Elisabetta Boaretto will give a speech that will discuss research from an excavation at Kebara Cave in Israel.

The lecture will look into the preservation of charred materials from the recent excavation. Boaretto is an expert in the integrative approach to radiocarbon dating in archaeology.

Boaretto has also led a research excavation in Yuchanianin Hunan in China. In her research she has also introduced the use of infrared and Raman spectroscopy, in which both methods help to increase the analytical precision and accuracy of the radiocarbon date and relate the information to the context.

Boaretto is currently working in a dating study on the Iron Age in Israel, which will help with biblical chronology.

This lecturer has been awarded the IBA-Europhysics Prize for Applied Nuclear Science, Nuclear Methods and Nuclear Researches in Medicine.