Did you know that most of our #archaeology degrees can be undertaken from anywhere in the world – as long as you have internet access and a computer?
#studyarchaeology #ThinkUHI #postgraduate #undergraduate
A group from the UHI Archaeology Institute headed north to Shetland for this year's annual student field trip.
The proceedings of @caaint.bsky.social in 2023 are finally out! Proud of our nice book that brings together many different themes. All papers are recommended through @pciarchaeology.bsky.social
Come to a free online panel on #MachineLearning and #archaeology, this Wednesday 6.30 pm AEST: events.humanitix.com/machine-lear...
Pouvoirs, cultures et sociétés des steppes en contexte ouest-eurasiatique (Afghanistan, Asie centrale, Iran) Powers, Cultures, and Societies from the Steppes in the West Eurasian Context (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran) Mercredi 15 avril-Jeudi 16 avril 2026 Maison de la recherche – INaLCO 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris Auditorium Georges Dumézil Organisateur : Simon Berger (INaLCO – CeRMI) Contact : simon.berger@inalco.fr https://cermi.cnrs.fr Colloque organisé avec le soutien de la CPJ « Arts et patrimoine d'Afghanistan » (INaLCO), de la DAFA, du GIS Asie, de l'INaLCO, du CRCAO et du CeRMI. Logos CeRMI, Inalco, Dafa, Gis Asie, CRCAO. Illustration tirée du « Grand Shâh-nâmeh mongol », ca. 1330. Keir Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, K.1.2014.34 © Wikimedia Commons.
Pouvoirs, cultures et sociétés des steppes en contexte ouest-eurasiatique (Afghanistan, Asie centrale, Iran) Powers, Cultures, and Societies from the Steppes in the West Eurasian Context (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran) Mercredi 15 avril-Jeudi 16 avril 2026 Maison de la recherche – INaLCO 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris Auditorium Georges Dumézil Organisateur : Simon Berger (INaLCO – CeRMI) Contact : simon.berger@inalco.fr https://cermi.cnrs.fr Colloque organisé avec le soutien de la CPJ « Arts et patrimoine d'Afghanistan » (INaLCO), de la DAFA, du GIS Asie, de l'INaLCO, du CRCAO et du CeRMI. Logos CeRMI, Inalco, DAFA, GIS Asie, CRCAO. Illustration tirée du « Grand Shāhnāmeh mongol », ca. 1330. McGill University Library, ms. Persian 6 © Wikicommons.
𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹
Pouvoirs, cultures et sociétés des steppes en contexte ouest-eurasiatique (Afghanistan, Asie centrale, Iran)
Organisé par votre serviteur, les 15 et 16 avril 2026, à la Maison de la Recherche de l' @inalco.fr.
#mongolsky #tengri #InnerAsia #Iran #Afghanistan
Image of a new volume text from press. Text reads: Day 17 of 200: out today on UCL Press the new volume "Critical Heritage and Social Justice" brings together insights and experiences of scholars and practitioners working across heritage, museums, galleries, and cultural institutions to explore how principles of social justice can be embedded within these spaces. Just in time for World Book Day!
Day 17 of 200: @uclpress.bsky.social new volume
"Critical Heritage & Social Justice": insights and experiences of scholars & practitioners working across heritage, museums, galleries, and cultural institutions to explore how principles of social justice can be embedded within these spaces.
#UCL200
Our new blog post by Michel Wong (@humboldtuni.bsky.social ) is a curated guide to online repositories of Chaghatai Turkic manuscripts and printed texts, covering collections in Central Asia and beyond.
Read more on our blog!
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/02/20/a...
Very much looking forward to this! (can be attended online)
Conference "Ethics and Aesthetics in Islamic Heritage" by Pluriel, the University platform for research on Islam. Cordoba, Spain, 10-14 February 2026
Day 1 of the 5th Pluriel conference - "Ethics and Aesthetics in Islamic Heritage" (Cordoba 🇪🇸). Absolutely fascinating!
💡 Today's theme: History, Language and Philosophy.
🔑 Key thinkers mentioned: Ibn Hazm, al-Tawḥīdī, Ibn Arabi & Averroes
🎥 Follow on Zoom: pluriel.fuce.eu/congres/ethi...
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We're delighted to announce details of this year's SMA Annual Conference. Theme is Heritage Science & the call for papers is now open. Full details on the conference & how to submit abstract are available here: medievalarchaeology.co.uk/sma-c…
We look forward to hearing from you!
View down open valley and across wider landscape showing old and new growing pine forest. Photo credit: Regenerating Pine Forest, National Trust for Scotland, Mar Lodge, Scotland
📢 Call for papers and discussion participation:
Into the Wild Conference & Discussion Meeting - 21st & 22nd May 2026, Glasgow.
Multidisciplinary event of interest to researchers, practitioners & policy makers.
Deadline: 2 March 2026.
Details: tinyurl.com/8twry2zc
Please share 🙏
A reminder that our 2026 season of free online seminars gets under way on Friday, Janaury 30, with "Traders and Produce in Early Modern Orkney".
A book of funeral liturgies in Syriac, copied in 1883 CE. Collection of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Baṣrah, Iraq. (CAB 00001)
Digitization & cataloging is complete for one manuscript (CAB 00001) in the collection of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Baṣrah, Iraq: a book of funeral liturgies in Syriac, copied in 1883 CE.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hWpyL3
In-person, Edinburgh, UK:
Front and back cover of the book showing a castle in a landscape context
Table of contents showing full chapter titles and author names
New Open Access book co-edited by Prof Michelle Alexander, this multidisciplinary study dives into the frontier landscapes of medieval Spain and Southern France 🇪🇸🇫🇷. Features isotopic analyses from Michelle & Maite García-Collado via York’s BioArCh labs! 🧪 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36...
