Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. But what if they don’t have to be? Check out my new blog post for CfAS, which covers our recent @antiquity.ac.uk article that finds that inequality was low at Mohenjo-daro, and decreased as the city grew. www.archsynth.org/building-fai...

📰 Did the major Indus city of Mohenjo-Daro "defy the rules of history" by becoming more egalitarian as it developed? 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @york.ac.uk www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

In a new article for @antiquity.ac.uk, we find that a quantitative analysis of housing at Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s first cities, reveals that inequality sharply declined over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Archaeologist Carole Crumley talking about heterarchies, if you are looking to cite someone in addition to Mark Fisher wrt capitalist realism. The ability to dream outside of hierarchies and the state should be taught by every archaeologist. GOOD MORNING

Really pleased this collaboration with @carlyschuster.bsky.social is finally published! We lean on queer feminist theory to discuss kinship as a dynamic set of relations and map their flow around funerary rites - we see burials as cannily assembled, not simple mirrors of the living world

🏺How we can talk about kin in the archaeological record in a world where establishing genetic relatedness with aDNA is relatively routine and perhaps become somewhat domineering in the conversation.

Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7 doi.org/10.11141/ia....

Can We Learn from the Indus Peoples’? Talk this Thursday for those interested in Anthropology. youtu.be/MXHsj2sU5l0

The special issue this is based on is now published - all papers are open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What does an ancient civilisation built when it doesn't need palaces? Looking forward to discussing this question in a public conversation with the David Graeber Institute and Human Bridges project. Tune in if you are keen! #Inequality #Archaeology davidgraeber.institute/a-civilizati...

From ancient Egyptian temples to the colonial destruction of Benin City, our #AfricanArchaeology collection contains tons of free and #OpenAccess research from across the entire continent! Check it out at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺 #Archaeology

Come to a free online panel on #MachineLearning and #archaeology, this Wednesday 6.30 pm AEST: events.humanitix.com/machine-lear...

What do archaeologists and ecological economists have in common? Both disciplines know that GDP is problematic, and that we can learn more about human economies by measuring their material worlds To bring these disciplines together, we are guest editing a collection for JAMT. #sustainability

Had the pleasure of speaking to Amn Kaur about Mohenjo-daro's role in helping us understanding ancient #democracy on BBC Radio on Monday. Tune in if you have a chance- we chat at about 30 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CfAS projects featured prominently at the Lessons from the Past conference! It's no susprise; archaeological synthesis can contextualize pressing challenges and offer points of comparison that allow us to see what worked (and what didn’t) in the past. www.archsynth.org/archaeologic...

The Paper of the Month from @antiquity.ac.uk is "Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538" by Alice K. Rose et al., available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4lGBVwG #antiquity #archaeology #PaperOfTheMonth

Heading to Liverpool for the "Lessons from the Past" conference. I'm presenting GINI work on how the #archaeology of #Inequality can shape debates about taxation today. We close by drafting policy briefs to link the past to the UN #SDGs. #Sustainability lessonsfromthepast.info/programme/

Democracy isn't a modern luxury—it's a political strategy with deep roots. In our new study for Science Advances, we analyse 40 different societies and develop a framework for measuring human governance along a collective-autocratic axis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Press release for our new paper! “…people across the world created inclusive political systems, even under difficult conditions…An understanding of the hallmarks of autocracy and democracy can help identify threats and pump the brakes on burgeoning totalitarian regimes.” phys.org/news/2026-03...

If you are in the UK Civil Service- a DD or aspiring DD - this is an opportunity to work with me, England’s Upland Communities and @DefraGovUK on system transformation - please share widely a fantastic opportunity for a brilliant candidate civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

🔬A compelling reuse case for ADS data from @adamsgreen.bsky.social - medieval archaeological records from Wharram Percy repurposed to model early social metabolism and inform pathways beyond fossil fuel dependency ⬇️ #data #reuse

Can investigating past economies help us build a future without fossil fuels? @simonmair.bsky.social and I believe the answer lies in a closer investigation of early "social metabolism". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... into

🚨New job Alert! We’re looking for a capable and self-motivated Data Assistant to help us keep Wales’s national archaeology, architecture, industrial and maritime history archive accurate and up-to-date with high-quality information. Find out more: zurl.co/6ZZh9 #job #historic#wales #heritage#data

The past provides our best laboratory for understanding sustainability—archaeologists should synthesise their evidence in order to better steer vital debates. Read more about JARE's new shorter article format in this new post on the CfAS blog! www.archsynth.org/call-for-pap...

