We are very excited to have Dr. รtienne Zangato join us tomorrow (14:00 CET) for a talk on his research across Cameroon and Central African Republic. If you are in Ghent, please stop by for a truely interesting lecture - if not, send me a message for the Zoom link!
Another great season in #Angola at Ndalambiri rockshelter with the DIG-ARQ team, led by Isis Mesfin, and all of our wonderful fieldschool students. Very excited about the work we're doing and proud of the students. It's a fantastic site with an incredible record of human activity
Very proud to have our *newest OA article* with Journal of Archaeological Science based on the #BantuFirst project. Here we describe the earliest contextualized use of pressure flaking in the Congo Basin from ~15kya at Mitshakila, DRC @ElsevierArchaeo
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We're out doing survey in the Central African Republic with the #CongUbangi archaeology team and Drs Karen Lupo and Dave Schmitt. We're finding tons of new and interesting sites in collaboration with our CURDHACA colleagues! More to come soon...
Very happy that my latest paper on the 3000 year old site of Diallowali is out with @J_AfricanArch!
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It's a remarkable site, not just because it holds a unique record itself, but for what it can tell us about the 1st millennium BC West African world ๐งต
๐จ Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz (@isazooarch) is a coauthor on a new paper out today in @SciReports! โShellfishing, sea levels, and the earliest Native American villages (5000โ3800 yrs. BP) of the South Atlantic Coast of the USโ link.springer.com/article/10โฆ
The HF Tree Ring Lab has a 10-week summer research assistant position available for 2024 as a part of the Biden Administration's Executive Order to conserve mature and old-growth Forests. harvardforest.fas.harvard.edโฆ Please share! youtube.com/watch?v=c28wbtK4โฆ
Excited to have this paper out with @JessamyDoman on the LSA site of Diallowali (Senegal) and the largest faunal assemblage from West Africa
Its 1 of the few sites excavated in N Senegal and 1 of the few West African sites dating to the 1st millennium BC
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Really thrilled to have contributed to this amazing paper in @Nature spearheaded by @CesarFortesLima, @cschlebu and others. It compiles an incredible new set of genetic data (modern and ancient) from across W,E,C, and S Africa - with predictably game changing results. Bravo all!
Iโm so thrilled to announce the AfricanNeo Project is out today in @Nature! In this project led by @cschlebu we studied: โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ฎ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ค๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ช-๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ก๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ ๐ผ๐๐ง๐๐๐โ.๐งตnature.com/articles/s41586-0โฆ
In honor of Rod McIntosh's retirement this year, we will be hosting a 3 day symposium at Yale from Nov 9-11. Please come! It will be a fantastic series of talks, with speakers from 7 nations and topics as diverse as archaeology, museum studies, history, and public health.
My department is hiring a TT position in GIS and remote sensing. We are looking for a multidisciplinary researcher with a PhD in a geoscience related field. The department is home to anthropology, geography, geology, and envi geoscience courses. jobs.indstate.edu/postings/4โฆ
Well well well - seems like the loudest voices have been the minority (๐คฏ๐), and I suspect the 4 researchers (probs. [near]emeritus...) who've been making the most stink about this are just upset about a new power dynamic. Well done @UGAArchaeolab!
๐จPhD opportunity (Funded) ๐จ
Interested in ethnoarchaeology and West-Central Africa - or know a student who is? Come join us at UGent on Prof Sara Pacchiarotti's ERC-funded CongUbangi project!
Share widely and click the link Below:
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The English Dept at Boston Univ is hiring an Assistant Professor in #Native/#Indigenous#Literature. Folks with interdisciplinary interests in #NAIS working in any period are welcome to apply. If you've questions, feel free to DM/email. Deadline 10/20/23 naisa.org/job/assistant-profโฆ
๐ข Only one week left to apply to this position of Research Assistant on our project (full-time, based in Cambridge)!
Do you have experience in GIS? remote sensing? databases? and/or African heritage? This job may be for you!
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