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Claudia Glatz

@claudiaglatz.bsky.social

Archaeologist | Professor @UofGlasgow | Writing a book about mountains | Author of The Making of Empire @CambridgeUP.

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A paperback copy of Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities sits in front of a stack of books

A paperback copy of Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities sits in front of a stack of books

New book out now! ๐ŸบAvailable 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...

10.06.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s been an absolute pleasure to co-edit the volume with the brilliant @claudiaglatz.bsky.social , Mรณnica Palmero Fernandรฉz and Michael Seymour.

10.06.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SEMINAR 27th Feb 16:15pm the Meadows LT โ€˜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, Iraqโ€™ย @claudiaglatz.bsky.socialย  @uofglasgow.bsky.socialย ๐Ÿ“ท โ’ธ Sirwan Regional Project @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

24.02.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Crisis at UK universities. Lessons from Save Sheffield Archaeology with Umberto Albarella YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

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...

01.02.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Place, Encounter, and the Making ofย Communities @ Sidestone Press This book sketches the first archaeological history of the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq and adjacent landscapes over a period of c. 12,000 years, from the earliest signs o...

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

#archaeology

28.01.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Employment of Post-doctoral researcher โ€“ Wydziaล‚ Nauk Historycznych UKSW

#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 Rafaล‚ Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...

08.01.2025 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The cover of Antiquity journal with a detailed terrain beside a body of water. Beside the cover is the text "Antiquity" and "Paper of the Month"

The cover of Antiquity journal with a detailed terrain beside a body of water. Beside the cover is the text "Antiquity" and "Paper of the Month"

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!

๐Ÿ“š cup.org/3W6zFn1

#archaeology

17.12.2024 12:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists? | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists?

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 ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ‰
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

17.12.2024 10:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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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/...

11.12.2024 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yes! just a few more weeks.

05.12.2024 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

04.12.2024 11:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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