Dr Uroš Matić
@uroshmatic
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Archaeologist,Universities of Innsbruck and Graz, Philippika Harrassowitz (2018) and Best Publication Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020) winner
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Walking through streets of the Nubian village of Elephantine on a hot sunny day. Some of the houses are still built using mudbricks like in ancient Egypt and the streets are not wider. This street level view is entirely missing in archaeological publications.
#streetlife
#egypt
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Draga Seko, ja sam arheolog i egiptolog po struci, trenutno predajem na univerzitetima u Gracu i Insbruku u Austriji. Imam par pitanja za Vas o egipatskim motivima u spotu za Vašu pesmu “Soba 22”. Kako mogu da Vas kontaktiram? Hvala
@poslednjilet
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I kindly ask the
@archaeologyEAA
to share this since artifacts from the Sudan National Museum will soon appear on the black markets in Europe and could eventually appear in auction houses. This a tragedy and a cultural genocide!
#BREAKING
: Artifacts from Sudan's National Museum, including antiques, statues, and archaeological treasures of significant national, historical, and material worth, are now available for sale.
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@schumacherbj
This is not true. I lived in Münster, Germany from 2012 to 2017 where I did my PhD
@uni_muenster
. The Ausländerbehörde there was infested with rude racists and every time I went there I had to deal with all sorts of humiliations.
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The new book edited by Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Bisserka Gaydarska and myself is out! Available for free via
@sidestonepress
(link)
Contributions by
@ERC_Vamos
@archaeologiskop
@julia_k_koch
and many other
@age_eaa
and
@archaeologyEAA
members!
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If someone told me that after a stellar career start in archaeology I would consider switching to management I would not have believed :)I learned that success in academia is not based on merit but on everything else.Still I will continue to research write and publish :) 💫
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In just few months my book “Violence and Gender in Ancient Egypt” will be out. I am very excited!
It can be preordered with a reduced price
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The proofs are there and we are working hard to have the booklet ready by the annual meeting of the EAA!
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
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The next Annual meeting of the
@archaeologyEAA
takes place in my hometown, Belgrade, Serbia 2025!!! This is such a great news for Balkan archaeology! We are looking forward to many delegates and warmly welcome you!
#Serbia
#Archaeology
@age_eaa
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I will be giving a talk on Ancient Egyptian and Nubian spoils of war at the conference ‘Meeting the Other’ at
@ifaocaire
at the end of the month. Very excited since the program looks promising!
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@rumorahasit
I have almost 100 such kohl tube fragments in my database:) It seems that there more scattered in museum collections and as usual, if not properly labeled they are impossible to track.
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At the annual meeting of the
@archaeologyEAA
2024 in Rome, I also had a poster on Nubians in First Intermediate Period iconography in Egypt
#egyptology
#Nubia
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Many thanks to African Archaeological Review for entrusting me to write a review of The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia!
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In celebration of my break from academia I uploaded all my books to my profile :)
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
#OpenAccess
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When it rains it pours! I am honored to have been invited to give guest lectures in 2022 at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Liverpool and Haifa! Plus I will be the first Egyptologist to teach Middle Egyptian to students in Graz, Austria! The year is starting well indeed!
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The volume is slowly shaping and we have a draft cover already!
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
@martaguardamino
@lauracoltofean
@RebaySalisbury
@mariheri
and many others!
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To all young scholars out there:
When they say excellence recognized by peers will secure you a permanent position they are lying 🤥
I am 36 with h-index 13,i10-index 17, got 2 academic prizes in Germany and Austria. I reviewed papers for over 20 journals. It’s not the merit.
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I would like to thank the Austrian Academy of Sciences for this prestigious reward for the best publication and the Austrian Archaeological Institute for continuous support. The award ceremony is via online livestream on 4th March 2021.
@oeaw
@oeai_oeaw
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Turning 2 this year! Have a look inside if you are interested in past and present approaches to ethnic identity in Ancient Egypt. Paperback and kindle versions available at
@CambUP_Archaeo
#Egypt
#Egyptology
#Archaeology
#history
#ancientegypt
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It’s official now! Amazing
@RebaySalisbury
and I will co-edit the new Elements in Gender and Archaeology series of
@CambUP_Archaeo
! In the next 5 years more than 40 books in
#gender
#Archaeology
are planned!
