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Tobias Richter

@toricht.bsky.social
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Professor @ Uni Copenhagen | Archaeologist & Lithicologist Exploring old rocks and landscapes in southwest Asia Off-duty: Dad, runner, hiker, boardgame enthusiast, and motorcycle wrangler.

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc as part of my ERC project - the deadline is tomorrow noon GMT, apologies for the little notice If you have interest but can't make the deadline, please DM/email me immediately and i can try extend the deadline a few days
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One week left to submit applications for these funded PhD positions with me here at the University of Copenhagen! #archaeology #PhD #Copenhagen bsky.app/profile/tori...
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Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Join us for our upcoming lecture: [ The British Institute in the 1980s and the Azraq Basin Prehistory Project ] 👤 Speaker: Prof. Andrew Garrard Honorary Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
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Joe Roe @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
New preprint on EcoEvoRxiv: 'Human Settlement and Water Availability at the Qa’ Shubayqa during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Comparing Hydrological Models and Archaeological Data', doi.org/10.32942/X25T1T #Archaeology #Prehistory #ComputationalArchaeology
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Human Settlement and Water Availability at the Qa’ Shubayqa during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Comparing Hydrological Models and Archaeological Data
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our paper on ancient sheeppox virus genomes, including many found from parchment samples, is now published af Science Advances. Congrats to all our co-authors and particularly first author Louis. #aDNA share.google/JqVOTB2lvxcO...
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Three thousand five hundred years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes
Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨BREAKING🚨 In more serious news, I have been told on good authority by a third source that Flemish media has revealed the racist academic, de Vries, is the real author behind the pseudonymous article, 'Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential' Thank you to all the sources that contacted me
Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential
Tavren Oshal (pseudonym)
How to Cite: Oshal, T. Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential. Controversial Ideas 2025, 5(3), 6; doi:10.63466/jci05030006.
Received: 18 December 2024 / Accepted: 23 September 2025 / Published: 11 November 2025
Abstract: Responding to an article by Rindermann et al. (2024), which reports that refugees in Germany, on average, have significantly lower intelligence than the German host population, Bradley Hillier-Smith has argued that such cognitive disparities – if they exist – are irrelevant to states’ moral duties toward refugees. This article challenges his position. It further contends that even if we adopt a cosmopolitan perspective that denies states the right to prioritize the interests of their own populations, it is not clear that states in the Global North are morally required – or even permitted – to admit large numbers of relatively low-IQ refugees from the Global South. This, I show, is especially true given that assistance could instead take the form of supporting their relocation to a safe country within the region.
Keywords: refugees; migration; intelligence; hereditarianism; innovation; Global South; nationalism; cosmopolitanism
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There is fun to be had in *not* reviewing a manuscript. @pciarchaeology.bsky.social @cos.io #openaccess
Thank you for your invitation to review a manuscript.  While I value the scholarly community's efforts to disseminate research, I have growing concerns about the publishing model many commercial publishers, including Springer Nature, employ. In my view, the current system heavily relies on taxpayer-funded research, often conducted at public institutions, yet places the resulting work behind expensive paywalls. This practice limits access for scientists and the general public in the Global South, who often cannot afford subscription fees or open-access charges.

To put this in perspective, Springer Nature's most recent financial results (for the fiscal year ending December 2025) show total revenue of €1,926.4 million, adjusted operating profit of €543.6 million, and net income of €356 million. The Research division, which includes its journals, generated €1,517.2 million of that revenue. Shareholders received dividends of approximately €25.9 million, a significant increase from the previous year. These figures show that the current model is highly profitable, but much of that profit goes to investor returns rather than making research accessible to the global scientific community.

I have worked unpaid for you in the past, but this unpaid labour, combined with publicly funded research, generates enormous profits for a publishing industry that gives back relatively little to the public or to scientists in under-resourced regions. I do not believe this is fair or sustainable. I therefore have become a champion of Diamond Open Access and an editor at PCI.
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There's still time left to apply for one of two PhD fellowships our new project on Social Networks Before Agriculture! #PhD #archaeology #geology #anthropology #Copenhagen bsky.app/profile/tori...
