@RobertEWitcher profile picture
Robert Witcher @RobertEWitcher

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

Joined September 2016
  • Tweets 2,394
  • Following 780
  • Followers 2,203
841 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Robert Witcher@RobertEWitcher
30 Sep 2020
📢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 tinyurl.com/y6ga8ewz
9
20
80
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 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.16… #WorldArchaeology
Antiquity October cover, the ‘Magan Boat’ (c) Zayed National Museum, a street scene in Rome, and a word cloud

ALT Antiquity October cover, the ‘Magan Boat’ (c) Zayed National Museum, a street scene in Rome, and a word cloud
4
341
📢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 durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
View of Durham Cathedral above the River Wear

ALT View of Durham Cathedral above the River Wear

1
5
13
1,110
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! 🙏🇰🇪
1
15
508
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
19 Sep 2024
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
2
11
503
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
5
19
1,495
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 🙏 🇰🇪
7
23
2,170
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” doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.11…
Antiquity covers: issues 1 and 400

ALT Antiquity covers: issues 1 and 400
6
14
1,159
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 taylorfrancis.com/chapters/o…
Book cover

ALT Book cover

Page 1 of chapter

ALT Page 1 of chapter

1
4
20
2,357
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 🏆 🌎doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.79
Word cloud of the editorial; journal cover; New Orleans streetcar

ALT Word cloud of the editorial; journal cover; New Orleans streetcar
2
4
1,396
The current @AntiquityJ editorial explores the #archaeology of drugs, corporate sponsorship, big statues & small change (or addiction, altruism, colossi & coins). 🆓doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.46
Antiquity journal cover and word cloud of the April editorial

ALT Antiquity journal cover and word cloud of the April editorial
2
12
557
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 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.46
April Antiquity cover; "River" painted collage by Rose Ferraby

ALT April Antiquity cover; "River" painted collage by Rose Ferraby

1
3
23
2,134
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
12 Apr 2024
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
1
19
1,229
Robert Witcher retweeted
sche-archeo@sharmaheritage
28 Mar 2024
A fantastic workshop with great participants. A wonderful experience to mentor bright young minds
Robert Witcher@RobertEWitcher
22 Mar 2024
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 🙏🇳🇵
2
14
1,610
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.
3
18
1,893
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 🙏🇳🇵
4
28
4,575
Looking forward to working with the new cohort of ECRs & mentors on the #RewritingWorldArchaeology #Africa programme
🅰ntiquity Journal@AntiquityJ
12 Mar 2024
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
Screenshot of a video call with nine participants

ALT Screenshot of a video call with nine participants
1
5
550
📰#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 doi.org/10.1080/01433768.201… bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…

On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity

This paper addresses the flora and fauna of Roman Britain via two long-lived and closely-related notions: the ‘Roman introduction’ and the ‘living legacy’. These concepts connect knowledge and beli...

tandfonline.com
1
7
19
1,760
Green OA version of article here: durham-repository.worktribe.…
1
178
A new volume edited by David Breeze publishing next month (early April), with 80 contributions on different views of #HadriansWall Pre order: archaeopress.com/Archaeopres…
Cover of Hadrian's Wall book

ALT Cover of Hadrian's Wall book
2
7
753
The latest @AntiquityJ editorial features #archaeology & #climatechange through the lens two recent conferences: the Shanghai Archaeology Forum and UEA TAG44 @AntiquityTAG doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.6
February issue cover, word cloud and the new Forma Urbis Museum in Rome

ALT February issue cover, word cloud and the new Forma Urbis Museum in Rome
5
20
2,223
Load more