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Emily Tour

@touremily.bsky.social

Early career archaeologist ⛏️ PhD candidate at University of Melbourne🏺 Obsessed with scripts, tablets and sealings 📜 Dabbling in all things digital, including 3D modelling, GMM, phylogenetics and machine learning 🤖 (she/they)

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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · last mo.

🆕 New #openaccess research in the #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social highlights a growing digital curation crisis in #archaeology. Read the blog and associated article! 🔗 https://cup.org/4uRYbGY #digitalhumanities #datapreservation

How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago...

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Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📝 New year, new publication! 📝 My chapter in the 'Wor(l)ds of Linear A' conference proceedings is out, discussing the potential of phylogenetics as a method to analyse administrative devices and systems from the Bronze Age Aegean: www.academia.edu/145886993/Co...

Coded in clay: Understanding the relationships between the Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear B administrative systems through the application of phylogenetics

Three different administrative systems are known from the Aegean Bronze Age period – Cretan Hieroglyphics, Linear A and Linear B. Recently, there has been more intensive discussion of the types of dev...

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CAA Australasia@caa-australasia.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just today and tomorrow left to submit your abstracts for our free online digital archaeology conference (2-4 October)! We're accepting both 15-minute papers and 5-minute lightning talks. Submit your abstracts here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

On the left a photograph of a drone resting on red-brown iron-ore rock outcropping overlooking spinifex grasslands. On the right the green CAA Australasia logo.
CAA Australasia@caa-australasia.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢 Conference alert! CAA Australasia are holding their third online conference, from Thurs 2nd to Sat 4th October, 2025. We're currently calling for abstracts on digital and computational archaeology (15-min presentations or 5-min lightning talks), due Tues 19th Aug: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · last yr.

Next Wednesday 23 July: Check out CAA Australasia's upcoming panel on digital recording techniques in the field! Completely online and free to attend (and if you can't make it live, a recording will be made available on our YouTube channel after the event!) www.youtube.com/channel/UCdb...

CAA Australasia@caa-australasia.bsky.social · last yr.

Our next event is "Demystifying Digital Field Recording", a free online panel exploring the hot topics in digital field recording! The panel takes place next Wednesday 23 July, 6pm AEST, make sure to register at the link: events.humanitix.com/demystifying...

Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · last yr.

It's always such a joy and privilege with any conference to get to visit new places, present my research, gather new ideas and tools, reconnect with old colleagues, and make new friends – and #CAA2025 ticked all those boxes and more 😊 Can't wait for Vienna next year!

CAA Australasia@caa-australasia.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking back at the amazing week that was #CAA2025 in Athens! Our Australasia crew repped with some great presentations, and there was an excellent program of panels filled with digital ethics, archaeogaming, network analysis, digital field recording, 3D modelling, machine learning, and more!

CAA Australasia member Corey Noxon standing at a lectern in a lecture theatre, with a large slide presentation behind him reading 'Multiscalar Digital Recording of Archaeological Features and Pottery Remains at the Suwahara Site, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan'.
CAA Australasia@caa-australasia.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking back at the amazing week that was #CAA2025 in Athens! Our Australasia crew repped with some great presentations, and there was an excellent program of panels filled with digital ethics, archaeogaming, network analysis, digital field recording, 3D modelling, machine learning, and more!

CAA Australasia member Corey Noxon standing at a lectern in a lecture theatre, with a large slide presentation behind him reading 'Multiscalar Digital Recording of Archaeological Features and Pottery Remains at the Suwahara Site, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan'.CAA Australasia member Emily Tour sitting at a table and presenting, with a slide presentation behind her reading 'More than just pretty faces: Exploring shape data derived from 3D models of artefacts.'CAA Australasia members Aleks Michalewicz and Brian Armstrong standing in front of a slide presentation with images showing the UNESCO Budj Bim cultural landscape and its location within Australia.
Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · last yr.

Can't wait for #CAA2025 (even though I'm madly rushing pack AND finish my paper before jumping on the plane this evening 😭). I'll be presenting my PhD research on Bronze Age Aegean administrative devices, aided by #photogrammetry, #shapeanalysis and #phylogenetics. Hope to catch some of you there!

CAA Australasia@caa-australasia.bsky.social · last yr.

Only one week to go until #CAA2025, folks! Head to the program page to check out the sessions and papers, and start planning out your conference schedule: 👉https://2025.caaconference.org/program/. See you in Athens for an exciting week of #digitalarchaeology research! 🏛️💻🏺

Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · last yr.

We have officially published Potnia in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🐍👁️👉🏽 doi.org/10.21105/jos.... Potnia is a #Python library for the conversion of transliterated #ancienttexts into Unicode. It currently supports Linear A and B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform, with many new languages on the way!

Logo for the Potnia Python library. A roughly rectangular red background (the shape of a Minoan clay tablet), with the white outline of a woman with flowing hair, wearing a layered skirt, and holding a staff in a powerful pose to the left, and the white text 'POTNIA' to the right, with the corresponding Linear B symbols directly above it.
Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · 2y ago

This Sat @ 13:30 AEDT, I'll be presenting at my first programming conference, on a little Python library I've been working on with some colleagues 🐍 Nervous about speaking in front of a technical audience, but excited to show 'Potnia' off to the world (or Melbourne, at least 😅) #digitalarchaeology

Details of Emily's talk at PyCon AU 2024, titled '"Introducing Potnia: A Python language library for the conversion of ancient texts to Unicode". PyCon AU is being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 22–26 November 2024. Speakers are Emily Tour and Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, and talk will be held at Eureka 2, Saturday, 1:30pm. Registration link is pycon.org.au/attend
Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · last yr.

For V Day this year, the universe gifted me with the publication of my first co-authored article, on material from Lahun at the AIA, Melbourne 🥰 My main contributions were the sections on the seal impression + stamp seal, but I also shed many tears learning how to use QGIS, so please admire fig. 1 😂

The fourth box: Material from Lahun in the Collection of the Australian Institute of Archaeology | Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology

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Emily Tour@touremily.bsky.social · last yr.

📢#booklaunch alert for my wonderful PhD supervisor, Robert Turnbull 📢If Bayesian phylogenetics, manuscript studies or textual criticism are up your alley, you should definitely tune in this coming Thursday 13 Feb @ 3pm! In-person at UniMelb, or on Zoom.

Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP)@mdap-unimelb.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for the launch of Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and Its Family with discussion from author @RobTurnbull & scholars in Arabic manuscripts, textual criticism and New Testament studies. 🗓️ Thu 13 Feb 3pm @melbconnect inc afternoon tea or via Zoom Register events.humanitix.com/book-launch-...

Corey Noxon@noxon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really cool #Jomon artifact of the week from the Oyu Stone Circle site in Akita. This little clay tablet is Doban-kun, and they're dated to about 3,500 years ago during the Late Jomon period. There's an interesting pattern used in it's design that's pretty special... #archaeology #Japan

Picture of "Doban-kun" in a display case. This clay tablet figurine is decorated with a pattern of impressed dots, with a large distinctive mouth, two deeper set eyes, five dots running down the center of the figurine with three dots to the left of the centerline and 4 dots to the right.