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"In small bones forgotten". Fish, rodents, and the potential of seemingly insignificant remains to address key historical issues.
Orton, D. C. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
3 Oct 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Commensalism and selection in wild black and brown rats: a poor model for commensal-pathway domestication?
Orton, D. C. (Chair)
11 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Reassessing the dispersal of black rats through late Iron Age and medieval northern Europe
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
29 Aug 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Yorkshire Philosophical Society: Cafe Scientifique
Green, E. (Organiser), Presslee, S. (Speaker), Rose, A. (Speaker), Orton, D. C. (Advisor), Feider, M. C. (Advisor) & Jansen, D. (Advisor)
24 Apr 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Outreach (e.g. schools, community groups)
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Rats as proxies for urbanism and communications in Late Antique and medieval Europe
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
1 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture
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What zooarchaeology can tell us about rats in Late Antiquity and beyond: introducing the RATTUS project
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
3 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Small mammals and Viking Age urban sites: was there a 9th C ‘Rat Horizon’?
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
17 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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The Black Death. Episode 1 - 'Bring Out Your Dead'
Orton, D. C. (Interviewee)
4 Nov 2022Activity: Other › Media (TV)
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Bodies in the Margins: challenges in the archaeology and historical ecology of rats
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
16 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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ERC Advanced Grants 2021
Orton, D. C. (Reviewer)
Dec 2021Activity: Other › Peer review of research grants
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Panel member for British Isles panel
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
23 Sept 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Symposium
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What can archaeozoology contribute to the study of past pandemics? Some thoughts on historic plague and the European rodent record
Orton, D. C. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
27 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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SeaChanges - thresholds in human exploitation of marine vertebrates: an international doctoral training network
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker) & Çakirlar, C. (Invited speaker)
23 Apr 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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“The foulest, most ferocious, and noxious of the genus”: Reviewing the brown rat’s remarkable human-mediated dispersal in the modern era
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker) & Koski, L. (Invited speaker)
11 Feb 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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“The foulest, most ferocious, and noxious of the genus” Challenging the received wisdom on the brown rat’s remarkable rise to global dominance
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker) & Koski, L. (Invited speaker)
3 Dec 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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SeaChanges ITN: Kick-Off Meeting & First Workshop
Orton, D. C. (Organiser)
7 Jan 2020 → 11 Jan 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course
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Zooarchaeological and documentary evidence for the arrival of the brown rat in Europe: challenging the received wisdom
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
12 Dec 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT AND HERDING STRATEGIES ON AN ALPINE SITE DURING MEDIEVAL AND MODERN PERIODS BY ZOOARCHEOLOGY, PROTEOMICS AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSES
Walsh, K. J. (Chair), Knockaert, J. H. A. (Speaker) & Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
30 Sept 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk
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'The Long Black Rat': assessing the a priori feasibility of Rattus rattus as a European plague reservoir during the first and second pandemics
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
5 Jul 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Continuity or Change? Faunal evidence from Çatalhöyük West
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
6 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Rats and the archaeology of trade, urbanism, and disease in historic Europe
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
25 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Rats: endangered invasives
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
17 Nov 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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COST-ARKWORK CA15201 Training School 2018
Orton, D. C. (Presenter)
20 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course
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13th ICAZ International Conference, Ankara, Turkey
Orton, D. C. (Chair)
6 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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13th ICAZ International Conference, Ankara, Turkey
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
6 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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13th ICAZ International Conference, Ankara, Turkey
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
4 Sept 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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The archaeology of the black rat (Rattus rattus) in Roman to medieval Europe: dispersal, urbanism, and communications
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
13 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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The Archaeology of the Black Rat
Orton, D. C. (Organiser)
30 May 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course
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Pirenne's rodents? Rats as proxies for trade and urbanism in Iron Age and early medieval northern Europe.
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
18 May 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Dietary trends at a macro-scale: what the zooarchaeological record can and can’t tell
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
26 Apr 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Pirenne's rodents? Rats as markers of trade and urbanism in medieval Europe
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
17 Apr 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Questions of vectors, climate, economic conditions of epidemiology of historical plagues
Orton, D. C. (Participant)
11 Apr 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course
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Professional Zooarchaeology Group 2018
Orton, D. C. (Organiser) & Fairnell, E. H. (Organiser)
10 Mar 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course
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Chronological synthesis of fishbone data: a case study from London
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
23 Jan 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Pirenne's Rodents: Rat bones as a proxy for trade and urbanism in medieval Europe
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
14 Dec 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Let's talk about... rats.
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
22 Nov 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture
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ICAZ Archaeozoology, Genetics & Morphometrics Working Group 2017
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
14 Oct 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group 2017
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
4 Oct 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group 2017
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
4 Oct 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting 2017
Orton, D. C. (Chair)
2 Sept 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting 2017
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
1 Sept 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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Building a National Zooarchaeological Reference Resource: 2nd workshop
Orton, D. C. (Organiser)
20 Jun 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Symposium
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Biobinoculars on Urban Archaeology: Northern Emporium project workshop
Orton, D. C. (Invited speaker)
27 Apr 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar/workshop/course
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European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting 2016
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
2 Sept 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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European Journal of Archaeology (Journal)
Orton, D. C. (Editorial board member)
2 Aug 2016 → Aug 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board
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Building a National Zooarchaeological Reference Resource: 1st workshop
Orton, D. C. (Organiser)
16 May 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Symposium
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Professional Zooarchaeology Group
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
3 Apr 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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Association for Environmental Archaeology Spring Conference 2016
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
2 Apr 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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Association for Environmental Archaeology Conference
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
8 Nov 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference participation
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Boomtown rats: ancient rodent bones from York as markers of urbanisation and trade
Orton, D. C. (Speaker)
25 Sept 2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture