The WUN Human Origins Seminar Series. Series 1: Sites, Stones, Biology & Bones: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human Evolution
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Welcome to the WUN Human Origins Seminar Series

The WUN Human Origins Seminar Series is a dedicated collection of virtual seminars presented on a monthly basis by leading figures involved in different aspects of Human Origins research. These seminars are delivered to a live international audience of faculty and students using video conferencing technology. The seminars aim to generate valuable debate and innovative intellectual approaches and technologies to explore issues focussed on human evolution and origins.

This year's series is the first event of this type and takes as its theme: 'Sites, Stones, Biology and Bones: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Human Evolution.' This diverse theme will explore how multidisciplinary approaches can offer innovative solutions to the global issue of where humans came from, and how we evolved physically and socially. The series will use such a platform to examine how the evolution of humans interacted with areas such as the environment and health.

Seminar start times:

5pm UK | 11am Madison | 6pm Bergen*

Titles and speakers to be confirmed shortly.


Date

Title and speaker

20 October 2008

Dr John McNabb (Centre for Archaeology of Human Origins, Southampton University)

The materiality of culture in earlier Homo

20 November 2008

Adam Brumm (Cambridge University)

Palaeolithic Stone Technology from a Southeast Asian Perspective: New Insights from Flores, Indonesia

11 December 2008

David Braun (Cape Town University/Rutgers University)

Variation in artfiact production and tool use in the Oldowan of East Africa 2.0 to 1.5 million years ago

22 January 2009

Paul Pettitt (University of Sheffield)

New research into the British Upper Palaeolithic: reconstructing seasonal land use in the Late Magdalenian

26 February 2009

Mark Hanson, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton School of Medicine and Peter Gluckman, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland NZ.

Evolutionary Medicine

17 March 2009

Tom Higham, Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, RLAHA, University of Oxford

Radiocarbon dating of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe

27 April 2009

Clive Gamble (Royal Holloway)

Social technologies and social brains: 150 years of scientific Palaeolithic research

6 May 2009*

Gonen Sharon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

*Please note new time of 4:30pm BST

The Large Flake Acheulian: Definition, Distribution, Chronology and Significance

11 June 2009

Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum, London)

Neanderthals and Modern Humans

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