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Biomolecular archaeologist fascinated by Mesolithic and Neolithic Eurasia, particularly concerning cooking and subsistence practices

University of Bristol
Joined April 2013
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Wondering what the #NeoMilk project is? Multidisciplinary research of dairying in #Neolithic Central Europe: neomilk-erc.eu
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Plague pit excavated at @thornton_abbey, #Lincolnshire. Contains 48 individuals. Yersinia pestis DNA: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hu… #Archaeology
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Be a member of @royalarchinst to hear fascinating monthly #archaeology lectures. I enjoyed all their talks on their latest research teapawt.net/royalarchinst/status/7…
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81 tree trunk coffins have been discovered at a previously unknown #AngloSaxon cemetery in Great Ryburgh, #Norfolk: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no…
HMS Terror found two years after John Franklin's Erebus found and 170 after both became icebound: theguardian.com/world/2016/s… #NorthWestPassage
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Welcome to @ogu_bristol @ArchaeologyLisa, hope you're enjoying your visit. All these instruments are rather amazing teapawt.net/ArchaeologyLisa/status…
Science! Bristol's radiocarbon AMS. First time I've seen one of these in person, it's pretty amazing.
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#DNA analysis has revealed the species of animals that #Ötzi the Iceman's clothing and arrow quiver were made from: bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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As this long queue for a bus in #Bristol demonstrates, if queuing was an #Olympic sport, surely #GBR would win #Gold
A fun day showing children and adults at @FestofNature the work we do at @ogu_bristol. Be a palaeodetective here: chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach…
Genetic evidence that most #dogs today originate from combined domestication in Europe and Asia: pasthorizonspr.com/index.php… #archaeology
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Last week I had a productive second potsherd sampling trip for my PhD and the #NeoMilk project in Poznań, Poland: neomilk-erc.eu/david-returns…
I am looking forward to finding out more details about @UKAS2017. I hope it is more accessible to students than previously #UKAS2017
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Not only does this remove ambiguity of your role, it is often a more engaging way of expressing it #archaeology teapawt.net/UCLArchSci/status/7333…
Doonan: "Tell people what you do, not what you are. Tell them what you do until they walk away!" 😆 #ISA2016 #discussionpanel #archaeometry
We do archaeology in the present - should we consider how our work will impact the future? #ISA2016 #disussionpanel
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At 5pm is @royalarchinst President's lecture, 'The making of the southern English landscape: a prehistorian’s view': royalarchinst.org/2015-2016-…
Congratulations to @ogu_bristol's Professor Richard Evershed for winning the 2016 @RoySocChem Robert Boyle Prize: rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology…
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We've published a review of organic residue analysis of pottery in #archaeology which you can read here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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David Altoft retweeted
A review of #organic residue analysis in archaeological #ceramics by (Roffet-Salque et al., 2016) #archaeology sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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45,000 years of human history in Europe is coming into greater detail by DNA analysis of ancient humans bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir… #archaeology
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