Mikhaila Chaplin (another #Triabunna veteran) is talking about her work in Spain and Ireland. @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Stella Quost is now sharing her experiences in excavating at #Pella. @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Kathleen Carmichael is going through the pros and cons of different field schools in Tasmania, Menorca and Lake George. @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018 “The line been student and slave was often blurred”.
Amelia O’Donnell (another @SydneyArchaeoPG) and Talei Holm from @ArchAnthANU are sharing their experience digging the #Triabunna Barracks. @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018 #ozarch
Alex Slucky is now present the first of the dig reports on how you can learn specialised skills while on site, and her own experience with #palaeoethnobotany @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Sarah is using stereographs from the @macleaymuseum historic photograph collection #nascsydney2018
Sarah Judd is now speaking on the representation of #AncientGreek sites in #Victorian era #stereographs @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Agata’s has given a thorough discussion about how ancestor worship worked in #Mesopotamia, what archaeological evidence it might leave behind, and the challenges archaeologists face in categorising similarities and differences in specific practices #nascsydney2018 #archaeology
Agata Calabrese (another @SydneyArchaeoPG) is now presenting her preliminary research on ancestor worship in Bronze Age Mesopotamia @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018 #archaeology
Holly’s research shows that the label “palace” is very questionable - very little clear evidence of typically palatial activity #nascsydney2018
Amanda Duell-Ferguson is presenting her osteo-archaeological research at #Jericho from the collections in the @NicholsonMuseum - long overdue research from Kathleen Kenyon’s original excavations. @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Genevieve Le Ban is now discussing her comparative study into capital punishment in Mesopotamia and Egypt @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Generally two pages of tiny text on a slide makes for a bad presentation but it works brilliantly to convey just how many people and how many medical theories have been developed over why #Akhenaten “looked” the way he did #nascsydney2018
Rebecca Clifton is giving a “brief rant” on part of her thesis - the pathologising of #Akhenaten and artistic representations in ancient #Egypt. @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Thomas Keep is keeping things very topical with a discussion of #statues, representation and memorialisation, colonialism and imperialism in #Australia. @nascaustralia #nascsydney2018
Double standards for gods and mortals committing incest is prevalent across the ancient world. #nascsydney2018
Lily Nash is now presenting her research on incest in the ancient world and modern receptions and fascinations with it. #nascsydney2018
Nikol Ignatovic from is starting the second session of #nascsydney2018 discussing the how the #Kushite 25th dynasty legitimised their rule over #Egypt focusing on the pharaoh Piye. #archaeology @nascaustralia
Timelines and dealing with reviewers feedback, and promoting your workz #nascsydney2018 #publishing
The curse formula for the tomb of Petety threatens the tomb robber with being eaten by a #crocodile, #lion and a #hippopotamus. Khefie presents very compelling evidence that this is an early reference to Ammut. #nascsydney2018
Snakes, crocodiles and gazelles as agents of chaos in ancient #Egypt. Only the first two were invoked in Old Kingdom curses though... #nascsydney2018
Final #nascsydney2018 presenter for this session is Khefie Blair from @Macquarie_Uni discussing animal motifs in #OldKingdom #Egyptians tomb curses
Searching for proxies for human behaviour - changes in pollen regimes, shifts in sediment size, spires associated with animal dung, and appearance of microcharcoal #nascsydney2018
Mike outlining the fieldwork, a lot of transects and sediment coring in a beautiful lo king valley. Outreach program with Kashmir University to get their students field experience. #nascsydney2018
“Collapse”, “Resilience” and “Niche construction” are different ways of looking at the evidence. Mike argues that resilience and and niche construction are the better explanations. #nascsydney2018
The most recent work has moved away from defined discrete historical periods (Kushan-Hunnic-Karkota) and an emphasis on cultural continuity. #nascsydney2018
Mike is going through the development and evolution of #agriculture in the valley. Earliest phased barleys and emmets, a shift to compact wheats and then a diversification to include typically Chinese and South Asian flora #nascsydney2018
#Kashmir is technologically stable during the Neolithic -Megalithic compared to what was going on with the Indus #nascsydney2018
Mike Spate is now presenting his PhD research on the development of #Neolithic in #Kashmir #nascsydney2018 @SydneyArchaeoPG
Jason Tamas is up next presenting Honours research in settlement patterns and urban systems in Britain during the #Roman exodus in the 5/6th century CE #nascsydney2018