New fieldwork technician post at the Institute advertised: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I will be speaking at the 'Looted Worlds' event at Ibraaz next Thursday May 21st at 6 PM. ibraaz.org/whats-on/loo... Hope to see you there

Our AI-based rainfall forecasting paper is out on preprints: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

This is today. Hope to see some of you there...

Very proud of my PhD student Alexes Mes for her first archaeology paper where she has developed a novel Bayesian spatiotemporal model for estimating arrival times using 14C dates authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🎉 Koto Nakajima, a first-year undergraduate student in the @uclhistory.bsky.social, and James Fielding, a first-year undergraduate student in the UCL Institute of Archaeology, were both selected this year to become Laidlaw Scholars. Read more about their projects: tinyurl.com/LLScholar @ucl.ac.uk

We are delighted to host our forthcoming international conference with the Association for the History of Glass and the British Museum, focusing on the vital role of glass as an indicator of exchange, trade and movement along the Silk Roads. Get your ticket: tinyurl.com/SilkRds3

New job opportunity: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚀 New! Pleased to share my new article (with C. Guerriero), “The Origins of (a Culture of) Cooperation,” now out in JLEO. We show how climate shocks and institutions shaped the emergence of cooperative norms in ancient Mesopotamia. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jleo... #economics #politics #econsky

new position: University Professorship in Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin #Egyptology

I share my birthday with my employer! We also share lots of same characteristics including both chsmpioning empirically based science. This shouldn't be a suprise as we are both Aquarians! Happy Birthday to us! 🥳

We are looking for a research project manager for the upcoming FORAGER ERC Synergy Project. Based at the University of York, this is an exciting opportunity to work in a team of 37 researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Japan. Join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Speakers: @lilalienz4ever.bsky.social @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social @hollywright.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @patymurrieta.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social @rmcelreath.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social and Alan Blackwell!

Nice to see some popular press about our work at Assur (doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...): www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...

Still one week to apply! Come work with us!

Our article analysing the origin of the sands underneath the Ishtar Temple as Assur is out. We demonstrate a regional (Zagros region) origin for the sands and indicate an early 3rd millennium BCE date for the temple's founding (and possibly Assur): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas. doi.org/10.1057/s415...

New article about pottery kilns in Iraqi Kurdistan: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The second volume of the series “Exploring Assur” presents the results achieved at ancient Assur chiefly in its New Town, through fieldwork and analyses undertaken in 2024 by the Assur Excavation Project. Out on open access and available for purchase: www.pewe-verlag.de?page_id=3198

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 Research Fellow in Environmental Archaeology (Amazonia) 📆 Closing Date 10-Nov-2025 📲 bit.ly/475fr2U #LocalAndGlobal

Our in-review preprint on the origin of sands used in the foundation of the Ishtar temple at Assur can be found here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Results show sands came from near Assur along the Zagros-Lower Zab but suggesting southern Mesopotamian influence in the cult of Ishtar.

Hot off the presses! Here’s a new article that I co-authored with my Lagash Archaeological Project colleagues on a geoarchaeological study of what we believe to be evidence of hydrological warfare in the Third Millennium BCE. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nice to see this book out: heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/view.... We have a chapter on population and wages in the 1st mill. BCE-1st mill CE in the Near East where we demonstrate wages mostly declined during this time and converged to similar wages across the Near East for unskilled labour.

Our new work demonstrates the relationship between increased moisture and the beginning of urbanism in Mesopotamia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Job in Ireland for a Geomatics expert: www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/pre...

We are advertising a lab manager post at UCL's IoA, details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Here is a two-year teaching cover at UCL Institute of Archaeology, with a focus on Quantitative Approaches and European Archaeology: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The National Heritage Science Forum is holding a poster session on July 10th showcasing areas related to heritage and science-based methods as applied to heritage. For those interested, see: www.heritagescienceforum.org.uk/what-we-do/2...

🚨 3rd Job Advert of the Week 🚨 Applications for a full-time (36.5 hours per week) Research Fellow @ucl.ac.uk IoA within the @erc.europa.eu Synergy project ‘MEDGREENREV: Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th-16th centuries). 📲 bit.ly/4lso8t3 Deadline 2nd May

Dear all, please see this call for papers I am involved with. If you are interested, please consider submitting.

New palaeoclimate results from Iraq, where we demonstrate that the mid-Holocene was ancient Mesopotamia's wettest period during the Holocene, at about the time urbanism first began: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research by an international team of researchers incl. Prof Nick Barton & Dr Stacy Carolin suggests that the #Sahara experienced wetter conditions during the African Humid Period between 8700-4300 years ago! Remember, 'c' for 'ceiling' and 'g' for ground! #Caves scitechdaily.com/ancient-cave...

NEW Eridu is traditionally considered the earliest city in southern #Mesopotamia. Discovery of thousands of irrigation canals in the Eridu region provides a rare direct example of intense agricultural management in ancient Mesopotamia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archa#Archaeology

Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

More jobs :)

Another job! This one as a two year research fellow in paleobot for the ERC DREAM project I am happily advising on: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Website for the project, about state institutional capacity, is now also up: www.origins-project.com

Sever post-doc possibilities for Mesopotamia archaeologists and with expertise in the region based in Bologna for a project I am involved with: www.origins-project.com/open-positions

🚨 Research Fellow in #Archaeobotany Job Klaxon 🚨 All info here on the @ucl.ac.uk jobs page: 📲 bit.ly/ABOTRF25 📆 Deadline 25th February 2025 Applications are now being sought for a Research Fellow to support the ERC-awarded and UKRI-underwritten project DREAM #LocalAndGlobal

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 LECTURER IN HERITAGE 🚨 DEADLINE 26 FEB 2025🚨 We are hiring a *Lecturer in Heritage* (1 year, FT), on a 40(research)-40(teaching)-20(admin) contract. The post holder will work in @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social & @uoe-sps.bsky.social! Info: shorturl.at/PjRRs

Just published and available open access here: www.sidestone.com/books/place-... #archaeology

I'm not sure what lump sum this could be or what mortgage they'd have, or what their situation with dependants is. This would be a luxurious, privileged position I see in zero of my colleagues under 60 and very few over. Not really the biggest worry unless this is just Plan A

The Durotriges An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership A great report on our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍 www.science.org/content/arti...

phys.org/news/2025-01... #Archaeology

#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...

Join a great team! UCL Archaeology South East @archsoutheast.bsky.social are looking for a Geoarchaeologist...…! Deadline 5 January 2025. JD here: Https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=29558

Looking forward to participating in the 2nd International Conference on Advancing Sustainable Futures this week: www.adu.ac.ae/conferences-...

We're hiring! Pls RT 🚨 Two Geoarchaeologists needed to join our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team. 🔸Work for @uclofficial.bsky.social a leading uni 🔸Industry leading pay & conditions. 🔸Diverse projects 🔸Great support Take the next step in your Geoarch career with us Details: shorturl.at/aYDPB 🦣🧪🏺

Our paper on Late Chalcolithic Shakhi Kora was just published. A rather amazing site with an intriguing occupation history that suggests the development of local institutional households, an Uruk one, and then the rejection of this type of centralised organisation/power. doi.org/10.15184/aqy...