New DAACS Conversations Series on Archaeological Science in Historical Archaeology

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***Update December 2024***

View recorded talks from this series on our DAACS Conversations Playlist.

This fall, DAACS will begin an extended series on the use of archaeometric methods for historic archaeological materials. All talks will take place on Fridays at 12pm eastern.

Full lineup:

September 22, 2023: Lindsay Bloch, Charles Cobb, and Nicolas Delsol, “Soto’s Signature? XRF Analysis of Metal Artifacts from the American Southeast.”

September 27, 2024: Elliot Blair, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, “XRF Analysis of Glass Trade Beads.”

October 11, 2024: Nicolas Delsol, Université Laval “How Cattle Made the Americas: Zooarchaeology, Digital Humanities, and Molecular Archaeology Tracking Bovines in the Western Hemisphere.”

October 25, 2024: Cassandra Apuzzo, Graduate Student, Purdue University: “Metalworking during the French Fur Trade: A Preliminary Analysis of Metalworking at an 18th Century Trade Post in Indiana.”

November 8, 2024: Corey Sattes, Monticello Archaeology, “Exploring Evidence of Marketed Colonoware at Drayton Hall and the South Carolina Lowcountry.”

November 22, 2024: Russell Skowronek, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, “Exploring Copper on the Borderlands of New Spain.”

December 13, 2024: Ryan Kennedy, Indiana University, “Towards and Archaeology of Animals: Expanding on Zooarchaeological Analysis in Historical Contexts.”

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