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Zuzana Chovanec

@zuzchovanec.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, Traveler, Fulbrighter, Slovak, Mother, lover of Cyprus, Slovakia, history, plants, historic preservation

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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home... Only 1 day left to submit scoping comments on BLM proposal to shrink ChacoCanyon buffer boundaries to permit drilling. The impacts to this UNESCO listed historical park would be immense. The link contains a map. Click participate now to submit comments.
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Really excited to have a chapter on Co-Design in this forthcoming Handbook of Applied Anthropology! #SfAA
Cover image of the Routledge Handbook of Applied Anthropology
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Academics with publications on academia edu need to look at the new terms and the permissions it provide to AI farm your work and identity
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What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated) - Daily Nous
Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service. Catching users' attention was a new pa...
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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Great interview with CAARI Fulbright researcher Caroline Barnes!
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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We are excited to announce that our next VIEWS conference, WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement, will take place on 26th-29th March 2026. CFP deadline 5th September. The linked post also contains a round-up of our other news and opportunities. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a...
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Announcing our next conference! Plus a news round-up
We are delighted to announce that our next conference, WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement, will take place on 26th-29th March 2026 in Cambridge. For further details, look at our Call For Papers H…
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David Batty @david-batty.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of sacred relics buried in third-century BC www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains
Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of relics buried in third-century BC
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Giovanni Gasbarri @giogasbarri.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Excited to take part in the roundtable "The Two Cultures. Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?" organized by the Center for Medieval Visual Cultures and Research Communication at Masaryk University. @re-cent.bsky.social @epinicion.bsky.social @apaladine.bsky.social
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Happy to share my new article on animal representations in Bronze Age art and archaeology in Cyprus
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Call for papers exploring Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology using proteomics, metabolomics, stable isotopes, lipids, and archaeogenetics. Manuscript Summary Deadline: 15 July 2025. See the link below for more info. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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Frontiers | Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology
Understanding the complex relationships between ancient societies and their environments requires an interdisciplinary approach that connects material cultur...
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
OUT NOW from Sidetone Press Empire and excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960 Edited by Thomas Kiely, Anna Reeve & Lindy Crewe. Read online for free or purchase a copy. www.sidestone.com/books/empire... #Cyprus #historiography #heritage #colonialism
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Empire and excavation @ Sidestone Press
The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating exa...
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Bernadette Arnaud @narudaaarnaud.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
La domestication des avocats (Lauracées) a commencé il y a 7565 à 7265 ans au Honduras. Ces nouveaux résultats montrent que les avocats étaient domestiqués des milliers d'années avant d'autres cultures, telles que le maïs phys.org/news/2025-03...
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Fossil evidence found of humans domesticating avocados 7,500 years ago
A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the Smithsonian Institution, has found evidence of humans...
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/03/art-... Informative list of events and research on combatting art crime, antiquities trafficking, and provenance studies
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Art Crime Research Opportunities: 7 Mar 2025
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
hellenicnews.com/four-institu... A nice article summarizing the event held at the Penn Museum and co-organized with various Cypriot institutions.
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Four Institutions Celebrate Cyprus’ Cultural Heritage
On November 24, 2024, four regional institutions with an interest in Cyprus joined to celebrate Cyprus’ centuries-long cultural heritage
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New publication on legacy data, community archaeology, and Nabataean fauna from the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra (sorry, no winged lions actually identified in this assemblage). www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Faunal Remains
PDF | On Oct 11, 2024, Kathryn Grossman published Faunal Remains | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you're in the Boulder, Colorado, area, I'll be giving a book talk this coming Wednesday (Feb 26, 5pm) at the University of Colorado Boulder. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
A flier providing details about an upcoming lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder: In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia. Tate Paulette, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University. February 26, 2025, at 5pm. Ekeley Science Building E1B20. This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Center for Humanities and the Arts.