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
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One year ago!In the meanwhile the booklet is used in teaching at top universities and has been downloaded almost 7000 times!It is still available for free download and the print version can be ordered via the amazing green publisher
@sidestonepress
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
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Jan Assmann changed perspectives on cultural memory and made numerous studies on it in ancient cultures including ancient Egypt. His legacy lives!
I was reminded via
@AWOL
of the wonderful resources of the late Professor Dr Jan Assmann that are available online via
@UniHeidelberg
. Click on the link below to see access to (today) 365 publications of various types that have been uploaded:
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One and a half week in Kom Ombo is almost over and I already have great results! We have Near Eastern imports in late Early Dynastic/Early Old Kingdom contexts:) Occasional Nubian pottery too:)
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One of the most progressive museum directors is under attack of far right in Italy! Please read and consider signing the petition to support Dr. Greco director of
@MuseoEgizio
@archaeologyEAA
@age_eaa
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One more because ithyphallic goddesses destabilize ancient Egyptian patriarchy
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Happy to report that I started my new position at the
@uniinnsbruck
where I will be teaching several courses (in German) in ancient Egyptian history this semester! Looking forward to meet my new students! Wishing everyone a great semester start!
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After months of anticipation due to Brexit I finally got my examples! Thank you
@CambUP_Archaeo
@CambridgeUP
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@rumorahasit
I will be sending you more info in the next couple of days, I had a deadline today plus a huge teaching load, so I could not start immediately.
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1/4 The volume on Ancient Egyptian Rituals against Enemies is out in May!
#ancientegypt
#egyptology
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I am so proud to slowly but surely see the end of this long journey.
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To young scholars out there:
When they tell you that high quality peer reviewed publications in high ranking journals will secure you a permanent position they are lying 🤥
I published more than 60 papers and 5 books, even got 2 academic prizes. It’s not the merit!
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Wow! I am mind blown! 84 students of the University of Graz applied for my course “Introduction to Egyptology” which starts tomorrow!
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My project “Archäologie der Subalternen: Koloniale Infrastrukturen und der Bau des Suezkanals” has been accepted by the Technical Museum in Vienna within their project dealing with “colonialism without colonies”.
Post Doc project 4 let’s go!
#archaeology
#Egypt
#postcolonial
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If archaeology departments are to be saved, archaeology has to be socially relevant. Unfortunately most of archaeological research does not deal with issues of our society or with topics of help to our society.
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To young scholars out there:
When they tell you that you should demonstrate research mobility to secure permanent employment they are lying 🤥
I lived in 3 countries, worked as an archaeologist in 5, had Post Docs and stand alone projects in 2. It’s not the merit!
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Arrived to Egypt to finish studying the Early Dynastic to later Old Kingdom pottery from Kom Ombo and start studying some 400 complete late First Intermediate Period vessels from a silo room 🎉
@oeai_oeaw
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I used to work here on the rescue excavations of the Swiss Institute from 2013 to 2017. I did not manage to visit since my last season and it was so emotional to come back today, see the excavation house and enjoy the beautiful views of Aswan landscape.
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Coming out soon as open access at UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.
The moment when another of your student dreams comes true ❤️
Grateful 🙏
@age_eaa
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My third book is out! Grateful to
@CambUP_Archaeo
and series editors
@AnnaS_Amarna
, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia and Gianluca Miniaci for their kindness and patience!
Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs: Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology
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Dr. Alfred Galik dry sieving soil samples from various Old Kingdom settlement contexts.He is a zooarchaeologist and a specialist for fish bones.He already has great results after first week of this season.Goat/sheep, pig, fish, turtle, dog, cat and even hippo 🦛 bones
@oeai_oeaw
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The happiness I feel right now!
In 2010 I was told pursuing gender in archaeology would destroy my career. Luckily I did not listen to that and I met colleagues from
@age_eaa
The booklet looks amazing!!!
How cool is this. You'll need sunglasses due to the neon ink. Our
@age_eaa
Gender Stereotypes booklet is in. And it looks awesome! In a week time already 2500 download and now 4000 printed copies. Get yours at
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That’s a wrap on symposium on animals in ancient Egypt at the University of Naples! I presented some of the results of my new project on ancient Egyptian lists of spoils of war focusing on animals.
Next stop is Jaen and the Old Kingdom conference 🇪🇸
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On Tuesday 28th November I am back as a lecturer at the Institute for Classics, University of Graz
@InstitutAntike1
where I will teach a course on Ancient Egyptian Empire and its Foreign Relations! Looking forward to see familiar faces and meet new students!
