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Dr Ian MacLeod is Executive Director of Fremantle Museums and Maritime Heritage. Ian has been with the Western Australian Museum since 1978. From a background of specialising in materials conservation and the decay of materials ancient and modern, Ian has applied his electrochemical background to solving complex problems association with preservation of ... Continue Reading »

Emily Jateff is a Curator at the South Australian Maritime Museum in Port Adelaide. She has worked in universities, private industry and research organisations in Australia and the United States. Emily is an underwater archaeologist and specialist in collections management for archaeological objects. She also holds an adjunct position with ... Continue Reading »

I don’t know how your day starts but mine begins with a foggy period of confusion between getting out of bed and the effects of the caffeine from my first coffee taking hold. During this period I usually have Radio National playing in the background, rudely yanking at me with ... Continue Reading »

Archaologist Estelle Lazer became rather infamous in the 90s after New Scientist published an article based on her research entitled “The Fat, Hairy Women of Pompeii”. This article suggested that her research proved that many of the ladies of Pompeii were not the beauties suggested by the frescos, ... Continue Reading »

Dr Estelle Lazer has worked on the human skeletal remains in Pompeii since 1986. Her book, Resurrecting Pompeii, was published in 2009 on her work on the victims of the AD 79 eruption of Mt Vesuvius. She is currently working on a project to examine the casts of these victims. ... Continue Reading »

Science Outside the Square brought science from Italy to Carnevale in Adelaide. At 3pm Archaeologist Estelle Lazer presented her work on the ruins of Pompeii, studying the skeletons of the people buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2000 years ago. At 6pm Marcello Costa ... Continue Reading »

A couple of weeks ago came news of the definitive evidence that overturns the pivotal dogma of North American archaeology; incontrovertible evidence that there were people in that continent before 13,000 years ago. Let’s start with the dogma. It has long been recognised that the first people in North America were ... Continue Reading »

Michael is an archaeologist and biological anthropologist. He undertook his undergraduate training at the Australian National University (1992) and Honours year at the University of Sydney (1994) investigating the question of megafauna extinctions. Michael’s career has covered many diverse roles: consultant archaeologist in Queensland; state archaeologist with the Heritage Services Branch ... Continue Reading »