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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo

@nerbsatullo.bsky.social
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Arch Sci Lab Manager at UCL. Studies technology, innovation, and the weird cool things people do with fire. Also the Caucasus.

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Archaeological training starts in the field. We're looking for a Fieldwork Technician to support excavation training, field schools, and student experience across UK archaeological projects. Apply now: bit.ly/ucl-ft #UCLArchaeology #ArchaeologyJobs #Fieldwork
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Job Vacancy: Fieldwork Technician
The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Fieldwork Technician (Ref: B03-03090)
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Drops on snowdrops
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Congrats to @gabemoshenska.bsky.social on his comprehensive history and analysis of the Ea Nasir copper merchant meme. @uclarchaeology.bsky.social once again showcasing its excellence in all things archaeometallurgical. 😉 journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/...
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The Legend of Ea-Naṣir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme | Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
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Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Also…
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a black and white penguin with an orange beak stands on a table
ALT: a black and white penguin with an orange beak stands on a table
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Well look at that! Our Caucasus mega fortress paper made Antiquity's most read list! Feels good to be in such distinguished company. #ProjectARKK
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
1688 as the last successful invasion of Britain is a hill I will die on. Another one: Eastern Rome (Byzantium) was a remarkably successful and resilient state, not a pale shadow of the Principate.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One thing social media platforms do is meld the British and US higher ed crises into one. I think there are similarities but, tbh, the UK feels much more like a catalogue of shambles and poor policy decisions than a real ideological attack—even if the consequences remain the same.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
There's nothing quite like the feeling of opening up the results from a big batch of radiocarbon dates, and having them confirm all things you hoped and suspected but weren't quite sure about. Kudos to the amazing #ProjectARKK team for capturing all the stratigraphic and chronological subtleties
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I've been cycling in the UK for 8 years now, but having started cycling in London regularly for the first time, I am stunned by the number of people cycling through heavy rush-hour traffic with headphones in (even over-ear noise-cancelling ones), sometimes while simultaneusly taking calls.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Was having a hard time coming up with something until the perfect one came to me: "Said to be from"
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'
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Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
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Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
UKHE is a world class export sector, but has financial problems because the state both doesn’t want unis charging market rates to domestics and doesn’t want to subsidise them. To make up for this, unis have been forced to take on more foreign students, and the gov response is to punish them for it
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thrilled with the coverage our recent paper on copper metallurgy and iron invention is getting. Not so thrilled with this definitely-AI generated furnace image that was used to illustrate one of those pieces. Link to our article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
AI-generated furnace image with multiple impossible/inaccurate features, notably any natural or forced draft, and a width far wide for its height. A structure like this would not be capable of smelting metal.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My recent work covered in Popular Mechanics! Excellent furnace photo (not even mine). www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
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A 3,000-Year-Old Furnace May Have Accidentally Started the Iron Age, Scientists Say
This global shift may have come as a result of smelters looking for ways to increase copper yields.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I'm all about "funny looking rocks"! Nice to see press coverage of my recent paper. www.popsci.com/science/iron...
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This ‘funny-looking rock’ holds 3,000 years of Iron Age secrets
Experimenting with copper may have led to our eventual breakthroughs with making iron.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
New paper out today, showing how a little known site first excavated nearly 70 years ago helps us understand the origins of iron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Currently writing the report for my @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de "Surviving the Crisis Years" grant, centred around our excavations of a LBA-EIA fortress in the Caucasus. It's amazing what we've accomplished in two years--so proud of my team! Photo: @shmills.bsky.social excavating the fortress gate.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I will never get over how sharply the Greater Caucasus range rises from the Alazani plain.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Very cool. We found an Abbasid dirham in my excavations in the Caucasus last summer.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
A short drama in three parts: Day 1: "Would be cool for this paper to make a quick diagram to summarize the different Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani chronologies and cultural groupings for the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, seems like no one has ever done it."
