*presenting author(s)
2023
Embracing Messy Narratives: When Stable Isotope Analysis Meets aDNA… (Workshop- Toward a Finer Understanding of Past Societies: How to Integrate Multidisciplinary Bioarchaeological Data Together with Reconstructed Pedigrees, University of York)
Lindsey Büster
Sampling Strategies for Multi-Proxy Bioarchaeological Analysis (Workshop- Toward a Finer Understanding of Past Societies: How to Integrate Multidisciplinary Bioarchaeological Data Together with Reconstructed Pedigrees, University of York)
Maddy Bleasdale, Laura Castells Navarro and Claire-Elise Fischer
Underworld Encounters: A Prehistoric Mortuary Complex on the Moray Firth (Peeblesshire Archaeological Society, online)
Lindsey Büster* and Ian Armit
2022
Exploring Kinship Through Ancient DNA: A View from the Iron Age Cemetery of Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire (Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, University of Edinburgh)
Ian Armit*, Lindsey Büster, Claire-Elise Fischer, Iñigo Olalde, Tom Booth and David Reich
COMMIOS (Canterbury Archaeology Research Network (CARN), Canterbury Christ Church University)
Lindsey Büster (on behalf of the Project Team)
Migration, Mobility and Demography in Later Prehistoric Britain (East Riding Archaeological Society/University of Hull 2022 Lecture Series, University of Hull)
Ian Armit
Migration, Mobility and Demography in Later Prehistoric Britain (Society of Antiquries of London 2022 Lecture Series, London)
Ian Armit
Worlds Apart: Local Landscapes and Cosmopolitan Centres for Dealing with the Dead in Later Prehistoric Britain (EAA 2022, Budapest)
Lindsey Büster*, Madeleine Bleasdale, Claire-Elise Fischer, Charlotte Primeau & Ian Armit
Funerary Practices on the Edge of Scotland: The Analysis of the Disarticulated Human Bone Assemblages from the Covesea Caves (EAA 2022, Budapest)
Charlie Primeau*, Tom Booth, Lindsey Lindsey Büster & Ian Armit
Population Dynamics in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain from the Macro to the Micro-Scale (EAA 2022, Budapest)
Ian Armit*, Madeleine Bleasdale, Claire-Elise Fischer, Lindsey Büster, Jane Evans & David Reich
Dead but Still Present: The Analysis of the Fragmented Bone Assemblages from the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland ((Re-)Assembly: Creating Lifeway Narratives from Fragmented (Bio)Archaeological Records conference, University College Dublin, online)
Charlotte Primeau*, Tom Booth, Lindsey Büster & Ian Armit
Living with the Dead: Researching the Broken Bodies of Iron Age Britain ((Re-)Assembly: Creating Lifeway Narratives from Fragmented (Bio)Archaeological Records conference, University College Dublin, online)
Michael Legge
The Analysis of the Mortuary Cave Assemblage from the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland (UKAS 2022, Aberdeen)
Charlotte Primeau*, Tom Booth, Lindsey Büster & Ian Armit
Reconstructing Cross-Channel Connectivity in Later Prehistoric Kent Using Ancient DNA and Isotope Analysis (UKAS 2022, Aberdeen; poster)
Madeleine Bleasdale*, Claire-Elise Fischer, Lindsey Büster, Jane Evans, Jacqueline McKinley, Tom Booth & David Reich
Beyond the Local/Mon-Local Dichotomy: Case Studies in Contextualizing Archaeological Strontium Isotope Studies (Society for American Archaeology, Chicago)
Beth Scaffidi*, Ian Armit, Penny Bickle, Elena Isayev & Scott Ortman
COMMIOS (Cardiff University Bioarchaeology Lab Group Seminar Series)
Michael Legge
Migration and mobility in Bronze and Iron Age Britain: DNA, Isotopes and Archaeology (University of Nottingham Research Seminar Series)
Ian Armit
Migration and Mobility in Bronze and Iron Age Britain: the COMMIOS Project (‘Pints and Postholes’ lecture series, University of York)
Ian Armit
2021
Mother Tongues: Exploring Sex Bias in Genetically-Attested Migrations in Prehistoric Europe (Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, online)
Lindsey Büster* & Ian Armit
