Michael J. Storozum

Archaeologist and geographer of early and medieval China. Tweets on archaeology, soils, China, politics, higher ed, research, geography, and maps.

[Michael J. Storozum @Mjstoroz]

Our new paper in @SciReports reveals archaeological evidence of a Yellow River flood in AD 1642 that destroyed Kaifeng, one of China's dynastic capitals. Some estimates suggest that this flood killed over 300,000 people and destroyed the entire city...

https://t.co/MHTGLy1iJL

[Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 （氒/厥/攸） @behrwolf]

Super useful tool -- "Chronology of Early China: A Radiocarbon Databank for Chinese Archaeology” out here: https://t.co/iIkB74gj1S

[Rhodes Cartography @RhodesMaps]

After much experimentation, time to share my online tool to create simple orthographic maps. Designed for users who want an original map but have little time and no #GIS skills. 1/

https://t.co/gG0R8Xt24R

[Dylan Davis @DDavis_Arch]

New in @ScienceAdvances, we explore a longstanding question: how many people really lived on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) before European’s visited in the 1700s? The answer relies on food production @OBTlab @columbiaclimate @LamontEarth https://t.co/VeiAmqPwfp🧵 1/6

[Leventhal Map & Education Center at the BPL @bplmaps]

Heaven & Earth: The Blue Maps of China is now open at the Leventhal Map & Education Center!

When you think of East Asian works of art and the color blue, your mind might jump to Hokusai and The Great Wave off Kanagawa. But it turns out that some of the earliest works from this..

[Florida Museum @FloridaMuseum]

It's a wrap! 🎉🎉🎉 With the completion of #oVertTCN, the doors of natural history museum collections have been digitally unlocked allowing scientists, educators, artists & the public to interact with specimens in ways never before possible.
Story:
https://t.co/HaTp8GWB3D

[Laura Tomé @htomelaura]

Check out our #EAA2024 session on microstratigraphic geoarchaeological approaches! 🔬 Case studies from different chronologies are welcomed! 👇🏻 @archaeologyEAA #Session496

[Dr. Alicia R. Ventresca-Miller @steppebioarch]

Congratulations to Bryan Miller @NomadEmpires - who just published his book 'Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire' with @OxUniPress!

https://t.co/HBaUsF5y86

[Tom Higham @tommyhigham]

I am so pleased to announce that @HeasVienna has its own podcast - now on @Spotify!

Episode 1 👇features palaeoanthropology, pathogens and geoarchaeology, with the fab @clementzanolli @LucyvanDorp and Takis Karkanis, and your host Victoria Oberreiter.

https://t.co/ZR7C1V8D78

[Asian Review of Books @BookReviewsAsia]

Today in the ARB: “The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China” by Timothy Brook @PrincetonUPress https://t.co/ypFjxVhGpX

[Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @RebaySalisbury]

The Central European TAG conference “The Role of Rivers” takes place at Comenius University in Bratislava on Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 from 13:30-17.30 and Friday, 10 Nov from 9:00-16:30 in room G239, Faculty of Arts, Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava. [email protected]

[Naihui_Wang @Naihui_W]

Exciting news! Here’s our latest study on the application of ZooMS (zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry) in East Asia! @Katerina__Douka @ERC_Research (1/n) https://t.co/qfV9vo64gJ

[Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @Nikulina_av]

🎉🎉🎉 HUMan impact on #LANDscapes agent-based model (HUMLAND ABM) is finally available online! Interested in the earliest impact of people on their #environment? Check the model here: https://t.co/jKTrm0Uy6V #research #Europe #digitalarchaeology @TERRANOVA4EU

[GSA Geoarchaeology Division @GeoarchGSA]

Scenes from our annual business meeting & awards ceremony at #GSA2023!

Dr. Arlene Rosen is the Rip Rapp Awardee. Hay student paper/poster Awardee is Aleigha Dollens, and the Albritton Awardee is Karen Pham. Pictured with division chair @SoilsandSwamps.

Congratulations!

[Jason De León @jason_p_deleon]

It's official! Starting November 1st, I will become Director of the @UCLACotsen Institute of Archaeology where I was once a work-study student. @UCLA @UCLAnewsroom

https://t.co/qcnOnXGnVX

[Justin 🏙️ @lithiumaneurysm]

A great opportunity to once again share one of my favorite maps of all time: “Intercity Railways of East Missouri and Southwest Illinois” by David Edmondson, showing rail service from St. Louis Union Station in 1921

[Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies @AIAS_dk]

Great news! An @ERC_Research #ERCStG to #AIASFellow @Iza_Romanowska for her project 'THE MODEL CITY' to investigate long-term urban evolution and the resilience of cities by combining cutting-edge computer technologies with large archaeological datasets🎉 https://t.co/JZtzteItF0

[Thomas Kole (see 🦋 and 🐘) @ThomasKoleTA]

a Portrait of Tenochtitlan, my 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire is released!

I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I am really curious what all of you think.

Take a look:
https://t.co/31FSp9NBIm

#tenochtitlan

[Michael J. Storozum @Mjstoroz]

@RobertPatalano @BryantUniv @YellowstoneNPS @bryantlib Wow! Sounds amazing, enjoy it!

[中研院史語所 Institute of History and Philology @ihptaiwan]

The Scripta Sinica database has newly added the full texts of 28 books, totaling 9,440,000 characters, from January to June, 2023. Among them, the images (40,000 in total) of 20 books are available.
Bibliography: https://t.co/Yuvqmh5ya7
Database: https://t.co/QuPUqM5mqX

[INQUARoma2023 @InquaRoma2023]

Attn Early-career scientists (ECRs) who are also Developing-Country Researchers (DCRs) in Quaternary Science -- Apply for an INQUA Fellowship!

**Note: deadline has been extended to September 15, 2023!

Application Details and forms are online here:

https://t.co/4rzea9F5Sz