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I am now recruiting a PhD student in Middle Eastern #archaeology to work on raw material sourcing as part of my new DFF-funded project Networks Before Agriculture. Please spread the word or get in touch with me if you have questions: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Deadline 15 September 2026
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PhD Scholarship in Middle Eastern Archaeology at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
PhD position with @toricht.bsky.social @ #4 Archaeology center in the world (ranked on publications and impact) @ucph-soa.bsky.social Ideal for archaeologists (sourcing methods) OR geologists moving into archaeology! 💼 Salaried position & benefits & intl stay & teaching 📅 Deadline: 15 Sept 2026
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PhD Scholarship in Middle Eastern Archaeology at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
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Marion Prévost @marionprevost.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Some lithics from Khudji site, Tajikistan, excavated by V. Ranov. A. Donish Institute of History, archaeology and ethnography, Dushanbe Very happy to conduct this comparative study with our site of Soii Havzak, Part of Gerda Henkel research grant :)
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Fereidoun Biglari @fbiglari.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A new study on obsidian procurement at the Early Neolithic site of Chogha Golan in western Iran has just been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. The article is now available online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Really delighted to be able to share the news I start as Prof. of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social in the autumn. Really lucky to have such great support from colleagues at Bloomsbury, @archsoutheast.bsky.social and beyond. Really excited for this next chapter.
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy and I recently joined brilliant KU archaeology student Zeenat Haroon on her Let's Dig Deeper podcast to talk about the archaeology of agricultural origins. Check it out here: open.spotify.com/show/53AYvYh...
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Let's Dig Deeper
Podcast · Let's Dig Deeper · Let's Dig Deeper is a podcast hosted by archaeology student Zeenat Haroon (@zee_archaeology on IG).Through thought-provoking interviews with researchers and experts, we wi...
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Reports are emerging of Archaeologists put at risk by being required to continue working in the current Red UK Met Office Heat Warning. If you are affected and want to ensure accountability let us know. thePipeLine is independent archaeological media and treats all sources in confidence.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Dear Archaeologists, as you know, we are trying to explore whether the EAA can be rescued and given back to its members. Please, have a look at our statement: drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn.... To sign it: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just heard of another major British Palaeolithic site falling through the planning & protection net and being green-lit for development. That's 3 confirmed in 3 years, with 2 others I'm investigating. The failure to schedule Palaeolithic sites & the erosion of planning protections are to blame. 🚨🦣🏺
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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
3-year postdoc fellowship in #Archaeology @uio.no as part of an interdisciplinary project to investigate societal, economic, and climatic effects of major 6th-10th-century volcanic eruptions through a comparative interdisciplinary lens on regional #resilience. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow (290375) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (290375), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 17/11/2025
Millet was domesticated in China, where it was boiled and steamed. This changed as it moved west, with Central Asian communities adapting millet to their bread-baking traditions instead of adopting East Asian cooking practices #NationalHomemadeBreadDay 🥖 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Diagrams showing variation in millet processing techniques. Left: grinding stone and oven for baking, from the Inner Asian mountain Corridor. Right: tripodal cooking pot over a fire for steaming/boiling, from Monsoonal China.
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Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Updated thread on The Lost King film: I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten So what’s the real story? 1/15
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Welker Group @welkergroup.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Interested in #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS and human evolution? We currently have a postdoctoral position and a research position open. Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Postdoc in Paleoproteomics
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Sam Kelley @arctic-glacial.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Not a place I expected to publish, but great to see the summary of our geology-archaeology collaboration is so popular. Open Access summary paper linked below. Thanks to the IRC, now @researchireland.ie, for supporting this work.
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My colleague @panktroels.bsky.social is currently looking for a postdoc to work with him on his new project "Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia". Please spread the word! employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia
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Postdoctoral position in Archaeology: Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia
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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our new paper explores how we can use large bodies of stable isotope data from paleoenvironmental and bioarchaeological in wider cross-discipline studies. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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The palaeoenvironmental potential of bioarchaeological isotope data - Communications Earth & Environment
Bioarchaeological isotope data that provide information on the migratory and feeding behaviors of ancient species and their interactions with humans can improve understanding of past ecological and cl...
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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Featuring my illustration of party prep!
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
(Way too happy with myself for writing this headline.) 🧪🏺
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Archaeologists discover that parties 11,000 years ago were BYOB — bring your own boar
Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture — but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a communal gathering is even older.
