Workshops and conferences

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: 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.

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

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 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 7 ^t ^h 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.