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We are appalled and saddened by the news that the
#Archaeology
Departments at Sheffield and Chester are under threat of closure. We are working closely with archaeology's national representative bodies to defend and promote these departments and have written letters in support.
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Today is the last day for three stalwarts of Cambridge
#Archaeology
- Christopher Evans, Prof Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Prof Charly French.
Their knowledge, experience and expertise will be missed. Best wishes on your retirement!
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🎥🦴We are delighted to announce the release of the Netflix documentary ‘Secrets of the Neanderthals’ today, featuring the Shanidar Cave Project!
👉 Read the story to find out more:
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"The Poor Man of Nippur - World's first film in Babylonian" launches today! 📽️🎞️ Watch the full version online 👉 Brought to you by
@CAssyriology
@stjohnscam
@Cambridge_Uni
#BabylonianRevengeFilm
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Have a few minutes to spare? Archaeology undergrad Amy Bigwood
@stjohnscam
is running a survey as part of her dissertation. "Neanderthal Reconstructions: How Do They Make Us Feel?" should take c. 5 mins and is voluntary & anonymous.
📷Jellyfish Pictures
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PUBLISHED: Earliest archaeological evidence that anatomically modern humans were roasting and eating plant starches, such as those from tubers and rhizomes, as early as 120,000 years ago. Cynthia Larbey et al
#openaccess
in Journal of Human Evolution
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The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 years has been unearthed at one of the most important sites of mid-20th century archaeology: Shanidar Cave, in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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NEWS: The Department of Archaeology
@Cambridge_Uni
is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Tamsin O’Connell as the next Head of Department.
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PUBLISHED: "Archaeological Science Classroom Activities: A free multi-lingual pedagogical resource in archaeological science" - Efthymia Nikita, Laure Bonner & Thilo Rehren
#openaccess
in JAS: Reports. Part of
#PROMISED
project.
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Welcome back to
@Cambridge_Uni
&
@FitzMuseum_UK
HRH Prince of Wales
@ClarenceHouse
Has much changed since you were an archaeology undergrad?
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Hundreds of items from Georgian coffeehouse unearthed in Cambridge
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NEWS: 📣 We are celebrating Dorothy Garrod, trailblazing archaeologist and first female professor at either Cambridge or Oxford (elected in 1939!), with a new portrait by artist Sara Lavelle.
➡️
#womenatcambridge
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NEWS: Congratulations to Dr Enrico Crema who has secured a €1.5m grant from
@ERC_Research
for his project "ENCOUNTER - Demography, Cultural change, and the Diffusion of Rice and Millet during the Jomon-Yayoi transition in prehistoric Japan." 🎉🎉🎉
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JOB: We're hiring!
University Lecturer in Human Origins and early evolution to start Oct. 2020
Applications are welcome in all branches of palaeoanthropology
Application deadline 31 March
Further details ➡️
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Professor Marcos Martinón-Torres has been appointed as the next Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at
@Cambridge_Uni
🎉🎉🎉
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PUBLISHED: Melting glaciers reveal a lost mountain pass at Lendbreen,
#Norway
. Metalwork, textiles, & horse-related artefacts show pass was in use from Iron Age -
#Viking
Age.
L Pilø, E Finstad & J H Barrett in
@AntiquityJ
@brearkeologi
@Cambridge_Uni
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When your PhD dissertation is on commingled human skeletal remains from Neolithic Malta, there’s really only one way to submit it.......
Congratulations, Jess! 🎉🎉🎉
@Cambridge_Uni
@jess_e_thompson
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Come and join us for our Garrod Seminar Series for Michaelmas Term! This term's theme is 'Cultural Evolution and Archaeology'.
📅⏲️ Thursdays at 4pm
📍McDonald Research Institute Seminar Room
🍷Followed by a drinks reception
👉Find out more:
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We have lift-off! Drone flying
@Kings_College
to check out parch marks with the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. Full report out in the next few weeks. 👀
@Cambridge_Uni
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📣 We are delighted to announce that Prof Paul Lane has been awarded an
@ERC_Research
Advanced Grant for his project Landscape Historical Ecology and Archaeology of Ancient Pastoral Societies in Kenya 📣
👉 Read more about it:
#ERCAdG
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From researchers to technicians, excavators to specialists, lecturers to professional staff, here's to the phenomenal women who make up the Department of Archaeology
@Cambridge_Uni
! 🎉💪♀️
#iwd2020
#internationalwomensday
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PUBLISHED: "Social inequality before farming? Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of social organization in prehistoric and ethnographic hunter-gatherer-fisher societies" edited by Luc Moreau.
