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Adam S. Green

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Senior Lecturer in Sustainability at @UniOfYork. Archaeologist who investigates ancient economies to help make the world equitable and more sustainable. he/him

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 10/09/2026
China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang, died #OnThisDay in 210 BC. His mausoleum at Xi'an is well-known for the terracotta warriors, but it also includes an underground palace, walls, gates, ritual buildings and more than 300 ancillary pits and tombs. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Map of the mausoleum's layout, showing the locations of the Terracotta Army pits, burial area, overground buildings and more. An inserted map shows the locations of the Qin capital city of Xianyang the modern city of Xi’an and the mausoleum site in relation to major nearby rivers and mountain ranges.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have a topic of broad importance that you would like to tackle using archaeological evidence? Would you like to bring a team of archaeologists together to do so? CfAS is launching a Synthesis Design Grants scheme for 2027 ! Proposals due 15 October. #archaeology www.archsynth.org/project/synt...
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Synthesis Design Grants - CfAS
Anyone with an idea for a synthesis project can now apply for a Synthesis Design Grant that will fund a Design Workshop.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This was only my second visit to Delhi during the monsoon. For the first couple of days, the rain was relentless, water logging the older parts of the city before running off into the surface water geomorphology.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Pleased to be back in India for the next couple of weeks. I’m working with Kamal Vatta at Punjab Agricultural University, along with the Department of Archaeology and Museums in Haryana and the Archaeological Survey of India to develop a stronger link between #archaeology and #agriculture.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. But what if they don’t have to be? Check out my new blog post for CfAS, which covers our recent @antiquity.ac.uk article that finds that inequality was low at Mohenjo-daro, and decreased as the city grew. www.archsynth.org/building-fai...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 19/05/2026
📰 Did the major Indus city of Mohenjo-Daro "defy the rules of history" by becoming more egalitarian as it developed? 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @york.ac.uk www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Study reveals one of world’s first cities prospered as wealth-gap shrank
New research reveals that the 4,000-year-old city of Mohenjo-daro defied the ‘rules’ of history by becoming more equal as it became more successful.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In a new article for @antiquity.ac.uk, we find that a quantitative analysis of housing at Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s first cities, reveals that inequality sharply declined over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro
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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Archaeologist Carole Crumley talking about heterarchies, if you are looking to cite someone in addition to Mark Fisher wrt capitalist realism. The ability to dream outside of hierarchies and the state should be taught by every archaeologist. GOOD MORNING
“the inability even to think of power wielded and maintained in the absence of hierarchy implies an alarming lack of both imagination and powers of observation” 

From: Crumley, C. L. (1987). A Dialectical Critique of Hierarchy. In T. C. Patterson and C. W. Gailey (eds.) Power relations and state formation. Washington, D.C:  American Anthropological Association, 155–69. Available: https://archive.org/details/powerrelationsst0000unse
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Really pleased this collaboration with @carlyschuster.bsky.social is finally published! We lean on queer feminist theory to discuss kinship as a dynamic set of relations and map their flow around funerary rites - we see burials as cannily assembled, not simple mirrors of the living world
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Matters of Life and Death: Kin-work at Funerals | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Matters of Life and Death: Kin-work at Funerals - Volume 36 Issue 2
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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🏺How we can talk about kin in the archaeological record in a world where establishing genetic relatedness with aDNA is relatively routine and perhaps become somewhat domineering in the conversation.
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Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7 doi.org/10.11141/ia....
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Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation
Archaeological archives form a public resource that enables the reinterpretation of original findings from archaeological investigations, provides the raw material for further research, informs mu...
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Can We Learn from the Indus Peoples’? Talk this Thursday for those interested in Anthropology. youtu.be/MXHsj2sU5l0
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Can We Learn from the Indus Peoples’?
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The special issue this is based on is now published - all papers are open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What does an ancient civilisation built when it doesn't need palaces? Looking forward to discussing this question in a public conversation with the David Graeber Institute and Human Bridges project. Tune in if you are keen! #Inequality #Archaeology davidgraeber.institute/a-civilizati...
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A Civilization That Thrived Without Palaces: Can We Learn from the Indus Peoples’?
