LAB: Laboratory for Artefact Biographies

16/07/2024

New publication out by the LAB and The Fall of 1200 BC team led by Vana Orfanou

20/05/2024

UCD School of Archaeology invites applications for a 1-year fixed term Teaching Fellow!

Job Opportunity
Teaching Fellow, Temporary Fixed Term 1 year

UCD School of Archaeology seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow for the 2024/2025 academic year primarily to support teaching in the School’s undergraduate programmes.

Competition Ref. No.: 017323.
For details of the position please visit:
https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/

For more information on UCD School of Archaeology please visit: www.ucd.ie/archaeology.

University College Dublin, UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, National Monuments Service - Archaeology, National Museum of Ireland

06/03/2024

publication alert from the LAB and The Fall of 1200 BC team ✒️

Have you heard of ‘𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨’? No? Then you’re in for a treat because we have just published a new study spearheaded by the amazing Dr Caroline Bruyere, where we demonstrate that:

The frequent mixing of copper from different sources with varying lead concentrations to make objects resulted in the masking of the low-lead LIA signatures by the high-lead ones. This means that in 𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐝.

This has extremely important implications on how we interpret Lead Isotope Analyses in ancient copper-based alloys and on how we understand trade and craftsmanship in the past generally in the past and in the 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘻𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯 specifically

Read it all on our recent paper as part of The Fall of 1200 BC project:

𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚, 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙯𝙚 𝘼𝙜𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣: 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠

Open access, of course

DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324000232?via%3Dihub

01/03/2024

Have you heard about the metallurgical experiments we contducted back in September? Here's a little update from the sample processing stage 📷

09/01/2024

Lecturer in Archaeomaterials at Uni of Oxford

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFE507/departmental-lecturer-in-archaeomaterials?fbclid=IwAR2MWaspR4Ip4FVCLaNZ7w9LY7XoSJk-A6_OzhcPacp8cCehYGl1wDP-_sk

An academic position as a Departmental Lecturer in Archaeomaterials is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.