Dr Cory Stade | Archaeology Proofreader

A figurine of a red dragon sits on three books.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus pawb! Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd.

A light pink background has a photo of Cory and her credentials, as well as the CIEP logo. It invites people to get in touch if they need academic proofreading.

I'm sponsoring Unravelling the Palaeolithic's student poster prize again this year! Here's the advert I made for their abstract pamphlet. Be in touch if you need academic proofreading! ✨

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

1. Prehistory of Religion
2. Lithic Analysis
3. Native American Languages
4. Phonetics
5. Japanese

A rectangular enamel pin with two hinges on the left hand side. It looks like a book and has a picture of a rainbow coloured tree on the front. The book is titled: Trees, a miniature guidebook. An open version of the pin shows assorted leaf shapes on the pages of the book in the colours of the progress pride flag. The leaves are labelled by species as oak, horse chestnut, sycamore, hawthorn, ash, alder, hazel, holly, lime, beech, and birch

Also, there's a Pride version now! 🏳️‍🌈

Like all my designs, profits from these pins will help to fund my transition costs and sharing the queerness of nature through art like this feels so important right now. I hope you like them! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

I can't wait to read this!!

Congratulations on going through the process! I hope you find some appointments nearby soon and the system's not too clogged. I'm so intimidated by the stress it will cause, but plan to do my own application in February...

I have proofreading availability from March onwards! Get in touch if you need your journal article, thesis, grant application or book manuscript (my favourite) corrected for spelling, grammar, punctuation, word choice, consistency and all that fun stuff!! ✨ Archaeological or otherwise! ⚱️💀🔥⛏️

Wow, it's beautiful!

A dark photo of a doorway and brownish water coming up to the final step

It will be a sleepy day of proofreading today! The floodwater got pretty close to coming in last night, and we were checking all through the night as it rose to see if we needed to ready the sandbags. Luckily it started to go down at 6 am. It came pretty close!! 😬

Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I will let you know how I enjoy it!

Perfect, I will!

That sounds like the perfect read! Although I might start with your book that begins in the Palaeolithic, as I'm interested in that period!

Oh that's so exciting to learn, I'll definitely read up on it! Thank you for telling me!

That sounds like a fantastic day! I would love to visit Vindolanda. I love the different shoes they have found! I wonder if they had dogs?

Nice to meet you Giovanni! Physically I'm in the UK, but I'm proofreading about the coast of Alexandria! I hope you're well!

This is my biggest pet peeve! I will make eye contact and tut loudly. And then suffer a migraine and feel woozy.

Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone is the oldest discovered in Europe A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural His...

More Breaking Palaeo-news!
🐘 Boxgrove preserved oldest Elephant Bone beyond Africa.
🐘 Early Neanderthals using bone to shape beautiful tools.
🐘 New research from Simon Parfitt @uclarchaeology.bsky.social Silvia Bello of the @nhm-london.bsky.social.
🦣🏺🐘https://share.google/20WUjY5TybDAr4QoT

It's been a long time since I last posted, but I'm still here and I'm still proofreading! Today I'm in the Roman Mediterranean. (If only!) ⛵🌞

These would be so good for conferences!!!

YouTube video by Linnean Society How To Make A Woodland

Last week I gave a talk for the @linneansociety.bsky.social lunchtime lecture series, all about woodland creation! I tried to keep it interesting for non-specialist audiences so, if you fancy an hour of woodland wondering, you can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwoH...

How did it get there?? 😲 Well caught!

It probably helps some people. Not me unfortunately!

Oh that's so useful, thank you! I wish they were compiled into one document though. I guess it just takes a bit of flipping through!

That's pretty likely! I should keep a little notebook of the hive-mind discussions, because a lot of things come up repeatedly in editing...

When #editing #archaeology I usually suggest using 'hearths' instead of 'fireplaces' because hearth seems a more general term, while fireplace seems more specific (implying structure). Do people agree?

Apparently it can be a symptom! Lower estrogen making dryness in their sensitive tissues etc etc... so bizarre!!

I've heard about the itchy ear thing and I'm like... could it be???

The image reads "Having followed your groundbreaking work on linguistic semiotics applied to archaeological contexts (particularly your contributions to [specific field, e.g., "Proto-Sino-Tibetan symbolic systems in ritual bronzes"], I would be privileged to engage you as a specialist academic proofreader to enhance the methodological precision and terminological consistency of this cross-cultural study."

Academics, please don't do this. AI lies. Besides not filling in the blanks correctly, this was not my research area at all. This is a terrible way to approach a proofreader. Please check what you are sending. #AI #editing

That's amazing, congratulations! 🎉