Nathaniel Erb-Satullo

Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Science @CranfieldForSci. Studies technology, innovation, and the weird cool things people do with fire. Also the Caucasus.

[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @NErbSatullo]

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[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @NErbSatullo]

New paper out today using aerial photogrammetry to study an exceptionally large and well-preserved fortress in southern Georgia!
https://t.co/pvGe4CwpHK

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@CaseyCGlick @BretDevereaux @ForeignPolicy Completely agree. Color and pigment science is enormously complex, and the chemical ID of the pigment is only one element in how a surface painted with that pigment looks. I consider examples like the Augustus above to be only rough approximations.

[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @NErbSatullo]

The magnitude of difference between 1968 Nixon and 1972 Nixon was surprising to me. Even more astounding when you consider the things he got up to between those years, both domestically and in southeast Asia.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

I've been seeing a lot of people on the left and right talking about the 2024 election as if it was a landslide.

So I made this chart to put things in context.

Trump's win was one of the smallest in modern history.

[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @NErbSatullo]

Congrats to @CranfieldForSci PhD student @AlexERodzinka on her first peer reviewed paper, on neutron tomography of Iron Age Iranian daggers, out today #OpenAccess in JAS! Massive thanks to our partners at @isisneutronmuon @britishmuseum

https://t.co/n4S58Eue8o

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Just started a new book on the Byzantines ("New Roman Empire"). Too early to form an opinion relative to my Gibbon/Norwich gold standard, but it starts with no fewer than 15 quality maps, which is a good sign.

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Chalcedony/quartz bead from our excavations, taken in the field with a portable digital microscope. Pretty great results. Thanks @martinontorres for the equipment advice!

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#ProjectARKK 2024 begins. This is what we discovered in our old trenches. Spiky!

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I don't understand this. As someone currently directing a sizeable excavation, it's a huge task to bring it to publication.... wouldn't you want some help? The days of the single author excavation monograph are over.

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@RichardBratby @guywalters It also amuses me that on a train line from Oxford to London, two cities which must be among the UK's most international cities, it's only non-descript Bicester Village that has station announcements in additional languages besides English.

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@RichardBratby @guywalters I'm from New England and live in Bicester... This tracks. It's so bizarre to me that Bicester Village is a huge international tourist destination, when it appears to me to be indistinguishable to outlet malls that are a dime a dozen in the US.

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@JKleijne I find it cathartic to keep a "shadow CV" of rejections (complete with jobs, grants, papers). I've never shown it to anyone, but it is comforting to see over the years that many of the rejected papers and grants got published/funded elsewhere.

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@tommyhigham Love to see it!

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@oldenoughtosay As an American living in Britain, curious why you put Labor and the Tories as basically the same point on the social scale.

[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @NErbSatullo]

Virtual Talk in the Cranfield Seminar Series in Archaeological Science:

Thursday, June 6th at 3 pm (UK time)

Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Historic Europe

David Orton, University of York

Register here for Zoom link: https://t.co/INRTKqt1rE

[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @NErbSatullo]

@Skeletoress I was there Wednesday and Friday! Loved your photos. Didn't know you also had a Nikon mirrorless camera.

[Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @NErbSatullo]

Fieldwork in May. Last week: pastoralist metallurgical site in the remote desert of Uzbekistan. This week: Roman villa in a picturesque village near the "English Versailles"

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XRF analysis with @joycewiho in the dark after the power went out in the dig house in Uzbekistan. @CranfieldForSci @HarvardAnthro

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XRF in the dark. We've had about 90 minutes of power in the last 24 hours. Good thing we brought batteries!