I wrote this overview of studies about boundaries and borderscapes in Pharaonic Egypt for a special issue of Etudes et Travaux! Check it out, and I hope you’ll also read the incredible work so many of my colleagues are doing on this subject!
www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en...
There should hopefully be a link above to view my talk via zoom if you are interested. This is really a project in its preliminary stages, but I hope that this material showcases the potential of this incredible data set that is both earlier and of better quality than CORONA satellite imagery.
If you are free next Tuesday at 6pm EST, the Toronto chapter of the AIA has very kindly given me a chance to talk about a new project I’ve been working on with Laurel Bestock: using declassified Cold War aerial photography to learn more about Egyptian archaeological sites!
aiatoronto.ca/events
Tempted to unleash an “Ichiro at the all-star game”-esque tirade on the one voter who didn’t consider him a Hall of Famer
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Really happy to see this article come out, as it was a joy collaborating with @brendanhainline.bsky.social, Serena Niccolini, and Maria Gatto on this work discussing political boundaries in the later Old Kingdom near the Nile’s First Cataract.
www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en...
Very happy to be able to celebrate Thanksgiving with these two and my wonderful partner!
The archaeological evidence dovetails with flood modeling derived from both archaeological evidence from Elephantine in the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom and thousands of Nile floods recorded from roughly 622-1959 CE.
Maria’s contributions derived from years of fieldwork are the highlight here as they suggest that some Predynastic settlements near Aswan may have been occupied for longer durations of time rather than just seasonally (though this may still have been the case in some places).
I’m not very active on social media, but I do want to share this recent (though rather dense) publication by Maria Gatto and myself as part of the Borderscape Project.
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