By popular demand (really just matt 🍉 ), here’s the Old Chinese in Oracle Bone Script 唯傁 ɢʷij sruʔ (Baxter-Sagart) wéi sǒu (pinyin) "Yea, venerable sir." Pictograms: mouth+short-tailed-bird hand-holding-torch-under-roof

Super cool to receive this award from the Society of American Archaeologists! Let's hope for more good interdisciplinary vibes in the future!

Trying to find inherited morphological pieces from Proto-Abkhaz-Adyghe. Lots more to compile (these languages have so many verbal suffixes & prefixes), but from what’s here so far only negation & the malefactive (of all things!!) look to be common across the languages.

Exciting to have the first copy in my hand... #hoofbeatsbook

Congratulations tot the Harvard genetics lab with this watershed paper!

Sleigh is an important item in the life of a Nenets. So much so, that when indicating right and left, a Nenets says 'back' and 'face' – for the driver sits on the sleigh with his right side towards the driving direction.

I concur - numerals can be used as a proxy of societal complexity. It's a grammaticalization process of previous ad hoc quantifiers that become fixed as the need to refer to succinct quantities between different groups rise. brill.com/display/book/e…

Thank you Tristan Hughes for this great conversation on all things #SilkRoads 😎

Very excited to invite you on the #SilkRoads journey with me… starting 5,000 years ago! UCL Institute of Archaeology Tristan Hughes UCL News CCAF UCL Social & Historical Sciences open.spotify.com/episode/5GBcXU…

We are extremely pleased to announce the publication of our monograph on the #EarlyNeolithic cemetery of Shamanka II on the SW shore of #LakeBaikal. This was a huge project and we would like to thank DAI and all coauthors for their hard work! baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/2024/05/02/sha…

Come work with us at ONP! We're advertising two associate professor-level editor positions jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige…

I like that English has (at least) four borrowings from the Latin word gentīlis, all pretty different in meaning from each other and their Latin source – there's 'gentle', 'gentile' and 'genteel', and also 'jaunty'.

Later this week I'll post one about Thursday. Not on Thursday though. I want to make everyone's lives as exciting as possible with my nerdery.

Preliminary program of our Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road Conference (September 4-7) with keynotes by Georges-Jean Pinault, Carmen Meinert, and Imre Galambos: …naborderlandsconference.wordpress.com/program/

Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago apnews.com/article/ancien…

Our book Indo-European Interfaces is out in open access 🎉📖 🥳 Download your copy here:stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/1… Edited by Jenny Larsson, yours truly & Dr. Jörgenstein, it’s the first volume in the book series Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Languages and Culture. 1/5

International Max Planck Research School for Modeling the Anthropocene (IMPRS-ModA) starts at MPI-GEA as a truly transdisciplinary graduate program that educates and trains a new generation of scientists! Follow bit.ly/3XP3Dxn to learn more!