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That feeling when you get the finished and corrected proof! The book will be out soon. I dedicated it to all who ever suffered from the violence of gender
@routledgebooks
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If you are interested in violence and gender in ancient Egypt catch me tomorrow morning at 11AM in a workshop on gender archaeology organized by Leiden University. For registration go here:
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Egyptology:
1.A discipline in which development is understood as a discovery of yet another tomb or text rather than an explanation of any past phenomenon.
2.A discipline which glorifies persons and “their” sites rather than collective nature of knowledge production.
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@ashleyruba_phd
You are absolutely right!I finished PhD in 4 years,got 2 prizes for it,had 2 stand alone PostDoc projects, published 3 monographs, 3 edited volumes and over 60 peer reviewed papers.I have 11 years of fieldwork ex, I taught at 3 unis and lived in 3 countries!On01.09.23 unemployed
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Following the event today I decided to share a recent experience.A colleague and I are working on a special issue of an archaeological journal which will deal with de- and postcolonial thinking in Egyptology. 1 Egyptian and 1 European colleague dropped out of fear (1/2)
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When one of the most prominent researchers in history of sexuality and an world renowned Egyptologist has to quit doing research on this topic due to university politics and homophobia, all 🚨 alarms should be on!!!
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
No Pasaran!!!
A reluctant but unavoidable decision -I'm stepping down from all research on lgbtq history (a bit too stressful in current job),
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Great opening keynote of
@eloquentpeasant
at the conference on poverty in ancient Egypt and ancient Near East at
@oeaw
I am especially glad that Egyptologists in Vienna had the opportunity to see how inequality is studied informed by social theory, a great lack in Austria.
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The babes is out and will ship after 31. May but there is already a discount!
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
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A reminder that gender is intersectional, that Ancient Egypt was a patriarchal culture and that not all Egyptian women were members of the social elite, queens or female Pharaohs. Power is relational, gender is relational.
@routledgebooks
#InternationalWomansDay
#ancientegypt
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Rest In Peace Prof. Török (1941-2020)
One of the last scholars of the ancient world with broad knowledge, brilliant mind and kind heart.
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My first article in French is coming out soon in Egypte, Afrique et Orient :) My goal is to one day reach that level so that I can read Foucault in original!
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@Jairo_I_Funez
Just because Fanon wrote it does not mean it’s correct or justifiable. Colonialism is violent, liberation is violent, but fostering violence creates a never ending loop of hatred and murder. No to war!
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Final proofs approved!Preorder via
@OxbowBooks
Dedicated to one beautiful person I love very much. Chapters by
@MrymShyrazy
@greekvases
@ERC_Vamos
among others, including
@archaeologyEAA
and
@age_eaa
members. Based on a project conducted in 2018-2019 at former OREA of
@oeai_oeaw
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This amazing book on execration rituals reached my mail box today!Those interested should read Espinel’s and my paper parallel.We both argue the same thing reaching our conclusions independently and on different material, in his case iconography and texts, in my case archaeology.
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Join us online in Leiden on 9th of April in discussion on gender archaeology
@UniLeidenNews
@age_eaa
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Next week I am speaking at this wonderful conference in Uppsala! Join us if you want to listen to some current research in gender archaeology!
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
@UU_University
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The effort
@DisabledArchaeo
and
@hannah_vogel8put
put into this book is enormous!I am proud to be among the authors who contributed to it!
It makes me especially happy to see that
#egyptology
is moving towards socially relevant topics!
#disability
#egypt
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How to keep academic connections as an independent researcher?
1. Keep in touch with those who want to work with you
2. Publish less but publish only OA
3. Attend conferences online or send videos of your presentations
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One year old already!See the contributions of many
@age_eaa
members
@archaeologyEAA
Next stop-Belfast. I team up with prehistorians in a session that tackles the same theme in non-literate societies.
@JaredCarballo_
@DrSarahSchrader
and myself are going to present on a Nubia :)
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After 2 months of delivery trial I finally got my author copies ❤️Thank you!
@RoutledgeHist
@routledgebooks
The book can still be ordered here 👇
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They fear that by speaking up and providing a critical analysis they will loose all chances of employment.This is how the establishment works. Censorship and dismissal of arguments without providing contra-arguments.Luckily there are many of us who do not fear and think freely.
