Our new article published today in @antiquity.ac.uk focuses on interesting archaeological landscape features in southern Iraq. Groups of long linear earthen ridges sit on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab river in the Basra region, north of the shores of the Gulf… 🧵
(1/13) A thread on our new paper just published in Nature, ‘Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper alert, @nature.com. Our study reveals 8 million years of #GreenArabia. We document environmental variability - ranging over the entire course of human evolution. Arabia is a key bridge at the cross-roads of continents. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Further development of dating methods is essential, but securing funding for high-risk methodological projects remains challenging. Progress will come, but it takes time. For now, the best approach to reducing error ranges is to date more samples and use Bayesian models to improve accuracy.
We are hiring an Archaeologist/Geoarchaeologist, a GIS specialist, a research support officer who will conduct 3d modelling and a part time project manager for our ERC TERRAFORM. Get in touch with @huwgroucutt.bsky.social , @andzerb.bsky.social , or me for more details.
(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.
Very happy to be working with Huw on this project! I can't wait to be on the field to study and date the Maltese landscapes and terraces.
Congrats Huw, super excited to work with you on this project and can't wait to start it!
(11/11) My co-investigators Prof. Andrea Zerboni (University of Milan) will study soil characteristics, micromorphology etc…and Dr Eric Andrieux (University of Durham) will conduct optically stimulated luminescence dating.
(1/11) I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded a European Research Council ‘Consolidator Grant’. The TerraForm project (‘The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes’) will begin in the spring of 2025.