eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home... Only 1 day left to submit scoping comments on BLM proposal to shrink ChacoCanyon buffer boundaries to permit drilling. The impacts to this UNESCO listed historical park would be immense. The link contains a map. Click participate now to submit comments.

Really excited to have a chapter on Co-Design in this forthcoming Handbook of Applied Anthropology! #SfAA

dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Academics with publications on academia edu need to look at the new terms and the permissions it provide to AI farm your work and identity

What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated) - Daily Nous

Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service. Catching users' attention was a new pa...

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Great interview with CAARI Fulbright researcher Caroline Barnes!

Dr Craig Barker@drcraigb.bsky.social · last yr.

‘No kings, no slaves: Who built Bronze Age Cyprus?’ #archaeology 🏺 in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/bronze...

We are excited to announce that our next VIEWS conference, WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement, will take place on 26th-29th March 2026. CFP deadline 5th September. The linked post also contains a round-up of our other news and opportunities. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/a...

Announcing our next conference! Plus a news round-up

We are delighted to announce that our next conference, WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement, will take place on 26th-29th March 2026 in Cambridge. For further details, look at our Call For Papers H…

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India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of sacred relics buried in third-century BC www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains

Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of relics buried in third-century BC

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Excited to take part in the roundtable "The Two Cultures. Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?" organized by the Center for Medieval Visual Cultures and Research Communication at Masaryk University. @re-cent.bsky.social @epinicion.bsky.social @apaladine.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Happy to share my new article on animal representations in Bronze Age art and archaeology in Cyprus

Call for papers exploring Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology using proteomics, metabolomics, stable isotopes, lipids, and archaeogenetics. Manuscript Summary Deadline: 15 July 2025. See the link below for more info. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Frontiers | Biomolecular Insights into Food, Medicine, and Scent in Environmental Archaeology

Understanding the complex relationships between ancient societies and their environments requires an interdisciplinary approach that connects material cultur...

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OUT NOW from Sidetone Press Empire and excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960 Edited by Thomas Kiely, Anna Reeve & Lindy Crewe. Read online for free or purchase a copy. www.sidestone.com/books/empire... #Cyprus #historiography #heritage #colonialism

Empire and excavation @ Sidestone Press

The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating exa...

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La domestication des avocats (Lauracées) a commencé il y a 7565 à 7265 ans au Honduras. Ces nouveaux résultats montrent que les avocats étaient domestiqués des milliers d'années avant d'autres cultures, telles que le maïs phys.org/news/2025-03...

Fossil evidence found of humans domesticating avocados 7,500 years ago

A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the Smithsonian Institution, has found evidence of humans...

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www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/03/art-... Informative list of events and research on combatting art crime, antiquities trafficking, and provenance studies

hellenicnews.com/four-institu... A nice article summarizing the event held at the Penn Museum and co-organized with various Cypriot institutions.

Four Institutions Celebrate Cyprus’ Cultural Heritage

On November 24, 2024, four regional institutions with an interest in Cyprus joined to celebrate Cyprus’ centuries-long cultural heritage

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New publication on legacy data, community archaeology, and Nabataean fauna from the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra (sorry, no winged lions actually identified in this assemblage). www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Faunal Remains

PDF | On Oct 11, 2024, Kathryn Grossman published Faunal Remains | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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If you're in the Boulder, Colorado, area, I'll be giving a book talk this coming Wednesday (Feb 26, 5pm) at the University of Colorado Boulder. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

For probationary federal employees who have been terminated:

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2y ago

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email info@civilservicestrong.org

Highlighting some of our wonderful female authors for International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬🏺 #archaeology #ancientsky

Cultural heritage is on the list 🏺

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

A new article from Ohrazení is out! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Plant diversity loss has limited effects on below‐ground biomass and traits but alters community short‐term root production in a species‐rich grassland

These results from a non-random species removal experiment revealed minimal impact of a realistic diversity loss on root biomass and traits, but a decrease in short-term fine root production. These r...

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Jules Segrestin@jsegrestin.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s the result of a massive collaborative effort to establish & maintain the removal experiment. Collecting root data was no easy task – months of hard work went into processing all the samples. Huge thanks to the team for making it happen! 🌱

go.bsky.app/9uS3a2b Newcomers! This starter pack is terrific!

Looking forward to the 2025 series of talks hosted by @caari-cyprus.bsky.social starting next week with the launch of Bernard Knapp’s new book ‘Cyprus and Ugarit’

@moudhy.bsky.social’s beautiful new book, gleaming in the light of the low wattage English sun.

It being #TileTuesday and as I have posted stuff about the project before, I thought I would share the proof of the cover of the book I wrote with Lisa Golombek on a group of 17th C tiles from Iran. #IslamicArt #Iran

Explore the origins of #viticulture in Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia! The paper by Michaela Látková tests methods of identifying archaeobotanical finds of cultivated grapevine and its wild counterparts. The analysed assemblage comprises 1087 finds dated from prehistory to Early Modern period 🔗below

www.caorc.org/neh-fellowsh... Deadline approaching! The CAORC - National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship is accepting applications through January 29. Approximately three to four awards will be granted and fellowship stipends are $5,000 per month. www.caorc.org/neh-fellowsh...

CAORC | NEH Fellowship Guidelines

The CAORC NEH Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research in the humanities for U.S. postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who have been residents in the U.S. fo...

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COMING SOON! “Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World - Preorder for the volume (edited by our very own Chelsea A.M. Gardner and Sabrina C. Higgins). www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past...

Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World

This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range – academics, museum curators, students, and content creators – to discuss case studies, challenges, and potentia...

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We’re delighted to say that our recent book ‘Heritage at War’ has gone #openaccess, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched. You can find the book on JSTOR now, and it’s coming soon to OAPEN and ORL. Link: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.19... #heritage #war #conservation @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

NEH's newest grant program, State and Impact of the Humanities, funds data-grounded research that can help us tell the story of how and why the humanities matter. It was a privilege to develop this program with Jess Unger, Ben Skinner, Lutie Rodriguez, & Scott Weingart. www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...

NEH Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Research on the State and Impact of the Humanities

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About to start the GameTable @costprogramme.bsky.social Working Group 1 meeting at QMUL in London! It’s gonna be a long day of AI talks for this archaeologist 😅 but we will be working together to find ways to more effectively harness AI to study traditional games!