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Lucas Proctor

@archbot44.bsky.social
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Lecturer at Dartmouth | Environmental archaeologist and paleoethnobotanist | SW Asia, drylands, fuel, and farming | Co-PI of the HERDS in Oman Project | Posts = my own views | send plant pics

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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 Back to work excavating in Al Khashbah HERDS Team having fun on site
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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
Surezha moundSunrise over excavations Results of flotation. Sample containing charred seeds for analysisA freshly sampled profile from Surezha
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
No More War
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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
Feel free to reach out to me in DM if you have questions about submitting or want to discuss an idea for a paper.
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’d really love to bring in more papers by students and early career researchers, especially from Iraq! ASOR has some funding opportunities to support this, including the Tigris Travel grant for Iraqi scholars. Online presentations are especially welcome!
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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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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So much charcoal 🤩🫣🤩
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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
We’re excited to share more about the site in the coming years as the HERDS Project 🏺 continues fieldwork. Stay tuned and give our awesome team a follow: @pi-hisoka.bsky.social @tarabeuzen.bsky.social @jakezmoreau.bsky.social @archaeoman.bsky.social @petramcreamer.bsky.social
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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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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 · 12/02/2025
Your lab space looks great! I’m super jealous 🤓
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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 · 06/02/2025
@tarabeuzen.bsky.social
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We found evidence for digging and soil development associated with Building VII, dated to the Um an-Nar Period. These results suggest gardening activities in the area, however preservation conditions at the site were not conducive to recovering sufficient paleobotanical evidence to confirm this.
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How did people in Ancient Arabia adapt to increased aridity 4000 years ago? In this study, our team presents multidisciplinary results of a geoarchaeological section near an Early Bronze Age tower in Al Khashbah, #Oman, looking at evidence for landscape modification and incipient water management
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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 · 25/01/2025
Gladly! Done
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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 · 21/01/2025
BUCKEYEEEEES WINNNN!!
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Cool! I’m adding you right now😉
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Suggestions for people to add are very welcome 😅
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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
go.bsky.app
Arabian Archaeology, Heritage, and History
Join the conversation
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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 · 06/01/2025
It was great to present the results from the first season of the HERDS project at the incredible new Oman Across the Ages Museum! omannews.gov.om/topics/ar/11...
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استعراض أبرز الإنجازات والاكتشافات في موقع الخشبة الأثري بولاية المضيبي
منح في 5 يناير /العُمانية/ استعرض متحف عُمان عبر الزمان بالتعاون مع وزارة التراث والسياحة في جلسة حوارية اليوم أبرز الإنجازات والاكتشافات للبعثات الأثرية في موقع الخشبة في ولاية المضيبي بمحافظة شمال الشرقية، ضمن جهود ...
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas 🎄 from the HERDS Team in Oman 🇴🇲
A camel wearing a Christmas cap
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I just call it a Saturday at ASOR!
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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
Christmas market I. Switzerland
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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
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
KHS-A is a Neolithic campsite in Wilaya al-Mudhaybi (وَلاية المضيبي), featuring stone structures, fireplaces, production activities, and multiple occupations! We'll be doing site mapping with kickass new remote sensing techniques, excavation, and environmental sampling this December.
aerial photo of KHS-A site with the 2023 excavation team in the background
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We have an amazing team, including: @petramcreamer.bsky.social @jakezmoreau.bsky.social and @tarabeuzen.bsky.social Give them a follow!
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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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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I wish! Does the printing error in some them count as extra copies?
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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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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just here cause I can’t miss out on a good Bruce post 🔬🪵
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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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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yeah that especially has me fuming now too
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Straight facts. What a waste of an education. Two genuinely amazing people to learn from and he turns out like this.
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
You’d have be a genuine psychopath to have taken away anything positive from that guy’s classes. What a black mark they both are on the program
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Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wow, this is a genuine twist I wasn’t expecting 🤣 Obvs I know exactly who you are talking about. What a POS
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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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