A roundtable discussion on an ongoing pioneering international investigation of anomalous burials in early medieval Gaul, and the evidence they provide about the so-called "Justinianic Plague". Featuring presentations by Philippe Blanchard (INRAP), Isabelle Catteddu (INRAP Grand Ouest), Valérie Delattre (Université de Bourgogne), Michael McCormick (Harvard University), Claude Raynaud (CNRS), Solenn Troadec (Harvard University), and Marie-Cécile Truc (Université de Caen). Sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) and the... Read more about (Bio)archaeological Approaches to Disease and Death in Early Medieval France

Solenn Troadec (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past), The Archaeology of Death: Burial Places, Graves, and Bodies. Note that this talk is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, please contact workshop organizers Sama Mammadova or Reed Morgan.

Post-Pandemic Update: What has the Science of the Human Past Discovered Lately? Introduced by Michael McCormick, with presentations by Christina Warriner, Jason Ur, Michael Isakov, Daniel Lord Smail, Gabriel Pizzorno, Solenn Troadec, Alexander More, David Reich, and Margaret Andrews. Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past and the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean. Note that this is a hybrid event; those wishing to attend virtually can register... Read more about Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past

Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena), Death by Contact: Ancient Pathogen Genomes from Epidemics in Early Mexico. Sponsored by the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) and the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.

 

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