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New paper out spearheaded by the fabulous Petra Vaiglova in which we present evidence for long-distance transport of wild boar used in feasts at early Neolithic Asiab: rdcu.be/euyuO
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Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia
Communications Earth & Environment - Ceremonial feasting in Early Neolithic Asiab, western Iran, involved transport of animals over substantial distances to celebrate far-flung social networks,...
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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Wenner-Gren Foundation's board of trustees is apparently considering pulling the plug on SAPIENS magazine. SAPIENS magazine is an amazing platform doing crucial science communication across all of anthropology. Please support them and send a letter to the board actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15/05/2025
Unconventional doorways for #AdoorableThursday 🚪 🏺 Semi-subterranean houses at Neolithic Balıklı 🇹🇷 had no doors. They were entered through the roof! This style of house is relatively unique for the region despite contact between nearby communities. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Aerial photograph of the remains of five similarly-sized oval pit houses, with destruction pits on two sides.
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Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Retraction Watch just announced the pending retraction of the Comet Research Group's Sodom & Gomorrah pseudoarchaeology paper. The authors are not taking it well. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/23/s...
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Sodom comet paper to be retracted two years after editor’s note acknowledging concerns
The authors’ reconstruction of what the blast’s impact area may have been. Source Scientific Reports will retract a controversial paper claiming to present evidence an ancient city in t…
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A micromorphological analysis of non-standard buildings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) by Aroa García-Suárez🏺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Home, annex or pied-à-terre? Assessing the socioeconomic dimension of small-sized built environments at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia
Built environments provide valuable information on domestic and group activities, the development of household identities, and the changing use of spa…
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Getting there: we've almost got the entire Danish Original 1 series of 1:4000 mapping georeferenced, cropped and tiled. This is a culmination of many years of hard work by many people. You can get a preview of our work here: www.museumsgis.dk/kort/ 1/2
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MuseumsGIS
Geografisk InformationsSystem for Arkæologiske Museer
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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Cool study on the human-made landscape of the Mediterranean olive grove
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The olive landscape: A nearly 4,000-year-old legacy of human-nature interaction in the Central Mediterranean
The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, economy, and culture. But how did this tree, originally a wild species, come ...
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Jonas Holm Jæger @jonasholmjaeger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Yesterday, we had a very special guest at the Centre for Textile Research.
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H.M. Dronning Margrethe besøgte Center for Tekstilforskning ved Københavns Universitet
H.M. Dronning Margrethe besøgte Center for Tekstilforskning ved Københavns Universitet
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What was that now with the Three Age System?
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
How did Europe's first farmers interact with their pigs and local wild boar? @jolijnerven.bsky.social has a new paper addressing just that using 11 ancient suis genomes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS
The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna seeks to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in archaeology/archaeological science and project management of archaeological fieldwork jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
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Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thai archaeologists have found the oldest human skeleton in the country. 🏺🧪
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29,000-year-old remains of child unearthed in Thailand cave with 'symbols of blood and power'
The skeleton of a Stone Age child discovered in Thailand is rewriting what experts know about the prehistory of the area.
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.
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Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Come to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert! Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I am excited that I've recently joined the editorial board of Hunter Gatherer Research (tinyurl.com/54wnbu6m), the journal of the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research.
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Liverpool University Press
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I am so please to be part of this amazing, huge project blog.caeg.dk/from-the-pas.... Together with @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy we will be looking into aeDNA from SW-Asia's earliest agricultural settlements to better understand the evolution of food crops and make future crops more resilient.
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From the Past to the Plate: Harnessing Ancient DNA for Future Food Security
A Bold new era in sustainable agriculture
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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @isotopesuk.bsky.social
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Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis
Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Part 1 of the special issue of Hunter Gatherer Research is here! 'The secret lives of forager children: The implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood': bit.ly/HGR10-2 @sheinalew.bsky.social @vivek123.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social ‬
A camo background with 'Hunter Gatherer Research' in orange and white, with the special issue details of Volume 10 issue 2 titled: 'The secret lives of forager children: The implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood Part 1'. The new volume journal cover is placed on the left with the LUP logo in white at the bottom right.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I'm running a "project-based" course this semester in which our MA students learn to work with archival material from Diana Kirkbride's archaeological excavations at the Neolithic site of Beidha, Jordan (1958-67 and 1983)🏺
Shelving units at the University of Copenhagen holding the documentary archive of Diana Kirkbride's excavations at Beidha, Jordan (photograph by Camilla Mazzucato, who ran the course in 2024)
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