David Graeber Institute Archaeology & Architecture is a new monthly series organized by the David Graeber Institute and Human Bridges project. How have living spaces shaped
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 06/04/2026
From ancient Egyptian temples to the colonial destruction of Benin City, our #AfricanArchaeology collection contains tons of free and #OpenAccess research from across the entire continent! Check it out at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺 #Archaeology
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African Archaeology
Explore a curated collection of our recent articles on the archaeology of Africa
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CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Come to a free online panel on #MachineLearning and #archaeology, this Wednesday 6.30 pm AEST: events.humanitix.com/machine-lear...
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Machine Learning for Archaeologists | CAA Australasia Panel
Join us for a discussion of hot topics in machine learning in archaeology!
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What do archaeologists and ecological economists have in common? Both disciplines know that GDP is problematic, and that we can learn more about human economies by measuring their material worlds To bring these disciplines together, we are guest editing a collection for JAMT. #sustainability
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Had the pleasure of speaking to Amn Kaur about Mohenjo-daro's role in helping us understanding ancient #democracy on BBC Radio on Monday. Tune in if you have a chance- we chat at about 30 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
CfAS projects featured prominently at the Lessons from the Past conference! It's no susprise; archaeological synthesis can contextualize pressing challenges and offer points of comparison that allow us to see what worked (and what didn’t) in the past. www.archsynth.org/archaeologic...
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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 23/03/2026
The Paper of the Month from @antiquity.ac.uk is "Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538" by Alice K. Rose et al., available #openaccess! 📚 cup.org/4lGBVwG #antiquity #archaeology #PaperOfTheMonth
The cover of Antiquity journal with a detailed terrain beside a body of water. Beside the cover is the text "Antiquity" and "Paper of the Month"
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Heading to Liverpool for the "Lessons from the Past" conference. I'm presenting GINI work on how the #archaeology of #Inequality can shape debates about taxation today. We close by drafting policy briefs to link the past to the UN #SDGs. #Sustainability lessonsfromthepast.info/programme/
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Democracy isn't a modern luxury—it's a political strategy with deep roots. In our new study for Science Advances, we analyse 40 different societies and develop a framework for measuring human governance along a collective-autocratic axis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time
Democratic practice in the premodern world was not the exclusive domain of Greece and Rome.
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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Press release for our new paper! “…people across the world created inclusive political systems, even under difficult conditions…An understanding of the hallmarks of autocracy and democracy can help identify threats and pump the brakes on burgeoning totalitarian regimes.” phys.org/news/2026-03...
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New study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome
A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient socie...
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Hilary Cottam @hilarycottam.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If you are in the UK Civil Service- a DD or aspiring DD - this is an opportunity to work with me, England’s Upland Communities and @DefraGovUK on system transformation - please share widely a fantastic opportunity for a brilliant candidate civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…
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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🔬A compelling reuse case for ADS data from @adamsgreen.bsky.social - medieval archaeological records from Wharram Percy repurposed to model early social metabolism and inform pathways beyond fossil fuel dependency ⬇️ #data #reuse
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Can investigating past economies help us build a future without fossil fuels? @simonmair.bsky.social and I believe the answer lies in a closer investigation of early "social metabolism". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... into
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CBHC / RCAHMW @rcahmwales.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🚨New job Alert! We’re looking for a capable and self-motivated Data Assistant to help us keep Wales’s national archaeology, architecture, industrial and maritime history archive accurate and up-to-date with high-quality information. Find out more: zurl.co/6ZZh9 #job #historic#wales #heritage#data
Fresnel Lens.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The past provides our best laboratory for understanding sustainability—archaeologists should synthesise their evidence in order to better steer vital debates. Read more about JARE's new shorter article format in this new post on the CfAS blog! www.archsynth.org/call-for-pap...
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
And evidence from the past can help us better understand where those structural factors came from, how they have changed, and how they can be changed in the future.
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
All i can say is that a an archaeologist (a) i wish my specialist knowledge a was LESS relevant to the present moment and (b) nothing breaks the spell of capitalist violence faster than taking just how long we existed without it and that there have always been alternatives
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Out now: our new editorial in JARE! As the new Chief Co-Editors, we are seeking research that resonates across archaeology and tackles the world's most vexing challenges. @jenniferbirch.bsky.social @victorloagmnh.bsky.social @jlmunson.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Meeting the Urgent Need and Growing Demand for Archaeological Synthesis - Journal of Archaeological Research
Journal of Archaeological Research -
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Is #inequality the price of "development"? Many economists have long been guided by the idea that as societies become more "developed" they become more unequal. Our new paper challenges this idea. History is not a one-way street. #Archaeology 🧵(1/4) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kuznets at -7000: Is there a really long-term relationship between growth and inequality?