"We are building a comprehensive Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Knowledge Graph. Its goal is to connect fragmented SSH data (across disciplines, repositories, and formats) to make research outputs easier to discover, understand, and reuse."
GRAPHIA webinar:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📫 Our January #newsletter is out!
✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.
🔗 tinyurl.com/do-Jan26
Text image promoting the upcoming Collections Trust pilot hackathon, 16-17 March 2026. The text reads: 'Calling all designers and coders! Be part of Collections Trust’s pilot hackathon - an experimental, collaborative, sprint held over two days - where developers, coders, and museum professionals, will come together to rethink how museums understand and record use of collections. Museum collections are constantly being used - by curators, educators, exhibition designers, researchers, and curious members of the public - but much of this knowledge is lost. Help us design creative, usable solutions to make these interactions visible and shareable. 16-17 March 2026 at York Explore Library and Archive, York Find more information and details on how to express your interest: https://collectionstrust.org.uk/events/rethinking-cataloguing-use-collections/collections-trust-hackathon/'
Skills in UX/UI Design, Coding Web/Application Development, Systems Integration +/or Database Mgmt?
Join us in York (UK) to:
- Experiment with real museum data and problems
- Collaborate with a small, focused group of people
- Influence the future of collections use knowledge
Link in Alt Text 👇
Round paper amulet blockprinted in black ink. Several rows of Sanskrit (I think?) text run in concentric circles around a central image of the Buddha, which is coloured with faded blue, yellow, and green inks. Some Chinese text has been handwritten in the central circle.
Back at work this week and I wanted to share something that's actually a cool history post and not just, like, anti-imperialist rage. This is a Buddhist 'dharani' amulet found in a tomb at Chang'an (modern Xi'an) in northern China. It was *printed* (probably by monks) circa 650-670 CE.
The congress theme is "Peace and Dialogue for the Preservation of Literary & Material Heritage" - deeply relevant work!
Can’t wait to meet colleagues and exploring how we understand intercultural encounters in the medieval world.
🤩 Hope to see you there!
🔗 symposium-syriacum-2026-bucharest.com
Acceptance email for the Symposium Syriacum, Bucharest, August 3-7 2026
🎉 My abstract was accepted for the 14th Symposium Syriacum in Bucharest 🇷🇴
I'll be presenting on how Turco-Mongol communities adapted East Syriac Christianity in 13th-14th century Central Eurasia - looking at archaeological evidence of identity formation along the Silk Roads
#mongolsky #medievalsky
The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer January 28, 2025, from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (CT) Free, virtual Winter Lecture Series RSVP at HMML.org
#BookSky: this year’s Winter Lecture Series begins on January 28 at 11 a.m. (CT). Join HMML staff Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer as they discuss “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library.”
Register for this free, virtual program at hmml.org/events.
The @ucl.ac.uk -led CAAL project has reached an important agreement with Kazakhstan to establish a unified digital platform for the historical & cultural heritage of Central Asian countries.
Read more here:
📲 bit.ly/45h72I1
#LocalAndGlobal
📣 MAHSA & MAEASaM host CAA-UK 25!
Last week we welcomed a record number of delegates to Cambridge for the CAA-UK conference on computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology. (1/2) @rebecca-roberts.bsky.social
Flyer for talk today, 16 Dez: 16:15 CET HYBRID BBAW + ZOOM: “Three Perspectives on the Potentials and Limits of Digital Archaeology“ with Raffaele Rizzo / Salent, Michele Pirro Leo / Rom and Vincenzo Ria / Rom.
TODAY 16:15 CET HYBRID @bbaw.bsky.social + ZOOM: “Three Perspectives on the Potentials and Limits of Digital Archaeology“ with Raffaele Rizzo / Salent, Michele Pirro Leo / Rom and Vincenzo Ria / Rom. Info to join: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass
Archaeological excavations of the deeply-buried 400, 000-year-old landsurface at Barnham. At Barnham, concentrations of intensely reddened and cracked flint heated to high temperatures indicate the locations of ancient campfires. Picture credits: Pathways to Ancient Britain Project and Jordan Mansfield
Archaeological excavations of the deeply-buried 400, 000-year-old landsurface at Barnham. At Barnham, concentrations of intensely reddened and cracked flint heated to high temperatures indicate the locations of ancient campfires. Picture credits: Pathways to Ancient Britain Project and Jordan Mansfield
Archaeological excavations of the deeply-buried 400, 000-year-old landsurface at Barnham. At Barnham, concentrations of intensely reddened and cracked flint heated to high temperatures indicate the locations of ancient campfires. Picture credits: Pathways to Ancient Britain Project and Jordan Mansfield
A collaborative archaeological team, including @ucl.ac.uk researchers, has found the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire, nearly 350,000 years earlier than previously thought.
📲 bit.ly/4pS0Wq9
#FocusFriday #LocalAndGlobal
Blown away by the quality of the papers at #CAAUK2025 today!
Some favourites:
- Simulating Late Muisca Geopolitical Patterns @ehmalatesta.bsky.social
- Exploring AI for Archaeological Record Digitisation @alientalks.bsky.social
Many foods for thoughts! Next stop: @caaint.bsky.social in Vienna
Merci pour tout le travail qui se cache derrière ce calendrier!
Good Morning - it's Day 2 of #CAAUK2025!
Today we’re diving into modelling the past and exploring new digital horizons — grab a coffee and join us for Session 3 at 09:30 ☕
#DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK
If you want to learn more about the people around Chinggis Khan, follow this very insightful thread! You even get to brush up on your French 😄 #mongolsky