Small Things Big Stories 🐚

Welcome! Stay with us to learn more about how small things shaped our identities since 10,000 BCE • PI: @emmabaysal

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📢 New article out in Public Archaeology: Invisible Archaeologies of Decolonization: Western Asian Archaeology, a View from Türkiye

🔓 Open access: https://t.co/Vdxb2qyyUP

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The ‘Small things, big stories’ project makes a strong start to 2026! 🎉

Our new chapter, “Bodies and behaviours: archaeological material culture and the interpretation of identity at the Neolithic transition” is out!

https://t.co/Ol6e84dsye

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As the year comes to an end, here are some highlights from the year. We’ve been all over Anatolia and beyond, looking at personal ornaments & sharing results from the project.

Read our new blog post - 2024 recap https://t.co/yvNNyzgpTM

Happy new year everyone! 🎄

[British Institute at Ankara @theBIAAnkara]

📢 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out!

In this episode, Dr. @GursuIsilay and Dr. @peterjcherry talk with Dr. @EmmaBaysal about her @InsideNatGeo-supported project 'Small Things, Big Stories'.

Tune in on Youtube, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify!

[Sera Yelozer 👩‍💻🏳️‍🌈 @seramandalina]

And tomorrow in the session “Circulation, exchange and trade” @EmmaBaysal will present insights on the multi-directionality of Neolithic interactions in Anatolia through shell beads 🐚 @PreIdentity

[Sera Yelozer 👩‍💻🏳️‍🌈 @seramandalina]

Today at the SIMEP conference organized by the @asd_csic I had the chance to present some insights from our work on Anatolian Neolithic personal ornaments & identities w/ @EmmaBaysal @PreIdentity @anamed_ku

Soon, you can read more in our forthcoming paper (inşallah) 🎉

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We had a great session at the #EAA2024 discussing small things and identities all over the world from the Palaeolithic to the Viking Age & @EmmaBaysal presented our project with a talk titled “Small things, big stories: bodily identities at the Neolithic transition in SW Asia”

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The ‘Small things, big stories’ project is in Rome! Come find us this Saturday at the Embodied Identities session (#1103) #EAA2024

[Sera Yelozer 👩‍💻🏳️‍🌈 @seramandalina]

Soon we will be in Rome for the @archaeologyEAA meeting. Come spend your Saturday with us in Session #1103.

We will discuss bodies, personal ornaments and other small symbolic items, and identities throughout #prehistory and beyond!

[Sera Yelozer 👩‍💻🏳️‍🌈 @seramandalina]

Here is the final product.

A full video is soon to come!

Many thanks to U. Cumali for this wonderful experience, allowing me to document his talents (follow him on instagram: @trsurvival), and to @AKMED_Antalya @PreIdentity @ah_arkeoloji for all the help & support.

[Sera Yelozer 👩‍💻🏳️‍🌈 @seramandalina]

This week we finished our pilot experimental study on #prehistoric #beadmaking techniques and use.

We replicated the production process of a #Neolithic bead, from preparing the drills to grinding, polishing, and drilling using experimentally produced stone tools.

[Small Things Big Stories 🐚 @PreIdentity]

Busy week for our PI @EmmaBaysal presenting her ongoing research on the fascinating world of small things 🧿📿🐚 at @METU_ODTU and @arkeobilkent

#beads #personalornaments #identity #prehistory #anatolia

[Bilkent Archaeology @arkeobilkent]

🔍 We were delighted to have Assoc. Prof. Emma Baysal for her talk on “Small Things, Big Stories: Re-Writing #Prehistory from New Perspectives” 🪡

Many thanks to Prof. Baysal (Ankara University) and the attendants, and we wish to see everyone again in future events!

#bilkent

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#YeniProfilResmi #NewLogo 📣

[Bilkent Archaeology @arkeobilkent]

You are invited to the third evening lecture of the semester:

“Small Things, Big Stories: Re-Writing Prehistory from New Perspectives” by Assoc. Prof. Emma L. Baysal (Ankara University DTCF)

🗓️ Thursday, 21 March, 2024 at 05:30 PM
📍 H-232

#bilkent #archaeology #prehistory

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

📰 Stone ornaments in 11,000-year-old burials provide earliest evidence of body perforation in South-west Asia

#AntiquityResearch in the news via @HeritageDaily

https://t.co/ZQTAwoZdFN

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Our study presenting first in-situ evidence of facial piercing in Southwest Asia

https://t.co/t8qX215FI5