Today's seminar discussion: the Arawak diasporas are more like mayonnaise than glue.
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Today's seminar discussion: the Arawak diasporas are more like mayonnaise than glue.
Urns, plates and vases of the Amazonian Polychrome Tradition, decorated with red, brown and black anthropomorphic and snakelike motifs.
NEW These striking Polychrome ceramics have been found across an estimated 1.7million sq km of the Central and Western Amazon. New computational modelling sheds light on how this 'Polychrome Expansion' took place, reshaping Amazonia over 1500 years.
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
God forbid women have a hobby
Fabaceae emerge as amongst the most embolism-resistant tree families in Amazonia. Forests in the Brazilian and Guiana Shield regions, where Fabaceae abundance is high, are expected to have greater drought resistance than Western Amazon forests.
Among the foremost concerns of @thearchaeologist.bsky.social's research into the prehistoric artistic record, are what people chose to depict in rock art – one of humanity’s most ancient and enduring forms of material culture – and why. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Horsemen carrying items looted from a village raid, including chalices, briefcases, crosses and a woman, riding across a plain at dawn with a storm brewing in the background.
The Trust’s February Newsletter is out now! Read about the hidden value of bat guano, linguistic justice efforts in secondary schools, professional mobility at the time of the Crusades,1099–1291, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter
🚨 📜 finally out! 🚨 From margins to mainstream: understanding the Amazonian Polychrome Tradition
through spatial and chronological modelling
The end result of a beautiful collaboration between @bournemouthuni.bsky.social and colleagues across Brazil. Parabéns!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The fact England had a crappy stone tool culture when everyone else around Eurasia had moved on to a better one is endlessly funny to me
How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9
Time to baffle the students once more
www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-r...
Not every day you get a shout out in a tabletop wargame review
Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology as part of the AHRC-funded PELLIS (Investigating the manufacture, trade, and economy of Roman leather via multi-analytical approaches) project co-led by Rhiannon Stevens.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Rock engravings of a human and several animals, including a ~42m-long snake.
Happy #SnakeDay! This is probably the largest engraving of a snake in the world 🐍
Measuring ~42m long, it would have been visible from a great distance, suggesting it was a prehistoric territorial marker.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
The upper Orinoco at sunset. Missing fieldwork a lot.
Our Open Access special issue on "An Ontological Turn for Archaeology?" in the EAZ journal is now complete and can be accessed via the link below!
This is a small but precious collection of papers.
Hope that you will find it useful and inspiring.
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
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Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The evidence from Archaeological excavations
Only €9.99 as an ebook from @ria.ie
shop.ria.ie/products/ear...
An image of rock art, with overlay text that reads: Assessment Report on Transformative Change Summary for Policymakers in German. Available now! This is accompanied by the Transformative Change Assessment Summary for Policymakers cover.
🗞️Good news!
The IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is now available in German.
Access it here: https://zenodo.org/records/17940757
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
Musk's X has turbo-charged the anti-science movement & amplified misinformation, racism, misogyny & hate. It permits the creation of digital child porn at one click.
If these aren't grounds to eject him from the Royal Society, then what are?
Shame on them.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
EcoArch has a PhD position open! Please spread the word. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Field of green plants (soy) stretching to the horizon. In the foreground, a slope of red soil rises up to the field. In the background, a small patch of forest (surviving Atlantic Forest that once covered the entire region) is visible.
A soy field in Eastern Paraguay. During and after the Stroessner dictatorship (1954–1989), Atlantic Forest was destroyed and Indigenous communities displaced to supply the global soy market, harming ecology and people under the guise of progress.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
A new ✍️ 📜 from our project, led by sterling PhD student Antonia Reinhardt:
"Late Holocene vegetation dynamics, fire regimes, and human impact in Southern Brazil: A multi-proxy palaeoecological record from the Matematico Lake"
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
Very pleased to see this come out 😁
Biologists boldly tackling some important questions that archaeologists rarely do.
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
📈 Registrations now open!
Time Series Analysis & Forecasting in R
🗓 20–24 July| 🌍 Online
A very hands-on course on dynamic GLMs/GAMs for ecological time series using {mvgam} & {brms}. Bayesian models, nonlinear effects, forecasting & live coding in R.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
3-year postdoc fellowship in #Archaeology @uio.no as part of an interdisciplinary project to investigate societal, economic, and climatic effects of major 6th-10th-century volcanic eruptions through a comparative interdisciplinary lens on regional #resilience.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Increasing human ecological impact over the Holocene (11,700 - 150 years ago) led to biodiversity gains in Europe.
Why? From ~8,500 years ago, the spread of farming created heterogeneous, habitat-rich landscapes that enhanced biodiversity.
Read our new paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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