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Dr Lia Betti @liabetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come and join our team at UCL Anthropology! Part-time (80%) fixed-term teaching post in Environmental Anthropology, December 2026-March 2028. Deadline 7 October!
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Mitä kuuluu sodan jalkoihin jääville kulttuuriperintökohteille Libanonissa? FIMEn tutkijat Jeanette Lindblom ja Joanna Töyräänvuori tekevät selkoa asiasta Paikan päältä -blogissa.
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Mitä kuuluu Libanonin kulttuuriperinnölle?
Muinaismuistojen tuhoutuminen ei ehkä ole ensimmäinen asia, joka tulee mieleen inhimillisen kärsimyksen keskellä, mutta kulttuuriperintö on kuitenkin joutunut sotatoimien kohteeksi Libanonissa. Israel...
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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Registration is open for the 2026 in Toronto (Sept. 22–25)! Keynote by Barbara Mills plus network science workshops. Early bird rates until June 30: $75 students / $125 regular. Register: connectedpast.net/other-events... #archaeology #history #networkanalysis #theconnectedpast
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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n
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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Register now, for the #ConnectedPast 2026 in Toronto! Early bird --> until 30 June Register at: the-connected-past-2026.bloomtickets.ca/event/575?Th...
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The Connected Past 2026 | The Connected Past 2026
We are very pleased to share that The Connected Past 2026 will be held in-person at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from September 22nd to...
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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨 I am hiring! 🚨 Postdoctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology (1.5 years) at Masaryk University, within the BITE Brno project I lead, funded by the Czech Science Foundation on demographic responses to urbanization. Apply here: www.muni.cz/en/about-us/... Please share!
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology | Masaryk University | MUNI
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 29/04/2026
We are delighted to announce that every research article accepted for publication in Antiquity after 1 June 2026 will be published completely #OpenAccess at no cost to the author or reader! More information here: www.cambridge.org/core/service... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org 🏺 #Archaeology
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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Babao 2026 Conference will be in Lincoln this year on the 12th and 23th September. Abstracts submission is now open! Open to all themes, including cases studies commercial and community projects 🤩 Abstracts are due June 30th
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Built environment is a key driver of cardiometabolic health in two indigenous groups undergoing rapid lifestyle change [Turkana pastoralists of northwest Kenya (n = 3692) and Orang Asli mixed subsistence practitioners of Peninsular Malaysia (n = 1119)] academic.oup.com/emph/advance...
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Built environment is a key driver of cardiometabolic health in two indigenous groups undergoing rapid lifestyle change
AbstractBackground. Globally, subsistence-level societies are experiencing rapid urbanization and concomitant increases in cardiometabolic diseases. Genera
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Analysing how much meat in the diet by sex as marker of social inequality, last 10,000 years. Not too unequal early Neolithic, but it gets worse! 'This diachronic analysis highlights the complex interactions between diet, social structures, and gender...' academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Dietary inequality marker reveals 10,000 years of gender and cultural disparity in Europe
Abstract. Diet is a key to evaluating social and health inequalities over time, as it reflects disparities in access to resources often linked to socioecon
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Dr. Ellen Green @ritualpurposes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
BABAO is running a series FREE, ONLINE of talks on Osteology for the general public. The first is April 29 at 19:00. Ever wondered what happens to the skeletons found during building works? Or why looking at skeletons is important for learning about the past? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/speaking-w...
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Speaking with the Dead - A day in the life of a Professional Osteologist
Have you ever wondered what skeletons can tell us about the past?
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Postdoc Alert! The archaeology department here at Exeter are looking for a Research Fellow for Biocultural HIVE, part of the AHRC RICHeS Infrastructure Portfolio. The role (0.8 FTE for 5 years) involves managing our digital, lab and collections resources: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A really worthwhile study of what assignments students themselves found to be best for their learning, especially in an AI context. Spoiler alert: it’s NOT take-home essays. It’s all the stuff AI can’t do. And it’s mostly in-person. wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
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Students know exactly where learning happens – and it's not in the upload
Exams, placements, seminars, peer explanation – students name the moments that made learning stick. Jim Dickinson argues the common thread is accountability, not format
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Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Agneta Kallström ja Marika Kataja pohtivat Lähi-itä NYT -blogikirjoituksessa, onko siviileihin ja terveydenhuoltoon kohdistuva piittaamaton väkivalta ajamassa Libanonin yhä syvemmälle humanitaariseen katastrofiin, josta toipuminen voi viedä vuosia.
