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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 2d

In art history, does this have a connotation of "this is definitely a forgery" analogous to the connotation of "this was definitely looted" in the archaeology version?

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 2d

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 2d

Was having a hard time coming up with something until the perfect one came to me:

"Said to be from"

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"landowner used an excavator"

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“papers in IEEE format”

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d

'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social · 11d

UKHE is a world class export sector, but has financial problems because the state both doesn’t want unis charging market rates to domestics and doesn’t want to subsidise them. To make up for this, unis have been forced to take on more foreign students, and the gov response is to punish them for it

Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 11d

The CAS debacle is testament to how anti-business the government is willing to be: let's turn away students who pay upward of £40k in tuition for a year of study in the UK

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 12d

Ah yes, wells. Famously flammable.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 13d

Good luck trying to smelt metal with that "furnace." 🤔

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 13d

Thrilled with the coverage our recent paper on copper metallurgy and iron invention is getting. Not so thrilled with this definitely-AI generated furnace image that was used to illustrate one of those pieces.

Link to our article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AI-generated furnace image with multiple impossible/inaccurate features, notably any natural or forced draft, and a width far wide for its height. A structure like this would not be capable of smelting metal.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 13d

My recent work covered in Popular Mechanics! Excellent furnace photo (not even mine).

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

A 3,000-Year-Old Furnace May Have Accidentally Started the Iron Age, Scientists Say

This global shift may have come as a result of smelters looking for ways to increase copper yields.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 18d

I'm all about "funny looking rocks"! Nice to see press coverage of my recent paper. www.popsci.com/science/iron...

This ‘funny-looking rock’ holds 3,000 years of Iron Age secrets

Experimenting with copper may have led to our eventual breakthroughs with making iron.

www.popsci.com

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 19d

Researchers have long suspected a link between bronze metallurgy and the invention of iron smelting, but direct evidence has been elusive. Our work help substantiate that link.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 19d

We show that copper smelters in the Early Iron Age were deliberately collecting and adding iron oxides to the furnace to help them smelt copper. They recognized iron oxides as a discrete material and were experimenting with its behavior in at high temperatures in the metallurgical furnace.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 19d

New paper out today, showing how a little known site first excavated nearly 70 years ago helps us understand the origins of iron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.sciencedirect.com

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 22d

Currently writing the report for my @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de "Surviving the Crisis Years" grant, centred around our excavations of a LBA-EIA fortress in the Caucasus. It's amazing what we've accomplished in two years--so proud of my team! Photo: @shmills.bsky.social excavating the fortress gate.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · 22d

Got a question on Elgar wrong on my Life in the UK Test. Ironically, I only knew them from Peep Show, which I would argue is cultural knowledge essential to life in the UK.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · Jun 20

I will never get over how sharply the Greater Caucasus range rises from the Alazani plain.

Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · Jun 14

Very cool. We found an Abbasid dirham in my excavations in the Caucasus last summer.

Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · Jun 14

Just because you need more archaeological finds in your feed.

As FLO, you know it is serious, when metal detectorists call you on a Sunday afternoon asking to hand in finds right away.

Viking Age treasure of Persian dirhems, coined in Baghdad between 800-850 AD. Discovered on the island of Karmøy, western Norway, in 2018.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · May 28

Day 3: "I've made a terrible mistake, but it's too late to turn back"

Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · May 28

Day 2: "OK, so this guy's Central Caucasian Culture is entirely different from the other guy's Central Transcaucasian Culture, but the Georgians' Lchashen-Tsitelgori Culture seems about the same (but not quite) as the Armenians' Lchashen-Metsamor sequence"

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · May 28

A short drama in three parts:

Day 1: "Would be cool for this paper to make a quick diagram to summarize the different Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani chronologies and cultural groupings for the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, seems like no one has ever done it."

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · Apr 6

Wow, the Etruscans must have really liked khinkali.

Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · Apr 6

La pera, "the pear," or "pietra acheruntica" (from the Acheron river of Hades), set up along via S Martino in Pisa, is actually an Etruscan marble tomb marker from around 500 BCE, moved here in the middle ages from a necropolis west of the city. Today it serves as a canine territorial marker...
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Photo of a rather worn and weathered onion shaped monument in white marble set up on a street corner in Pisa. The pavement below it might be slightly wet.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · Mar 24

Nice piece by my PhD student Alex Rodzinka, covering our work with the ISIS Muon and Neutron Source. the-past.com/feature/what...

What can we learn from trafficked finds? Revealing the results of neutron tomography of Iranian swords | The Past

Recovering an assemblage of trafficked prehistoric swords from Iran presented an opportunity to undertake scientific analysis of these weapons. The results ...

the-past.com

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · Mar 22

Our excavations at Dmanisis Gora have literally put it on the (Google) map. With a 5 star review! (and not by me). Google maps image was annoyingly taken during backfill, juuuuust too late to get us an end-of-season final photo from space.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · Mar 5

Outsider Bronze/Iron Age specialist here. My biggest issue with these
terms is not confusion between Mesolithic/Epi-paleolithic, but that Mesolithic in European context means an entirely different thing than Middle Stone Age in African contexts.

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Nathaniel Erb-Satullo @nerbsatullo.bsky.social · Mar 4

There are many great names for archaeological sites, but the the name of a Bronze Age copper mine way up in the Caucasus mountains, "Zaargash" goes so hard.

Sounds like the source for Sauron's copper supply.

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