First #archaeobotany practical of the semester! Setting up for learning about #taxonomy, #botanical keys and using the reference collections. Always a good fun intro to the lab. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #Science

Super excited to be a part of this paper on Hominin ecological reconstruction that has just been published in Nature EcoEvol, but even more stunningly proud that my MA student is one of the co-authors! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience

Just been promoted to Associate Professor. #academia #SNU #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Thanks for the awesome memories #IWGP2025 #Groningen! Looking forward to 2028 in #Berlin for more #archaeobotany fun! #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #plants

Final paper session of #IWGP2025 in #Groningen and we're continuing with domestication! Rethinking some theory, exploring South American cotton, the origins of poppy and looking to Neltuma chilensis management. #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology

Global plant domestication session has a couple of papers before lunch at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Soybeans in China and enset in Ethiopia are the foci, and how we resolve their origins and spread. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

A sleepy morning after the #IWGP2025 party! We're back with more #food papers from the Americas and Europe. Starch, phytoliths, seeds and archaeochemicals...and cesspits! #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology

Incredible to be able to see the #Groningen #archaeobotany and #ethnobotany reference collection while at #IWGP2025. Truly amazing and extensive #seed, wood, pollen and more material. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

More #food #archaeobotany at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Case studies from China, Britain, Slovenia, Iraq and Alaska. Cooking methods, ingredients, and ideas of taste are all 'food for thought'. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Food is the theme for today at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Terminology, standardisation, experimentation, and methods are the key takeaways. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #food

Excellent paper by PhD student Matthew Conte from Seoul National University at #IWGP2025 on seed impressions in ceramics. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #Groningen

Last session for the day and it's on #openscience in #archaeobotany. FAIR, CARE and interoperable principles are all on the table at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Apologies for not posting after coffee - I was chairing! Back now with more methods - #phytoliths, micro-contextualism, preservation experiments in silos and #rice paddy ecologies. #IWGP2025 #Groningen #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience

Huge congratulations to Emma Karoune for winning the inaugural #IWGP2025 Lisa Lodwick Award. The award honours those who support accessibility, open science and inclusively in #archaeobotany, following in Lisa's trailblazing footsteps. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Morning from #IWGP2025 in #Groningen! I'm in the methods session and we're thinking about proteins, sedaDNA, germination identification, millet dispersal, ceramic impressions and c14 in ceramic tempers. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

More #plant management and #Resilience at #IWGP2025. Thinking through weed floras, date palm in the Nile, geophytes, azuki beans and fire propagation, and Australian Aboriginal food histories amongst much more. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #ethnobotany

Back from coffee and shifting to the #plant management session. Grapes, olives, wetlands and arable farming are all on the books as well as #archaeobotany, #isotopes, #archaeogenetics, #phytoliths, #charcoal. #IWGP2025 #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Amazing talk at #IWGP2025 from Indica Project member Kim Pangyu from @SeoulNatlUni on lentils cooking experiments in #India #archaeology. #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience

I'm in the parallel session at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen this morning & we're thinking about plant movements. "Cerealization", Mongolian crop introductions, lentils in India, Balkan millets and wheat in Italy are all topics covered #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Icebreaker for #IWGP2025 at the beautiful #Groningen Botanical Gardens. Drinks and snacks in the Chinese gardens while talking #plants - fantastic! #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience

Final part of #IWGP2025 for today and we move to Africa, the Levant, Saudi Arabia and South Asia for more urban #archaeobotany. Subsistence strategies, storage, arid adaptation and fabric are some of the many topics covered. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #Groningen

Back after lunch at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen for more on urban #archaeobotany. Big data mining, Bronze Age Mediterranean multiproxies, dung in #Italy, and cereals and theoretical approaches in #Egypt. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

1st day (morning session) at #IWGP2025 is on urban landscapes and we have talks on the Late #Neolithic ovens, Bulgarian city walls, Celtic oppidum, #Vikings pit houses, and Ephesos. #Groningen #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology

Welcome to #IWGP2025! The conference is beginning with a link down memory lane from the 6th meeting in 1983 held in #Groningen... to the conference today. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Registration has begun at #IWGP2025! Awesome bags, playing cards and other #archaeobotany based fun. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #Groningen

Chuffed to see dad reading my new book "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization"(Available from @universitypress.cambridge.org now in hardback and digital form) #IndusCivilization #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #harappa #India #Pakistan

Breakfast with new friends!

