eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home... Only 1 day left to submit scoping comments on BLM proposal to shrink ChacoCanyon buffer boundaries to permit drilling. The impacts to this UNESCO listed historical park would be immense. The link contains a map. Click participate now to submit comments.

Cover image of the Routledge Handbook of Applied Anthropology

Really excited to have a chapter on Co-Design in this forthcoming Handbook of Applied Anthropology! #SfAA

What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated) - Daily Nous Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service. Catching users' attention was a new pa...

dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Academics with publications on academia edu need to look at the new terms and the permissions it provide to AI farm your work and identity

No lies detected

Great interview with CAARI Fulbright researcher Caroline Barnes!

Announcing our next conference! Plus a news round-up We are delighted to announce that our next conference, WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement, will take place on 26th-29th March 2026 in Cambridge. For further details, look at our Call For Papers H…

We are excited to announce that our next VIEWS conference, WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement, will take place on 26th-29th March 2026. CFP deadline 5th September.

The linked post also contains a round-up of our other news and opportunities.

viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a...

India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of relics buried in third-century BC

India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains

Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of sacred relics buried in third-century BC www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Excited to take part in the roundtable "The Two Cultures. Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?" organized by the Center for Medieval Visual Cultures and Research Communication at Masaryk University.
@re-cent.bsky.social @epinicion.bsky.social @apaladine.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Happy to share my new article on animal representations in Bronze Age art and archaeology in Cyprus

Frontiers | Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology Understanding the complex relationships between ancient societies and their environments requires an interdisciplinary approach that connects material cultur...

Call for papers exploring Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology using proteomics, metabolomics, stable isotopes, lipids, and archaeogenetics.

Manuscript Summary Deadline: 15 July 2025. See the link below for more info.
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Empire and excavation @ Sidestone Press The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating exa...

OUT NOW from Sidetone Press
Empire and excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960
Edited by Thomas Kiely, Anna Reeve & Lindy Crewe. Read online for free or purchase a copy. www.sidestone.com/books/empire...
#Cyprus #historiography #heritage #colonialism

Fossil evidence found of humans domesticating avocados 7,500 years ago A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the Smithsonian Institution, has found evidence of humans...

La domestication des avocats (Lauracées) a commencé il y a 7565 à 7265 ans au Honduras. Ces nouveaux résultats montrent que les avocats étaient domestiqués des milliers d'années avant d'autres cultures, telles que le maïs phys.org/news/2025-03...

www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/03/art-... Informative list of events and research on combatting art crime, antiquities trafficking, and provenance studies

Four Institutions Celebrate Cyprus’ Cultural Heritage On November 24, 2024, four regional institutions with an interest in Cyprus joined to celebrate Cyprus’ centuries-long cultural heritage

hellenicnews.com/four-institu... A nice article summarizing the event held at the Penn Museum and co-organized with various Cypriot institutions.

(PDF) Faunal Remains PDF | On Oct 11, 2024, Kathryn Grossman published Faunal Remains | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

New publication on legacy data, community archaeology, and Nabataean fauna from the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra (sorry, no winged lions actually identified in this assemblage).
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A flier providing details about an upcoming lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder: In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia. Tate Paulette, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University. February 26, 2025, at 5pm. Ekeley Science Building E1B20. This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Center for Humanities and the Arts.

If you're in the Boulder, Colorado, area, I'll be giving a book talk this coming Wednesday (Feb 26, 5pm) at the University of Colorado Boulder. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

For probationary federal employees who have been terminated:

4 book covers with a background of an archaeological dig. The books from left to right are: The Exploitation of Fishing Resources and the Maritime Skills of Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast Asia by Clara Boulanger, Dying Young by Anna Rohnbogner, Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health by Anna C. Moles, and Stonehenge and Middle to Late Neolithic Cremation Rites in Mainland Britain (c.3500-2500 BC) by Christina Willis.

Highlighting some of our wonderful female authors for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬🏺

#archaeology #ancientsky

Cultural heritage is on the list 🏺

A new article from Ohrazení is out! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Newcomers! This starter pack is terrific!

Looking forward to the 2025 series of talks hosted by @caari-cyprus.bsky.social starting next week with the launch of Bernard Knapp’s new book ‘Cyprus and Ugarit’

Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al Rashid: has a beautiful sinuous cover design in dark blue and a burnished bronzy gold. Very nice indeed.

@moudhy.bsky.social’s beautiful new book, gleaming in the light of the low wattage English sun.

It being #TileTuesday and as I have posted stuff about the project before, I thought I would share the proof of the cover of the book I wrote with Lisa Golombek on a group of 17th C tiles from Iran.

#IslamicArt #Iran

Explore the origins of #viticulture in Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia! The paper by Michaela Látková tests methods of identifying archaeobotanical finds of cultivated grapevine and its wild counterparts. The analysed assemblage comprises 1087 finds dated from prehistory to Early Modern period
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CAORC | NEH Fellowship Guidelines The CAORC NEH Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research in the humanities for U.S. postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who have been residents in the U.S. fo...

www.caorc.org/neh-fellowsh... Deadline approaching! The CAORC - National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship is accepting applications through January 29. Approximately three to four awards will be granted and fellowship stipends are $5,000 per month. www.caorc.org/neh-fellowsh...

Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range – academics, museum curators, students, and content creators – to discuss case studies, challenges, and potentia...

COMING SOON! “Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World - Preorder for the volume (edited by our very own Chelsea A.M. Gardner and Sabrina C. Higgins).

www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past...

We’re delighted to say that our recent book ‘Heritage at War’ has gone #openaccess, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched. You can find the book on JSTOR now, and it’s coming soon to OAPEN and ORL. Link: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.19... #heritage #war #conservation @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

NEH Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Research on the State and Impact of the Humanities

NEH's newest grant program, State and Impact of the Humanities, funds data-grounded research that can help us tell the story of how and why the humanities matter.

It was a privilege to develop this program with Jess Unger, Ben Skinner, Lutie Rodriguez, & Scott Weingart.

www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...