Australia’s Lost Giants: New ways to study old faunal remains

Monday 30th May, 6pm BST

Speaker: Carli Peters (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

During the Late Pleistocene, a large number of Earth’s largest vertebrate animals, so-called megafauna, went extinct. One of the most affected continents was Australia, where only a small number of megafauna species survived until today. In this talk, we will delve further into Australia’s enigmatic megafauna, and the wide range of hypotheses of why they went extinct. Finally, we will zoom in on my personal research, which uses a novel method called ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) to study megafauna extinctions in Australia.

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