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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Grateful to have the best team @pi-hisoka.bsky.social and I could ask for. The HERDS crew had a blast at the Seminar for Arabian Studies last week and now are back to crushing it excavating Neolithic campsites in Al Khashbah 🇴🇲 🏺

The HERDS team in front of the Zayed National Museum

Checking out the Neolithic exhibits at Zayed National Museum

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

We’re back in the field for the second season of the HERDS project in 🇴🇲 🏺

HERDS team members excavating at the Neolithic site of KHS-A in Oman

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Nearly finished with the 2025 field campaign at Gird-i Surezha. Lots of excellent sample collection this year

Results of flotation. Sample containing charred seeds for analysis

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 14/03/2025

NEW The newly-discovered large Neolithic site of Al-Khashbah, Oman, was occupied repeatedly over 1000 years, revealing how mobile hunter-herder communities in south-eastern Arabia adapted to climate change over time. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Aerial photograph of a flat desert with an archaeological site. Insert: map of Oman highlighting the location of Al-Khashbah in relation to other contemporary sites.

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🏺 Today is the last day to submit (though there’s normally an extension) to the #Archaeology of #Mesopotamia session for the 2025 @asor-research.bsky.social annual Meeting in Boston/hybrid online. If you work on archaeology in #Iraq, please consider submitting an abstract!

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Working on Syrian archaeology or cultural heritage? Submit an abstract for @asor-research.bsky.social's annual meeting in the Archaeology of Syria session! Abstracts due March 15. Papers can be virtual or in-person, and scholarships are available for registration fees. www.asor.org/am/2025/call...

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2025 CALL FOR PAPERS—ASOR Annual Meeting - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

ASOR invites paper and workshop presentation proposals for the hybrid 2025 Annual Meeting, November 19-22. #ASOR25

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Jakez Moreau @jakezmoreau.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’m in ! 🤩 Let’s read about this wonderfull site in Al-Khashbah, lithics, goats and the massive amount of charcoal we have 🪵🔥 @pi-hisoka.bsky.social @tarabeuzen.bsky.social @archbot44.bsky.social @archaeoman.bsky.social

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🏺🧪🚨Our first publication on work on the KHS-A Neolithic site in 🇴🇲 is out now in @antiquityj.bsky.social! Check out our amazing Neolithic site and some of the early results from the HERDS team doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 17/02/2025

Protestors gathered on the steps of the Utah State Capitol at noon Monday as part of another nationwide #50501 demonstration condemning the actions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and urging Democratic leaders to fight back. (Photos by Tribune photographer Trent Nelson)

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚨New Article!🚨 🧪🏺 Just published by in Open Access by the UmWeltWandel team: A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman. Open Quaternary. doi.org/10.5334/oq.153

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A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman | Open Quaternary

Open Quaternary is a fully open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, publishing contributions that consider the changing environment of the Quaternary as well as the development of humanity.The...

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Check out the first results from the RLIIM project. I’m thrilled to be a part of this project, working on a fascinating topic with an incredible team of fellow early career scholars. Watch this space, big things are on their way!! 🏺🧪

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Stephanie Döpper @archaeoman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🏺👩‍🎓Do you like seals? Interested in a #PhD position in #Germany? Then, the KIŠIB project at the Institute of Near Eastern #Archaeology at LMU Munich has a job offer for you. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...

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Doctoral Researcher (m/f/x)

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Maybe you're looking for something a little different in your #archaeology🏺 #heritage or #history feeds? Why not give people working in Arabia a follow with this starter pack? There's like dozens of us! go.bsky.app/UxWJ326

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Arabian Archaeology, Heritage, and History

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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Arabian Archaeology, Heritage, and History

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Dang it, I always forget the:🏺🧪

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas 🎄 from the HERDS Team in Oman 🇴🇲

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A short diversion for Glühwein and Raclette in Zürich on our way to 🇴🇲 for the inaugural HERDS field campaign

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Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My co-authors (Gabe Hrynick and Amy Fox) and I found that after the arrival of maize c. 1,000 years ago, houses became larger and more varied in shape in New England, but stayed the same in the Canadian maritimes where there was no maize. 🧪🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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A Quantitative Dwelling-Scale Approach to the Social Implications of Maize Horticulture in New England | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A Quantitative Dwelling-Scale Approach to the Social Implications of Maize Horticulture in New England - Volume 84 Issue 2

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Stéphanie Bodin 🌿🪵🔥🔬 @tifanosaurus.cpesr.fr · 03/12/2024

Dear archaeobotanists!, On behalf of the initiative “Ethics in Archaeobotany”, I invite you to complete a questionnaire on this topic. 🌾🌱🍇🫒🪵📝 Our objective is to gather first-hand data about ethical issues that arise in our subfield. 1/6

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Fieldwork is a go! In a little over a week, @pi-hisoka.bsky.social and I will be starting our new HERDS iN Oman Project, investigating #Neolithic subsistence and mobility! This work is supported by @wennergrenorg.bsky.social and the @antiquaries.bsky.social Watch this space!

