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2024
Melanie Pugliese was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Award for New Paleoethnobotanical Methodology: Using Artificial Intelligence to Illuminate Plant Use in the Past. (Posted May, 2024)
The RLEA presented their current Lab Updates IN PROCESS: The Development of an Automatic Deep-Learning Phytolith Analysis Workflow at the SAA's in New Orleans. (Posted April 20 2024)
Lachlan Kyle-Robinson was awarded a CGS M Award for Resiliency: Pre-Pottery Neolithic Plant Use and Resource Selection During Regional Decline. (Posted April, 2024)
Lachlan Kyle-Robinson was awarded a research fellowship grant through the University of Toronto Archaeology Center to support upcoming work with Dr. Donald Butler. This research focuses on developing understandings of how growth/collapse cycles in transnational exchange networks shaped emergent rural economies along the Incense Road in the Negev Desert, Israel between the 3rd century BCE and 8th century CE. The Incense Road connecting Arabia and the Mediterranean was established as the main artery for delivering goods such as frankincense, perfumes, oils, and fish from production centers in Arabia to the Mediterranean. (Posted March 20, 2024)
2023
Dr. Monica Ramsey has published a new academic paper that sheds light on the fascinating evolution of human food production in the southern Levant. Using a multi-proxy archaeobotanical dataset and niche construction theory, the study explores the impact of human impacts on wetland ecosystems and the transition to plant food production. Shareit link: https://rdcu.be/c8lAm. (Posted March 24, 2023)
Dr. Monica Ramsey was awarded $9,270.00 in credit with the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Credit for Research program to help cover costs associated with the implementation of the RLEA database currently in development with the DSI. (Posted February 8, 2023)
Dr. Monica Ramsey was recently selected as a recipient of the U of T Data Sciences Institute Research Software Development Support Program. This program will enable Dr. Ramsey to work with a professional software developer in order to build a customized lab database in support of her archaeological research program at UTM. (Posted February 8, 2023)