Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences

Members of the PALEOCHAR team attended the novel Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences meeting held in Rutgers University, New Jersey, on October 25-27th.

Carolina Mallol
Carolina Mallol

Carolina Mallol: What is that Black Stuff? Micro-contextual Investigations of Charred Organic Matter in the Archaeological Sedimentary Record.

Lucia Leierer: A coupled micromorphological and molecular study of combustion structure assemblages at the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain.

Lucia Leierer
Lucia Leierer

Rory Connolly: Preliminary results from a Palaeoenvironmental investigation of a Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter in Alicante, Spain.

Rory Connolly
Rory Connolly

 

Campus America: current topics in archaeology

One of the Campus America sessions held in Universidad de La Laguna on October 9-20, 2017 wasd evoted to Archaeology, with talks by Gil Tostevin (University of Minnesota) and Carolina Mallol.

Prof. Gil Tostevin in Campus America
Prof. Gil Tostevin in Campus America

Prof. Gil Tostevin gave a lecture about cultural diversity among Neanderthals. Carolina Mallol emphasized the role of geoarchaeology as a pilar of the archaeological discipline and one of the major trends in current Palaeolithic research.

 

DIG Conference 2017

Carolina Mallol gave a talk in 7th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference (DIG Conference 2017), held in Newcastle on September, about ERC PALEOCHAR lab work in micro-contextual analysis of organic matter.

Rory Connolly submitted a poster entitled Preliminary results from a multiproxy palaeo-environmental investigation at a Middle Palaeolithic rock shelter (Abric del Pastor) in Alicante, Spain.

Lucia Leierer’s work focused in A couple micromorphological and molecular study of combustion structure assemblages at the Middle Palaeolithic site of El Salt, Spain.