Talks and Events​​​​
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EVENTS
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6 November 2024 - 2 February 2025
Former Oratory of San leonardo in Nogarole Rocca, Verona
'CONNESSI | Interazioni millenarie di una necropoli'
CONFERENCES and SEMINARS
2024
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Dept. of Archaeology Seminar Series - Durham University
4 December 2024
John Robb: 'The Age of Ancestors: Reconfiguring the 4th-3rd millennia BCE'
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Cache x AFTER Workshop - Macquarie University
2 December 2024
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Cache Visiting Fellow Lecture - Macquarie University
27 November 2024
Jess Thompson: ‘Making Ancestors in Prehistoric Italy’
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Biomolecular Humanities Workshop
15 November 2024
Jess Thompson: ‘What makes a body? Proposals for thinking about the body
across the biomolecular sciences and humanities’
Thematic Research Seminars - UCL
30 October 2024
John Robb: 'What's theoretical/ethical/political about
writing people's life stories archaeologically?'
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LIXV Riunione Scientifica IIPP - University of Florence
October 2024
Silvia Soncin, Sofia Panella, Jess Thompson, Biancamaria Bonucci, Toni de Dios Martinez, Tina Saupe, Claudia Minniti, Martina di Matteo, Sandra Sivilli, Francesca Radina, Mary Anne Tafuri and John Robb:
'Insights into the Neolithic coastal settlement of Titolo, Puglia: A bioarchaeological perspective'
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30th EAA Annual Meeting in Rome
28-31 August 2024​
John Robb: 'Narrative bodies and period lives: Changing biographies in prehistoric Europe
Jess Thompson, Paola Salzani, Sofia Panella, Silvia Soncin, Tina Saupe, Sahra Talamo, Irene Dori, Mary Anne Tafuri, John Robb: 'Mixed funerary practices and creative relations with the dead: Bell-beaker co-burials from Nogarole Rocca (Verona), Italy
Martina Farese, Silvia Soncin, Mary Anne Tafuri: 'What are we missing: Big data approach to isotopic data in prehistoric Mediterranean'
Toni de Dios Martinez, Biancamaria Bonucci, Jenna Dittmar, Sarah Inskip, John Robb, Christiana Scheib: 'Bone adhered soil as a source of target and environmental DNA'
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Funerary Archaeology Lunch Seminar Series - Dept. of Archaeology, University of York
12 April 2024
Jess Thompson, Sofia Panella & Silvia Soncin:'Different Kinds of Dead: tracing the ancestors in Neolithic southern Italy (6000–3800 cal BCE)
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From the Cradle to the Grave - The Life Course Approach in Archaeology - Brown University
5-6 April 2024
John Robb: 'Other people’s lives: reconstructing pre-modern biographies' (invited keynote)​
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2023
Climate TAG (44th Annual Theoretical Archaeology Group) conference - University of East Anglia
18-20 December 2023
John Robb & Jess Thompson: 'Bodies in Art and Bodies in Death: Different ways of constituting ancestors and leaders'
Jess Thompson: 'Resurrecting transhuman ghosts'
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​'What the Dead Tell us - Exploring societal behaviours of early European farmers through funerary practices (5000-4000 BCE)' - University of Bern
13 October 2023
John Robb: 'What did Neolithic burial do?' (Keynote)
Jess Thompson: 'The changing role of the ancestors in Neolithic southern Italy (6000-3800 BCE)'
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Advances in Human Evolution, Adaptation and Diversity conference - Tarragona
5-17 September 2023
Martina Farese, Sara Bernardini:
'Exploring Copper Age subsistence trends in the Western Mediterranean basin in light of stable isotope data'
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XXV Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana (AAI) - University of Turin
6-8 September 2023​
Silvia Soncin, Sofia Panella, Jess Thompson, Sara Bernardini, Gwenaelle Goude, Francesca Radina, Sandra Sivilli, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, John Robb and Mary Anne Tafuri: 'Becoming adult in the Neolithic: Tracing back life histories exploring diet and mobility through stable isotope analysis of dentine increments from two Apulian sites'​​
Martina Farese, Silvia Soncin, Ricardo Fernandes, Mary Anne Tafuri: Our Ancestors’ diet: exploring prehistoric foodways using stable isotopes (Poster)​​
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EAA annual meeting - Belfast
30 August-2 September 2023 ​
Tina Saupe: 'Genetic sex determination as an instrument for the study of non-adults in bioarchaeology'
Jess Thompson and Silvia Soncin: 'Difference, Before and After the Grave, in Neolithic Southern Italy'
John Robb: 'Doing multidisciplinary bioarchaeology: basic ideas, good practice and cardinal sins'
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1848° Société d'Anthropologie de Paris Colloque Annuel - Musée de l’Homme, Paris
25-27 January 2023
Poster: Martina Farese, Giulia Formichella, Silvia Soncin, Ricardo Fernandes, Mary Anne Tafuri:
'Stable isotope reconstruction of the “Mediterranean” diet throughout the millennia​​
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2022
Intersectional Bodies Research Group workshop - University of Leicester
June 2022
Jess Thompson and John Robb: 'Gender in prehistoric Italy: Contingent pathways in life and death'
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Bioarchaeology Seminar Series - online, University of Oxford
May 2022
Jess Thompson: Making ancestors: Deathways and inequality in prehistoric Europe
Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar - online
May 2022
Jess Thompson and Silvia Soncin:
'Living and dying in Neolithic southeastern Italy: Early results from the Ancestors Project'
2021
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Antiquity TAG - online
December 2021
Jess Thompson, John Robb & Trish Biers: 'Aims, challenges and ethical considerations for destructive sampling of fragmented assemblages'
John Robb, Jess Thompson, Thomas Rosenberg and Sechan Yun: 'Modelling the Most Likely Number of Individuals in commingled deposits'
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Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar - online
May 2021
John Robb and Jess Thompson: 'Revisiting politics and inequality in Italian prehistory'
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