Very happy to see this paper out, in which we explain that historians, just like scientists, have research methodologies which *must* be followed in order to do convincing palaeoclimate research using historical texts …
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#environmentalhistory #environmentalscience
Over the past year, I worked at Durham University within @sse1k.bsky.social It was a real pleasure to be part of this team! I met wonderful colleagues and made great friends within the Department and the project. A new chapter begins for me this year, but the previous one was amazing💔
Last week I presented at #CAA #UK in Cambridge. It was exciting since these are our first modelling results from the @sse1k.bsky.social project. The presentation went really well, and I’m grateful to the organisers and everyone who made the #conference such a great experience.
Photo credit: CAA UK
🎉 #SSE1K paper is on #AeC 🎉
It explores the potential of new #LiDAR data to map medieval castles in two areas of the Emilia-Romagna region: the Vena del Gesso Romagnola and #Valmarecchia 🔍
🔗 doi.org/10.19282/ac....
Exciting news! A new #SSE1K paper is available on #JFA 🎉
It reflects on the interpretative challenges posed by reclaimed #landscapes, such as the one around #Ravenna, #Italy, which has undergone significant changes between the #Roman period and #today! 🔍⛏️
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0093...
✨Don’t miss the second talk in our Online Seminar Series today!
Our Online Seminar Series continues!
🎙️Prof. Alessandro Fontana (Università di Padova) “The Diluvium Aquarum: geoarchaeological constraints of extreme floods in Northeast Italy during the Early Middle Ages”
🕒10/11/2025 15:00 CET
📍Please register for online attendance: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
📣 Great news! There’s still a week to join our session on Archaeodemography at #LAC2026, as the call for papers has been extended until 7 November 2025 🎉
⏰ Don’t forget! The call for papers for our #LAC2026 session on Archaeodemography is open until 31 October 2025 🎉
🌍 Interested in the deep history of human impact on the #environment?
Check out our new study led by our postdoctoral researcher @nikulinaav.bsky.social on how #Neanderthals and #Mesolithic foragers shaped European #landscapes long before #farming!
#Paleoecology #HumanImpact #Anthropocene
Many thanks to all who attended the first talk of our Online Seminar Series yesterday🌟Join us again on 10 November for Prof. Alessandro Fontana’s talk!
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
🚨Don’t miss the first talk in our Online Seminar Series today!
📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
📣 We are sponsoring a session at the next #LAC2026
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
👋 #MeetTheTeam
Michele Abballe is a postdoctoral researcher studying long-term settlement and demographic changes in the Mediterranean. Based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he works near #Ravenna, where many lagoons disappeared. Michele has to work hard to uncover traces of their existence 🕳️⛏
Wishing everyone a cool and wonderful #summer break! ☀️🌊 Here’s a beautiful mosaic from Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily—once a place where Roman elites enjoyed their own version of a #holiday. (Photo: Michele Abballe)
📣Exciting news!
1️⃣Our team member Michele Abballe has recently been awarded a prize for his PhD thesis by the Institute of Archaeology at @czechacademy.bsky.social🎉
2️⃣This comes on top of the award he received last year for 2023 Best PhD Thesis from the journal Heritage by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social🎉
Our research group Science, Society & Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE at the Ca' Foscari University on Venice is now on BlueSky: @sse1k.bsky.social! I’m a postdoc on the project, working on science & environment between Byzantium and Islam.
👋 #MeetTheTeam
@nikulinaav.bsky.social
Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social.
Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.
Last week, I had the opportunity to be an invited respondent at @sse1k.bsky.social session on #resilience and the #environment at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds. My first time in this role! ☺️
Exciting news! A new #SSE1K data paper is out on #JOAD! 🎉
It presents lots of #archaeological and #geoarchaeological #data from #Ravenna, #Italy. Now freely availble on #Zenodo! 📊
🔗 doi.org/10.5334/joad...
Thank you to everyone who joined our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to discuss different aspects of #environment and #resilience. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic congress #IMC2025
The final talk of our sessions☝️! Edward Schoolman “Landscapes, Lakes, and the Resilience of Settlement around Rieti and Lucca, 600-1000” #IMC2025
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social is now talking about famine and food supply in Italy, 535-545. Don’t miss the last talks of our session on #disaster ! @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Next session - Resilience and Environment: Disaster. First speaker is Kristina Sessa talking about the ransoming of captives and how this was financed in Late Antiquity
Time for some discussion! Here are our panellists John Haldon, Vicky Manolopoulou, Ismini Lypiridou, Sam Turner, and our moderator Massimiliano Borroni
Sam Turner presents his paper with a PowerPoint slide relating to the dating of agricultural terraces
Final speaker of this session: Sam Turner (Newcastle) - Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Mane as a Case Study
Vicky Manolopoulou presents her paper with a PowerPoint slide showing a speleothem being drilled and a screenshot of a scientific article
Next paper - Vicky Manolopoulou and Ismini Lypiridou present the work that they have been doing as part of SSE1K: Environmental Challenges and Landscape Experience: Constantinople as a Case Study
Picture shows map of Anatolia with lake sites with proxy evidence for climatic / environmental conditions
Speaking now in session 1149 Resilience and Environment in the Mediterranean: Memory - John Haldon (Princeton) - Palaeocologies and Landscapes as Reservoirs of Social Memory: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects