Students from the Department of Archaeology have returned from the University of Kiel, Germany, where they attended an open workshop on ‘Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes II'. The trip, funded by the University of Nottingham's Annual Fund, saw Frazer Bowen, Richard Easton, Katie Gibson, Lara Hogg, Zoe Knapp, Alex Mirrington, Rebecca Reynolds, Luke Taylor, James Westoby, Diane Wren together with Dr Naomi Sykes, leave Nottingham on Sunday 13 March.
During their short stay at Kiel, the group attended the plenary session on Monday 14 March, featuring some inspirational papers from Nicki Whitehouse (Queen’s University Belfast), Ingmar Unkel & Antonia Davidovic (CAU Kiel), Helle Vandkindle (Aarhus University) and Klaus Schmidt (DAI, Berlin).
In addition, the students also presented their own work as part of Session 8 ‘Natural or anthropogenic –dynamic and mobility of faunal landscapes’ on Tuesday 15 March. This included a poster presentation by the MA students entitled, ‘Late Medieval Attitudes to the Natural World: A Zooarchaeological Exploration’, Rebecca Reynolds reading her paper ‘A Sense of Place: Early Medieval Marine Fishing and Landscapes’ and Frazer Bowen discussing ‘Worldviews in Transition: The Impact of Exotic Animals on Iron Age/Romano-British Landscapes’.
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Students from the University of Nottingham in the animal session.
Frazer Bowen presenting his paper‘Worldviews in Transition: The Impact of Exotic Animals on Iron Age/Romano-British Landscapes’
Rebecca Reynolds reading her paper ‘A Sense of Place: Early Medieval Marine Fishing and Landscapes’
Students from the University of Nottingham on the last night of the trip to Kiel
Posted on Thursday 17th March 2011