Science in culture
Our department leads the field in culturally informed science. Our staff work closely with geochemists, geneticists, biologists, climate scientists and/or imaging specialists, to address questions that cannot be answered without hard science, but would never have been asked in the absence of cultural knowledge.
What we cover
- Undertaking isotope analysis to explore the chemical composition of objects but also soils/sediments and the remains of plants, animals and people
- Investigating issues such as pollution, how and where things were made, or how plants and animals were raised and traded
- Looking at human-animal relationships, diets and migration patterns, how they have changed through time, and why
- Demonstrating how culturally informed science can enrich our understanding of the human past, whilst generating deep-time evidence to inform its future
Find out about all our projects