Last paper from Deborah's (excellent) PhD project is out in Antiquity today. I'm still not sure about the adaptive cycle, but if you're gonna do it, do it with clear a priori hypotheses and actual data...

What did people in China eat for 8,000 years after the arrival of farming? Meng Zhang, Andrew Millard and I used c. 6,500 isotope samples from humans and animals to find out. Open Access article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... Come for the C3 plants, stay for the pig husbandry...

You may have seen the recent #ProjectGallery on Semiyarka: a Bronze Age permanent settlement on a scale previously unknown for the Eurasian steppe! 🏺 In our latest #AntiquityBlog, the authors discuss the first excavations there & next steps for the research: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Thanks to the @antiquity.ac.uk team for making this cool video summarising our recent paper, featuring drone footage from the steppe hero @peterjbrown.bsky.social himself!

Nice write-up of our recent paper @antiquity.ac.uk paper in New Scientist - thanks to @chrisnsimms.bsky.social for taking an interest!

New paper out! 🥳 We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways. Read the full open access paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Archaeology #NetworkScience

Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

📣 We are sponsoring a session at the next #LAC2026 Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence‬ ‪ @dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉 Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑

Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

1 month to apply for a cool postdoc position in my team!

New volume of Journal of Urban Archaeology Vol. 11 (2025) www.brepolsonline.net/toc/jua/2025... @brepols.net Archaeological Perspectives on Urban Sustainability @dl-arch.bsky.social

This is the most hot dog guy meme coded thing I have seen in my entire life. Actually feel the hot dog guy could take lessons from this

Nice short write-up of some of the outcomes of my CLaSS project here. Looking forward to telling the @erc.europa.eu Scientific Council about it all in a couple of weeks!

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Publication day for our @pnas.org Special Feature on inequality in the deep past bit.ly/WInqSF How do the transitions to agriculture, urbanisation and hierarchy impact wealth inequality? What social forces produced sustainable, equal societies in the past? Some answers (and more questions) inside!

Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for #SustainableUrbanism, past, present and future by @dl-arch.bsky.social @mwdegruchy.bsky.social et al https://buff.ly/4jQ4s1x #OpenAccess #archaeology #Mesopotamia #sustainability

Please follow our new Contemporary Archaeology account - showcasing the work being done exploring the archaeology of the contemporary world by students in the Dept of Archaeology, Durham University @ducontemparch.bsky.social

New paper! What did people use as fuel in Southwest Asia over the last 8,000 years? authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... TLDR - mostly whatever was lying around, including pruning waste, dung and olive cakes when population pressure meant they ran out of decent wood

New paper reconstructing land use across Southwest Asia 6,000 years ago, plus comparisons with standard models www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TLDR: incorporate archaeological data in your reconstructions, kids!