I currently have a call for papers out for a session at EAA in Glasgow, 2nd-5th September 2015. The session is co-authored between the lead author Vana Orfanou (UCL), Tom Birch (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) and myself (UCL), and is open until 16th February 2015, session ID SA23 in the Science and Archaeology theme. The session… Continue reading Call for Papers: EAA Session ‘Social context of metallurgy’
Following on from the quick post on my thoughts last week, I've put together a Storify archive of the tweets from The Connected Past 2014 network and complexity science meeting with a little commentary included. I enjoyed the conference and found it very inspiring, so I'm happy to collate some of the tweets which hopefully… Continue reading Tweets from The Connected Past 2014
This week I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Connected Pasts workshop and meeting in London, learning about network and complexity science and its application to archaeology and the past. The two days consisted of a three hour workshop introducing and exploring one of a number software packages which can be used to analyse networks… Continue reading Thoughts from Connected Pasts 2014 workshop and meeting
Last month I finished the last major chapter of my PhD. Last year work was slow for a number of personal reasons which made me very, very glad I switched to part-time. This situation also meant I presented at and attended few conferences, which looking back on was a real shame. I really enjoy academic… Continue reading Upcoming Conference, Connected Pasts London 2014
Once again things have been quiet here during the end of 2013 as I've been working on supporting colleagues in Oxford who are producing the 8th edition of the UK Experimental Archaeology Conference. I think it went very well, with the organisers Christophe Snoeck & Chelsea Budd doing a great job and Merton College providing… Continue reading 8th Experimental Archaeology Conference, 2014
I've lost track of how much time I've spent beavering away at the PhD, but on Friday April 19th I escaped the writing desk to visit the British Museum for a one day conference organised by the Roman Finds Group entitled The Life and times of the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The conference was… Continue reading Review of the Roman Finds Group Conference, Spring 2013
Things have been, and probably will continue to be quiet here, as I'm using all my blogging brain over at the Experimental Archaeology Conference Website. With support from Roeland Paardekooper, I've written and currently run the Conference's website, which contains the archive of abstracts from all of the past conferences, as well as a substantial… Continue reading 7th Experimental Archaeology Conference
The International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA) is a week-long conference that's held biennially. It's the big conference for archaeologists who use scientific techniques to generate data on archaeological sites, objects or issues. This year it was in Leuven, Belgium, and I was extremely pleased to win funding from the UCL Graduate School and the Institute… Continue reading International Symposium on Archaeometry 2012, Leuven Belgium
I’m currently at the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry in Leuven, Belgium, where I have a poster to present. I’ll be writing a proper conference review when I return, but in the mean time I’ll be making informal collections of the tweets and discussing the conference here on a daily basis. There are also collections… Continue reading ISA 2012 Leuven (Day 5 – Sensing, Prospecting, Field Archaeology, Colour and Culture, Glass 2)
I’m currently at the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry in Leuven, Belgium, where I have a poster to present. I’ll be writing a proper conference review when I return, but in the mean time I’ll be making informal collections of the tweets and discussing the conference here on a daily basis. There are also collections… Continue reading ISA 2012 Leuven (Day 4 – Ceramics, Glazes, Vitreous Materials and Glass 1)
Ruth Fillery-Travis 