[Sci-tech-public] MIT Literature Dept. Colloquium : TODAY

[Randyn A. Miller]

MIT LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
Ancient and Medieval Studies Colloquium

TODAY
March 4, 2013
5:30 PM
14E-304

Michael McCormick
Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History
Chair, Standing Committee on Archaeology
Harvard University 

“Consilience: Science and the Human Past”
 
The advances of the sciences are producing revolutionary changes in our knowledge of the human past, from genomic archaeology that detects ancient migrations and admixtures from living genomes, to climate science, which is reconstructing the changing environmental context of human civilizations from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Jamestown Colony, via the myriad contributions of computer science, for instance in the growth of digital texts ancient and modern, culturomics, hyperspectral imaging and Geographic Information Systems.  The talk will offer a quick tour of salient developments, including the nascent initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard.


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