
Archaeologist | Science Reporter @BiPiSci | Phd researcher @HCAatEdinburgh | prehistoric tech-religions-materials | Ancient Mediterranean-Africa-western Asia
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Presales open for book to the @Channel4 series Roman Empire by Train. @PenguinUKBooks @theAliceRoberts
Link: penguin.co.uk/books/482006/r…
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Rare 4,000-year-old Egyptian handprint found. It was discovered by egyptologist Helen Strudwick from @FitzMuseum_UK
Congratulations!
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#Egypt #egyptology #discovery
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There has been a lot of debate over who Egtved Girl was, as isotope analysis indicates they travelled regularly. Were they a foreign bride, an itinerant ritual specialist, or perhaps a wool trader? We may never know for sure.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.99
Bronze Age clothing (copy) as worn by ‘Egtved Girl’ some 3,400 years ago.
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen en.natmus.dk/historical-know…
📷 by me
#Archaeology

ALT My photo shows a short-sleeved brown woollen tunic top and a brown woollen skirt made of cords which hang down from a narrow woven band like a fringe. It is a copy of the costume worn by so-called ‘Egtved Girl’, a 16-18 year old young woman whose well-preserved oak-coffin grave, dated 1370 BC, was excavated in 1921. The original skirt was wrapped twice around the girl’s waist and measures 38 cm in length. On display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen
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Challenging one rather sentimental stereotype about #AncientEgypt... 🙀
Today, cats are favoured family pets, proudly living lives of luxury within many of our homes. And, if we look back to the distant past, it might initially seem that the ancient Egyptians felt the same way. However, Egyptologist @EgyptMcr suggests that's not quite the case.
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Walking through streets of the Nubian village of Elephantine on a hot sunny day. Some of the houses are still built using mudbricks like in ancient Egypt and the streets are not wider. This street level view is entirely missing in archaeological publications. #streetlife #egypt
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We’re back in the 4th millennium BCE for our chat this month with the very relatable Chris Fowler @ArchaeologyNCL on biological & social kin systems indicated by aDNA from skeletal remains at Hazelton North chambered tomb in the Cotswolds! @HCAatEdinburgh bit.ly/3vjLkEC
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Coming out in print this month: our special issue on postcolonial theory in #Egyptology with the @SpringerAnthro @SpringerNature journal Archaeologies @uroshmatic #postcolonial #decolonial @archaeologyEAA
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Forthcoming late April with @BrillPublishing Hoping to put to rest the notions of "primitive" technology of ancient Egyptians #ancientEgypt #Egypt #Egyptology #pyramids #technology #metallurgy #copper
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The Three Waves: Rethinking the Structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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How do you define intelligence? A perfect SAT score? Being able to speak many languages? Acing a trivia night? When we don’t have a definition for humans, it’s even tougher to define in animals: bit.ly/3RGdQpl
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AIA (@archaeology_aia) SCS (@scsclassics) | Enjoy a month's free access to book chapters in your field of study: ow.ly/Pha550Mh6XT
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Explore #ClassicalArchaeology from @AntiquityJ with this updated collection of free-access articles for #AIASCS2023: ➡️ ow.ly/gJRp50Mh72V @archaeology_aia #AIASCS23
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We are looking for a new colleague to join the Egyptology team at Manchester! A permanent full-time Lectureship in Egyptian Archaeology starting from August 1st 2023: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displa…
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Watch the new trailer for #IndianaJones and the Dial of Destiny that just debuted at Brazil Comic Con #CCXP2022. Only in theaters June 30, 2023.
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The recordings of all 10 lectures of the DiverseNile Seminar Series 2022 dedicated to landscape and resource management in Bronze Age #Nubia #MiddleNile #Sudan are now available via LMU cast cast.itunes.uni-muenchen.de/…
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I'll be presenting this Thursday at the Australian Institute of Archaeology & @LTUArchaeology a hybrid talk on Networks, Migrations & the Enigma of the Hyksos. Many thanks to Dr Christopher Davey & the AIA for the invitation! Will be fun!
Join our final LTU Arch. Seminar for the year at 3pm (AEDT) Thurs 20 October, with Anna-Latifa Mourad (Macquarie University) presenting ‘Networks, Migrations, and the Enigma of the Hyksos’! Zoom link:
latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Happy to announce the HEAS-lecture of Prof. Ernst Pernicka on the famous Bronze Age sky disk of Nebra, Infos: 25.11.2022, 17h at HEAS, UBB (1030 Vienna), please register (hybrid) See:
heas.at/events/the-sky-disc-…
@HeasVienna @VIAS_Uni_Wien @univienna @oeai_oeaw @MIGMAG_ERC
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Coming up Tuesday next week, 19:00 CET: Motherhood and Mothering in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Join via ZOOM - link is in the comments.
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🚨📢EES Centenary Award #Funding ⏰9 Dec
@TheEES invites applications for grants from its Centenary Fund. We seek to allocate £4500 and normally support 1-3 projects. These awards are for #EarlyCareer researchers.
#Egyptology #Archaeology #Museum #Archive
ees.ac.uk/centenary-award
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Come work with us! Seeking a Research Fellow in ZooMS and Archaeozoology @ARCHE_Griffith
#Archaeology #Humanevolution #ZooMS
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