Speaker
Dr
Kirsi Lorentz
(Cyprus Institute)
Description
SESAME, the first synchrotron located in the cradle of civilisation, opened its doors with its first official beam time focusing on ancient human remains. This talk introduces key aspects of SESAME, in its Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern (EMME region) context, and takes the audience on a journey of discovery as regards the ancient people – real individuals – who inhabited the EMME region in the distant past, and contributed significantly to how we live today. In so doing we also focus on the advances, challenges and potential of synchrotron-radiation-enabled approaches to Human Bioarchaeology.
