CLaSS Project

Landscape Archaeology and Climate Change in the Near East over the last 8,000 years. Directed by @eliasdan at @ArcDurham/@uni_tue/@SEELeeds, funded @ERCResearch

[Durham University @durham_uni]

We will host the @ERC_Research Scientific Council meeting this June. On the lead up, we're showcasing ERC-funded projects, including Prof. Dan Lawrence's groundbreaking research on the relationship between climate change and complex societies. Read more 👉 https://t.co/Bar5NwF7og

[Durham Archaeology @ArcDurham]

📢 Job alert!📢

Do you have research & teaching interests in Egyptian Archaeology, including adjacent regions e.g. Nubia, from later Predynastic to the Classical periods? Join our Department as an Assistant Professor!

Learn more and apply: https://t.co/0hWCyUUEcn

#HiringNow

[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

New paper! What did people use as fuel in Southwest Asia over the last 8,000 years? https://t.co/NhZZU4wJkh TLDR - mostly whatever was lying around, including pruning waste, dung and olive cakes when population pressure meant they ran out of decent wood

[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

The CLaSS project may have finished in June, but the papers keep on coming!

[Dr. Michelle de Gruchy @DrMWdeGruchy]

New article! A team of us have developed a methodology for incorporating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data into a model of past land use that is suitable for #climate modelling @CLaSS_ERC @eliasdan #archaeology https://t.co/8xyarBDQjL

[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

We use 3.9 million seeds and 124,000 bits of charcoal, plus some stats, to tell the story of these two crops across 6,000 years, from the Neolithic to the end of the Iron Age. tldr? Olives & grapes were integral to the economic, social, and demographic trajectories of the region

[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

New paper out today in #PLOSONE https://t.co/Ua3n6i6xrD Everything you ever wanted to know about olives and grapes in Southwest Asia but were afraid to ask!

[Dan Lawrence @eliasdan]

Job! 3-year postdoc using agent-based modelling to understand Mediterranean socio-ecological systems in the first millennium AD. Working with me, @HFoxhallForbes and the team of heroes that is @SSE1K Details: https://t.co/JROS0et5Xb Tell your friends! @ERC_Reserach @caa_uk

[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

New CLaSS Paper in @AntiquityJ! What can 786,353 animal bones from 245 sites across 5,000 years tell us about the relationship between urban and rural settlements in Southwest Asia? Find out here (open access): https://t.co/91dCYeloGw

[Dr. Michelle de Gruchy @DrMWdeGruchy]

If you are interested in past mobility and the #archaeology of routes, this book from a conference of the same name is now published and free to download! My chapter (1) with @eliasdan provides an overview of route studies across #Mesopotamia. Enjoy! https://t.co/aX3Y40hIKX

[Dan Lawrence @eliasdan]

Senior managers in UK universities have made some questionable decisions in the last few years. In unrelated news, I've been promoted to Professor...

[Anna Leone @AnnaLeo05395890]

New job! https://t.co/xDfJvyolsc

[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

CLaSS project workshop now underway @icaane13 - @DrMWdeGruchy with finger on the pulse as usual helping Jo Clarke to be heard!

[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

New CLaSS paper!

[Dan Lawrence @eliasdan]

Just published - settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: https://t.co/2WAeqxyHYm with @DrMWdeGruchy, Ishiba Hinojosa-Baliño and the much missed @SumerUruk

[Hayder Alqaragholi @HayderAqeel86]

Dr. Michelle offered a fun and important lecture.
#QadisiyahArc @DrMWdeGruchy

[Matthew J Jacobson @JacobsonMJ_]

Excellent work and fascinating conclusions in @eliasdan's recent talk at @UofGArchaeo on the persistence of cities in SW Asia. Can be viewed via the link:
https://t.co/vw9wIlDKhO

[BANEA @2019Banea]

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[CLaSS Project @CLaSS_ERC]

New paper with input from the CLaSS team!

[Durham Centre for Culture Heritage Protection @dcchp_Durham]

📢Job Alert! @ArcDurham @EAMENA @CLaSS_ERC are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher looking at landscapes and cultural heritage protection in Southwest Asia. Deadline February 23, 2023 #archaeology #PDRA #jobalert To apply: https://t.co/01QKpPxuK6

[Dan Lawrence @eliasdan]

@JaafarJotheri and I wrote a little bit about the life of our friend and colleague, Dr Abdulamir Al-hamdani (@SumerUruk) for @IraqJournal - https://t.co/k4DrBkWyRu An extraordinary person much missed by many

[Dan Lawrence @eliasdan]

Still time to get involved in this - deadline is February 9th!