Michael D. Frachetti

Professor of Archaeology, National Geographic explorer, Surfer and Photographer (IG- @mdfrachetti)

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Full time Job opportunity!!
RESEARCH ASSISTANT for REACT-APAC Project (modeling societal resilience in Asia Pacific). Join the team in the https://t.co/0hR3FCXqSR! (~$50k/yr). Apply here:

https://t.co/XVnuj1EqIp

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

Drone-mounted LiDAR has revealed the extent of two lost cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan. The finding of these cities, reported in @Nature, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought. https://t.co/OV1Id0tWhp

[Nick Squires @NickSquires1]

Long-forgotten settlements in Pamir mountains described as ‘extraordinarily rare’ owing to their high altitude and remoteness. For ⁦@Telegraph⁩, thanks to ⁦@peterfrankopan⁩ for context. https://t.co/SVdXwO1PBo

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Last one :) Here is the link to the article @Nature
https://t.co/S7l96AGoR3

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Thanks for coverage in @scientificamer
@AllisonParshall

https://t.co/13KZbjUsFd

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

@LarryCoben Thanks Larry 🙏🏼😌

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Thankful for great colleagues on this research! (Both on this paper and over the years!)🙏🏼
Ancient Cities Unearthed in Mountains of Central Asia https://t.co/pxnC3jF9De

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

No breaks or sprains were had on this fun, recent collaboration! #climate #society (sorry, little delay in reposting)

[PNAS Nexus @PNASNexus]

A study explores the social and climatological factors that gave rise to professional skateboarding in California—including water restrictions prompted by the drought of 1977, which suddenly emptied thousands of concrete swimming pools. In PNAS Nexus: https://t.co/r0Lv25MGZ8

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Out this morning in Scientific Reports- #mobility, #environment, and #socialnetworks in prehistoric #Tibet! Congrats Xinzhou Chen and collaborators!
@WUSTLAnthro #SAIElab

https://t.co/tMHTGWnz3k

[Eleonora Rohland @ejrohland]

Extremely delighted to be a co-author with @MDFrachetti, #UlfBüntgen, @ultraplinian, #LamyaKhalidi, #FranzMauelshagen, #NicolaDiCosmo and #JanEsper on an article that appeared today in @ScienceAdvances: https://t.co/cfDguoQtnW - fruits of our research group @ZiF_Bi @unibielefeld

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Proud to see major discoveries by superstar PhD Paula Doumani Dupuy and current PhD student Zhuldyz Tashmanbetova! Oldest known burial in Kazakhstan!
https://t.co/3Ks6meeZxO

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

NEW Postdoc recruitment cycle for the trans-disciplinary MOBOGEN project at the SAIELAB (Wash U) #MachineLearning #Geospatial #HumanGenomics #Borders
Apply here! https://t.co/vZOnWdPz8X

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Application Reminder! We are still reviewing applications for a trans-disciplinary post doc in modeling human mobility at WashU https://t.co/J0NJxFDvrp #geospatial #machinelearning #borderdynamics #aDNA

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Postdoc Opportunity at https://t.co/0hR3FCWT3j! Join our exciting team w/ @jacobsn & @DavidBCarter12 - Use geospatial modeling/remote sensing & aDNA to model interplay btw environments, human mobility, and deep-time political geography. Apply here now! https://t.co/J0NJxFDvrp

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Thx! @Bruce_Bower @ScienceNews Complex supply chains may have appeared more than 3,000 years ago https://t.co/DmZTvLHOp3

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

@ScienceNews coverage: Complex supply chains may have appeared more than 3,000 years ago https://t.co/DmZTvLHOp3

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

Thx @archaeologymag !Chemical Analysis Offers Clues to Late Bronze Age Supply Chain - Archaeology Magazine https://t.co/RRNO5xTGta

[Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer]

Researchers discovered that roughly one-third of the tin found aboard the Uluburun shipwreck (found present-day Türkiye) was produced and supplied by small communities of highland pastoralists living in present-day Uzbekistan in Central Asia. https://t.co/wLBxnXqbRR

[Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti]

@ticiaverveer Thanks for the signal boost! 🙏🏼