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REVERSEACTION Project

@reverseaction.bsky.social

Reverse engineering collective action: complex technologies in stateless societies. An archaeological project funded by an ERC Advanced Grant

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

5/5 ❤️ The result? We can start to identify real and meaningful differences in how different ancient communities crafted vessels with unique shapes and recipes 🏺 Stats is not just for spreadsheets, it can also tell us stories of human creativity! #Archaeology #DataScience #StatisticsInAction

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

4/5 📈 #MANOVA tests (to test whether identified ware clusters really mean something)

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

3/5 🎨 #PCA plots (to reduce the many variables we take under consideration and look for trends across pottery styles, dates, and #archaeological sites)

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

2/5 🌀 #EllipticalFourierAnalysis (to translate the curves that make up pottery shapes into equations!)

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

1/5 📊✨ #WorldStatsDay meets Ancient Pottery! Did you know REVERSEACTION uses statistics to study archaeological materials? Our recent paper in #OpenArchaeology reveals new insights into pottery from pre-Hispanic Nariño, #Colombia, by turning vessel shapes and paste compositions into numbers using:

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

@justalittleroo.bsky.social would like you all to know that she was also there supporting her team from the side-lines (she got fomo and booked a holiday) and as such we have fixed the first photo accordingly #archaeologistoffduty #stillinamuseum

Two women pose with an ancient large stone sphere, with another woman photoshopped in

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thank you very much for the invitation and the hard work to the organisers from the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, the German Mining Museum in Bochum, and the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica.

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Jasmine discussed the #computationalmodelling of #Muisca goldwork; and Marcos introduced the overarching goals and recent results of the #REVERSEACTION project.

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Lina talked about her work on #Malibú #goldwork and its role in local #ontologies in the Colombian Caribbean. In the words of Lina, it was "astonishing to see the similarities of the Costa Rican collections with the northern Colombian metalwork" 3/

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In March, Lina María Campos Quintero, @jasminevieri.bsky.social, and Marcos Martinón-Torres participated in a workshop about #earlymetallurgy from Mexico to #Colombia, in San José, #CostaRica 1/

Two women take a selfie with a large ancient stone sphere

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Happy New Year from REVERSEACTION who have been back in the labs already, preparing polished blocks for the SEM! These blocks contain small fragments of Nariño vessels (from already broken sherds) and we hope to investigate the clay fabric 💪 (1/3) #ArchaeologicalScience #archaeology

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Congratulations to our Research Assistant Rosie @justalittleroo.bsky.social for winning the Early Career Archaeologist and Dissemination or Presentation Awards at the 2024 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards! 🎉

Rosie being presented with her award and certificate

Rosie standing with her award and certificate

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REVERSEACTION Project @reverseaction.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The project is based at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with the #MuseodelOro, Bogotá, and many other friends in Colombia. We will introduce the team in future posts 🇨🇴🇬🇧

Two women in lab coats working at a microscope

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