The Quirky History of Medical Intervention in Archaeology
17th February 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Quirky History of Medical Intervention in Archaeology
Tuesday 17th February 7pm
Dr Trish Biers, Curator of the Duckworth Collections in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, will speak about the fascinating and often quirky ways that people in the past dealt with medical maladies.
How ancient is surgery? When did people start wearing dentures? This talk will take us on a global adventure of medical intervention and magical incantations all through the lens of archaeology!
Please note that images of human remains will be in this talk.
Dr Trish Biers curates the Duckworth laboratory (human and non-human primate remains) in the Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Department about ethics, repatriation, treatment of the dead, mortuary archaeology, and osteology. Her research focuses on the ethical curation of human remains and considerations for displaying the dead in museums and heritage sites. She has held positions in the Repatriation Osteology Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, and at the San Diego Museum of Us in California.
Tickets £8.50
Gates open at 6.30pm