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Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The way I screamed the first time I saw this meme and realized.. I own two copies of that book. 🧪🏺

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Abel Ruiz-Giralt @archaeorg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Yet another starter pack! This one is for archaeobotany as I've not seen one around so far! I am sure I've missed many of you so please share it and comment to be included :) go.bsky.app/5fRwi48 #archaeobotany #palaeoethnobotany #carpology #phytoliths #ancientstarch #anthracology #palynology

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Incredible research! Check this out

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Matt Howland, Ph.D. @matthowland.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m in Boston for #ASOR2024 - come see my talk this afternoon on the application of archaeomagnetism to Mesopotamian mudbricks! #ASOR24

PPT title slide, titled Exploring Geomagnetic Variations
in Ancient Mesopotamia:
Archaeomagnetic Study of Inscribed Bricks
from the 3rd–1st millennia BCE

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you're in Boston for the #ASOR #Archaeology conference, make sure to join us from 2:00-6:30pm EST in Studio 2 for the Archaeology of #Mesopotamia session! We've got a great slate of talks lined up this year on new and ongoing research.

Schedule for the ASOR Archaeology of Mesopotamia I session. Runs from 2pm to 4:25pm in Studio 2

Schedule for the ASOR Archaeology of Mesopotamia II session. This session runs from 4:25pm to 6:25pm in Studio 2

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist. Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that! blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...

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Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist

Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello! 👋🏻 I’m an environmental archaeologist who studies the many ways people have successfully adapted to life in drylands over the last 10000 years. I specialize in the analysis of plant remains, fuel resources and subsistence strategies using paleoethnobotany. My research is mostly in 🇴🇲 🇮🇶 and 🇹🇷 🏺

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Stephanie Döpper @archaeoman.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

📑🗝️New paper from the UmWeltWandel project by @archbot44.bsky.social, Conrad Schmidt and myself published as open access! "Hafit period fuelwood preferences associated with early copper production at Building V, al-Khashbah, Oman" 🌳🔥🪵🪓 archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph...

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Hafit period fuelwood preferences associated with early copper production at Building V, al-Khashbah, Oman | Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Wenn Sie in #Frankfurt sind, schauen Sie sich unsere UmWeltWandel Projekt Ausstellung an, die jetzt im Foyer der IG-Farben an der Goethe Uni eröffnet wurde! If you’re in #Frankfurt, come check out our UmWeltWandel Project’s exhibit, now open in the IG-Farben Foyer at Goethe Uni! #Archaeology #Oman

Poster showing the opening dates of the project exhibition, 22 April to 10 May

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Join us! Open to students and ECRs. Funding available, especially for researchers from the Gulf!

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Stephanie Döpper @archaeoman.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

🇴🇲📢Call for applications 📢🇴🇲 Summer School: "Co-constructing #Oman: Global Knowledge Production and the Making of National Identity" ➡️Application deadline: 1 April 2024. summerschool2024.archaeoman.de

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Following a successful #asor the #RLIIM archive is on special loan to Seattle for 🦃🍁. Tuppi loves the view!

A cuneiform plushie sits on a log with Mt Rainier in the background

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

First day of our conference! Welcome to all of our participants and listeners!! 🏺

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

The NFL is playing in Frankfurt today and it’s very charming and a little baffling to see so many Germans decked out in their favorite team’s gear walking around the city.

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Only one week until our conference on Human-Environment Interactions in Ancient Arabia in Tübingen! Looking forward to seeing the fantastic work all of our participants are doing 🏺

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

I don’t know how people manage to get work done on the train. 20 minutes into my ride to Göttingen and I’m completely car sick 🤢

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Really nice article on the inclusion of Ohio Hopewell sites on the World Heritage List. Does a great job of highlighting their archaeological importance while also discussing how they’ve been affected by Ohio’s shameful history (and continuing legacy) of indigenous erasure. t.co/J528DfGGj4

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An Ohio Site Was Just Declared One of the Most Important in Human History. Why Has It Been Ignored?

“It’s a real common summertime excursion, but on par with the pyramids?” It is now.

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Masgouf with friends in Erbil. Iraq’s national dish never tasted so good!

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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

So, Porto is very charming! Lots of winding narrow roads and restaurants to explore…

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Check out my latest YouTube video: "The British Museum Heist. With Luise Loges" (@luilog.bsky.social) We chat about some of the ethical issues brought to mind by the recent jewel thievery at the British Museum. #AncientBlueSky 🏺 Watch here: youtu.be/9hp8lp2ZpxQ

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The British Museum Heist. With Luise Loges

Thanks to Luise Loges (University of Glasgow) for the great conversation. Thanks to Jonida Martini for video editing and graphic design.Chip me a tip at http...

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