New insights into prehistoric human diet and agriculture through ancient biomolecules and stable isotopes

Thursday 23 February 2012, 6.30PM

Speaker: Professor Richard P Evershed FRS, University of Bristol

York Biology Lectures

Professor Richard P Evershed is a Professor of Biogeochemistry at the Organic Geochemistry Unit at the University of Bristol.

He is an internationally renowned analytical organic chemist and the leading exponent of biomolecular archaeology who has revolutionized aspects of archaeological science. His analytical procedures use the specificity of molecular structure and compound-specific isotopic signature to trace the history of artefacts or fossils. This has resulted in many new insights into the lives of ancient peoples and advanced the understanding of biomolecules in fossils. In soil ecology his molecular and stable isotope approaches are providing new means of studying unculturable microorganisms and minute soil invertebrates and have resulted in new temperature proxy from peat bogs for palaeoclimate reconstruction.
 

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Location: Room BS/005, Berrick Saul Building

Admission: Admission free and open to all