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March 2024, Didcot Cafe Scientifique, Dr Amy Styring, Science and Archaeology
19th March 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Didcot Cafe Scientifique
Tuesday 19th March 2024 | Nourish Cafe, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot
Science and archaeology – how chemistry can tell us about the human past, Dr Amy Styring
“Chemistry and Archaeology… how does that work?” is a common response when I tell people that I do research in archaeological chemistry. To answer this question, this talk will present some of the insights that scientific techniques can reveal into life in the past, with a particular focus on reconstructing what people were eating and where they lived at various points in their lives. The early medieval cemetery excavated in 2015 in Milton, north-west of Didcot, provides an interesting local case study, revealing insights into the people living in Oxfordshire more than a thousand years ago.
Amy Styring is an Associate Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford. As an archaeological chemist, she is interested in advancing scientific methods that reveal a direct and detailed picture of everyday life in the past, particularly about how people produced their food and the impact that this had on the environment.