8 December 2022 - 8 December 2022
1:00PM - 2:00PM
D104, The Dawson Building and online via Zoom
Free
Dr Alice Rose from Durham University will be talking on the FoodCult project, through which isotope analysis is indicating the diets of people in Early Modern Ireland
Path through trees. From Hilton Vitality UK and Ireland
The multiscale, interdisciplinary ‘FoodCult’ project aims to bring together history, archaeology, science and IT to explore the diet and foodways in Early Modern Ireland (c. AD 1550—1650). As part of the project, multi-tissue, multi-isotope analysis is being applied to a variety of Early Modern individuals excavated from archaeological sites across Ireland, allowing for discussions regarding the social and cultural meaning of food in these different contexts. This presentation will discuss the preliminary results of these isotopic analyses, as well as progress on various other aspects of the project, including research into Irish household documents, archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and artefactual evidence, organic residue analysis and experimental brewing of 16th century beer.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dr Alice Rose is a PDRA in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. She is a bioarchaeologist who specialises in the isotopic analysis of human remains. She completed her PhD and initial PDRA position as part of the Cambridge University 'After the Plague: History and Health in Medieval Cambridge' project. Now she is working with Professor Janet Montgomery on the isotopic analysis of human remains from Ireland for the 'FoodCult' project.
The Dawson Building
Durham University Science Site
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
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