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4 March 2019
Last December, BOSCORF took a selection of sediment cores to the British Sedimentological Research Group AGM at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. We provided cores to illustrate the contourite facies discussed in one of the pre-AGM sessions, in addition to taking a sample of cores we use for teaching purposes, and several from a wide range of environments that were on display throughout the first day of the conference. This provided us with an excellent opportunity to engage with new...
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10 January 2019
This study concentrates on the Zagros region during a crucial period in human history. Wide-scale transition from mobile hunter-gatherer to sedentary farmer-herder in the Fertile Crescent, during the Neolithic period, has been identified, indicating the establishment of new lifestyles and diets, including plant and animal domestication. However, despite being a region of such significance, the Zagros area has received little attention in terms of palaeoenvironmental studies....
19 November 2018
The recent announcement of the oldest ‘intact’ shipwreck from the Black Sea made international news last week (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2018/10/oldest-intact-shipwreck-found.page). BOSCORF played an important role in this story by providing the necessary space to study the recovered ship timbers, including the recording, wood identification, laser scanning and the sampling for radiocarbon dating that was instrumental in confirming the ship dates from c.400 BC date. This was...
31 August 2018
PhD student Rachael Shuttleworth (@rachshuts) from NOC recently visited local school Oakwood Primary where she held a morning session with the reception class as part of their annual science week. After a short assembly introducing the children to key concepts such as global warming and climate change the classes were split up into groups for an experiment using infra-red lamps to heat up bottles filled with CO2 and air – where the bottle that was filled up with CO2 got hotter, faster! This...
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