New paper from our research team on using #dendrochronology and #14C to date the famed Kyrenia #shipwreck w/ improved methods for dating Classical-Hellenistic archaeological sites and conserved ship wood 🧵 https://t.co/YZqPoIMFGf
NEW Porcelains from the Nanhai I shipwreck, the most well-preserved Song period (AD 960–1279) shipwreck discovered in China to date. Analysis sheds light on the period's complex trade networks and global maritime connectivity in the pre-modern world.
🆓 https://t.co/dvJabFJFfW
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We're in this together. ✊ ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 ✊🏼 ✊🏻
New #WSL core microtome arrived from Switzerland and unpacked at the @UGAAnthropology #Tree-Ring laboratory. Can’t wait to start slicing and dicing! 🪵 🌲
British Columbia’s Indigenous trails are a test case for whether heritage management practices can evolve as archaeological and Indigenous understandings of the landscape coalesce. https://t.co/mpBK8q0wSS
I’d like to share (with permission) my friend and colleague (who also leads an archaeological project in Petra) Leigh Ann Bedal’s Facebook post about the recent @Discovery#ExpeditionUnknown episode with @joshuagates - old discovery, fake excavating, ignoring the work of locals
Our next scheduled Athens Science Cafe is this Thursday, October 24th at 7pm at Little Kings Shuffle Club. UGA's new Herbarium Curator, Dr. Tanisha Williams, is giving a talk titled "Roots of Wisdom: How Indigenous Communities Are Preserving Plant Knowledge."
@mokersel @juliarosethorn Yup, teaching about bioarchaeology with a hefty portion on ethics in my intro class next week and this (waves furiously) will definitely be addressed.
Frozen in time, #Shackleton’s Endurance emerges from the depths through revolutionary 3D scans, revealing a vessel preserved for over a century. Every artifact tells its own tale. #EnduranceFilm#LFF
https://t.co/IzQ273ASK9
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Provenance is the human story behind the object. Take shipwrecks for instance:
"“You can just count coins, you can count porcelain, but there is no ‘why was this on board? Who was the owner? Where was it going?’ – the human story behind it.”
https://t.co/cL6IsHtMty
COMING SOON: ‘Artifact War’ from Mystery Box Film, a documentary that follows the work of @alazmamr@Adnan77227624 and @AnthroPaulicy as they track trafficked Syrian antiquities from war zone looting sites to social media sites
https://t.co/UQwe3MvdHD
https://t.co/RxAdqI1BxH
Case of the Day: The "Black Swan Hoard" was recovered from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes Spanish naval frigate sunk off Algarve, Portugal, by the British Navy in 1804 as it returned to Spain from Peru. It lay there until 2007. (1/3)
https://t.co/xSwxS43crQ
Aerial views of some of the #timber damage from #HurricaneHelene. #Forest landowners, if you have timber damage, document it! Contact your local @usdafsa to inquire about EFRP funding. This document offers a few more things to consider: https://t.co/jdCcP2ezzd