Event: Pizza Talk: "Food for the Dead: Organic Material from Ancient Egyptian Funerary Contexts"


Date & Time

October 12, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Contact Information

Matthew Swanson
mswanson@ioa.ucla.edu

Location

Fowler A222

Event Type

Pizza Talk

Event Details

Speaker: Dr. Caroline Cartwright, Department of Scientific Research, The British Museum

Dr Caroline Cartwright is the Senior Scientist and Wood Anatomist in the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum. Her primary areas of scientific expertise cover the identification and interpretation of organics such as wood, charcoal, fibres, macro plant remains, shell, ivory and bone from all areas and time periods in the British Museum’s collections, including for CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species).  She has led many teams of archaeobotanists, archaeozoologists and human osteologists on archaeological projects in various parts of the world including the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. Reconstructing past environments, charting vegetation and climate changes, and investigating bioarchaeological evidence from sites and data, all form an important part of her research. Prior to joining the British Museum, Caroline was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.