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Kate Klesner

@kateklesner.bsky.social
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Postdoc in Archaeological Science currently at University of Cambridge focused on all things pottery 🏺

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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It was also my first time using such bright colors—but they were for friends with equally bright personalities, so it only felt right! ✨ #EmbroideryArt #HandEmbroidery #SlowCraft #FiberArts #Stitching
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It was a (very late) wedding gift for a dear friend, featuring wildflowers native to her and her husband's home states.
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Bringing a little lightness to the thread—literally! 🪡 I finished one of my all-time favorite embroidery projects about a month ago.
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Lithics, but make it christmas
Hand embroidered hand-axe in an embroidery loop with gold star and tinsel Hand embroidered hand-axe
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Jasmine Vieri @jasminevieri.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New paper out in JAS on beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies! Huge thanks to co-authors @ercrema.bsky.social, María Alicia Uribe Villegas, Juanita Sáenz Samper and @martinontorres.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Key takeaways: 👇
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Beyond baselines of performance: Beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies
Chemical analyses of archaeological artefacts are often used for provenance studies and for assessing whether specific performance characteristics wer…
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thanks!
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Oh, and I’m learning to throw my own #ceramics too—wish me luck! 🎨🌀
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sometimes my projects accidentally go full archaeologist, like this tote bag featuring Early Iron Age ceramics from Crete. 🏺🖤
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Outside of archaeology, I'm all about crafting - especially #embroidery! ✨
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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello world, we are @reverseaction.bsky.social, an ERC-funded project on #archaeology, #science, #technology, #crafts, #luxury… and #collectiveaction. Allow us to introduce our project. And maybe you can follow and repost? 👀🥼
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Also shout out to my fantastic colleague @justalittleroo.bsky.social for providing this intro template!
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Please share your #archaeology, #science and #geology accounts to I can build my BlueSky community!!!
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Now I am a postdoc on the ERC-funded REVERSEACTION Project, studying pre-Hispanic ceramics from Colombia to investigated collective action and the production of complex technologies in stateless societies
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Some of my research looks at the #SilkRoads 🐪 reverse engineering ancient ceramic technologies through archaeometry to study how technological knowledge was developed, transmitted, adopted, and adapted by people in the past
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Kate Klesner @kateklesner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hi I am Kate, and #archaeologicalscience researcher from the US, now based at Uni of Cambridge and new to BlueSky 🦋! I have a background in archaeology/ anthropology and chemistry/materials science, and I study all things ceramics 🏺
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