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We're looking to do an emergency recording about the ACHP vote and the impact on #Section106. Are there any archaeologists with knowledge of the situation who would be willing to provide a 5-10 min discussion about their concerns? If yes, please email womeninarchaeology@gmail.com ASAP. Thank you!

So a majority of #archaeology in the US is driven by Section 106. Most archaeologists work for the #Crm industry. This is also the mechanism by which 99% of preservation occurs in this country. It is about to go away.

Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist@hknorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

🧵It's been a tough few days for #Archaeology and #HistoricPreservation in the US. ACHP released proposed regs changes to S106 on FRIDAY EVENING. They have betrayed all committments to an established timeline or collaboration with preservation partners. The proposed changes subordinate NHPA to NEPA;

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I updated the archaeology 🏺 job sites directory again today and moved it to Zenodo. You can now find it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Safe Haven Fellowships for scholars at risk by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Deadline is 31 March 2026. nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/...

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Civil war + flooding have endangered cultural heritage 🏺 in #Sudan. Heritage for Peace published a series of 3 reports to 2024. Now UNOSAT published a report covering damage to heritage from 2023-now using satellite imagery. It is not comprehensive. More work is required. unosat.org/products/4225

The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)'s Humanitarian Emergency Mapping service is activated following Hurricane Melissa, including for cultural heritage 🏺 The live web map is here: unosat.org/products/4210 and location-specific maps/reports are being published here: unosat.org/products/

What are some good publications for getting started with reflectance spectroscopy of heavy metals in soils?

If you went to college: 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. Your initial major? 3. If you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. What do you do now, professionally? 1. Archaeologist 2. Archaeology 3. No change - archaeology 4. Archaeologist

Justin Eger@fugitivecourier.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you went to college: 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. Your initial major? 3. If you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. What do you do now, professionally? 1. Get paid for writing. 2. Journalism 3. English 4. Marketing/Communications consultant and part-time author.

New article! A team of us have developed a methodology (and script - see supplementary materials) for incorporating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data into a model of past land use that is suitable for climate modelling 🧪🏺https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142

Did you know the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) 🛰️ has a Humanitarian Emergency Mapping Service that can provide satellite analysis in the event of a humanitarian emergency and can be activated by humanitarian NGOs? unosat.org/services

Oh now this is very cool - your name spelt out in landscape images, from NASA! landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

I recently returned from a trip to Iraq where I attended two conferences and visited various places. The first conference was on countering extremism and terrorism and included a session on cultural heritage. The second conference was the 5th edition of an annual archaeology conference [1/?]

On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia. Travels, Routes and Environment as a Basis for the Reconstruction of Historical Geography edited by Adelheid Otto and Nele Ziegler, with a chapter by Katleen Deckers and I on the importance of terrain is available open access here: epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/109051/