📢 New article out in Public Archaeology: Invisible Archaeologies of Decolonization: Western Asian Archaeology, a View from Türkiye 🔓 Open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We make a strong start to 2026! 🎉 Our new chapter “Bodies and behaviours: archaeological material culture & the interpretation of identity at the Neolithic transition” critically revisits how identity has been approached in Neolithic SW Asia. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

As the year comes to an end, here are some highlights from the year. We’ve been all over Anatolia and beyond, looking at personal ornaments & sharing results from the project. Read our new blog post - 2024 recap www.smallthingsbigstories.com/post/small-t... Happy new year everyone! 🎄

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📢 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry talk with Dr. Emma L. Baysal about her National Geographic Society-supported project 'Small Things, Big Stories'. Tune in on Youtube, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify!

'Small Things, Big Stories' project is featured in the Heritage Türkiye podcast of @thebiaankara.bsky.social 📢 Watch @emmabaysal.bsky.social talking about the project and the fascinating stories personal ornaments can tell about the prehistory of identities 🐚 youtu.be/fvgJPUJn37A?...

And in summer 2024, we finished our pilot experimental study on #prehistoric #beadmaking techniques We replicated the production process of a #Neolithic bead, from preparing the drills to grinding, polishing, and drilling using experimentally produced stone tools

Spring 2024 was very busy with our PI @emmabaysal.bsky.social presenting our ongoing research at METU and Bilkent in Ankara, Türkiye 🇹🇷 and several other places

We are back! Lets catch up 🎉 This summer we had a great session at the #EAA2024 discussing small things and identities all over the world from Palaeolithic to the Viking Age 🐚💎🗿 We are now working on publishing a collection of brilliant papers presented there. Keep an eye here for more updates❗️

#CallforPapers 📣 Join us in Rome this summer at the #EAA2024 We'd love to hear about research on artefacts close to the body from all areas of the world. It's time for some new perspectives on small things! 🔎🔬📿

Some recent news from the project! Read on our postdoc @serayelozer.bsky.social 's blog post about the 2023 museum study phase of the "Small things, big stories" project: "Delving into the magnificent world of the beads – 2023 Museum study session" 📿 www.smallthingsbigstories.com/post/delving...

Read on our blog about the 2023 fieldwork phase of the "Small things, big stories" project: "Exploring ornaments - 2023 Summer fieldwork" *Content warning: discussion of human burials* www.smallthingsbigstories.com/post/explori...

Hello world 👋 Stay tuned to learn more about how "small things" shaped and transformed our identities since 10,000 BCE 🧿 smallthingsbigstories.com