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
For probationary federal employees who have been terminated:
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BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Highlighting some of our wonderful female authors for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬🏺 #archaeology #ancientsky
4 book covers with a background of an archaeological dig. The books from left to right are: The Exploitation of Fishing Resources and the Maritime Skills of Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast Asia by Clara Boulanger, Dying Young by Anna Rohnbogner, Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health by Anna C. Moles, and Stonehenge and Middle to Late Neolithic Cremation Rites in Mainland Britain (c.3500-2500 BC) by Christina Willis.
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Cultural heritage is on the list 🏺
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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A new article from Ohrazení is out! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Plant diversity loss has limited effects on below‐ground biomass and traits but alters community short‐term root production in a species‐rich grassland
These results from a non-random species removal experiment revealed minimal impact of a realistic diversity loss on root biomass and traits, but a decrease in short-term fine root production. These r...
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Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
go.bsky.app/9uS3a2b Newcomers! This starter pack is terrific!
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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Looking forward to the 2025 series of talks hosted by @caari-cyprus.bsky.social starting next week with the launch of Bernard Knapp’s new book ‘Cyprus and Ugarit’
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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@moudhy.bsky.social’s beautiful new book, gleaming in the light of the low wattage English sun.
Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al Rashid: has a beautiful sinuous cover design in dark blue and a burnished bronzy gold. Very nice indeed.
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Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It being #TileTuesday and as I have posted stuff about the project before, I thought I would share the proof of the cover of the book I wrote with Lisa Golombek on a group of 17th C tiles from Iran. #IslamicArt #Iran
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Archeologicke Rozhledy Journal @archrozhledy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Explore the origins of #viticulture in Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia! The paper by Michaela Látková tests methods of identifying archaeobotanical finds of cultivated grapevine and its wild counterparts. The analysed assemblage comprises 1087 finds dated from prehistory to Early Modern period 🔗below
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
www.caorc.org/neh-fellowsh... Deadline approaching! The CAORC - National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship is accepting applications through January 29. Approximately three to four awards will be granted and fellowship stipends are $5,000 per month. www.caorc.org/neh-fellowsh...
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CAORC | NEH Fellowship Guidelines
The CAORC NEH Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research in the humanities for U.S. postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who have been residents in the U.S. fo...
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
COMING SOON! “Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World - Preorder for the volume (edited by our very own Chelsea A.M. Gardner and Sabrina C. Higgins). www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past...
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Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World
This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range – academics, museum curators, students, and content creators – to discuss case studies, challenges, and potentia...
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We’re delighted to say that our recent book ‘Heritage at War’ has gone #openaccess, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched. You can find the book on JSTOR now, and it’s coming soon to OAPEN and ORL. Link: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.19... #heritage #war #conservation @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
NEH's newest grant program, State and Impact of the Humanities, funds data-grounded research that can help us tell the story of how and why the humanities matter. It was a privilege to develop this program with Jess Unger, Ben Skinner, Lutie Rodriguez, & Scott Weingart. www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
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NEH Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Research on the State and Impact of the Humanities
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Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
About to start the GameTable @costprogramme.bsky.social Working Group 1 meeting at QMUL in London! It’s gonna be a long day of AI talks for this archaeologist 😅 but we will be working together to find ways to more effectively harness AI to study traditional games!
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If you can't quit all the Meta apps (which, sadly, includes the internationally essential WhatsApp) you can minimize the monetization of your data, using the info from @eff.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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Kristina M. Gill @kmgill.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
😆 the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (JICA) has some great stuff! 🏺🧪 www.tandfonline.com/journals/uic...
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The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
Publishes on archaeology and historical ecology of islands and other coastal settings, including syntheses, methods and theory, and history and human impact.
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
uk.usembassy.gov/worldwide-tr... US citizens now need visas to travel to or through the UK - plan ahead
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Worldwide Travel Alert: New Entry requirements for US citizens traveling or transiting through United Kingdom airports – Effective January 8, 2025.
