Saturday 26 April 2014: Day conference, Molluscs in Archaeology.

Type
Indoor meeting

Final notice and details.

The Conchological Society and the Asociation for Environmental Archaeology are holding a joint one-day conference on Molluscs in Archaeology at the  Natural History Museum, London,

Papers: M. Law & N. Thew, Environmental change of Machair of the Outer Hebrides; Tom Walker, Gwithian Sand, Cornwall; palaeoenvironment, molluscs, archaeology; E. Tetlow et al., Neolithic occupation, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Qatar; J. Ridout-Sharpe, Epipalaeolithic/ Neolithic shell jewellery in Syria; M. Allen, Scale and land-use Interpretation - re-evaluating chalklands; B. Eastabrook, Ancient Forests in Malta, fact or fiction?; V. Taylor & M. Bell, Land mollusc midden in Morocco, G. Campbell, Predicting shell size from fragments, and E. Somerville on oysters in archaeology; R Feranades & A. Dreves, Radiocarbon and isotopic analysis of bivalves in archaeology.

Organiser

Mike Allen

Organisation
Conchological Society