It's getting closer!
This Tuesday, 2nd December, support Archaeology Scotland (@archscot.bsky.social) to deliver archaeology based educational attainment & employability skills in 2026.
All help is greatly appreciated & will be match-funded via Big Give 🙏
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A paperback copy of Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities sits in front of a stack of books
New book out now! 🏺Available to order or read online (for free!): Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia: Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
www.sidestone.com/books/tracin...
It’s been an absolute pleasure to co-edit the volume with the brilliant @claudiaglatz.bsky.social , Mónica Palmero Fernandéz and Michael Seymour.
SEMINAR 27th Feb 16:15pm the Meadows LT ‘States of mind: rethinking the story of the early state in light of recent excavations at Shakhi Kora & survey in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region, Iraq’ @claudiaglatz.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social 📷 Ⓒ Sirwan Regional Project @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Tomorrow at 6pm UK/1pm EST, join @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social and myself for a livestream discussion: "Crisis at UK universities. Lessons from Save Sheffield Archaeology"
youtube.com/live/-PICWDM...
Just published and available open access here: www.sidestone.com/books/place-...
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#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...
The cover of Antiquity journal with a detailed terrain beside a body of water. Beside the cover is the text "Antiquity" and "Paper of the Month"
The #PaperOfTheMonth from @antiquityj.bsky.social is 'There and back again: local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region' by Claudia Glatz et al., available #openaccess!
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Open access paper: 'The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists?' reflections on conflict, memory, ruins, ethics, and absence by Palestinian archaeologist Mazen Iwaisi 🏺🍉
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Our new paper in Current Anthropology summarises a joyfully collaborative project to protect cultural heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by engaging a wider public and making archaeology as a form of cultural heritage more accessible and enjoyable.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Yes! just a few more weeks.
Our paper on Late Chalcolithic Shakhi Kora was just published. A rather amazing site with an intriguing occupation history that suggests the development of local institutional households, an Uruk one, and then the rejection of this type of centralised organisation/power.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
