Archaeology

SRAP board member Dr Sofia Samper Carro, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the Australian National University,participated in Pint of Science Canberra. Held from 18–20 May at King O’Malley’s, Pint of Science brought researchers out of the lab and into local venues to share science in a relaxed and engaging setting. […]

Dr Sofia Samper Carro brings Neanderthals to Pint of Science ...

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Congratulations to our members A/Prof Teresa Ubide (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland) and Dr Sofía Samper Carro (School of Culture, History and Language; College of Asia and the Pacific; Australian National University) for being awarded the very prestigious ARC (Australian Research Council) grants of “ARC Future Fellowship 2024” (Teresa) […]

ARC Fellowships to A/Prof Teresa Ubide and Dr Sofía Samper

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For Australia’s National Science Week 2022 SRAP joined forces with Instituto Cervantes Sydney organising 3 free science communication events. The last one of them is an hybrid (in-person +online) event that was held at Instituto Cervantes Sydney at 5:30pm, Thursday 18th Aug, with the title “Connecting Australian and Spanish research” Each panelist […]

Connecting Australian and Spanish Research: hybrid event for Australia’s National ...

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Our member, Prof. Javier Álvarez-Mon (Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and Art, Macquarie University) has recently published an article in the Journal of the Iran National Museum entitled: Between Picasso and Piradi On tour with Saltimbanques and Musicians from ancient Iran (c. 600 Bc). This article offers a new line drawing and […]

The world’s first professional acrobats were flipping through the Middle ...

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On Thursday 11 March 2021, our member Dr Sofía Samper Carro presented her first Prehistory/Archaeology Workshop for over 30 ACT primary and secondary teachers. Dr Carro’s workshop included many fun, hands-on learning activities, and the first two topics dealt with Chronology and Stratigraphy. Working in small groups, participants embraced challenges […]

Prehistory and Archaeology workshop for primary and secondary teachers

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Our member Sofía Samper Carro, Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Anthropology (College of Arts and Social Sciences – Australian National University, ANU, Canberra), has collaborated in a study recently published in Nature Communications,  titled  “Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea“. In the […]

Sofía Samper Carro collaborates in Anthropology research published in Nature ...

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