According to Hunt & Lipo,rats likely hepled drive Rapa Nui's deforestation but not its societal collapse. New modelling by H&L suggests rats heavily impacted slow-reproducing palms, with boom-bust rodent population cycle tied to palm decline www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...

I admit that 10 ya I'd never have thought that archaeology would take me on the one hand all the way to Jordan, and on the other to a MoCap Lab! Fun, fun, fun! Thx, @4drl1.bsky.social . "Praecipua pronuntiationis adiumenta..." project. More: projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/618725... @ncn.gov.pl

Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...

Po dłuższej przerwie, recenzja dla Mądrych Książek @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. Duża dawka zdrowego rozsądku (i kubeł zimnej wody) ws podboju Marsa oraz fascynujące rozważania nad prawem kosmicznym od @weinersmith.bsky.social @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.madreksiazki.uj.edu.pl/aktualnosci/...

At Tampere romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/p...

I wrote an article on ancient reception, exploring AI-generated images and inequality. Big thanks to the editors and anonymous reviewers, who offered clear, constructive suggestions for improvement. faravid.journal.fi/article/view... faravid.journal.fi/article/view...

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is currently 99p on Kindle - that's a massive discount as the hardback is normally priced at £20. Why not give it a go, even if you think historical non-fiction isn't your thing - you never know, you might love it! shorturl.at/RKHSF

New study uses #AI to identify Roman imperial portraits without relying on hairstyles. Facial recognition software classified emperors despite hair and beards being removed, proving visual markers beyond coiffure exist. #DigitalHumanities journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/da...

Looking for a journal in Classics or Mediterranean archaeology? SAAC is a diamond open-access, independent journal. We charge no fees to authors, and all content is freely available to all. It's run entirely on a voluntary basis by its editorial team and peer reviewers journals.akademicka.pl/saac/

Katharina Meinecke and Sascha D. Schmitz presented different motion capture tools for the study of ancient sculptures. Turns out that a lot of Hellenistic sculpture poses are unnatural and very uncomfortable

Dynamic Perspectives – Advancing Archaeology with 3D Tools Workshop in Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik in Berlin. Nice venue, looking forward to the papers!

Ancient Palmyra suffers at the hands of looters and antiquities traffickers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Medieval Murder Maps. Un site de cartographie interactive sur les meurtres en Angleterre à la fin du Moyen Âge cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2025/06/Medi... par @mirbole01.bsky.social

#Archaeoacoustic analysis of Site 26LN211 (Nevada) reveals a unique soundscape: clear transmission, minimal echoes. Unlike other sites in WRN, it may have supported storytelling & ritual over echo-based ceremonies. #Artsoundscapes www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...

In Roman politics, ancestral masks — imagines maiorum — were more than symbols: they were visual proof of noble lineage and civic virtue. But what happened when politicians had no aristocratic ancestors to parade?

A new Roman marching camp discovered in the NL, beyond the borders of the Empire. The site was identified using LiDAR and aerial photography. This was followed by a surface survey with metal detectors and trial excavations, which helped date it to the 2nd century CE. www.uu.nl/en/news/roma...

🎉 #TRAJ Volume 8 is launched! Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more! FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...

"“In fact,” Shalvi told All That’s Interesting, “Tel Shiqmona yielded more purple-stained pottery fragments than all other ancient sites combined.”" allthatsinteresting....

Finished @byzantienne.bsky.social's *A Desolation Called Peace* (2021) this weekend. I really enjoyed this one and the first volume in the *Teixcalaan* series, *A Memory Called Empire* (2019). A few thoughts on these award-winning novels from the perspective of a Roman historian. 1/7

Human-animal combats (venationes) are well known from numerous written sources, inscriptions, and artworks scattered across the Roman Empire.

Thanks to the Bible, we are all familiar with the census of Quirinius, which took place in Judea and Syria in 6 CE. But what was the actual purpose of the census? In his article, Jared Kreiner analyses provincial censuses in the Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus

esterday, the results of a major aDNA study were published, analysing the genetic material of 210 skeletons buried in areas associated with Punic civilisation – from Spain and Sardinia, through Sicily, to the shores of modern-day Tunisia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Launching today - our biggest ever project! Sonic Heritage explores the sounds of the world’s most famous sights, with 270 UNESCO World Heritage sites and items of intangible heritage, all reimagined by artists to create a new way to experience these incredible spaces 🏛️🎧 citiesandmemory.com/heritage

Conservative Panic or Quality Control? In 92 BC, the censors Lucius Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus banned the operation of schools teaching rhetoric in Latin. Why?

