Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

Ramsey Laboratory for Environmental Archaeology (RLEA). Paleoethnobotany and Microbotanical research group, at @UTM @UofT, led by Prof. Monica Ramsey. utm.utoronto.ca/ramsey-lab/ Mississauga, Canada Joined February 2023

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

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What if Eden was never given to us — we engineered it? From the first controlled fire to cities, farms, and the Anthropocene, ANT222H5F Engineering Eden explores how humans have reshaped the planet across 300,000 years. Bring any major. Leave with sharper arguments, ethical AI skills, and a new way to see the future we’re still building. No prerequisites • Science distribution requirement Tuesdays 11:00–1:00 • Fall 2026 Instructor: Dr. Monica Ramsey Enrol on ACORN 🔥 @UTM_Anthro @UTM #UTM #Anthropology #EngineeringEden

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

3 months ago

Full paper here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S23… Follow @Ramsey_Lab for more on environmental archaeology, phytoliths, machine learning in the past, and U of T research. #Archaeology #Paleoethnobotany #Phytoliths #AIinArchaeology #MachineLearning #DigitalArchaeology

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

3 months ago

What does this mean for the future of archaeobotany and computational archaeology? Can AI augment (rather than replace) expert analysis? We’d love to hear thoughts from phytolith researchers, ML folks, and archaeologists 👇

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

3 months ago

"Experts Against Automation? Comparing Artificial Intelligence and Human Identifications of Phytoliths" is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. We put expert archaeobotanists head-to-head with AI on phytolith ID — the tiny silica plant microfossils that tell us so much about ancient environments and plant use. 🪴🔬 Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S23…

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

4 months ago

This work has the potential to refine our understanding of early pottery adoption, plant processing, and cooking practices, and even explore whether some vessels were used for fermentation and early brewing. Well done Jessica !

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

4 months ago

Her research investigates Yarmukian pottery, one of the earliest ceramic traditions in the Southern Levant, through microbotanical residue analysis. By focusing on starch spherulites preserved in ceramic sherds, she aims to reconstruct how these vessels were used and what they contained.

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

4 months ago

Big congratulations to MA student Jessica Stokes on winning a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada award! 🎉

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Plantagenet @Plantagenet1455

5 months ago

Fragment of a painted floor with cornflowers from Maru-Aten, Tell el-Amarna. New Kingdom- Egypt.

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James Tate @JamesTate121

5 months ago

Scientists have confirmed something almost unbelievable… forests aren’t silent at all. Researchers from the University of Florence discovered that trees communicate using ultrasonic sound pulses — frequencies so high (20–200 kHz) that humans can’t hear them. In the forests of Casentino Forest, European beech trees under drought stress began emitting rapid ultrasonic “clicks.” These weren’t random noises — they were warnings. And here’s the wild part… Nearby trees heard the signal and reacted within hours. Before experiencing any drought themselves, they started closing their stomata (tiny pores on leaves) to conserve water proving they received and acted on the warning. Scientists traced the sound to tiny internal events called cavitation microscopic bubbles forming and collapsing inside the tree’s water transport system. These clicks travel through air and soil, reaching trees up to 50 meters away.

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

5 months ago

An important and timely contribution to discussions on AI in research! 👏 Well done Krishan!!

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

5 months ago

His project explored how effectively AI can generate annotated bibliographies in anthropology, testing tools like ChatGPT across different source types and prompt styles. The findings highlight both the promise and current limitations of AI, especially its variability, tendency toward hallucinations, and challenges with non-traditional sources.

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

5 months ago

Big congratulations to our outstanding undergraduate volunteer Krishan Maisuria for placing 3rd at the University of Toronto Anthropology Societies (UTMAS) 2026 Undergraduate Conference! 🎉

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nature @Nature

5 months ago

Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history go.nature.com/4lQJEIr

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

6 months ago

A fantastic evening at @LeftFieldBrew for the "Inside Baseball Sip and Learn" 🌾. Dr. Monica Ramsey took us on a journey through the deep history of brewing from modern craft traditions back into the epipaleolithic by exploring how fermentation, plants, and human ingenuity shaped one of the world’s oldest cultural practices. A perfect blend of archaeology and great beer. 🍺🍻

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Ramsey Lab @Ramsey_Lab

7 months ago

A big congratulations to PhD candidate and RLEA lab manager Melanie Pugliese for her recent publication, titled "Traditional dishes and culinary improvisations: Elite gastronomy in the Maya area", published in Ancient Mesoamerica and ranked as the paper of the month cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1

8 months ago

'While yet the woods lie grey and still, I give my tidings: "Spring is near!"' (Cicely Mary Barker, 'Song of the hazel catkin fairy') A promise of spring in a hazel wood🩶💛🩶 #SignsOfSpring