Missing mushrooms: foraging for fungi in the archaeological record
October 20, 2016
Mushrooms are a common part of modern human diets, yet they are rarely considered from an archaeological perspective. As soft-bodied organisms they readily rot, so are very rarely found on archaeological sites. Search for academic papers on archaeology and fungi and you are most likely to find articles discussing how microscopic fungi eat wall paintings and …
Isotope Investigators Summer School report
August 16, 2016
It’s been an exciting summer in the Archaeology Department, not least because of our Isotope Investigators Summer School! Report by UoN Archaeology students Tom Fox and Phil Rawlinson The Summer School was a five-day programme of work which taught the theory, application and practical lab techniques of isotope analysis in archaeology. With funding from University …
Archaeobotanical Adventures in Paris
August 11, 2016
Hi, my name is Leslie Bode, and I am a 3rd year PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham and am co-supervised between Archaeology (Dr Alexandra Livarda) and Geography (Dr Matthew Jones). I also receive a lot of extra isotope guidance from Dr Angela Lamb at the British Geological Survey. Last month I presented a talk at …
Isotope Investigators Summer School
March 1, 2016
Isotope Investigators Summer School – News from our undergraduates We have had an exciting few months in the BioArch Research Group as we planned, and received funding for, our Isotope Investigators Summer School! The Summer School will be held from Monday the 27th June to Friday the 1st July. We will learn all about archaeological …
