Yorkshire Palaeo Group meeting, on Microsoft Teams or at the University of Bradford

17 Apr 2023 by Dr Philip Murgatroyd

We have a programme for Wednesday’s Yorkshire Palaeo Group meeting, see below!

We’ve got an interesting mix of geophysics, AI, project updates, simulation, archaeology, climate and environment. We’ve got landscapes, some terrestrial and some submerged, and we’ve got sites. Email P.Murgatroyd@bradford.ac.uk for either a Teams link for virtual attendence, or to let us know you’ll be turning up in person to ensure you have access to the location (L22, Richmond Building).

Hope to see you on Wednesday, whether in-person or virtually!

Programme:

14:00 – Simon Fitch, ‘Submerged landscapes in the Bay of Split’.

14:20 – Andy Fraser, ‘Artificial Interpretation – Using Artificial Intelligence to investigate submerged landscape archaeology under the southern North Sea’.

14:40 – James Walker, ‘Taken at the Flood’.

15:00 – Scott Carballo, ‘Co-Design of the Unpath Navigator: A Cross-Disciplinary Maritime Research Test Group’.

15:20 – Oliver Wilson, ‘How climate, Indigenous people and fire shaped Brazil’s Araucaria Forests through the Late Holocene’.

15:40 – Micheál Butler, ‘Moving through the mountains – An integrated GIS and Agent-based modelling approach to predict the location of Mesolithic sites in the Cairngorms, Scotland’.

16:00 – Ideas about the future of YPG. Canvassing opinion on how best to organise and publicise the YPG meetings in the future.