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Alice Williams

@alicejwilliams.bsky.social
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Archaeologist and archaeobotanist using computational methods to understand the past & postdoc on the New Bantu Mosaics project

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
One of our newest projects: New Bantu Mosaics, led by @chirikure.bsky.social is up & running now & the photos from the field are glorious! @alicejwilliams.bsky.social @micabjones.bsky.social Find out more at: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/new-bantu-mo...
The project logo shows a simple map of Africa with crisscrossing lines creating a crazing paving style mosaic within the continent. Some of the shapes in the south are coloured in in red, orange and green. Photo credit: Dr Alice Williams - a small wooden structure on three legs with straw roof, covering a firepit. there are red and green cloths hanging on a string between two of the structure legs. Photo credit: Dr Mica Jones. A small stone staircase ascends between two huge rocks. The staircase appears to significantly narrow as it rises so it looks like a squeeze at the top!
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Alice Williams @alicejwilliams.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Did the conditions of the Valley of Oaxaca influence the formation of social complexity? Find out which conditions could have had the greatest effect in our new paper discussing the archaeological application of our circumscription ABM: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @alexmesoudi.com
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Alice Williams @alicejwilliams.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
What happened to social complexity when past societies were geographically constrained? Run our agent-based model to explore the impact of different landscapes yourself! Or read our new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Find the code: github.com/ajw246/Circu... @amesoudi.bsky.social
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