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🏺 BIAA Reference Collections in Action: Supporting Research at Türkmen-Karahöyük

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03.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

NMC Spotlight: Stanley Klassen

Grateful to Stanley Klassen & @driesdaems.bsky.social who helped us study the pottery in #Jordan over the last few years. This is a well deserved spotlight! Many thanks to all! www.nmc.utoronto.ca/news/nmc-spo... #UofT #NMC #archaeology #ceramics @helsinki.fi

15.10.2025 10:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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New issue of American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 129, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aja/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @petramcreamer.bsky.social @driesdaems.bsky.social @archaeological.org

17.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Networks of Pots: The Usage of Ceramics in Network Analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology Pottery studies constitute a core domain in archaeology. The establishment of typo-chronologies forms the backbone of most chronological inferences in Mediterranean archaeology in particular. Computat...

New paper out!: doi.org/10.1515/opar.... Open access!

04.03.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No stats anymore, but only textual analysis of the classical sources from now on then? ;-)

10.01.2025 10:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe

PhD opportunity 🏺
🎓 @Aarhus_Uni: "Cradles of Agrodiversity in Northern Europe"

Explore pre-Roman agriculture using soil science & bio-archaeology. Perfect for Geoscience/Archaeology grads.

Start: May 2025
Apply by: Feb 1, 2025
Info: smk@geo.au.dk

#PhDPosition #Archaeology #Research

08.01.2025 06:33 — 👍 44    🔁 40    💬 1    📌 0

1) Postdoc job opportunities…join my TerraForm ERC project, at the University of Malta. One position for a geoarchaeologist and one in GIS/spatial analysis. The formal advert and application procedure will be out soon (and shared here), so I am releasing this as an early notice.

19.12.2024 10:10 — 👍 73    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 1

We use an innovative combination of least cost path analysis and mutual information to explore the relative contributions of geographical proximity and potential social, economic, and political factors underlying the distributions of late Hellenistic and early Roman pottery.

28.11.2024 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unravelling the threads of connectivity: A mutual information approach to tracing material networks in the late hellenistic and early roman mediterranean The study of connectivity and interaction in the Mediterranean world is a rich and vibrant topic. While most direct attestations of past interaction h…

Very happy to see our latest paper published in JAS: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

28.11.2024 11:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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Very proud to see the introduction to our Special Issue in The Holocene published today. If you are interested in deep-time patterns of sustainability and resilience in socio-ecological systems, this is something to check out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

19.06.2024 15:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New year, new job! Very excited to announce that starting next month I will join VU Amsterdam as Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities. My role will be to foster interdisciplinary integration through spatial approaches. Looking forward to all the new collaborations!

08.01.2024 10:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0