Archaeologist, storyteller, dad, and bibliophilic materialist @UniLeiden, @UniofOxford, and @WolfsonCollege
Oxford, England
Joined May 2012
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Weeping willow, dancing in the wind. Spring has sprung at the Oxford Canal @Oxford_waters 🌱🌤️😎
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Mexica ocelotl cuauhxicalli, serpent head and Linares’ alebrijes on the SS23 collection of the sports clothing brand Casablanca, which itself of Moroccan and French in background. Thoughts @LeoLopezLujan @MusTemploMayor @mna_inah 😊?
Tomorrow, Tuesday 4pm GMT, very happy to have David Mixter @dwmixter @AnthroBing speaking on Maya resilience and urbanism for the @UniofOxford Americanist Archaeology Seminar @school_of_arch @ajtzib @davidwengrow @chen_guopeng #mesoamerica #maya #Belize . All very welcome!!
Excited about my trip from @school_of_arch & @WolfsonCollege to @ArchAncHistLeic this week and hopefully connect up there with one of my all-time favourite Caribbean Archaeologists @samsonalice3!
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Tomorrow at @school_of_arch @UniofOxford @chen_guopeng, Panos Kratimenos (@UCLarchaeology) speaking about critical cartography and archaeology for the Americanist Archaeology Seminar #Mesoamerica
Some of my friends are just awesome. Like @FHReidsma, who’s working on method development for Paleolithic uses of fire, and now has this epic cover to brag about @LeidenArchaeo @tommyhigham @chirikure
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Listening to Julia Guernsey at the #mesomeetings @UTAustin @UT_AAH @ajtzib, talking about Pacific coast mangroves, salt making, and Izapa. Looks familiar @MarieAndHerPots? Check out this Relaciones Geografias map, now at the Nettie Benson @utlibraries
My DPhil student @chen_guopeng is working on causality in archaeology. For a cautionary tale of how archaeology might fall into correlation-causation traps: check out @TylerVigen and his fun graphs… #arewesureaboutthis? tylervigen.com/spurious-corr…
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Sad news, to close a long and eventful life. Ferdinand would come to Leiden and simply say “Jetzt werde Ich ihnen Mahl etwas lustiges sagen..“ and off he went, discussing Seler, codices, and Maximilian, students at the tip of their seats, with Maarten smiling alongside ❤️
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Inaugural volume in an exciting series!
New Cambridge Element An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology by A. Mark Pollard and Chris Gosden out now! Read for free for 2 weeks
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#cambridgeelements #archaeology
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Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge.
What a tragic waste of time Brexit is for higher education and research. theguardian.com/education/20…
Less than two weeks left to apply to this Leiden University job opening! @SAAorg @INAHmx @ad_of_aaa @SAmericanistes @archaeologyEAA @LeoLopezLujan universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
Tomorrow (4pm GMT) in our @school_of_arch Americanist Archaeology lecture series at @UniofOxford Alexus McLeod speaking on Maya metaphysics! @ajtzib @FraukeSachse @CHPrager @rajoyceUCB
Sensory archaeology with focus on Chavín, at Cambridge coming up this Tuesday! @UCamArchaeology @RobinSkeates @yannishamilakis @kimeyeleen
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Alex Geurds retweeted
I am giving a public zoom lecture based on my book, At Home with the Aztecs, for the Chicago Archaeological Society, on Sunday Jan 29, at 3:30 Central Time. See their website for information:
chicagoarchaeologicalsociety…
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This is an open call to all philosophers: We need more philosophy of archaeology.
#PhilosophyTwitter
#ArchaeologyTwitter
Today @school_of_arch: Jesper Nielsen talking about the iconography of Xochicalco. All welcome to join!
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Oxford Americanist Archaeology Seminar Series is starting again! Today we will have Claudia Brittenham from U Chicago to talk about "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoameirca" in an hour, 16:00-17:00 GMT via Teams!
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