Location: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and British Overseas Territories   Event:  New Entry requirements for US citizens traveling or transiting
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We’ve published two new articles online first in ‘Plant Perspectives’. @plantperspectives.bsky.social www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/forthcomi... #plantstudies #envhum #openaccess
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Forthcoming | Plant Perspectives
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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
On Monday I visited NC State University (where I used to work) to give a book talk & to speak wit students in the University Honors Program. I had great convos with hosts & enjoyed wide-ranging audience questions. Here's a write-up in the student newspaper: www.technicianonline.com/culture/ryan...
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Ryan Emanuel talks intersection of environmental justice, Indigenous communities in new book
Dr. Ryan Emanuel’s book is a unique collection of interdisciplinary work. He weaves a narrative bridge between his quantitative academic background in hydrology and the sacredness and respect with whi...
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
In news that is not news to most Tulsans, but a reaffirmation of historical facts over a century later. See the full report here: www.justice.gov/crt/media/13... and the archival collection from Oklahoma State library.okstate.edu/search-and-f...
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April M. Beisaw @aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The upcoming conference on public #archaeology will focus on networking and workshops. Feb 10th is deadline to submit your discussion session, workshop, or poster presentation ideas 💡 www.fpan.us/projects/202...
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FPAN - 2025 Conference on Public Archaeology
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🌿 Over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world collaborated on this groundbreaking book (including me!), now available for preorder. 📚 Use code S25 for 20% off and free shipping through June 30, 2025. #NativesInSTEM #IndigenizeSTEM #NativesInAcademia osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/indigen...
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Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
With more than fifty contributors, Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge offers important perspectives by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indig...
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Check us out at the #SHA2025 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀, 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝟵 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 (𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭) 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘹: 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘢, 𝘊𝘙𝘔, 𝘕𝘰𝘯-𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴 1:30 pm – “Choose Your Own Adventure: Navigating Archaeological Career Trajectories in Different Employment Sectors”
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Check us out at the #SHA2025 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀, 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝟵 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 (𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭) 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘹: 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘢, 𝘊𝘙𝘔, 𝘕𝘰𝘯-𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴 1:30 pm – “Choose Your Own Adventure: Navigating Archaeological Career Trajectories in Different Employment Sectors”
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Seventh edition of Go_Belowground course on practical assessment of moprhological and anatomical traits on belowground organs and their importancy: Go belowground! 2025 klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...
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Go belowground! 2025
The Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences organize the 7th edition of PhD course of functional ecology „Go belowground!“ 1…
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
I've transformed the SHA2024 feed into the #SHA2025 feed! Anyone who is thinking of/planning things for the Soc. Hist. Archaeology 2025 conference is welcome to include their posts in the feed with the hashtag #SHA2025. Feed is linked here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My library made an AI generated image to promote my talk about why we probably shouldn't do that. Come inhabit a space of dissonance and disgruntlement with me!
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Jan Kolář @jankolararchaeo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Btw. I'm looking for a PhD student in zooarchaeology with an interest in stable isotopes. www.arup.cas.cz/vyberove-riz...
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Výběrové řízení | PhD student/ka - archeozoologie - ARUP
V rámci výzkumného projektu GAČR „Pastva napříč věky: Dynamika lidí a býložravců v lesních ekosystémech od neolitu po starší dobu bronzovou“ rozšiřujeme náš tým a obsazujeme pozici: PhD student in zoo...
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Pretty excellent views while skiing in Vail Colorado
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Just finished this very full history of the US by Ned Blackhawk in which Native American people are central to much of the policy decisions made. A must read
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April M. Beisaw @aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Finished reading The Process of Animal Domestication by Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra and was impressed with the connections made between archaeological, genetic, and behavioral studies.
Cover of book is tan with red title. Sketches of different cattle above the title.
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
www.politico.eu/article/robe... Not sure if I’d characterize this as a ‘spat’ - it’s no question where Fico’s loyalties lie.
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Fico threatens to cut electricity supplies to Ukraine
Diplomatic spat between Slovakia and Ukraine continues.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara, #Egypt, and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
A wreath made from a variety of 'everlasting' flowers, tied with fibre.
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