The Dating Game: Building Better Chronologies for Better Archaeological Narratives
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Presented by Derek Hamilton (SUERC-University of Glasgow)
While the development of refined and robust archaeological chronologies using Bayesian statistics is becoming increasingly popular around the world, ‘Bayesian chronological modelling’ has formed part of the common archaeological toolkit in the UK, and especially England, for more than two decades.
This talk presents a brief history of the application of Bayesian statistics to building archaeological chronologies. Using examples from across Britain, it highlights the scientific considerations of various dating techniques regularly used by archaeologists, and delves into how archaeologists must engage with their archaeological site – the observed contexts and their understanding of site formation processes in order to build better archaeological narratives.
The 2023/24 monthly Lecture Series will be held in the Wallace Lecture Theatre (Room 0.13), Main Building. Lectures begin at 18:30. You do not need to book a ticket for the events.
As part of this year's series of public lectures, we welcome fascinating speakers and investigate the use of some geoscientific and environmental techniques to improve our understanding of past history and environments, both here in South Wales and around the world.
These presentations will investigate how evidence of sediments and rocks, geochemistry, the dating of human remains and artefacts, climatic and forensic data and the landscape and vegetation can help build a clear picture of our shared history, including Roman and Colonial and more recent contexts, and also influence our views on conservation and heritage strategies.
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