Now Bluesky seems to have returned to normal here is our special issue on Domestic and Funerary Archaeologies in Dialogue with World Archaeology.
Lots of really interesting perspectives on how to understand death mediated and found in domestic spaces.
Thanks to everyone involved!
Yes!! That's a great shout. Was fortunate to cross over with Richard while he did a stint at Cardiff (though I was a baby PhD student at the time). I need to go back to his paper in Land and people for John Evans (also a huge inspiration on this topic).
Turns out special issues are like buses! Today marks publication day for our World Archaeology issue on Domestic and Funerary Archaeologies in Dialogue. It has 11 great papers from Europe, the Americas and northern Africa.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/5...
A great summary thread on our recent special issue in CAJ on “Kinship Trouble”
Thanks Leire, especially for your thought provoking question.
Very happy to see this special issue published! It was lovely working with @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social, @pennybickle.bsky.social on this! 👇
This is such a lovely thread of posts about Cate and Carly's paper - if you are interested in archaeologies of kinship, that so often are informed by the context in which the dead have been mourned, this is one for you!
The statement appealing for greater democracy in the EAA has now been made public. You can find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn...
We are still collecting signatures here: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le
Two steps forward, three backwards
urgh, not great
Eek! that might be worth feeding back.
Reading the papers again, I feeling so inspired. It’s a really rich range of ideas and debate. It also our role as editors one of the most pleasurable I’ve had! CAJ and its editors John Robb and Kevin Kay also deserve big thanks! it was such a smooth process. 🤗
The special issue this is based on is now published - all papers are open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Hot off the press!! New open access special edition of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on "Kinship Trouble". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All papers are open access, and the papers, I think, really capture this dynamic moment in studies of past kinship.
Job news!! We're looking for an archaeological chemist to join us on the ReNEW project: on waste management during the transition to the Neolithic. This role will be to carry out organic residue analysis.
The PDRA position is for 2 years: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Please share!
Particularly enjoyed this "journey through a cow" on my walk to work this morning: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Very meditative and illuminating, and I'm glad to get some time to seriously think about Neolithic dung during our ReNew project!
🌟Kinship Trouble: Virtual Launch🌟
Join us on Tuesday, 14 April at 5pm CET/4pm BST/11am ET. Register below. We will present our special issue in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, co-edited w @pennybickle.bsky.social & @genscapelab.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology
therai.org.uk/events/cambr...
Reminder that the launch for the upcoming special issue on Kinship trouble in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal will be held next Tuesday (see post below for link to sign up). The issue itself will be published open access itself on the 14th before we launch.
Hope you can come and join us!
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The history of farming in the southern Andes.
In a collaboration between archaeologists, geneticists and Huarpe Indigenous communities, we investigate its origins and consequences in the Uspallata Valley.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
To celebrate our upcoming issue on "Kinship Trouble" in the Cambridge Archaeological journal, we're hosting a virtual launch on publication day; 14th April, 4pm-6pm UK time.
The event is co-hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute and AGE. To join, register here: therai.org.uk/events/cambr...
Oblong clay lumps with flints inserted into them, possibly resembling animal figurines
One of the interesting puzzles about Al Uyaynah are the clay objects found in the lowest levels of, or perhaps even beneath, the house. Early figurines? Experiments with clay? Toys? Story telling? Made by insects? Divination? I could go on...
New Open Access Paper! We present the site of Al Uyaynah, Pre-Pottery Neolithic in Saudi Arabia, excavated by my former PhD student Dr. Khalid Alasmari. New set of C14 dates, thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social funding
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@uoyarchaeology.bsky.social
Given the choice, my border terrier, Hutton, would also happily get 83% of his calories from blueberries!
New paper! Led by Łukasz Kowalski, on drinking milk in the Funnel Beaker Culture, arguing for the complex interplay between gender, burial rites, and potentially ritual drinking of dairy products.
Open Access in Praehistorische Zeitschrift www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Always lovely to make a trip to Cambridge to chat to the great staff and students. This time speaking to the BioAnth crew :-)
We are looking for a research project manager for the upcoming FORAGER ERC Synergy Project. Based at the University of York, this is an exciting opportunity to work in a team of 37 researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Japan. Join us!
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
This PhD project forms part of our AHRC-DFG funded project, based at York and Berlin. Although the job advert has been published in German, English language candidates without German knowledge are also welcome to apply. The scientific community at the institute in Berlin mostly works in English.
Currently advertising: PhD project on Neolithic waste, based with Henny Piezonka. Project focuses on spatial analysis and the Neolithic. Deadline is 9th Feb. A chance to work with a cool range of sites from Serbia to Poland and you get to live in Berlin, so what's not to like! Link in next post.
Evidence for contact between LBK and hunter-gatherers, it grows at every turn, but we are no closer to really understanding the range and scope of relationships. The site of Eilsleben gives us more evidence of just how close interaction could have been. Plus that deer antler mask 🤩