Webinar series

The Human Traces working group invites interested parties to attend a monthly Webinar Series.

Upcoming

Date: 24 April
Time: 15:00 UTC
Title: Environmental change and impacts on prehistoric human colonization in Inutoqqat Nunaat, Northern Greenland
Speaker: Bianca Perren
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Please get in touch with the Human Traces Steering Committee if you would like to present your work related to Human Traces.

Past Seminars

14 March 2024
Giorgia Camperio (ETH Zurich and Eawag, Switzerland)
Title: Human traces in remote Oceania revealed by sedimentary biomarkers
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22 February 2024
Prof. Antony Brown (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø University Museum)
Title: From Lakes to Soils: Using SedaDNA to Track the Human Past
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20 October 2023
Dr. Silvana Halac (Earth Sciences Research Center, Conicet, Argentina)
Title: Tackling the evolution and dynamics of the Anthropocene from sedimentary records in artificial lakes of Central Argentina:  The water quality challenge
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25 September 2023
Nicolás Zanetta (PhD student at University of Heidelberg)
Title: The metal revolution for Sustainable Development: missing the local scale
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26 June 2023
Dr. Shanjia Zhang (Postdoc at Lanzhou University, China)
Title: Detecting the imprint of human impact on the environment during the prehistoric and historical period in the middle-eastern Silk Road
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17 April 2023
Prof. Andrea Columbu (University of Pisa)
Title: Are cave deposits recording culturally induced environmental changes related to the end of Nuragic Era (~580 BC)? A study case from Sardinia (Italy)
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20 September 2022
Dr. Jeff Blackford (University of Dundee, Australia)
Title: Distinguishing human traces from natural events in Mesolithic peat proxy records
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15 June 2022 
Prof. Nicolas Waldmann (University of Haifa, Israel)
Title: The Levantine corridor: a land bridge for early hominins migrations out of Africa and the birthplace of agriculture
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02 May 2022 
Dr. Encarni Montoya, University of Liverpool, UK
Title: Amazonia history: Contribution of palaeoecology to the scientific debate of pre-Columbian occupation and multi-proxy examples from northern South America
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16 March 2022
Dr. Jérémy Jacob, LSCE, France
Title: Human traces in sewers: taking the pulse of the city
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19 January 2022
Prof Jacob Freeman, Utah State University, USA
Title: Risk and Fragility in Prehistoric Populations
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13 December 2021
Dr. Madison Bell, University of Ottawa
Title: Paleolimnology in support of archeology: Embracing the future to investigate the past
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