#openaccess
Access and download at:
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It's not every day you get your very own beer. Cheers, Martin! 🍻
Milton Brewery launch new beer "Cerealia" TODAY at the
@cambeerfest
in honour of retiring archaeobotanist Professor Martin Jones. 🌾
@miltonbrewery
@Cambridge_Uni
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From researchers to technicians, lecturers to professional staff, here's to the phenomenal women who make up the Department of Archaeology
@Cambridge_Uni
#IWD2018
#PressforProgress
#WeAreCambridge
💪
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NEWS: Congratulations to Ananya Mishra, Danika Parikh and Akshyeta Suryanarayan who have won the 2019 Access and Outreach Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Award for their Untold Histories Museum Tours. 🎉🎉🎉
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PUBLISHED: Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of
#Canterbury
confirm presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Palaeolithic sites in northern Europe.
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JOBS: The Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology is hiring nine (!) full-time collections assistants to work on an ambitious project to inventory, assess, photograph, pack and move over 250,000 artefacts 🏛 🏺
Closing date: 2 March
Details ➡️
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We stand in solidarity with these and all UK Archaeology Departments. To add your name in support of the Departments and staff at
@UniShefArch
and
@ArchaeologyChe1
, please see the links below:
Sheffield ➡️
Chester ➡️
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NEWS: Dr Enrico Crema announced as recipient of a 2019 Philip Leverhulme prize! 🎉🎉🎉
➡️
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NEWS: 🎉 Congrats to Prof John Robb who has been awarded €1.94m in European Research Council funding for a new project "ANCESTORS - Making Ancestors: The Politics of Death in Prehistoric Europe"
@ERC_Research
@Cambridge_Uni
@Peterhouse_Cam
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This week's feature on the Women You Should Know blog is on Dorothy Garrod, Disney Professor of Archaeology at
@Cambridge_Uni
from 1939 to 1952, and the first female professor at either Oxford or Cambridge.
@Newnham_College
@trowelblazers
@WomenYSK
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NEWS:🎉Congratulations to Martin Worthington
@stjohnscam
whose "Ea's Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story" has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Monograph – Humanities & Media Arts category in the Taylor & Francis 2019 Book and Digital Product Awards.
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PUBLISHED: Newly discovered Neanderthal remains from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
@CamBioanth
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NEWS: Congratulations 🎉 to Prof Matthew Collins
@mc80york
who has won the 2022 Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to
#Archaeology
from the Archaeological Institute of America
@archaeology_aia
!!
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📣 PUBLISHED - OPEN ACCESS 📣 “What Rivers Did: a Study of if and how Rivers Shaped Later Prehistoric Lives in Britain and Beyond” in
@PrehistSociety
by Dr Matt Brudenell, director of the
@CambridgeUnit
, and colleagues
👉 Read more about it:
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“Archaeology - like a giant jigsaw puzzle, except you can't cheat and look at the box, and not all the pieces are there.”
#TuesdayThoughts
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PUBLISHED: Changes in burial practices during the 6th-8th centuries AD point to an interconnected early Medieval Europe.
New
#openaccess
research from Dr Emma Brownlee
@ECBrownlee
in
@AntiquityJ
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EXHIBITION: 'Photographing Tutankhamun' exhibition
@MAACambridge
reveals historical context behind pioneering images. The exhibition, curated by
@photograph_tut
, opens 14 June and runs until 23 September 2018. Read more 👉
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Viking homes were stranger than fiction: portals to the dead, magical artefacts and 'slaves' - Insightful new piece in
@ConversationUK
from Marianne Hem Eriksen
@mariheri
@clarehall_cam
@MSCActions
@UniOslo
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EVENT: Join us at 4pm (UK) Thurs 18 Feb for the
#Garrod
seminar.
Dr Ben Marwick
@benmarwick
will be presenting "Galisonian logic devices as affordances for decolonizing archaeology"
Register ➡️
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Congratulations to Emma Pomeroy, Paul Bennett, Chris O. Hunt, Tim Reynolds, Lucy Farr, Marine Frouin, James Holman, Ross Lane, Charles French and Graeme Barker who have won the 2021
@AntiquityJ
Prize! 🎉
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We're celebrating Prof Lord Colin Renfrew's 80th birthday today (actual b'day 25/07) w/ a series of talks. Follow along from 2pm!