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Libanonissa siviilit maksavat sodan hinnan, kun maa ajautuu yhä syvemmälle kriisiin
Israelin sotatoimet ovat johtaneet laajamittaiseen humanitaariseen kriisiin Libanonissa. Israelin ja Hizbollahin välinen väkivalta kiihtyi Iranin sodan vuoksi. Israel perustelee sotatoimiaan oman turv...
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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today I've been making and decorating this replica Bronze Age beaker from Seahouses in Northumberland. The original is in the collection of the Great North Museum in Newcastle. It's one of the pots that inspired me to do what I do. 🏺 #Archaeology #Pottery potted-history.co.uk
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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Osteoarchaeologists / Forensic Anthropologists IAC Archaeology Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 Euro (DOE) Closing Date: April 13, 2026 Location: West of Ireland www.bajr.org/job-ad/osteo...
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Osteoarchaeologists / Forensic Anthropologists – West of Ireland - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 Euro (DOE)Closing Date: 13/04/26Location: West of Ireland
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Breaking: A new review paper of the tipping point risk of the Atlantic ocean circulation system known as #AMOC has been published. 🌊 The evidence has broadened over the last years that the present AMOC is in a multi-stable regime, posing a risk of tipping 😨. dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....
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Multi‐Stability of the Present‐Day Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
There is much supporting evidence (freshwater export, paleo records, model hierarchy) that the present-day AMOC is in a multi-stable regime.
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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We don't have enough open access resources for reading about ethics, and there's some really great looking chapters in there. I'm excited to spend some time with this! 🏺🧪https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3
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Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice
This is an open access book. This volume is the first dedicated to action within bioarchaeology that can bring about social and political change.
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
When collagen fails: Zinc isotopes unlock Sumerian lifeways in southern Mesopotamia phys.org/news/2026-03... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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What's for dinner? Tooth enamel reveals what early Mesopotamians really ate
We can learn a great deal about the lives and social structures of civilizations thousands of years ago by studying what they ate. While actual food remains are few and far between, scientists can rec...
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Paula Gheorghiade @paulageorgiade.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The abstract deadline for the 2026 Connected Past has been extended until March 31!
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Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Noin viikko sitten minä, kuten moni muukin Libanonissa, heräsi aamuyöstä koviin pamauksiin. Vaikka olin unenpöppörössä, ei kestänyt kauan tajuta, mistä oli kyse." Harjoittelijamme Venla Lehtinen kertoo Paikan päältä -blogissa tapahtumista ja tunnelmista Libanonissa. Linkki biossa.
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Sota palasi Libanoniin
Noin viikko sitten minä, kuten moni muukin Libanonissa, heräsi aamuyöstä koviin pamauksiin. Vaikka olin unenpöppörössä, ei kestänyt kauan tajuta, mistä oli kyse. Kämppikseni koputti oveeni ja kehotti ...
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Latest Treponema genome just dropped: it's 5,500 years old, was found in Colombia, and is a different branch of the evolutionary tree than the strains that cause today's syphilis/yaws/bejel. 🏺🧪
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5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thoug...
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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Incredibly useful resource! www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...
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Osteological Database
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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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The Government of Canada introduces new programs for international researchers - Canada.ca
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Jesse Wolfhagen @uncertainarch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics” by Moustapha Itani takes place on Dec, 11th at 6 pm. More info and RSVP can be found in FIME's website: www.fime.fi/tapahtuma/ba...
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Badaro Talk: Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti
Please join us on for the next Badaro Talks, presented by the PhD candidate Moustapha Itani. The lecture delves into […]
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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea! Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #isotopes #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture
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Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
FIME's director Susanne Dahlgren is interviewed in the American University of Beirut's podcast Society and Science (العلم والمجتمع) Listen to the podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0X...
