Updated thread on The Lost King film: I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten So what’s the real story? 1/15

Interested in #palaeoproteomics, #ZooMS and human evolution? We currently have a postdoctoral position and a research position open. Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Research assistant: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Not a place I expected to publish, but great to see the summary of our geology-archaeology collaboration is so popular. Open Access summary paper linked below. Thanks to the IRC, now @researchireland.ie, for supporting this work.

My colleague @panktroels.bsky.social is currently looking for a postdoc to work with him on his new project "Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia". Please spread the word! employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #archaeology #assyriology #Mesopotamia

Our new paper explores how we can use large bodies of stable isotope data from paleoenvironmental and bioarchaeological in wider cross-discipline studies. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Featuring my illustration of party prep!

(Way too happy with myself for writing this headline.) 🧪🏺

New paper out spearheaded by the fabulous Petra Vaiglova in which we present evidence for long-distance transport of wild boar used in feasts at early Neolithic Asiab: rdcu.be/euyuO

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

The Wenner-Gren Foundation's board of trustees is apparently considering pulling the plug on SAPIENS magazine. SAPIENS magazine is an amazing platform doing crucial science communication across all of anthropology. Please support them and send a letter to the board actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Unconventional doorways for #AdoorableThursday 🚪 🏺 Semi-subterranean houses at Neolithic Balıklı 🇹🇷 had no doors. They were entered through the roof! This style of house is relatively unique for the region despite contact between nearby communities. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Retraction Watch just announced the pending retraction of the Comet Research Group's Sodom & Gomorrah pseudoarchaeology paper. The authors are not taking it well. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/23/s...

as there's a once again a lot of media about archaeologies of inequality, please enjoy a little archaeology of equality... looking at the world as it is rather than the grand narratives of conquest means it's not shocking to find people resist domination, even in the most dire circumstances

A micromorphological analysis of non-standard buildings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) by Aroa García-Suárez🏺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Getting there: we've almost got the entire Danish Original 1 series of 1:4000 mapping georeferenced, cropped and tiled. This is a culmination of many years of hard work by many people. You can get a preview of our work here: www.museumsgis.dk/kort/ 1/2

Cool study on the human-made landscape of the Mediterranean olive grove

Yesterday, we had a very special guest at the Centre for Textile Research.

What was that now with the Three Age System?

How did Europe's first farmers interact with their pigs and local wild boar? @jolijnerven.bsky.social has a new paper addressing just that using 11 ancient suis genomes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna seeks to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in archaeology/archaeological science and project management of archaeological fieldwork jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

My thoughts on the Tinshemet discoveries in Israel (Nature Human Behaviour)

Thai archaeologists have found the oldest human skeleton in the country. 🏺🧪

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

Come to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert! Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...

I am excited that I've recently joined the editorial board of Hunter Gatherer Research (tinyurl.com/54wnbu6m), the journal of the International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research.

I am so please to be part of this amazing, huge project blog.caeg.dk/from-the-pas.... Together with @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy we will be looking into aeDNA from SW-Asia's earliest agricultural settlements to better understand the evolution of food crops and make future crops more resilient.

Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @isotopesuk.bsky.social

Part 1 of the special issue of Hunter Gatherer Research is here! 'The secret lives of forager children: The implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood': bit.ly/HGR10-2 @sheinalew.bsky.social @vivek123.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social ‬

I'm running a "project-based" course this semester in which our MA students learn to work with archival material from Diana Kirkbride's archaeological excavations at the Neolithic site of Beidha, Jordan (1958-67 and 1983)🏺

My sister Saja, living in Khan Younis, is a trained translator English<>Arabic. Her wish is to (re-)build her life through her own strength and work. She asks me to spread the word that she would be grateful for any translation jobs; she already successfully completed one for a colleague of mine.

Consider applying for one of our several 2-year postdocs! This year, we encourage applicants to team up with faculty members (including myself) I would love to work with colleagues who are interested in applying, so reach out if you are! archaeology.brown.edu/news/2025-02...

Syria’s rich archaeological heritage is under threat as looting surges amid ongoing instability. Experts warn of widespread illegal excavations, driven by economic hardship and lack of security. #CulturalHeritage #Syria #Archaeology

Please to be able to share a new paper that's just come out in Archaeological Research in Asia on Natufian and PPNA architecture at Shubayqa, which I wrote together with Lisa Yeomans and Alexis Pantos: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My paper on the entangled relationship between architecture and burial practices at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Türkiye is finally out! (open access)🏺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is a really neat and cool paper shedding important light on the process of early sheep domestication and human-sheep relations through time. Great work by @gingerhowley.bsky.social and colleagues!

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

A cremation burial from Hama in Syria has been shown to include Baltic amber in the same burial that included an amethyst cylinder seal AND an agate bead with cuneiform, which were included in my 2023 monograph as nos. 15-16 (see necklace)! Link to article at the end of thread and to monograph below

The archaeology department at Ghent University is looking to hire a lecturer in prehistoric archaeology of Northwest Europe. Deadline 27/2/2025. jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Pr...

Let Denmark cook.

Kann man nicht oft genug weiter verbreiten. Ist leider wieder aktuell, oder noch immer aktuell! youtu.be/ekxkveEnE2k

Really cool new paper out in @antiquityj.bsky.social by our colleagues @nationalmuseet.bsky.social on beads at Iron Age Hama in Syria made from Baltic amber. Highlighting super interesting long-range connections between the Baltic Sea and southwest Asia!

🏺👩‍🎓Do you like seals? Interested in a #PhD position in #Germany? Then, the KIŠIB project at the Institute of Near Eastern #Archaeology at LMU Munich has a job offer for you. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...

Nice summary of our recent paper on Pleistocene/Holocene body size reduction in mammals seen through archaeological remains: https://phys.org/news/2025-01-azraq-basin-fossils-reveal-mammals.html

📜I have a new article out on Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia! It collects a majority of written sources available for reconstructing epidemics in Mesopotamia, and examine what they reveal about these ancient societies and how they tackled disease through rituals, a form of quarantine, and myths 1/6

Sonderpräsentation "Das KZ vor der Haustür" ab heute bei uns in Konstanz: Welche Spuren haben sich an den ehemaligen Terrororten in Baden-Württemberg erhalten? Was können materiellen Relikte über die NS-Verbrechen aussagen? Wie ist mit der schwierigen Erblast angemessen umzugehen? 🧵1/2 🏺

I'm very proud to have contributed to this new paper led by Camilla Mazzucato, which combines aDNA and material culture data in order to understand social organisation and kinship systems at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Türkiye 🏺

🏺 Free Workshop: Archaeological Textiles & Skins Analysis Copenhagen, March 13-14, 2025! Join leading experts for hands-on training in cutting-edge analytical techniques at the Centre for Textile Research (UCPH). Features lab visits to SMK & CTR, practical demonstrations with study collections.

Post doc position! #archaeology🏺