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The print has started! This booklet will be the wind of change just as the one we did on gender archaeology 💪
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
"Migration Narratives in Archaeology" is currently being printed with special neon-green ink. It is going to be super-duper-cool. It is also
#OpenAccess
so if you can't wait for the printed copies, feel free to already download one:
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Its a promising start of a week! I was invited to give my first keynote lecture at a conference on gender in ancient Egypt!
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
More info is coming!
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We worked very hard on releasing this special issue of Archaeologies journal.I am grateful to
@fkeshk
@EgyptMcr
and many others who contributed but also to those who planned to but backed up out of fear.Hopefully things will slowly change
@archaeologyEAA
#egyptology
#Archaeology
@uroshmatic
and my special issue on
#postcolonial
theory in Egyptology with
#Archaeologies
of
@SpringerNature
is slowly getting released. First from the mint is our joint paper and introduction.
#Egyptology
#archaeology
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Join us tomorrow at the
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
session
#S131
on queer theory and current archaeological debates. We tackle directions of q.arch, sex and ontology, provincialization of sex in Roman empire, mortuary arch, warrior women and minorities in the archaeological record
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Arrived to Sevilla! Next stop Jaen and the Old Kingdom conference!
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So honored to see my PhD offered at the Meroitic conference
@harrassowitz_v
book stand! The book was awarded with Philippika prize of Harrassowitz in 2018 and Best Publication Award of the
@oeaw
in 2020! Aging well!
@archaeologyEAA
#ancientegypt
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Catch me tommorow at the
@Egyptology_PP
conference (9AM Brussels) reporting live from the dighouse in Kom Ombo!
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My paper on the voice of Nesyamun is out! I wrote it at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, in a situation when more than ever I asked myself why do we do what we do as archaeologists.
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Rest in peace Christopher Tilley (1955-2024)
Thank you for reconstructing archaeology, phenomenology of landscape, metaphor and material culture, materiality of stone, streets of London and many more seminal studies. Your legacy lives on!
@archaeologyEAA
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To all my old and new followers:
1.I post on scholarly work in humanities which is my interest and expertise (archaeology, war and gender studies)
2.I am a critical thinker and I do not sugarcoat academia.
3. I am ready to share my experience on working with past employers
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After being asked to review a paper for free: I don’t work for free for major journals and publishing houses of the global west!Let us change academia by demanding our work to be paid!I value my knowledge and expertise. You need me, I don’t need you!
#IchbinReyhan
#IchBinHanna
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Remember Gender Stereotypes in Arch. booklet?
Bisserka,
@lauracoltofean
and me formed a new book series with
@sidestonepress
titled HotAcademia.The first book in the series is edited by D.Hoffmann et al. open access
@archaeologyEAA
@age_eaa
@oeai_oeaw
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@w_carruthers
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am hanging on year 7 after defending my PhD and receiving 2 prizes for it. It’s hard, but there are some fair colleagues in our field and I was recently surprised by how many reached out to help me when I lost my job.
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One year ago I woke up in one of my favorite places on Earth, Aswan, and I went to Kom Ombo for our spring 2020 campaign which was interrupted 6 weeks later due to COVID-19 outbreak. I miss Egypt and our team being together
@oeai_oeaw
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I gave an interview on queerness in Ancient Egypt for
@oeaw
in connection to the Pride month :)
@oeai_oeaw
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
One more interview on women in Ancient Egypt is coming out later this summer :)
#Queerness
in der Antike 🌈 ÖAW-Ägyptologe Uroš Matić
@oeai_oeaw
spricht über
#Geschlecht
und
#Sexualit
ät im Alten #Ägypten. Was wissen wir über queeres Leben in der Antike und wie unterscheiden sich die Vorstellungen von Geschlecht damals und heute?
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Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this book to attract attention. I am so grateful for this!
Next week in my
#Archaeology
of Warfare and Violence course we’re talking about gender. We’ll be discussing this excellent, accessible book on Ancient Egypt by
@uroshmatic
!
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Happy that my paper has been accepted for thr Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East in Malta next year :) Plus I was invited by Prof. De Hemmer Gudme to deliver a lecture in the University of Oslo series Ancient Adornmemt :) 2023 continues with good news :)
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One more great volume on gender studies in archaeology coming out this year!
#archaeology
#gender
@age_eaa
@archaeologyEAA
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Entering the last corrections as suggested by the reviewers. Forthcoming in Ancient Egypt in Context-Elements series of Cambridge University Press.
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Asadago man from Ethiopia using a headrest, just like ancient Egyptians for centuries before
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My poster at the 3rd International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt.
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