Lasers, lights and bronze body armour: A talk by Dr Jeremy Armstrong, Dr Josh Emmitt and Mr Tim Mackrell Event as iCalendar

Dr Jeremy Armstrong, Dr Josh Emmitt and Mr Tim Mackrell | University of Auckland

This seminar focuses on the use of experimental archaeology in museum collections. It is part of the project ‘Blood and Money: The Military Industrial Complex in Archaic Central Italy’, which is supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund. This collaboration between Classics and Ancient History and Archaeology is exploring the development, manufacture, supply and maintenance of military equipment in the ancient Mediterranean using archaic central Italy as a case study.

This informal talk will present the basics of the project and some of the benefits (and issues) of this ongoing work – with a particular focus on data acquisition using macroscopic analysis, pXRF, and 3D modelling in the context of museum collections.

The project is headed by Dr. Jeremy Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, in collaboration with Dr. Josh Emmitt and Mr. Tim Mackrell from Anthropology and the School of Social Sciences.

Please register using our Google form.

Registration lets us know numbers for catering, and if we need to book a larger room.

Also see our Facebook event and New Zealand Archaeology week listing for more information.

This event was scheduled after New Zealand Archaeology week due to University of Auckland graduations on Monday 29 April, Wednesday 1 and Friday 3 May.