Julia Best

Zooarchaeologist, living history/experimental archaeology fan, horse-mum, and enjoyer of folk music. (All opinions my own etc.).

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

Amazing news from @AntiquityJ our chicken paper has won the Ben Cullen 2023 prize!! So fabulous to have the work of @CUHistArchRel @CUBALab
@UofEArchaeology @BU_ArchAnth @school_of_arch
(& many, many more) recognised in this way. Thanks to everyone involved & the Antiquity team

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

Congratulations to Julia Best et al., winners of the 2023 Ben Cullen Prize!

Their research uncovered that the chicken was introduced to Europe and North Africa much later than previously believed.

Check out the officially award-winning work (🆓) https://t.co/gdfVZfIRYK

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

#AntiquityThread on this year's Ben Cullen Prize-winning research from Julia Best @Estalwin et al.
@CUHistArchRel @BU_ArchAnth @UofEArchaeology @school_of_arch 🧵

Chickens arrived in Europe relatively recently and were initially regarded as exotica!

🆓 https://t.co/gdfVZfIRYK

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@BaillieJessica @cardiffuni @DrLarissaNelson @LaraCowpe @MrsMKLewis @GameiroSofia Such a great team :)

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

What a lovely cover piece! And well done to @AnastasiaStupko too. @CUBALab @UofEArchaeology @school_of_arch @BU_ArchAnth @CUHistArchRel

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

🆕 June @AntiquityJ is now online! https://t.co/Ndh2z8bdln

My latest editorial features an update on author demographics plus the 2023 #Prize winners: congratulations to @Estalwin & @AnastasiaStupko!
🆓https://t.co/bAcxgLA2SP

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

@Estalwin @AntiquityJ Thanks for sending us your paper! Also one of our top-downloaded papers of 2022!

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@UofEArchaeology @AntiquityJ Love this! Such great news for a fab group of collaborators.

[Archaeology 100! - Cardiff Uni @CUBALab]

Congratulations to our Dr Julia Best!

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

🏆The Ben Cullen Prize for 2023 is awarded to
Julia Best & (many!) colleagues for their @AntiquityJ article on the timing of the introduction of #chickens to Europe and NW Africa. Those bones are later than you think...
Congratulations to all! 🎉

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@RobertEWitcher @AntiquityJ Thank you Rob! This is so excellent

[Ophélie Lebrasseur @ArchaeOphelie]

"It is clear that human-chicken relationships were complex and about more than just food for quite some time" 👇 https://t.co/2Id8ZgeW0A

Our chicken research featured on @ConversationUK by @Estalwin and yours truly

@CagToulouse @MSCActions @AraucanaProject

[Cardiff Uni Comms @Cardiffuninews]

Dr Julia Best, @Estalwin, a lecturer in bioarcheology from @CUHistArchRel, writes for the @ConversationUK about her latest research which has furthered understanding of human-chicken relationships.

https://t.co/QjPe6AQQ0s

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@gevemac Thank you Eve :)

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@TCKidney Thank you!

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@SHAREWyatt Thanks Dave! I even awakened my very dormant twitter just for chickens!

[Cardiff University @cardiffuni]

🦴 An international team of researchers employed radiocarbon dating on bones from 2️⃣3️⃣ of the earliest claimed chickens. This is the first time a programme of direct dating has been systematically applied to them.

More on our website ➡️ https://t.co/0FdbMGDZc2

[Cardiff University @cardiffuni]

🐔 Chickens were introduced to Britain, mainland Europe, & North Africa later than previously thought & were primarily regarded as exotica not food, new research from @CUHistArchRel suggests.

🎥 Lecturer in bioarchaeology Dr Julia Best - @estalwin - discusses the findings.

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@cardiffuni @CUHistArchRel If you want to learn more about these wonderful chickens, both of our new papers are open access (free!) and can be found in Antiquity (https://t.co/JESb1DqFkQ) and PNAS (https://t.co/SRdXMNFt5X). Here you can see that Iron Age hen and her injured leg (second bone from the right)

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@ArchaeOphelie Ditto, it made me chuckle and was certainly a change!

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@ArchaeOphelie I love this one. Jim is such a great writer.

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@Roud7734 @romanpalace @newscientist I'm not very good with twitter, but see my twitter thread here: https://t.co/5PMGpRnBQa

And this article for a little more on the human-chicken interactions: https://t.co/TVrz3LmThD

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

This brilliant piece just out https://t.co/FtcXftOV9F draws together our exciting new research from PNAS (https://t.co/SRdXMNFt5X) & Antiquity (https://t.co/JESb1DqFkQ). With @ArchaeOphelie @Greger_Larson @ProfNaomiSykes Joris Peters, Mark Maltby & many more. Thread of 19 tweets:

[Julia Best @Estalwin]

@Roud7734 @romanpalace @newscientist Some grave inclusions are likely food offerings (as explored in our papers). Many of the earliest chickens are buried alone & unbutchered. And many of the early co-burials are strongly gendered (males w/ cockerels, females w/ hens). So it is more accurate to say not *just* food