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Wow, the Etruscans must have really liked khinkali.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Nice piece by my PhD student Alex Rodzinka, covering our work with the ISIS Muon and Neutron Source. the-past.com/feature/what...
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What can we learn from trafficked finds? Revealing the results of neutron tomography of Iranian swords | The Past
Recovering an assemblage of trafficked prehistoric swords from Iran presented an opportunity to undertake scientific analysis of these weapons. The results ...
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Our excavations at Dmanisis Gora have literally put it on the (Google) map. With a 5 star review! (and not by me). Google maps image was annoyingly taken during backfill, juuuuust too late to get us an end-of-season final photo from space.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There are many great names for archaeological sites, but the the name of a Bronze Age copper mine way up in the Caucasus mountains, "Zaargash" goes so hard. Sounds like the source for Sauron's copper supply.
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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Dr Sainsbury (@vsainsbury.bsky.social) just got back from a fieldtrip in Jordan exploring sites & analysing glass. Whilst at the @cbrl.bsky.social she joined a workshop on #recycling through time. #womeninstem & made it into The Jordanian Times! www.jordantimes.com/news/local/c...
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CBRL workshop highlights continuity of recycling practices through time
AMMAN — The CBRL Amman Institute has recently organised a workshop led by Deputy Director of the CBRL Fatma Marii titled “From Past to Present: Recycling and Reusing Materials in Antiquity and Today.”...
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Britain’s carnival of reaction nationalist theme park is going to be built by French businessmen with links to the far right and Putin. It’s entirely fitting with the bombastic but surface level understanding of history that informs the resurgent British far right.
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Far-right links and Putin praise: fears over £600m UK history theme park plan
French family behind project visited Kremlin in 2014 to discuss building ‘Tsarland’ in annexed Crimea
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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🔊Calling all School of Archaeology staff, students, projects and alumni! So far I've found 27 of our School community on here, let us know if there are more! go.bsky.app/JX5CP1k
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Another of the better pieces on my paper on Caucasus fortresses. Great to see such wide coverage. Can't wait to share more of the cool finds from the site. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia
This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
More coverage of our work! This one did a nice job of contextualizing the broader anthropological significance. www.newsweek.com/archaeology-...
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Secrets of 3,000-year-old Bronze Age "mega-fortress" revealed
Researchers have uncovered new insights into an ancient fortress settlement, casting new light on the history of human urbanism.
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New paper out today using aerial photogrammetry to study an exceptionally large and well-preserved fortress in southern Georgia! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus: new data from southern Georgia | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus: new data from southern Georgia
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Loving the fractal beauty of these #SEM images of copper ores!
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Congrats to Cranfield PhD student Alex Rodzinka on her first peer reviewed paper, on neutron tomography of Iron Age Iranian daggers, out today #OpenAccess in JAS! Massive thanks to our partners at the British Museum and the ISIS Muon and Neutron Source. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neutron tomography reveals extensive modern modification in Iron Age Iranian swords
Early Iron Age Iranian bladed weaponry plays a significant role in discussions of metallurgical development in the ancient Near East. Due to its ubiqu…
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Virtual Talk in the Cranfield Seminar Series in Archaeological Science: Thursday, June 6th at 3 pm (UK time) Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Historic Europe David Orton, University of York Register here for Zoom link: www.cranfield.ac.uk/events/event...
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Cranfield Seminar Series in Arch Sci (virtual), 3pm (UK) March 21: Carolyne Douché (Oxford) on archaeobotany in Mesopotamia. Register here for Zoom link: www.cranfield.ac.uk/events/event...
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Today, I'm giving a talk about South Caucasus metallurgy 1500-500 BC as part of a series on Eurasian Bronzeworking. 2 pm UK time here: us02web.zoom.us/j/85462794125
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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Glorious shot of the cyclopean hillfort of Dmanisis Gora in evening light this past summer. #ProjectARKK #Hillfortswednesday
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