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Michael D. Frachetti @MDFrachetti

Professor of Archaeology, National Geographic explorer, Surfer and Photographer (IG- @mdfrachetti)

Joined October 2012
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Full time Job opportunity!! RESEARCH ASSISTANT for REACT-APAC Project (modeling societal resilience in Asia Pacific). Join the team in the saielab.wustl.edu! (~$50k/yr). Apply here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/…

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29 Oct 2024
Drone-mounted LiDAR has revealed the extent of two lost cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan. The finding of these cities, reported in @Nature, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought. go.nature.com/3NzIAIV
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Long-forgotten settlements in Pamir mountains described as ‘extraordinarily rare’ owing to their high altitude and remoteness. For ⁦@Telegraph⁩, thanks to ⁦@peterfrankopan⁩ for context. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…

Lost cities compared to Machu Picchu rediscovered along Silk Road

Long-forgotten settlements in Pamir mountains described as ‘extraordinarily rare’ owing to high altitude and remoteness

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Last one :) Here is the link to the article @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

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Thanks for coverage in @scientificamer @AllisonParshall scientificamerican.com/artic…

Lost Silk Road Cities Discovered High in the Mountains of Central Asia

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce

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Thankful for great colleagues on this research! (Both on this paper and over the years!)🙏🏼 Ancient Cities Unearthed in Mountains of Central Asia nytimes.com/2024/10/23/scien…

Ancient Cities Unearthed in Mountains of Central Asia (Published 2024)

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood.

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No breaks or sprains were had on this fun, recent collaboration! #climate #society (sorry, little delay in reposting)
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A study explores the social and climatological factors that gave rise to professional skateboarding in California—including water restrictions prompted by the drought of 1977, which suddenly emptied thousands of concrete swimming pools. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/6pF750QmreV
Skateboarder at an empty pool skatepark.

ALT Skateboarder at an empty pool skatepark.
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Out this morning in Scientific Reports- #mobility, #environment, and #socialnetworks in prehistoric #Tibet! Congrats Xinzhou Chen and collaborators! @WUSTLAnthro #SAIElab nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Geospatial modelling of farmer–herder interactions maps cultural geography of Bronze and Iron Age...

Scientific Reports - Geospatial modelling of farmer–herder interactions maps cultural geography of Bronze and Iron Age Tibet, 3600–2200 BP

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Eleonora Rohland@ejrohland
22 Nov 2023
Extremely delighted to be a co-author with @MDFrachetti, #UlfBüntgen, @ultraplinian, #LamyaKhalidi, #FranzMauelshagen, #NicolaDiCosmo and #JanEsper on an article that appeared today in @ScienceAdvances: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… - fruits of our research group @ZiF_Bi @unibielefeld

The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of...

Dahliagrams offer interdisciplinary investigation and visualization of human-environmental interactions at diverse scales.

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Proud to see major discoveries by superstar PhD Paula Doumani Dupuy and current PhD student Zhuldyz Tashmanbetova! Oldest known burial in Kazakhstan! nu.edu.kz/news/uchenye-nu-v-…
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NEW Postdoc recruitment cycle for the trans-disciplinary MOBOGEN project at the SAIELAB (Wash U) #MachineLearning #Geospatial #HumanGenomics #Borders Apply here! apply.interfolio.com/131405
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Application Reminder! We are still reviewing applications for a trans-disciplinary post doc in modeling human mobility at WashU apply.interfolio.com/124133 #geospatial #machinelearning #borderdynamics #aDNA
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Postdoc Opportunity at saielab.wustl.edu! Join our exciting team w/ @jacobsn & @DavidBCarter12 - Use geospatial modeling/remote sensing & aDNA to model interplay btw environments, human mobility, and deep-time political geography. Apply here now! apply.interfolio.com/124133

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Thx! @Bruce_Bower @ScienceNews Complex supply chains may have appeared more than 3,000 years ago sciencenews.org/article/supp…

Complex supply chains may have appeared more than 3,000 years ago

Finds from one of the world’s oldest shipwrecks hint that miners in Central Asia and Turkey provided a crucial metal to Mediterranean rulers.

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Thx @archaeologymag !Chemical Analysis Offers Clues to Late Bronze Age Supply Chain - Archaeology Magazine archaeology.org/news/11038-2…
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Ticia Verveer@ticiaverveer
4 Dec 2022
Researchers discovered that roughly one-third of the tin found aboard the Uluburun shipwreck (found present-day Türkiye) was produced and supplied by small communities of highland pastoralists living in present-day Uzbekistan in Central Asia. source.wustl.edu/2022/11/fin…
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Open access to our collaborative paper, just out in Science Adv. “Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia” science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply...

Geochemical analyses of tin from the Uluburun shipwreck (c. 1320 BCE) show provenience from both Anatolian and Central Asian ores.

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(S ) Überregionaler Rohstoffhandel: Gab es schon in der Bronzezeit eine frühe Seidenstraße? spiegel.de/wissenschaft/schi… via @derspiegel

(S ) Schiff von Uluburun: Gab es schon in der Bronzezeit eine frühe Seidenstraße?

Forschende haben Zinnbarren aus einem Jahrtausende alten Schiffswrack analysiert. Ein Teil des Metalls stammte aus Zentralasien: Womöglich war die Globalisierung damals viel weiter vorangeschritten...

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ZiF@ZiF_Bi
9 Nov 2022
Save the date! 🔜 Film screening at #ZiF on 23 November: Werner Herzog‘s latest documentary „The Fire Within“ (2022) with an introduction by volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer! @ultraplinian @MDFrachetti @ejrohland More information and registration: bit.ly/3G1YWqU
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