#Renfrew80
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They’re letting us walk on the grass!
@Cambridge_Uni
Resistivity survey looking for the medieval street plan.
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📣Great news! 📣Prof.
@amesoudi
has kindly produced a recording of his talk “Archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution” as part of the Garrod Seminar Series last term.
📽️Watch it on our YouTube channel here:
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Congratulations to Enrico Crema and Dacia Viejo Rose on their promotions to University Senior Lectureships 🎉🎉🎉
@Cambridge_Uni
@camb_heritage
@Selwyn1882
@er_crema
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🌟We are delighted to announce that Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, Emeritus Fellow and former Disney Professor, has been awarded the inaugural prize for Outstanding Contribution to Archaeological Theory at this year’s
@AntiquityTAG
🌟
👉 Read more:
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The Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research
@Cambridge_Uni
are proud to fly the flags for
#LGBTHistoryMonth
🏳️🌈 Check out our
#LGBTHM19
events 👉
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The department is looking very festive today. Who can spot our special archaeological decorations? 🎄
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Congratulations to Professor Charly French for receiving the British Academy Landscape Archaeology medal! 🏅🎉🎉
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From researchers to technicians, lecturers to professional staff, here's to the phenomenal women who make up the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge! 🎉💪
#IWD2019
#InternationalWomensDay
#BalanceforBetter
@Cambridge_Uni
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PUBLISHED: What’s cooking? Analysis of fatty residues on ancient pottery sheds light on food habits of Indus Civilisation
New
#openaccess
research from Dr Akshyeta Suryanarayan
@akshyeta
et al in Journal of Archaeological Science
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Big Data in Archaeology: Practicalities and Possibilities conference 27-28 March, 2019 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
#BigData
#BigDataArchaeology
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Want to try out archaeology? Now's your chance!!! ⚒️💀🏺Dig alongside archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at Northstowe 18 June to 20 July (Mon-Fri only). No previous experience required, 18+ only, FREE but spaces are limited. See 👉
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Congratulations 🎉 to
@CamBioanth
@Catz_Cambridge
PhD Michael Rivera who has been awarded funding from
@Cambridge_Uni
to start his own 'Science of Bones'
#podcast
☠️🎧🔬🤓
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In 2014
@BramptonManor1
had 1 student with an
#Oxbridge
offer; 5 years later they have 41. Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 We've loved working with this East London school over the past few years and can't wait to see what the future will bring!
@Cambridge_Uni
@BeCambridge
@CamOutreach
Brampton Manor Academy in East London is extremely pleased to announce that 41 students have secured places to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities from October 2019. Huge congratulations to you all.
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PUBLISHED: Details of first historically recorded plague pandemic revealed by ancient genomes, including first genetic evidence of the Justinianic Plague in the British Isles. 🧬
#openaccess
in
@PNASNews
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I'm an osteologist
I love the very bones of you.
#ArchaeoValentine
#ValentinesDay
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We’re not going to let a little snow ❄️ dampen our Open Day spirits! We’re looking forward to welcoming future students to our
#archaeology
Open Day
@Cambridge_Uni
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Our Thanksgiving dinner was finished quite some time ago. 🦃
#HappyThanksgiving
from the zooarchaeology lab!
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Congratulations to
#archaeology
PhDs Danika Parikh, Akshyeta Suryanarayan & Ananya Mishra (not pictured) from
@englishunicam
on winning the
@cambridge_ctl
2019 Access & Outreach Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Award for their Untold Histories Museum Tours. 🎉🎉🎉
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr Cameron Petrie who has won the Innovative Teaching award as part of the
@yourcambridgesu
Student-Led Teaching Awards!!!🎉
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Celebrating the career of Prof Martin Jones with a bit (okay, a lot) of coffee and cake at the McDonald Institute. 🍰 Martin has recently retired from the chair of the Pitt Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science, a post he has held with immense distinction since 1990. 🎉
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EVENT: Join us at 4pm (UK) TOMORROW Thurs 11 Feb for the
#Garrod
seminar.
Dr Uzma Rizvi
@UzmaZRizvi
will be presenting "On the Right of Refusal: Decolonizing Archaeology and Equitable Practices"
Register ➡️
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Exciting new article by
@KxCampbell
of
@KingsSilkRoads
&
@UCamArchaeology
on the impact of the
#Mongol
Conquest on earthen cities in Central Asia!
