Professor of Biological Anthropology @ Oxford Brookes. Director - Centre for Environment and Society. Human Evolution, Ancient Diseases and stuff..
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Joined January 2009
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Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
Proud to see seven academics appointed to #REF2029 panels 🎉
Catherine Henshall, Tim Vorley, Levent Altinay, Rachel Wang, Lucy Vickers, Simon Underdown, Katharine Craik.
2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-p…
ALT The exterior of Oxford Brookes University's John Henry Brookes building.
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
According to Google Scholar, this paper has just recived it's 100th citation - not bad for a theory paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… And especially nice as it was a bit of pig to get published @sunderdown
Got to love @evrisupportline you tried to deliver my parcel at 1226 (not the 1900-2100 slot you emailed me). I’m in and the ‘photo evidence’ is clearly in the back of a van surrounded by other parcels….
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
And more recently about the potential for high mortality among ancient hunter-gatherers even from 'common' infectious diseases onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
@sunderdown & I have thought for years that the role of infectious diseases before agriculture needs more consideration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
Fascinating new pre-print on very early plague (Y. pestis) causing high mortality among hunter-gatherers biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… I shall have to rewrite some lecture notes!
A brilliant three-days of field work exploring the anthropology of the Avebury and Stonehenge landscapes with our amazing first year undergrads comes to a close for another year @oxford_brookes @ResearchAHSS #anthropology
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
We are aware that some participants are having difficulties with the registration process/payment for our 2024 conference - to help with this, we have now extended the deadline:
⌛️Final registration deadline: 15/July
Still time to join us in Porto!⬇️
sshb.org/conference/human-bi…
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
Could you please retweet the above tweet?⬆️😊🙏
@sarabjitmastana @danny_longman @_LTBuck @Saraisampereira @inesvarelasilva @sunderdown @LaurenSherar1 @TinTin63 @psaintmaurice @ValLCarson @KathrynHesketh @brainercise @cla_lucena_
Oxford Brookes University puts communities at heart of humanities festival bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ox…
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
Join us for this week’s Pitt-Rivers seminar, where Nicholas Marquez-Grant, @CranfieldUni @CranfieldForSci will be discussing osteological trauma analysis in forensic anthropology
🗓️Friday 15 March, 1:15pm
📍McDonald Seminar Room
More info ➡️ arch.cam.ac.uk/events/pitt-r…
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
NEW✨✨ tenure-track lectureship in Human Evolution @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology ‼️🥰🎉
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44717/
come and join this amazing team!!
Deadline 2 April
pls RT 😀
Prof Simon Underdown retweeted
From the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego to the deserts of Arabia, Professor Simon Underdown’s fieldwork has taken him all over the world. Explore the ancient relationship between humans and disease and its impact in the past, present and future. bit.ly/events-deathandtaxes
Really looking forward to giving this lecture next week. Tickets free - info in link
From the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego to the deserts of Arabia, Professor Simon Underdown’s fieldwork has taken him all over the world. Explore the ancient relationship between humans and disease and its impact in the past, present and future. bit.ly/events-deathandtaxes
Documenting the diversity of the Namibian Ju|’hoansi intestinal microbiome: Cell Reports great to see this paper is now out with @riaanfrifkin and colleagues @oxford_brookes @UPTuks cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…