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Susanne Dahlgren: A long journey in Anthropology of Southern Yemen: From Society to Court Room to...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 01/10/2025
Jane Goodall was a global legend at the forefront of discovery — breaking through barriers for women in primatology, science, and beyond. Her curiosity, strength, and kindness changed the world, bridging countries and cultures in pursuit of a better future.
Jane Goodall: April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025
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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...
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Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025
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Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be given by FIME’s new researcher Joanna Töyräänvuori on Wednesday 17th of September at 6pm at the FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building. You can also attend online.
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Badaro Talk 17.9. – Joanna Töyräänvuori: Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History – Suomen Lähi-idän instituutti
The next Badaro Talks lecture ”Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History” will be […]
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Climate Cares Centre @climatecares.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Climate change isn’t a future problem - it’s a present reality. But even without increasing climate chaos, research shows human health is weather-dependent.🌡️ A new paper for @pnas.org by Nick Obradovich, @emlawrance.bsky.social and @keltonminor.bsky.social: ow.ly/SApH50WHnGW #Climate #Health
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Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention | PNAS
Our current climate already merits serious research and policy attention
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Sharon DeWitte @sharondewitte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This paper was a long time coming - includes data gathered over many years via support from multiple #NSF and #WennerGren grants. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: Evidence from incremental dentine analysis
Childhood malnutrition may have led to poor adult health in medieval England and became less common after the Black Death.
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution
Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚨 JOB APPLICATION 🚨 The University of Western Australia is looking for an Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology Deadline for applying: August 22nd More information on the link below 👇 external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52090...
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Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"Indiana Jones and the curse of the Eduroam login"
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
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Camilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼
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“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. Ho...
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Camilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!
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Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...
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Panehsy and Tarenu @thebantomb16.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Great opportunity to work at NVIC in Cairo with lovely people! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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University Lecturer in Egyptology & Archaeology in Cairo
University Lecturer in Egyptology & Archaeology in CairoThe Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo is seeking a University Lecturer/Assistant Director in Egyptology & Archaeology (0,5 fte). Are you a ...
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems - Nature Communications
Here, the authors propose how climate change archaeology can explain how cultural systems impact interactions between humans and the environment, and vice versa, presenting a framework based in c...
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Dr Micòl Di Teodoro @micsim.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#Egyptology
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Temporary position as Senior lecturer in Archaelology with a focus on Egyptian archaeology and cultural history - Uppsala University
Temporary position as Senior lecturer in Archaelology with a focus on Egyptian archaeology and cultural history, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of A...
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Ambra Ferrari @ambrafer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Big changes to the ERC funding schemes! Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on: 📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD 📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
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Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin säätiön tutkija YTM Antti Tarvainen väittelee Helsingin yliopistossa tänä perjantaina 6.6.2025. Väitöstä voi seurata paikan päällä Helsingin yliopistolla tai etäyhteydellä.
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is the uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo from June 4, 1989. Almost half of the Chinese population was born after this event. Later that year, Austria permitted East Germans holidaying in Hungary to drive over its border. The Berlin Wall fell in October. Quite a year.
An uncropped version of the famous “tank man” photo, during the events of June 4, 1989 in Beijing.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.
A set of nine unevenly shaped biscuits arranged in a glass-lidded box. Each biscuit is curved and made to look like a fragent of ancient pottery. The base icing is in shades of orange, peach, and cream. Figures, swirls, repeating leaf patterns, and horses are painted onto the icing surface in black. The biscuits are aged with scratch marks and cracks.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A method for sex determination using peptides in enamel Raman Spectroscopy Dataset of Permanent Human Teeth from a Historical Swiss Medical Collection🏺🧪 figshare.com/s/a861c0d74d... Measurements of permanent teeth from an anonymized medical collection at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Diagram illustrating sex determination using amelogenin proteins in tooth enamel. The top shows X and Y chromosomally encoded protein isoforms (AMELX in blue, AMELY in red) with their amino acid sequences highlighted.
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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
3D virtual soundscape brings ancient Turkish underground city to life. phys.org/news/2025-05...
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3D virtual soundscape brings ancient Turkish underground city to life
Have you ever walked through the ruins of an ancient city and wondered what life sounded like back then? So has Sezin Nas, a researcher of interior architecture and acoustics at Istanbul Galata Univer...
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