📢New paper alert! Did you know that most seeds in archaeobotanical assemblages are recovered charred? 🔥This complicates their use in studying crop history. But in our latest study, we show that charred Phoenix seeds can still be reliably used to reconstruct date palm history!🌴

In partnership with وزارة التراث والسياحة - سلطنة عُمان, 3 new ArchaeoTrails are available for the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of #Bat and Al-Ayn in the Sultanate of #Oman. Why don't you try them out and take an amazing journey back in time? Just download the ArchaeoTrail app & get started! #Archaeology

I'm giving a talk tonight! If you like learning about death (who doesn't? 💀✨) then pop in! The FoA lecture series this year is free and open to everyone.

We must abolish the death penalty.

The first papers in the UmWeltWandel special collection for Open Quaternary on Human-environment Interactions in Ancient Arabia, resulting from our conference in Tübingen last year, are starting to come out! Check out this awesome research by Melissa Kennedy @hughs_news and PAKEP

Funded Graduate Research Assistantship Opportunity (Masters-level) in #EnvironmentalArchaeology in my lab at Utah State University ENVS_USU Please Share widely! legasyslab.com/team/join-us#h…

On our Summer School in Mainz!💙 Thanks Prof Najma al Zidjaly omanobserver.om/article/1160373 Goethe-Universität @JGUMainz Uni Heidelberg Stephanie Döpper

How useful can be Zootecus and Melanoides in studying dry lands paleo environments ! I spend so many days collecting them, and I am so happy with those results ☺️ Check our new paper with Katharina E. Schmitt, the UmWeltWandel, Lucas Proctor 𒄑 🌳 🔥 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great new paper on the multiple Bronze Age type of protooasis from the Bat area in Oman, infamous for its UNESCO world heritage sites. This collective work was greatly coordinated by JenSwerida openquaternary.com/articles/10.53…

Check out our snails!

Check out our collection in Open Quaternary from the (UmWeltWandel) conference last year in Tübingen on Human Environment Interactions in Ancient Arabia. Four papers are up already from Melissa Kennedy JenSwerida and @drmaex, but there are many more to come! openquaternary.com/collections/Hu…

Vibe today

Very excited to present the results of our first season at the Oman Across the Ages Museum! Lucas Proctor 𒄑 🌳 🔥

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS ‼️‼️‼️

First pub of the HERDS Project! We’ve got big things coming, stay tuned! #archaeology

NEW The newly-discovered large Neolithic site of Al-Khashbah, Oman, was occupied repeatedly over 1000 years, revealing how mobile hunter-herder communities in south-eastern Arabia adapted to climate change over time. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…