Author: archemy

Archemy and The Collegium for Transdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistics are inviting you to join the seminar “Interdisciplinary Possibilities in the Studies of the Past” on the 9th of December. The seminar will start 10 o’clock AM (programme above). You can join the seminar through Zoom. Link: https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93967539879?pwd=cENGU0lGcW1JTWlhWXRKc2M1QzJ0dz09 Meeting ID: 939 6753 9879…
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Our team members started celebrating Christmas early in Sandra’s countryside. Archemy members enjoyed the snow, sauna, saw different domestic animals (cows, horses, chicken, dogs, cats), made traditional Christmas food, got a farm tour and enjoyed some good traditional Estonian Christmas songs.

On 22 November at 10:15 our own Alessandra Morrone will defend her doctoral thesis “Children of the Grave: a multidisciplinary study of non-adult diet and disease from medieval and early modern southern Estonia”. Alessandra’s PhD research is about the skeletal remains of non-adults provide numerous insights into the complexity of their personal and social lives,…
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The Estonian Research Council (ETAG) has submitted the names of 65 Estonian researchers for inclusion in the AcademiaNet portal of successful women scientists, two of whom are Mari and Eve. The aim of the portal is to highlight successful women scientists and to raise their international profile. The portal is also a good tool for…
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Ester talked about our team and gave an overview of what we study and how we do it – Archemy unites soft and hard sciences to answer archaeological questions. Ester believes our strengths lie in the small size of the community. We also have excellent labs where we can do world-class science and a highly-motivated…
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Estonian Public Broadcast’s show Ringvaade visited our team to see what our group is up to.  Our team members Kristiina, Agnes and Sandra discussed whether Estonians ate horse meat and how a pottery sherd can tell us whether people cooked fish in Estonian National Broadcast show Ringvaade.  You can see the clip below or by…
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On Friday, the 11th of February, Archemy celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Please take this day to acknowledge, encourage and cherish women in academia!   As part of celebrating this special day the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) launches a social media campaign to introduce one’s research to the wider…
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Archemy team has had a busy year.  The whole team came together at the end of 2021, went sleighing, had fun in Tartu’s little christmas village and exchanged presents. A lot was discovered last year and hopefully a lot of new discoveries are on the way.  Follow our teams results and discoveries here. 

On the 8th of October (10 am ‒ 16 pm) John Meadows is having a workshop about radiocarbon dating, selecting samples and statistical modelling. Workshop is held in Jakobi 2-213.  Participants must have a COVID-19 immunisation certificate and the workshop is limited to 24 participants. To participate, please fill in the registration form. (This project of…
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On the 6th of October at 16.15 pm John Meadows (in co-operation with Archemy and The Baltic-German University Liaison Office) is doing a seminar about „Dating the spread of pottery across north-eastern Europe: legacy radiocarbon dates versus new dates from the INDUCE project“. The seminar is held in Jakobi 2-213.  (This project of the Baltic-German…
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