New book out now! 🏺Available to order or read online (for free!): Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia: Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews www.sidestone.com/books/tracin...

It’s been an absolute pleasure to co-edit the volume with the brilliant @claudiaglatz.bsky.social , Mónica Palmero Fernandéz and Michael Seymour.

SEMINAR 27th Feb 16:15pm the Meadows LT ‘States of mind: rethinking the story of the early state in light of recent excavations at Shakhi Kora & survey in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region, Iraq’ @claudiaglatz.bsky.social  @uofglasgow.bsky.social 📷 Ⓒ Sirwan Regional Project @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 6pm UK/1pm EST, join @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social and myself for a livestream discussion: "Crisis at UK universities. Lessons from Save Sheffield Archaeology" youtube.com/live/-PICWDM...

Just published and available open access here: www.sidestone.com/books/place-... #archaeology

#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...

The #PaperOfTheMonth from @antiquityj.bsky.social is 'There and back again: local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region' by Claudia Glatz et al., available #openaccess! 📚 cup.org/3W6zFn1 #archaeology

Open access paper: 'The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists?' reflections on conflict, memory, ruins, ethics, and absence by Palestinian archaeologist Mazen Iwaisi 🏺🍉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our new paper in Current Anthropology summarises a joyfully collaborative project to protect cultural heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by engaging a wider public and making archaeology as a form of cultural heritage more accessible and enjoyable. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Our paper on Late Chalcolithic Shakhi Kora was just published. A rather amazing site with an intriguing occupation history that suggests the development of local institutional households, an Uruk one, and then the rejection of this type of centralised organisation/power. doi.org/10.15184/aqy...