The gestural communication of great apes

Prof. Richard Bryne from the University of St Andrews is an expert in animal behaviour and evolutionary psychology.

Emotion, cognition and anatomical change at the emergence of Homo ergaster.

Did environmental changes prompt critical changes in emotional capacity around the time of Homo ergaster?

The next step: locomotion research in human evolution

Dr Bill Sellers from University of Manchester will give a talk on locomotion research in human evolution.

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

20 years of new technology re-examines 10,000 years of domestication

The Impact of Next Generation Sequencing on Research and Plant Disease Diagnostics

How does NGS impact on the Food and Environment Research Agency?

Constructing chronologies

Christopher Bronk Ramsey: Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford

The Significance of Taiwan Strait Archaeology in the 21st Century

Kuang Ti Li from the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

A Common SNP in the Growth Hormone Receptor Gene Correlates with Craniofacial Variation in Humans

This study examines normal variation in human craniofacial morphology and its correlation to genetic variation in a single population of admixed ancestry from Santiago, Chile

Shell Midden Research Group Workshop

5 min presentations to give an overview of Shell Midden research within Palaeo

The Curation and Abandonment of Australian Aboriginal Stone Artefacts

Is stone artefact manufacture, use and abandonment in parts of Aboriginal Australia fundamentally different to that observed in other parts of the world?

Ancient Human Intestinal Parasites: Evidence for Evolution, Migration and Past Health.

Parasites in Past Civilizations and their Impact Upon Health

One-day meeting on morphometrics and statistical shape

third one-day meeting