Zooarchaeologist, living history/experimental archaeology fan, horse-mum, and enjoyer of folk music. (All opinions my own etc.).
Joined March 2009
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Amazing news from @AntiquityJ our chicken paper has won the Ben Cullen 2023 prize!! So fabulous to have the work of @CUHistArchRel @CUBALab
@UofEArchaeology @BU_ArchAnth @school_of_arch
(& many, many more) recognised in this way. Thanks to everyone involved & the Antiquity team
Congratulations to Julia Best et al., winners of the 2023 Ben Cullen Prize!
Their research uncovered that the chicken was introduced to Europe and North Africa much later than previously believed.
Check out the officially award-winning work (🆓) buff.ly/3xlcBVj
What a lovely cover piece! And well done to @AnastasiaStupko too. @CUBALab @UofEArchaeology @school_of_arch @BU_ArchAnth @CUHistArchRel
🆕 June @AntiquityJ is now online! antiquity.ac.uk
My latest editorial features an update on author demographics plus the 2023 #Prize winners: congratulations to @Estalwin & @AnastasiaStupko!
🆓doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.74
ALT Aerial photograph of war damage in Ukraine and journal cover
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This brilliant piece just out nyti.ms/3xbZAfI draws together our exciting new research from PNAS (bit.ly/3x794ZD) & Antiquity (bit.ly/3NrDPPT). With @ArchaeOphelie @Greger_Larson @ProfNaomiSykes Joris Peters, Mark Maltby & many more. Thread of 19 tweets:
Our work has drawn together so many people to investigate these birds (including @CUHistArchRel @UofEArchaeology @BU_ArchAnth @school_of_arch @CNRS @UT3PaulSabatier ) and to critically assess their spread across the world.
Photo: Modern chicken by Robert May
ALT Photo Credit: Robert May
Brilliant thread here from @AntiquityJ on our exciting new research that is published in Antiquity and @PNASNews . My work focused on radiocarbon dating claimed early chickens. Out of the 23 dated, 18 were very different to their proposed dates!!
🆕: Chickens were domesticated relatively recently, research reveals. They were also initially regarded as exotica, and only used for food several centuries later.
An #AntiquityThread on a new paper (buff.ly/3xlcBVj) 1/13 🧵
ALT Photo shows Julia Best comparing a leg bone (the tibiotarsus) from an ancient and a modern chicken
Llangorse I think wins the crown for most exciting site which I've worked on faunal remains from. Quite appropriate given its royal status #CUarch100 #archaeology See thread for story and a picture of a very happy medieval deer
We're returning to Llangorse #crannog for @Estalwin's #TinyTalk Feasting on Royal Renders! Come for the #zooarch, stay for the cute #MedievalManuscript animal illustrations...
#CUarch100 #archaeology #Viking
So very chuffed to have been nominated for Most Innovative Member of Staff in the @CU_StudentVoice ESLA. As a part-time staff member on a temporary contract it is so rewarding to know that your efforts are making a difference to someone. Thank you student/s whoever you may be!!
Time for more Eggcellent Adventures lead by the @AHRCEasterEg with a bit from yours truly/the @Chicken_project team. We don't want to rabbit on about it, but we enjoy hatching a good tale. Well done Easter Project, Hare Hare!
A different kind of Easter egg hunt! Tracking the history of Britain’s Easter Animals. All in collaboration with @AHRCEasterEg. This is what happens when two @ahrcpress projects join forces ahrc-blog.com/2020/04/10/the…
Imported crops in Roman London settings with @LisaLodwick maybe coming in from somewhere a bit soggy. #AEA40 #aea19
Now we have @PalaeoHan talking about lead mining in the Peak District and the impact of the Black Death on lead levels in the environment. I do love the 14th C #aea19 #aea40
Gill Campbell talking about the “so what” phase of environmental archaeology in the modern world. #AEA19 #sheffield #archaeology
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Sheeptacular! Great day planning ‘Wool histories and sheep industries’ networking project with our @HistoricEngland colleagues Poly Baker and @FayWorley, with CUROP students Jess and Nathaniel at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth. Their collection of sheep is incredible 🐑
More #Maltbyfest fun. @Chicken_project gets everywhere! #PZG @BUOsteo @BU_BAArchAnth @jimbonesmorris @osteoconnor @HistoricEngland
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Joining @jimbonesmorris by saying that I am loving the #Maltbyfest wristband (good work @Ju_Malt). And here is the man himself cutting cake. #BUproud #PZG
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Off we go #Maltbyfest ! With @osteoconnor @BUOsteo @HistoricEngland @jimbonesmorris #PZG discussing Maltby’s wonderful jumpers
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Interesting talk by @ZenaKamash starting out by outlining biases in reconstruction and being an “objective partisan” #archaeology #digital #heritage
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