13:00

When the sun darkened 4900 years ago – reconsidering Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark

Associate Professor Rune Iversen (Saxo Institute)

13:30

Understanding Infant Death in the Late Epipalaeolithic of the Levant

Associate Professor Tobias Richter (Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, ToRS)

14:00

Poster session 2

 

15:00

Textile Resources in Viking Age Landscapes

Professor Eva Andersson Strand (Saxo Institute)

15:30

Introduction to the Emerging Researchers Network (ERN)

Laura Viñas Caron, Postdoctoral researcher (Globe Insitute)

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