archaeologist of medieval pasts/speculator in monstrous futures @🦉Birkbeck. Silk Road motels in Armenia, everyday cosmopolitanism, work and care.🐪 anti-binary
I am so excited to participate in the #SLU#SilkRoad lecture series, a hybrid event on 2 December! I will be exploring what the Silk Road looks like from the perspective of medieval #Armenian art history and archaeology-- join us!
OUT TODAY! Amazing work by colleagues at OSU on the archaeobotany of a #SilkRoad caravanserai in
#Armenia
-- on what travelers ate, who fed them, and how food shaped the world of the #medieval silk road 🍇🍑🌾
link.springer.com/article/10…
Excited to be heading into Berkeley for a fun and exciting weekend of silk road, scalar histories, and (for me) medieval #Armenian landscape literature and art 🌴🌳🦚🐎
events.berkeley.edu/ieas/eve…
just got comments back on an article which i am excited to read but instead i am grading dissertations like the wind, if not as fast as the actual wind which is on its way #florida#milton
looking for a photo to celebrate a new article (on old data) coming out, here is me, the day before my first solo excavation, in the late june flowers (📸 by Roman who was very kindly putting up with my freakout)
spent today in the collections of the Yeghegnadzor Museum exploring an awesome cross section of Soviet print culture from 1984-5— this cover of Armenian Agriculture magazine is so great
an unexpected encounter with a high medieval tympanum in a mountain side in Vayots Dzor #Armenia today, among other remains of a church ruined and dispersed by 20th c agricultural amelioration