CACHE News: Research Showcase Success! Ancient Peopled Landscapes

CACHE is delighted to have co-hosted with the Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences a Research Showcase on Ancient Peopled Landscapes. The event brought together academics, teaching and support staff, postdoctoral fellows, HDR students and undergraduate students across the university to discuss and share inspiring research and new technologies.

The combining of researchers and colleagues across various departments and the School of Natural Sciences offered a unique opportunity to build multidisciplinary collaborations and learn from each other's experience and methods in this research space. The research showcase covered four key themes including techniques, cross-cultural collaborations, marine, coastal, terrestrial, and fluvial contexts. The broad range of talks connected to consider how people engaged, experienced and lived in their environments across deep time.

Some topics by CACHE members include:

• Scanning the field, MQ experiments in fieldwork 3D digitisation by Michael Rampe
• Macquarie’s capability for non-destructive analyses of archeological materials by Prof Damian Gore
• Combining Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science to better understand landscapes and management by Dr Emilie Ens
• Shells in sedimentary records as evidence of ecosystem change associated with European colonisation of Australia by Dr Matt Kosnik
• Early human interactions with rainforests in Southeast Asia by A/Prof Kira Westaway
• Holocene landscape modification in mountainous Inner Asia by Dr Mike Spate (2021 CACHE Postdoctoral fellow
• In Search of the Ancient Nile by Dr Tim Ralph

Congratulations to Dr Emilie Ens, our CAHCE Deputy Director, and Dr Tim Ralph (CACHE Executive Member) for their efforts in bringing together this incredible event.