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Analysing Archaeology: Using Chemistry to Understand the Past

Kirsty Penkman, Marc Dickinson

  • 25 September 2015
    5pm-8.30pm

  • King's Manor Marquee (map) 

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible

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Analytical chemistry can take you to unexpected places: from the bottom of a quarry, excavating sesame-seed sized fossils that allow us to work out when prehistoric creatures such as mammoths and Neanderthals roamed Europe, to a North Yorkshire field measuring water chemistry to help English Heritage work out if an archaeological site is under threat.  We will show you how the molecules we analyse in the lab can tell us about the past.  With analyses of protein in fossil material ranging from Great Barrier Reef corals to South African ostrich eggshell and the ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, collaborations of chemists with earth scientists and archaeologists help push analytical science forward, whilst advancing our understanding of our earth's history.

https://sites.google.com/a/palaeo.eu/eggtimer

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