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Analysing archaeology: Using chemistry to understand the past

Kirsty Penkman, Kirsty High, Bea Demarchi, Jo Simpson

  • 26 September 2014
    7pm - 9pm

  • DIG (map)

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible

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Analytical chemistry can take you to unexpected places: from the bottom of a quarry, excavating tiny fossils to discover when mammoths and Neanderthals roamed Europe, to a Yorkshire field measuring water chemistry to work out if an archaeological site is under threat.  From Great Barrier Reef corals to South African ostrich eggshells, collaborations between chemists, earth scientists and archaeologists push analytical science forward and advance our understanding of earth's history. So come and discover how the molecules we analyse in the lab can tell you about the past!