Dead and Gone but not Dead and Buried: Breathing New Life into Lost and Recently Excavated Bone Assemblages from the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland (Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, online)
Lindsey Büster*, Charlie Primeau*, Tom Booth & Ian Armit
Macroscopic and Microscopic Analysis of Cut Marks and Trampling on Human Remains from the Covesea Caves, Scotland, Dating to the Late Bronze Age and Roman Iron Age (Microscopy and Microanalysis in Geological and Archaeological Sciences Conference, online)
Charlie Primeau*, Tom Booth, Lindsey Büster & Ian Armit
A Coastal Mortuary Complex on the Moray Firth? Examining Prehistoric Funerary Rites at the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland (Newcastle University Seminar Series)
Lindsey Büster* & Ian Armit
Genetic Change and Population Movement c. 1200 BCE: A View from the North and West (EAA 2021, Kiel online)
Ian Armit*, Maddy Bleasdale, Lindsey Büster, Claire-Elise Fischer, Tom Booth, Nick Patterson, Michael Isakov, Jane Evans, Derek Hamilton & David Reich
Isotopic and Genetic Explorations of Cross-Channel Connectivity in Bronze and Iron Age Kent (EAA 2021, Kiel online)
Maddy Bleasdale*, Lindsey Buster, Claire-Elise Fischer & Jane Evans
Using aDNA as Part of a Multi-Proxy Approach to Understand Biological and Social Kinship of Unusual Burials from Portmahomack (Scotland) (EAA 2021, Kiel online)
Claire-Elise Fischer*, Iñigo Olalde, David Reich, Ian Armit, Martin Carver & Cecily Spall*
Home is Where the Hearth is: Exploring Sex Bias in Genetically-Attested Migrations in Prehistoric Europe (EAA 2021, Kiel online)
Lindsey Büster* & Ian Armit
Migration, Mobility and Social Interaction in Bronze and Iron Age Britain: Initial Results of The COMMIOS Project (EAA 2021, Kiel online)
Ian Armit*, Maddy Bleasdale, Lindsey Büster, Claire-Elise Fischer, Tom Booth, Nick Patterson, Michael Isakov, Jane Evans, Derek Hamilton & David Reich
Iron Age Demographics: Community, Mobility and Scale (Europa 2021, Prehistoric Society online)
Ian Armit
COMMIOS. Communities & Connectivities: Iron Age Britons and their Continental Neighbours (IARSS 2021)
Lindsey Büster* (on behalf of the COMMIOS Project)
Migration and Mobility in Bronze & Iron Age Britain: Ancient aDNA, Isotopes and Archaeology (Nene Valley Archaeological Trust)
Ian Armit
Late Bronze Age Funerary Rites at the Sculptor’s Cave, NE Scotland (Bronze Age Studies Group, Durham University online)
Lindsey Büster* & Ian Armit
Le projet COMMIOS : un nouveau regard sur les sociétés de l’âge du Fer en Grande-Bretagne et leurs relations avec le continent (Journee de rentree de l’AFEAF, Paris online)
Claire-Elise Fischer*, Maddy Bleasdale, Lindsey Büster, Charlie Primeau, Thomas Booth, David Reich & Ian Armit
GENETIX: Un état des lieux des populations de l’âge du Fer en France. Regards croisés de l’archéologie et de la génétique (1846e Journees de la SAP, Paris online)
Claire-Elise Fischer*, Marie-France Deguilloux et Melanie Pruvost
Children’s heads & Chinese whispers: mis(-communicating) mortuary complexity at the Sculptor’s Cave (Keynote presentation, Digideath: 6th University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference, University of Chester online)
Lindsey Büster*
2020
Darkness Visible: The Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland lecture series 2020, online)
Lindsey Büster* and Ian Armit
Understanding and (re-)interpreting the Urville-Nacqueville buried community: a dialogue between archaeology and genetics (EAA 2020, online)
Claire-Elise Fischer*, Marie-Hélène Pemonge, Anthony Lefort, Stéphane Rottier & Marie-France Deguilloux
Under the skin of commingled bone assemblages: element index analysis at the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland (EAA 2020, online)
Lindsey Büster*, Daniel Shaw & Ian Armit
Movements of people into Britain during the Middle-Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age: results from Ancient DNA (IARSS 2020, University of Manchester online)
Tom Booth*, Michael Isakov, Nick Patterson, Nadin Rohland, Ian Armit & David Reich
COMMIOS 