Josephine Quinn

Every so often you run into one of those policies that makes you speculate about the sequence of events that led someone to decide that the policy was necessary.

Thankyou!

Thanks very much! It was a lot of fun to write.

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In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and I are joined by Josephine Quinn, author of How The World Made The West, and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge University, to discuss the ancient Mediterranean city states on the brink of the Bronze Age Collapse of 1147 BCE.
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Great podcast from @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social in conversation w/
@josephinequinn.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oeJ...

Some states/civilizations had own writing systems, this from @viewsproject.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@views_project, so how did trade happen ?

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Thankyou!

I don't know what to write about this devastating news, other than that I too will miss Debbie Cameron so very much.

This is where I once again feel sad for having lost Old Twitter and all my South Asian friends on there.

I was sure there was a project mapping all the medieval and Mughal sarais (caravanserais) across India — anyone know what I'm talking about?

Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific A new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific region.

Humans have been managing ecosystems for a very long while.

"People living in Sulawesi perhaps as early as 50,000 years ago ... transported warty pig species as far away as Timor."

A crucial blow to the stadial theory of history: #Unlearn
phys.org/news/2025-12...

Happy Birthday dear Mary! To a splendid decade to come.

That sounds amazing. After the mid-terms!

A glass of champagne

This delicious glass of New Year champagne only exists because my beloved @chrisbrooke.bsky.social has made mixology his New Year resolution and we have to finish up the remains of the AMAZING French 75s he just concocted. (No photos of those because we were busy.)

I’ve published with colleagues on the osteological evidence/age profile in Antiquity - if you email me in January Effy I can send the pdf: jcq24@cam.ac.uk. There‘s no evidence for other kinds of child-killing - which doesn’t mean they didn’t happen

Merry Christmas Anna!

This was a lovely way to see Christmas in. But OLEM was so packed that we were standing sideways in a kind of ecclesiastical cage for a couple of hours, so I’m going to watch it on iPlayer later on to see what it actually looked like!

My Dad had to make the same promise when he married my Catholic mum, to bring us up as Catholics, and he took it sweetly seriously, going to his Anglican Church first, then taking us to the Catholic Church, then taking us back to Anglican Church for the service with better Sunday School.

Catching up before Christmas, and can highly recommend this festive read on Trojan stories (Hector! Achilles!) captured in mosaic in the late antique East Midlands. They had moved a long way on from Homer's version: our ancient canon is modern. A tour de force from Jane Masséglia and colleagues.

That’s amazing. Huge congratulations!!

New Odyssey: wine-dark sea; wine-dark sky; wine-dark land; generally gloomy clothing.

‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles Some say Jeremy Corbyn is too non-committal for project to work, while others blame Zarah Sultana’s combative nature

If it was four MPs and six factions I’d be impressed.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Apparently the number of houses a person can have before admitting that they're not actually hard-done by is n+1: buried near the end of this piece, we discover our fearful 1930s house-owner owns *another* house as well from which they receive a rental income.

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Ancient wolves on remote Baltic Sea island reveal link to prehistoric humans Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans.

Another example of what we call "hunter- gatherers" being much more: rather landscape and #biodiversity managers

phys.org/news/2025-11...

Doggos, delineated

This is great fun.

(Nigel Biggar does not come out of it especially well.)

Paroles d'histoire - 408. L'Antiquité au pluriel, avec Josephine Quinn (en anglais) Listen to Paroles d'histoire - 408. L'Antiquité au pluriel, avec Josephine Quinn (en anglais) by Paroles d'histoire on Podcast Addict. L’invitée : Josephine Quinn, professeure d’histoire antique...

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