We use archaeological data on house sizes to generate estimates for economic inequality and economic growth from the Early Holocene to about the first…
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Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years The deadline is 11 March www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Check out this post-doc in landscape #archaeology here in York! This looks like amazing chance to engage with an understudied region, and build up critical African datasets, which can be used to address a whole host of #sustainability challenges. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This is going to be a really fun and stimulating session on pseudoarchaeology and communicating archaeology at the upcoming meeting of the @can-arch.bsky.social in beautiful Canmore, AB, May 6-10!
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Is "sprawl" the only way the tropics can urbanise? Check out Alders new paper in JARE, which challenges our assumptions about tropical cities. It’s time to talk about the Swahili Townland. 🧵 #Archaeology #Urbanism #DeepHistory #Sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Townlands of the Swahili Coast: A Framework for Compact, High-Density Tropical Urbanism on Eastern Africa’s Indian Ocean Rim - Journal of Archaeological Research
Urbanism shaped social, ideological, and environmental transformations on the tropical eastern African Swahili Coast from the end of the first millennium AD onward. However, it is unclear how settleme...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 12/01/2026
Archaeologists have uncovered the largest known corpus of late prehistoric administrative artefacts in the ancient world in western Iran, prompting us to reconsider our understanding of early bureaucratic institutions. A well-organised #AntiquityThread 1/8 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology
Six pieces of clay with impressions of various designs imprinted onto them.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Fantastic opportunity to delve more deeply into early systems for materialising credit and debt.
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Now out: a re-examination of the discovery of one of the world’s most important ancient cities. doi.org/10.1080/0093...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Unrecognized Contribution of the Survey of India in the Documentation of Ancient Settlements in Pakistan and India
The earliest documentation of hundreds of ancient settlements in South Asia, including some of the most famous and significant sites, lies in largely unacknowledged subaltern hands. Operating durin...
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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
New Year, new resolution? Thinking “I’d love to get more involved in archaeology this year”… but not quite knowing where to start? We can help 👋 📬 Sign up to our newsletter for the latest archaeology news, events and volunteering opportunities near you 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/news/newslet...
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 18/12/2025
The University of Liverpool here advertising for a postdoc fluent in four modern languages plus Latin, and I wonder if it's even possible to acquire these skills if you start out in its local state schools?
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Monastic Economies - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Associate - Monastic Economies - Grade 7 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Check out this thread and blog post flagging the ways economic growth and the environment are connected! It highlights the need to take care and ensure we aren’t blinded by the tools we use to measure human economies.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Archaeologists! Considering joining @simonmair.bsky.social and I at the European Society for Ecological Economics conference in Ghent to provide examples of "non-capitalist economies" that we can use to learn about sustainability.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Very cool piece of research on the knowledge we can gain from past economies. #sustainability
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Are the solutions to pressing socio-ecological challenges are hidden in data from the past? Check out our new paper on ponds, and the role they played in #sustainable #water #governance in northern India not too long ago.
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out @gfeinman.bsky.social and Linda Nicholas' insights from 33 years at JARE, archaeology's leading platform for synthesis, counteracting the data deluge. They've also pushed the journal to better represent the communities it serves. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Reflective Perspectives from 33 Years at the Journal of Archaeological Research - Journal of Archaeological Research
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Very exciting @yesiuoy.bsky.social seminar coming up. Prof. Rocha challenges our thinking about land ownership in national parks, and moves toward some possible solutions for Campos Gerais in Brazil! www.york.ac.uk/yesi/events/...
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Rethinking Conservation Strategies in Brazil
Discover how lessons from UK National Parks are inspiring locally adapted strategies to support sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation in Campos Gerais and the Atlantic Rainforest, ...
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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Want to learn from ancient agropastoral economies to help us figure out what makes cities sustainable? Check out this NERC-funded opportunity for PhD study with me here at @york.ac.uk! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Investigating agricultural adaptation and re-urbanisation in the Yamuna-Ganges Doab of South Asia at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigating agricultural adaptation and re-urbanisation in the Yamuna-Ganges Doab of South Asia at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too! Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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The Stone Age Runs Wild at Star Carr: An evening with Greg Jenner and Nicky Milner
Join Greg Jenner and Professor Nicky Milner for a Stone Age talk, covering Star Carr and Greg's book, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild.
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