Our new paper is out today, it brings more data about the dispersal and introduction of new varieties of fruits, annual crops, and spices along the ancient Silk Road in the first millennium CE. Thanks to my supervisor @robertnspengler link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A "comprehensive refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis" by Vance Holliday et al. Excited to check this out sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Attn Early-career scientists (ECRs) who are also Developing-Country Researchers (DCRs) in Quaternary Science -- Apply for an INQUA Fellowship! **Note: deadline has been extended to September 15, 2023! Application Details and forms are online here: inqua.org/funding/fellow…

The Scripta Sinica database has newly added the full texts of 28 books, totaling 9,440,000 characters, from January to June, 2023. Among them, the images (40,000 in total) of 20 books are available. Bibliography: hanchi.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/ihp/2023_bookl… Database: hanchi.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/ihp/hanji.htm

a Portrait of Tenochtitlan, my 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire is released! I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I am really curious what all of you think. Take a look: tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl #tenochtitlan

Great news! An European Research Council (ERC) #ERCStG to #AIASFellow dr Iza Romanowska for her project 'THE MODEL CITY' to investigate long-term urban evolution and the resilience of cities by combining cutting-edge computer technologies with large archaeological datasets🎉 aias.au.dk/events/show/ar…

A great opportunity to once again share one of my favorite maps of all time: “Intercity Railways of East Missouri and Southwest Illinois” by David Edmondson, showing rail service from St. Louis Union Station in 1921

It's official! Starting November 1st, I will become Director of the Cotsen Institute Institute of Archaeology where I was once a work-study student. UCLA @UCLAnewsroom newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/jason-…

🎉🎉🎉 HUMan impact on #LANDscapes agent-based model (HUMLAND ABM) is finally available online! Interested in the earliest impact of people on their #environment? Check the model here: comses.net/codebases/89ca… #research #Europe #digitalarchaeology TERRANOVA

Scenes from our annual business meeting & awards ceremony at #GSA2023! Dr. Arlene Rosen is the Rip Rapp Awardee. Hay student paper/poster Awardee is Aleigha Dollens, and the Albritton Awardee is Karen Pham. Pictured with division chair Sam the soil scientist ⛏. Congratulations!

Exciting news! Here’s our latest study on the application of ZooMS (zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry) in East Asia! Katerina Douka European Research Council (ERC) (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

The Central European TAG conference “The Role of Rivers” takes place at Comenius University in Bratislava on Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 from 13:30-17.30 and Friday, 10 Nov from 9:00-16:30 in room G239, Faculty of Arts, Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava. [email protected]

Today in the ARB: “The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China” by Timothy Brook Princeton University Press asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-pr…

I am so pleased to announce that HEAS Vienna has its own podcast - now on Spotify! Episode 1 👇features palaeoanthropology, pathogens and geoarchaeology, with the fab @clementzanolli Lucy van Dorp and Takis Karkanis, and your host Victoria Oberreiter. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heas-…

Check out our #EAA2024 session on microstratigraphic geoarchaeological approaches! 🔬 Case studies from different chronologies are welcomed! 👇🏻 European Association of Archaeologists #Session496

Congratulations to Bryan Miller Bryan K Miller - who just published his book 'Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire' with Oxford University Press! global.oup.com/academic/produ…

It's a wrap! 🎉🎉🎉 With the completion of #oVertTCN, the doors of natural history museum collections have been digitally unlocked allowing scientists, educators, artists & the public to interact with specimens in ways never before possible. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scient…

Heaven & Earth: The Blue Maps of China is now open at the Leventhal Map & Education Center! When you think of East Asian works of art and the color blue, your mind might jump to Hokusai and The Great Wave off Kanagawa. But it turns out that some of the earliest works from this..

New in Science Advances, we explore a longstanding question: how many people really lived on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) before European’s visited in the 1700s? The answer relies on food production Olo Be Taloha Lab Columbia Climate School LDEO doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…🧵 1/6

After much experimentation, time to share my online tool to create simple orthographic maps. Designed for users who want an original map but have little time and no #GIS skills. 1/ mapspam.net/ortho.html