Posts tagged Technique: X-ray Tomography
From plankton shells to past oceans: How biomineral accretion records seawater physics with Stergios Zarkogiannis

Speaker: Stergios Zarkogiannis, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research Abstract: Planktonic foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms that build calcite shells and have done so since the Jurassic (~200 Ma). Their shells preserve a rich archive of past ocean conditions through geochemical…

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VIDEO: Preparing for Beamtime: a LINXS webinar series – ECL and Heritage Science themes

Speaker: Clarissa Cagnato, Archéologie des Amériques, France Abstract: In the context of archaeology, seeds and other plant components are frequently unearthed in association with the preparation, consumption, and discarding of food. While seeds and other plant components can be identified to a…

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VIDEO - Guest seminar – Frontiers of Archaeobotany with Dorian Fuller (UCL) – Heritage Science Theme 2023

Archaeobotany has long contributed information of the nature of ancient crop production, which species were grown and eaten in the past. Recent work has begun to provide new information which come from both the quantitative increase in archaeobotanical evidence but also methodological developments…

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