No eruptions of Vesuvius in forecast for year ahead 😅 🌋

Hope this clears everything up!

🚨New paper alert!🚨 'Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations' - We analysed 30,000 years of history to understand how populations absorb and recover from disturbances Research @ Bournemouth University Bournemouth Uni

doi.org/10.1038/s41586… Gold OA:🔓

13 May, lecture of the Austrian & British (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies UK) societies for Byzantine Studies by Jim Crow (@EdinburghUni) with G. Fingarova (@univienna) as respondent: ‘Peeping under the Palimpsest: reclaiming the urban topography of #Byzantine #Constantinople ’.
edin.ac/3QiNueS

nature.com/articles/s4158…

I wrote a blog arising from Chapter 5 of my book, in which I discuss responses to extreme weather in Late Antiquity

Omg have dreamed of the “whole cemetery” approach — amazing. Avar cemetery in Hungary c 700, entire family lines reconstructed..

New issue of Journal of Urban Archaeology Vol 9 (2024) brepolsonline.net/toc/jua/2024/9 Journal of Urban Archaeology Brepols UrbNet Placing Space, Shaping Cities, and Making History in the Ancient Classical World,

In our new preprint we propose that the likely route connecting Anatolian speakers with the Yamnaya (and thus with the speakers of Indo-European languages) is from the east. This thread summarizes different arguments for this hypothesis, as well as the alternative (from the west)

From new article in Nature Comms: “Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period”, Imogen Gabriel, Gill Plunkett, Peter Abbott, Melanie Behrens, Andrea Burke, Nathan Chellman, et al
DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s43247…

Well, i’m suddenly quite pleased with my decision to NOT swim in the Danube last time i was in Belgrade 🧵 👇

Our decade-long search for the genetic traces of the earliest Indo-Europeans has culminated in the two preprints we are releasing today!

With Nick Patterson, David Anthony, and 91 co-authors, on 'The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans'

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

jordan pickett Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 Joe Rogan BOEM, the US regulatory agency, requires archaeological surveys to gather subbottom data & evaluate it for the potential of submerged/buried archaeological sites. Identified areas are off-limits for oil/gas development.

In other words we actively look for offshore native sites.

After years of controversy, Indiana University Bloomington faculty voted yes to a motion of no confidence in President Whitten, the provost and the vice provost for faculty and academic affairs idsnews.com/article/2024/0…

Wow, fascinating! “Though Egyptian in origin, it is not technically a Pharaonic obelisk. The hieroglyphs that decorate the obelisk … are copies of hieroglyphs of Rameses II obelisk from Heliopolis that Augustus set up in 10 BCE in Circus Maximus, today in Piazza del Popolo.”