If you are in South #India I recommend visiting the Sanganakallu Museum of #Archaeology in Ballari. One of the best museums of regional archaeology I've seen as it places the local material in the global context and has stunning displays. Staff are super friendly! #archaeology🏺

Went rock climbing! Up Sanganakallu to see the #Neolithic rock drawings in Ballari, #India. There are over 3000 of them across the inselberg, as well as a quarry & habitation at the top and an ashmound at the foot. Awesome #archaeology🏺

Spending a while of my sabbatical travelling India 🇮🇳 maintaining connections, planning future work, and catching up on writing projects. And thoroughly enjoying seeing as many amazing things as possible! #archaeology #history #India

Today I bricked my laptop, failed to do conference registration, made a mess of the lab benches the students had so kindly cleaned, stained one of my favourite tops in the wash BUT I did do 99% paperwork needed for renewing contract & get ready for the asoc. prof upgrade before laptop bricked*

🚨 #openaccess paper "Early to Mid-Holocene land use transitions in South Asia: A new archaeological synthesis of potential human impacts" in @plosone.org The paper links to #Anthropocene and #climatechange debates and how we model this using #archaeology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Visit to the incredible site #Brahmagiri in #India. Spectacular setting for a deep history of human occupation, and wonderful to know more research will be happening here. #archaeology #history

Delighted to receive the Marathi language version of "The Indians", a book I was honoured to contribute to looking at the #archaeology, #history, #culture and #politics of #India.

Visiting the house in Mumbai where Gandhi-ji stayed! Incredibly important place especially today in these times of turbulence globally that we remember to stand up for what is right and true.

JOB! This looks great careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_... #archaeology 🏺

Post doc position! #archaeology🏺

🚨session for ##WorldArchaeologyCongress: "Does the Neolithic really apply in Asia? Questioning the appropriateness of this term and whether it should be replaced." Theme 20/Session 07. We aim to question what the #Neolithic actually means in the context of Asian #archaeological diversity. 🧵1/1

🚨Job alert at Duke University #Post-Doctoral Associate in #Asian #Climate and #Environmental Studies, researching environmental and climate studies in East and Southeast Asia. #SocialSciences and #Humanities academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/295...

To all the archaebotanists here ⚠️⚠️ On behalf of the initiative “Ethics in Archaeobotany”, I invite you to complete a questionnaire until the 17th of January 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help to spread the voice! 🙏🙏

I'm losing my mind this museum smuggling scheme is wild...🏺

🚨Just in time for New Year: my book is being released! "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization" explores the origins & uses of #plants in the #IndusCivilization. Published with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, it synthesizes #genetics, #archaeobotany, & #archaeology.

🏺 British Academy & heritage orgs push for archaeology in UK schools! Prof Collins: "It bridges STEM & humanities while teaching crucial skills." Heritage sector's £15.3B impact shows growing career opportunities. Proposal includes new modules & assessment frameworks 🔍📚 #Education #Heritage #UKNews

#Assyriology postdoc opportunity at ISAC UChicago with the #Nippur Tablet Collection. 🏺 Deadline end of January. apply.interfolio.com/160845 EOE/Vet/Disability

Totally not #archaeology but this is what I was up to 8 years ago at the same time I started my 1st post-doc! This was me in my TK costume along with others from @the501stlegion.bsky.social's UK garrison for the Rogue One release. Awesome times!

I think we're going to be okay for charcoal analysis at this site! Excellent sample preservation and sized pieces coming from the earliest to latest layers. #archaeology #archaeobotany #anthracology

Hey #phytolith folks, We are helping researchers to learn about open science practices and how to embed them into phytolith research. Check out our multi-lingual website: open-phytoliths.netlify.app We have lots of resources about open access, data repositories, FAIR data, Github & ontologies.

There's a crop of articles recently on the Indus Civilization -- ancient India's first urbanization c. 2700 – 1900 BCE. The issue -- What do we call it? I delved into this issue recently for my book (out in June); here is what you need to know. #THREAD 🧵 #India #history #IndusCivilization