CETARCH participates in international conferences, specialist training programmes, collaborative initiatives and research activities dedicated to cetacean archaeology, marine biodiversity, digital heritage and North Atlantic studies. The timeline below documents the project's academic development, professional training and international dissemination.
2026
3rd Meeting of the Medieval Period Working Group
Conference Presentation ↗From Cetaceans to Artefacts: Whale-Bone Production and Coastal Resource Exploitation in Early Medieval Iceland and Northern Norway.
International Medieval Congress (IMC)
Conference Presentation ↗From Archaeological Cetacean Remains to Data: Digital Approaches in the Interdisciplinary Study of Whale-Bone Assemblages from Early Coastal Settlements in Iceland and Northern Norway.
Studying Marine Mammals in the Wild
Research Training Course ↗Master's-level research training course focusing on cetacean biology, whaling history, photo-identification, acoustic monitoring, behavioural observations, drone surveys and marine ecology.
2025
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA-N)
Conference Presentation ↗From Archaeological Cetacean Remains to Data: Digital Approaches in the Interdisciplinary Study of Whale-Bone Assemblages from Early Coastal Settlements in Iceland and Northern Norway.
Whale-Bone Analysis for Understanding Early Coastal Settlements in Iceland and Northern Norway.
European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
Conference Presentation ↗From Cetaceans to Artefacts: Whale-Bone Analysis for Understanding Early Coastal Settlements in Iceland and Northern Norway.
3D and VR in Archaeology: Implementing VR Rooms and Producing 3D Data
International Spring School ↗Intensive training in photogrammetry, structured-light scanning, 3D modelling, virtual reality applications and digital archaeological documentation.
Project Origins & Research Foundations
MA Thesis Research
From Cetaceans to Artefacts: Whale-Bone Analysis for Understanding Early Coastal Settlements in Iceland and Northern Norway.
This research established the intellectual and methodological foundation for CETARCH, defining its focus on archaeological cetacean remains, whale-bone artefacts, marine resource exploitation, biodiversity and long-term human–cetacean relationships across the North Atlantic.
Ongoing Research
CETARCH is an evolving research initiative. This section will continue to expand through new conferences, publications, fieldwork activities, specialist training programmes and collaborative research projects dedicated to the study of human–cetacean relationships, marine resource exploitation, biodiversity and environmental change across the North Atlantic.