It took me a while, but finally I had the time to go through the volume "Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" edited by @drblankam.bsky.social and Abigail Graham. It's a must-read for anyone interested in archaeology/history of senses, especially in antiquity.

The discovery of a skeleton in Cirencester, UK, dating from the end of the 3rd or 4th century CE with signs interpreted as osteomyelitis variolosa, the remains of bone inflammation caused by the smallpox virus, provides further evidence of the presence of smallpox in the Roman world.

Gladiator Tomb found in South Italy’s Liternum Necropolis 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ greekreporter.com/2025/03/25/g...

New paper shows board games and analog play aren’t just for fun — they’re tools to test cultural evolution theories. Who said science can’t be a game? Do you, guys, know any games set in Rome to play with students? Beside FORVM: Trade Empires of Rome www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do you know this Winckelmann guy? I mean the one who is supposed to be the father of archaeology as an academic endeavor? Well, before Winckelmann, there was Philipp von Stosch. Wanna know more about him and his contribution to the development of archaeology? Read this book brill.com/display/titl...

The TRAC 2025 will be online in Gather Town in October. I do not particularly like the platform, but I will keep eye on the coming content. Call for sessions TBA. #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋 www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-con...

La nuova megalografia di Pompei. Intervista a pomeriggio24 Rainews 26-2-2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIKo...

My dear friend Paweł Gołyźniak, with Ulf R. Hansson & Hadrien J. Rambach, has published "Philipp von Stosch" 💎📖—a groundbreaking study on Stosch’s role in 18th-century gem studies, antiquarianism, and the birth of archaeology as an academic discipline! brill.com/display/titl... Congrats! 👏📚✨

An open-access volume (eds. Stefano Caneva, Alessandra Coppola) dedicated to gestures, accessories, and voice in ancient Greek political communication, 6th to 4th cent. BCE. The book is the result of a conference held at the University of Padova in October 2023. >> www.cleup.it/product/3374...

Czempioni wolnego słowa! Champions of free speech! www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Voulme 56, issue 3 now out online: 8 articles, 6 OA, 2 book reviews and an obituary for Hugh Barnes, much loved and well-remembered Levantine archaeological surveyor. Find out more at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylev20/c...

UnRoman Romans: A sourcebook on socially stigmatized groups in Rome.

Archeolodzy odkryli w Orleanie, we Francji, rzymską nekropolię z ponad 60 grobami, w których znaleziono 21 ołowianych tabliczek z klątwami, tzw. defixiones. Jedna z nich zawiera inskrypcję w języku galijskim, wzywającą Marsa do przeklęcia wymienionych osób za ich niesprawiedliwe czyny.

3,51 – na takim poziomie (w 5-stopniowej skali) znajduje się zaufanie Polaków do naukowców. To nieznacznie poniżej średniej dla 68 badanych krajów. Największym zaufaniem obdarzają uczonych mieszkańcy Egiptu (4,30) i Indii (4,25). Liderem w Europie jest Hiszpania (3,90). #nauka #zaufanie

#ReliefWednesday - It's Roman beaker time! This one's green glazed and decorated with gladiatorial scenes, a secutor and retiarius: ca. 2nd Century AD. Associated with the cemetery of Ulpia Noviomagus. #Archaeology 🏺 Image: Valkhof Museum (XVII.1). Link - valkhofmuseum.nl/en/verdiepin...

The history of Roman-Partian/Persian conflicts in just one picture.

O archeometrii rozmawiam z Eweliną Miśtą-Jakubowską :) Niestety to już ostatnie zeszłoroczne nagranie dla Copernicusa. youtu.be/TLRcUG6-8Yw

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.

W najbliższy wtorek będę w Poznaniu, gdzie będę miał przyjemność wygłoszenia referatu w ramach Poznańskich Akademickich Seminariów Archeologicznych. Zapraszam!

From now on, I will have illustrative material when weaving anecdotes about the deaths of various emperors into my classes. Hmm, isn't it symbolic that the book reached me on the last day of the year? P.S. Take care of yourselves today. Commodus didn't...

Jakiś czas temu ucięliśmy sobie z Justyną Rzońcą, taką rozmowę o prehistorycznych wozach: youtu.be/ZVaFDOZ_TrU BTW. Justyna broni doktoratu w najbliższy piątek

#OnThisDay - 10 December - in AD 20 the 'Senatus Consultum de Pisone Patre' is issued: the account of the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso for his "wicked plans to disturb the tranquillity of the commonwealth". #Rome #AncientHistory🏺 Image: Hispania Epigraphica. Link - eda-bea.es/pub/record_c...

Well, it could be at least watchable this way.

My book 'Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes' is now available to pre-order 😊 www.routledge.com/Sonic-Pasts-...