Robert Witcher

Associate Professor @ArcDurham Editor @AntiquityJ. Not the droid you're looking for. All views my own 🐱🌍🍝 📷

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

📢NEW! @the_bsr @LeverhulmeTrust Tiber Valley Project monograph: The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland, w/ H Patterson & H Di Giuseppe.
Big thanks to all involved esp @rometostandrews & M Millett.
#OpenAccess via the excellent @Archaeopress https://t.co/Fuompxmapp

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

The October @AntiquityJ editorial visits #Rome (@archaeologyEAA conference & Jubilee preparations), plus #OpenAccess news & details of the #RewritingWorldArchaeology #ECR mentoring workshops in #Kathmandu and @The_BIEA in #Nairobi
https://t.co/XCTVGWPW2c
#WorldArchaeology

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

📢Job alert! 📢

Career Development Fellow in #Classical #Archaeology & Practice

A new 3-year teaching & research post @ArcDurham
Application deadline: 15th November 2024

Come & join our staff & students in sunny* Durham!

*sometimes rains. T&Cs apply

https://t.co/BCZx9ZFSqs

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Heading home from #Nairobi after the #RewritingWorldArchaeology #Africa #ECR workshop. Finished up by knapping obsidian at Kariandusi @museumsofkenya & seeing taphonomy & memorialisation in action at the ivory burning site @KWSNairobiPark Great food too 😋
Thank you Kenya! 🙏🇰🇪

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Wonderful collaborating with you on this programme. Privileged to spend time at the @The_BIEA with ECRs and mentors discussing research on the #archaeology of #Africa and publication strategies . And exploring #Nairobi 🇰🇪

[Elgidius Ichumbaki, Ph.D. @IchumbakiE]

It has been a pleasure to be one of the mentors on academic writing for the early career researchers from across Africa. Thanks to ⁦@BritishAcademy_⁩ & ⁦@AntiquityJ⁩ for making this possible. ⁦@The_BIEA⁩ ⁦@abigailmoffett⁩ ⁦@RobertEWitcher⁩

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Day 2 of #RewritingWorldArchaeology #Africa workshop & we were joined by RWA programme alumni to talk about their publishing experiences. And then a reception with @MAEASaMProject colleagues at the #Nairobi National @museumsofkenya @AntiquityJ

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

After a series of online workshops, the #RewritingWorldArchaeology #Africa programme has arrived in #Nairobi. Wonderful to meet early career researchers & mentors in person at last! Thanks to @The_BIEA for hosting us & @BritishAcademy_for funding 🙏 🇰🇪

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

From issue 1 to issue 400! The latest @AntiquityJ editorial looks back at some of the content published since OGS Crawford founded the journal in 1927 stating
"our field is the Earth, our range in time a million years or so, our subject the human race”
https://t.co/N5IqfsLl4B

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

@andrewtibbs @MariaMoreno_AC @ArcDurham @Routledge_Arch @RoutledgeHist The best!

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome

This recently published chapter uses #GIS to model connectivity in the hinterland of ancient #Rome by road & river. Co-authored w/ @MariaMoreno_AC it is now available #OpenAccess

https://t.co/SzJT4mCXAm

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Gumbo and cake: the latest @AntiquityJ editorial reflects on the recent @SAAorg annual meeting in #NewOrleans and the #archaeology of #slavery #fiction & the #Mississippi River valley. Plus the 2024 Antiquity prize winners 🏆
🌎https://t.co/OH7FsiS0UW

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

The current @AntiquityJ editorial explores the #archaeology of drugs, corporate sponsorship, big statues & small change (or addiction, altruism, colossi & coins).
🆓https://t.co/aoHHJRJ46I

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

@roseferraby @AntiquityJ @JORVIKDig @robsaintjohn Looking forward to visiting exhibition v soon! Thanks again for the frontispiece 😁

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

April @AntiquityJ editorial feat. #archaeology of drugs (from henbane to fentanyl), corporate philanthropy, statues (colossal &/or controversial), contemporary archaeology, & #postagestamps
🙏 @roseferraby for frontispiece image from Soundmarks exhibition
https://t.co/aoHHJRJ46I

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Great to see @AntiquityJ at #RACTRAC2024
Sorry to be missing it - heading to #SAA2024NOLA and can't be in two places at once!

[Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal @TRAJ_Journal]

We’re back for a full day of #RACTRAC2024! The first ever joint #TRAJ 🤝 @AntiquityJ venture, come for the sweet #Antiquityswag, stay for the innovative Roman Archaeology

[sche-archeo @sharmaheritage]

A fantastic workshop with great participants. A wonderful experience to mentor bright young minds

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Thanks to the latest cohort of early career researchers on the South Asia #RewritingWorldArchaeology programme. 3 productive & enjoyable days in #Kathmandu with intensive writing & feedback sessions plus visits to #WorldHeritageSites. All powered by dal bhat... lots of dal bhat.

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

After a series of online workshops, the #RewritingWorldArchaeology programme has arrived in Kathmandu. Wonderful to meet South Asia early career researchers & mentors in person at last! Day 1 and we're straight into peer reviews. Thanks to our Nepali friends for hosting us 🙏🇳🇵

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

@markpatton1 @KatyElphinstone @joannapaul @carolinewjones @Fr_Ripanti @semanticnoodles @geomythkavanagh @GiacomoSavani @RoutledgeHist Yes, that would be fine 😊

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

📢🆕📚
Hot off the press!
"Researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives"
Huge thanks to co-editor Daan van Helden & contributors incl Margaret Elphinstone, Michael Given, Adrian Praetzellis @joannapaul, Victoria Thompson & James G. Gibb
https://t.co/BwGDxXyjrJ

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Looking forward to working with the new cohort of ECRs & mentors on the #RewritingWorldArchaeology #Africa programme

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

Excited to meet a new cohort of early career researchers for the latest #RewritingWorldArchaeology #Africa programme. We'll be working on draft articles for submission to international journals, combining online sessions, individual mentoring & a workshop in Nairobi @The_BIEA

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

A new volume edited by David Breeze publishing next month (early April), with 80 contributions on different views of #HadriansWall
Pre order: https://t.co/D83xl6jLB5

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

📰#sycamoregap: new life springs from rescued tree.

A neat example of two powerful ideas: the ‘Roman introduction’ & the ‘living legacy’.

➡️On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora & fauna: landscape, legacy & identity
https://t.co/iT29fJEKdu

https://t.co/I4hB8JkiOo

[Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher]

Green OA version of article here:
https://t.co/KLLGg1sNBa