Thanks for the great thread about our newest research @antiquity.ac.uk!
Very proud of this third and last paper from my PhD thesis which emphasises how much we can learn by adapting interdisciplinary methods and framework for archaeological contexts.
🏺#Archaeology #Connectivity #Resilience
@dl-arch.bsky.social @ecogeo.bsky.social @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk
With an integrated dataset of settlements and hollow ways, we identify patterns of growth, conservation, release and reorganisation, demonstrating the value of coupling archaeological data with resilience theory and network analysis to understand the adaptive capacities of archaeological societies.
New paper out 🥳
In "#Urban #resilience in Ancient #Mesopotamia: insights into the socioeconomic system of the Bronze and Iron Age Khabur Valley", we are mapping network metrics of urban dynamics onto #Holling's adaptive cycle.
Full open-access paper here: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The last word on Erich von Däniken should be from the great science communicator, Carl Sagan who wrote,
"That writing as careless as Däniken's, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times."
So viele stabile Leute überall! 😍
Seit heute gibt es @pruef-demos.de in 3 Bundesländern! Trotz des Wetters waren wir 1000e in Hamburg, München und Düsseldorf.
Und nächsten Monat werden wir noch mehr! Dann auch in Berlin und Stuttgart! #pruef
🏺📣 Einladung zum Vortrag: „Der Puls der Stadt - Neue Untersuchungen in Uruk (Irak) als Bausteine zur Rekonstruktion antiker städtischer Lebenswelt in Südmesopotamien“
🗓️ 15.01.2026 | ⏰ 16:15 Uhr
🎙️ Simone Mühl
@dai-weltweit.bsky.social
www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...
Surprise: "Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have."
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcadSky #AcademicSky #Assessment #ScientificPublishing #SocialScience
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
Publication charges
The world's time zones visualized on a spinnable, interactive globe.
Try out the code - it'll default to your current time zone and show you times around the world!
#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries
Code: gist.github.com/walkerke/c4a...
"I don't know if you've heard of the beginning of the oppression of women," he began. I said I hadn't. This delighted him. "In the early days, as Engels said, everyone 'lived frivolously' - everyone fucked." He looked wistful. "It was only with the start of class society we started producing a surplus, and men wanted to pass their surplus on to their children. So they couldn't let women sleep around." It all came down to who's inheriting your wealth. "You have to know your children are yours." He shook his head. "It blew my mind." The idea that class is the root of sexism - as opposed to, say, I don't know, men - is the sort of thing revolutionary communists like.
Well this is rather delicious from @emilylawford.bsky.social on being mansplained to about the roots of sexism by the Revolutionary Communist Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
Doctor Wha by James Robertson Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels through endless versions o reality? Bit dis he ken himsel? Weel, mibbe sae, yet wha’s tae ken gin aw that’s kent by Wha maks mair or less or better sense ava nor whit we ithers ken, or think we dae? The universe is fou o parallels: wha’s like us? Hunners? Thoosans? We oorsels micht be mere glisks o life-forms yet tae be. Whit’s real? Whaur’s here? When’s noo? Wha’s quick or deid? Wha’s jist a thochtie in anither’s heid? Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he?
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay
Ea-Nașir: Nabû-zeru-iddin enters the game.
Europe’s English skills
lmao France
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Our article, co-authored with Matteo Rossi, “Modelling Economic and Human Mobility in the Landscapes of Monti Lucretili, Lazio, Italy: a Microregional Approach over the Longue Durée” has just been published in Acta Archaeologica @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1163/1600...
Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @geogdurham.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social
We then translate established archaeological theories about the region into statistical ERGM terms to evaluate if those hypotheses are reflected in the network patterns.
Read the full open access paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We first convert prehistoric hollow ways in the Khabur Valley, #Mesopotamia (edges) and their associated archaeological sites (nodes) into period-specific #networks.
New paper out! 🥳
We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.
Read the full open access paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Archaeology #NetworkScience
Zwei Kinder betrachten eine geöffnete Schublade mit sorgfältig arrangierten Mineral- und Gesteinsproben im Schaudepot des Ruhr Museums. Die Proben sind auf kleinen Plattformen mit beschrifteten Etiketten ausgestellt. Ein Kind zeigt auf ein großes, rosafarbenes Mineral, während das andere aufmerksam die Sammlung beobachtet. Die Szene vermittelt Neugier und Lernfreude in einer wissenschaftlichen Umgebung
Ob Mineral, Stein oder Fossil – Beim Bestimmungstag im #Schaudepot erfährst du endlich, was hinter deinen Fundstücken steckt. Unsere Expert:innen verraten dir morgen ab 17 Uhr, ob dein Schatz wertvoll oder wunderschön ist. www.ruhrmuseum.de/veranstaltun...
Know the difference. 😉
Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package.
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
📰 In a "once-in-a-generation" find, archaeologists have discovered a new section of Hadrian's Wall at Drumburgh, ~10 miles (16km) from Carlisle
#ArchaeologyNews via the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What a Zoom call might have been like in 1878. The telephone and the phonograph were recent inventions at this time, so George du Maurier imagined this is what Edison might have invented next. A sort of "Victorian Zoom." The Telephonoscope!
Depends on where in the UK I am and if I want people to understand me or not 🤔
