Archaeologist, storyteller, dad, and bibliophilic materialist @UniLeiden, @UniofOxford, and @WolfsonCollege
Joined May 2012
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19 Apr 2023
Back at pretty @UniLeiden, following a productive visit to @unibirmingham led by @HesterBijl
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10 Apr 2023
Weeping willow, dancing in the wind. Spring has sprung at the Oxford Canal @Oxford_waters 🌱🌤️😎
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11 Mar 2023
Mexica ocelotl cuauhxicalli, serpent head and Linares’ alebrijes on the SS23 collection of the sports clothing brand Casablanca, which itself of Moroccan and French in background. Thoughts @LeoLopezLujan @MusTemploMayor @mna_inah 😊?
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6 Mar 2023
Tomorrow, Tuesday 4pm GMT, very happy to have David Mixter @dwmixter @AnthroBing speaking on Maya resilience and urbanism for the @UniofOxford Americanist Archaeology Seminar @school_of_arch @ajtzib @davidwengrow @chen_guopeng #mesoamerica #maya #Belize . All very welcome!!
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4 Mar 2023
Excited about my trip from @school_of_arch & @WolfsonCollege to @ArchAncHistLeic this week and hopefully connect up there with one of my all-time favourite Caribbean Archaeologists @samsonalice3!
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23 Feb 2023
Tomorrow at @school_of_arch @UniofOxford @chen_guopeng, Panos Kratimenos (@UCLarchaeology) speaking about critical cartography and archaeology for the Americanist Archaeology Seminar #Mesoamerica
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23 Feb 2023
Some of my friends are just awesome. Like @FHReidsma, who’s working on method development for Paleolithic uses of fire, and now has this epic cover to brag about @LeidenArchaeo @tommyhigham @chirikure
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10 Feb 2023
Listening to Julia Guernsey at the #mesomeetings @UTAustin @UT_AAH @ajtzib, talking about Pacific coast mangroves, salt making, and Izapa. Looks familiar @MarieAndHerPots? Check out this Relaciones Geografias map, now at the Nettie Benson @utlibraries
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5 Feb 2023
My DPhil student @chen_guopeng is working on causality in archaeology. For a cautionary tale of how archaeology might fall into correlation-causation traps: check out @TylerVigen and his fun graphs… #arewesureaboutthis? tylervigen.com/spurious-corr…
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4 Feb 2023
Sad news, to close a long and eventful life. Ferdinand would come to Leiden and simply say “Jetzt werde Ich ihnen Mahl etwas lustiges sagen..“ and off he went, discussing Seler, codices, and Maximilian, students at the tip of their seats, with Maarten smiling alongside ❤️
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Alex Geurds retweeted
4 Feb 2023
Inaugural volume in an exciting series!
New Cambridge Element An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology by A. Mark Pollard and Chris Gosden out now! Read for free for 2 weeks
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#cambridgeelements #archaeology
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Alex Geurds retweeted
4 Feb 2023
Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge.
What a tragic waste of time Brexit is for higher education and research. theguardian.com/education/20…
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3 Feb 2023
Less than two weeks left to apply to this Leiden University job opening! @SAAorg @INAHmx @ad_of_aaa @SAmericanistes @archaeologyEAA @LeoLopezLujan universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
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30 Jan 2023
Tomorrow (4pm GMT) in our @school_of_arch Americanist Archaeology lecture series at @UniofOxford Alexus McLeod speaking on Maya metaphysics! @ajtzib @FraukeSachse @CHPrager @rajoyceUCB
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29 Jan 2023
Sensory archaeology with focus on Chavín, at Cambridge coming up this Tuesday! @UCamArchaeology @RobinSkeates @yannishamilakis @kimeyeleen
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27 Jan 2023
I am giving a public zoom lecture based on my book, At Home with the Aztecs, for the Chicago Archaeological Society, on Sunday Jan 29, at 3:30 Central Time. See their website for information:
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24 Jan 2023
Today @school_of_arch: Jesper Nielsen talking about the iconography of Xochicalco. All welcome to join!
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17 Jan 2023
Oxford Americanist Archaeology Seminar Series is starting again! Today we will have Claudia Brittenham from U Chicago to talk about "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoameirca" in an hour, 16:00-17:00 GMT via Teams!
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
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