And evidence from the past can help us better understand where those structural factors came from, how they have changed, and how they can be changed in the future.

All i can say is that a an archaeologist (a) i wish my specialist knowledge a was LESS relevant to the present moment and (b) nothing breaks the spell of capitalist violence faster than taking just how long we existed without it and that there have always been alternatives

Out now: our new editorial in JARE! As the new Chief Co-Editors, we are seeking research that resonates across archaeology and tackles the world's most vexing challenges. @jenniferbirch.bsky.social @victorloagmnh.bsky.social @jlmunson.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Is #inequality the price of "development"? Many economists have long been guided by the idea that as societies become more "developed" they become more unequal. Our new paper challenges this idea. History is not a one-way street. #Archaeology 🧵(1/4) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years The deadline is 11 March www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Check out this post-doc in landscape #archaeology here in York! This looks like amazing chance to engage with an understudied region, and build up critical African datasets, which can be used to address a whole host of #sustainability challenges. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

This is going to be a really fun and stimulating session on pseudoarchaeology and communicating archaeology at the upcoming meeting of the @can-arch.bsky.social in beautiful Canmore, AB, May 6-10!

Is "sprawl" the only way the tropics can urbanise? Check out Alders new paper in JARE, which challenges our assumptions about tropical cities. It’s time to talk about the Swahili Townland. 🧵 #Archaeology #Urbanism #DeepHistory #Sustainability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Archaeologists have uncovered the largest known corpus of late prehistoric administrative artefacts in the ancient world in western Iran, prompting us to reconsider our understanding of early bureaucratic institutions. A well-organised #AntiquityThread 1/8 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

Fantastic opportunity to delve more deeply into early systems for materialising credit and debt.

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Now out: a re-examination of the discovery of one of the world’s most important ancient cities. doi.org/10.1080/0093...

New Year, new resolution? Thinking “I’d love to get more involved in archaeology this year”… but not quite knowing where to start? We can help 👋 📬 Sign up to our newsletter for the latest archaeology news, events and volunteering opportunities near you 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/news/newslet...

The University of Liverpool here advertising for a postdoc fluent in four modern languages plus Latin, and I wonder if it's even possible to acquire these skills if you start out in its local state schools?

Check out this thread and blog post flagging the ways economic growth and the environment are connected! It highlights the need to take care and ensure we aren’t blinded by the tools we use to measure human economies.

Archaeologists! Considering joining @simonmair.bsky.social and I at the European Society for Ecological Economics conference in Ghent to provide examples of "non-capitalist economies" that we can use to learn about sustainability.

Very cool piece of research on the knowledge we can gain from past economies. #sustainability

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Are the solutions to pressing socio-ecological challenges are hidden in data from the past? Check out our new paper on ponds, and the role they played in #sustainable #water #governance in northern India not too long ago.

Check out @gfeinman.bsky.social and Linda Nicholas' insights from 33 years at JARE, archaeology's leading platform for synthesis, counteracting the data deluge. They've also pushed the journal to better represent the communities it serves. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very exciting @yesiuoy.bsky.social seminar coming up. Prof. Rocha challenges our thinking about land ownership in national parks, and moves toward some possible solutions for Campos Gerais in Brazil! www.york.ac.uk/yesi/events/...

Want to learn from ancient agropastoral economies to help us figure out what makes cities sustainable? Check out this NERC-funded opportunity for PhD study with me here at @york.ac.uk! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too! Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We've put this up on our big vertical screen again this year... #UoYTips

Archaeology reveals many past societies that appeared to control #inequality much better than we do today. Interest in these societies is gaining steam. Today my paper on the Indus civilisation's egalitarian cities reached 100 google citations! doi.org/10.1007/s108...

Announcing @york.ac.uk's partnership with Lycoming College! We've created a new pathway for Lycoming graduates to join our archaeology, heritage and @uoyenvironment.bsky.social masters programmes, building student cohorts dedicated to tackling global challenges. www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

I've got a class coming up tomorrow night in NYC! My first in-person class since before Covid – it'll be good to be off Zoom for once! brooklynbrainery.com/courses/haun...