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Dr Victoria Sainsbury

@vsainsbury.bsky.social
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Archaeological Scientist, who loves glass and food!

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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Abstracts extended to 10th of February - Get your Silk Routes glass in for a lovely day in London!
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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Prof Hamerow hosted a celebration for the FeedSax project team & their amazing open access outputs inc. their book 'Feeding Medieval England'. The School's Sheaf of Wheat also attended - #archaeobotonists will understand! @erc.europa.eu @archanchistleic.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...
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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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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In Oxford, interested archaeology and science? Come and learn how we use science to look at what was in all those pots we find in a talk by the wonderful Carl Heron, the Director of Scientific Research at the British Museum! www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...
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Prof Carl Heron (British Museum) to give inaugural Archaeometry Lecture 2025
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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Really lovely to see some of our fabulous Archaeological Science Masters students featuring in this great little video about radiocarbon at Oxford! #archaeology #archsci #masters
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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...
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The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a Sample
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Busy week back in the UK, but missing wandering around sites and potential sites with friends and colleagues in Jordan!
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It's Friday afternoon. You've had it with this week. All you can think of is calculating the cost and time to travel between any 2 points of the Empire using the Roman transport infrastructure. You're welcome 👇 orbis.stanford.edu
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ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Making lots of new animal friends in the Jordan Museum! #Jordan #Museum #Animals #MuseumAnimals #Cats #Archaeology
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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Look at all that blue sky! I've escaped England for a week in #Jordan, with the @cbrl.bsky.social, where we are going to talk about #recycling in the past, present and future! #Archaeology #green
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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
And you can sign up to join us online!
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Dr Victoria Sainsbury @vsainsbury.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Start as I mean to go on, with this adorable little bead from Reykjavík. On display where it was found, in the excavation of a Viking-settlement period house hidden under the centre of the city! #glass #Archaeology #vikings #Reykjavík #Iceland
A fractured glass bead, striped with blue red, yellow and white
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