Open Access pre- print:
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JOBS: 📢 We're hiring! Please share.
◾️Research Asst/Assoc in Open Access Databases for Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia (closing date: 1 Aug)
◾️Project Coordinator & Remote Sensing Digital Data Coordinator (closing date: 9 Aug)
Details➡️
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And they say
#Archaeology
is a load of old rubbish….👀
We visited the Late Roman/Early Byzantine GIANT slag heap of Skouriotissa
#Cyprus
with Prof Kassianidou as part of the
@STARC_CyI
archaeological science summer school.
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NEWS: 🎉 Congratulations to Steve Topper who has won
an award in the 'Unsung Hero' category of the Professional Services Recognition Scheme 2019
@Cambridge_Uni
🏆
Steve has worked as custodian at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research since 2006. Well done!!!
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🌟The Thirty-fifth McDonald Annual Lecture 'What might an archaeology of freedom look like?' will be given by Professor David Wengrow from
@ucl
🌟
📅Wednesday 22nd November
⏲️5pm
Tickets are sold out! But you can still join via Zoom
👉 Register here:
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FELLOWSHIP: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
@Cambridge_Uni
invites applications for the fifth 'Renfrew Fellowship' in
#archaeology
.
Application deadline for this 3-year postdoc is 27 February.
Details➡️
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Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2023 🔬🥼
📅⏲️ Fridays at 1.15pm
📍McDonald Institute Seminar Room
👉Find out more:
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WATCH: "Archaeology is one of those subjects that brings it all together - Chemistry, Geography, History, Classics etc., and it's just so much fun"
@Cambridge_Uni
🔬🏺💀🌍
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JOB: The Department of Archaeology
@Cambridge_Uni
is pleased to announce a new three-year, full-time, post-doctoral fellowship in African archaeology, generously supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation. Closing date: 27 May
Further details:
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Departmental statement on addressing racism in archaeology.
This statement reflects the result of extensive internal discussion and we trust that its delayed timing will be compensated by its sincerity, commitment to action and resolve to deliver.
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Celebrating the end of term
@Cambridge_Uni
! Goodbye to our leavers 😢 and congratulations to all of our
#archaeology
graduands 🎉🎓.
Whatever your next steps may be, we wish you all the best of luck in the future!
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PUBLISHED: New study from
@ECBrownlee
involving 26,000+ individual graves explores the changes to burial practices and use of grave goods in western Europe between the 6th-8th centuries CE.
#openaccess
in
@IntarchEditor
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Final day of the workshop on new Neanderthal data from Shanidar Cave at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, funded by
@WennerGrenOrg
Read about the recent discovery in
@sciencemagazine
➡️
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WATCH: Tonight at 9pm on
@BBCFOUR
#DiggingforBritain
w/
@DrAliceRoberts
@MustFarm
& Bronze Age Britain
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📣 We're hiring! Three (!) lectureships.
Lecturer in Human Origins
Lecturer in Heritage Studies
Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology
*Shortlisting on normal timescale, but interview dates tbc.
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ICYMI: Watch Prof Lee R. Berger's intriguing and inspirational presentation on Homo naledi and Australopithecus sediba here: With so many recent discoveries & much research yet to be done, it's never been a more exciting time to be a palaeoanthropologist!
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📣 Job Alerts 📣
Two new positions with the UKRI Frontier Research grant project ENTANGLED: Entangled materialities and new global histories from southern Africa led by Principal Investigator Dr Abigail Moffett (University of Cambridge).
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Although the Department of
#Archaeology
is now closed, we still want to support/meet the needs of our online audiences. What would you like to see?
Online talks
Children's activities
Student blogs/vlogs
Cat pictures
Project updates
etc
Comment or email outreach
@arch
.cam.ac.uk
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PUBLISHED: "A Large-Scale Approach to Investigating the Indus Civilization’s Settlement Distributions in Northwest India" - latest research from Adam Green & Cameron Petrie of the
@TwoRains
Project
#openaccess
in Journal of Field Archaeology 👉
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First evidence that
#medieval
#plague
victims were buried individually with ‘considerable care’. Latest from
@AfterThePlague1
Health & History of Medieval
#Cambridge
team Craig Cessford et al
#openaccess
in
@archaeologyEAA
@Cambridge_Uni
@CambridgeUnit
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