Paula Gheorghiade
@paulageorgiade.bsky.social
Aegean archaeologist & Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeological Networks @ the Social Resilience Lab, University of Aarhus https://cas.au.dk/en/social-resilience-lab & 1/2 of the Connected Past Scientific Committee @theconnectedpast.bsky.social
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Applications are open for the Barcelona Past Networks Summer School (16–19 June 2026)! It offers hands-on training in network research for the study of the human past. Participants explore network theory, methods and through practicals and expert-led lectures. See details at: www.pastnetworks.net
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Applications are open for the Barcelona Past Networks Summer School (16–19 June 2026)! It offers hands-on training in network research for the study of the human past. Participants explore network theory, methods and through practicals and expert-led lectures. See details at: www.pastnetworks.net
Exciting work coming out of our Social Resilience Lab via Tom Brughmans & colleagues !
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4qMYGRw
go.nature.com/4qMYGRw
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Exciting work coming out of our Social Resilience Lab via Tom Brughmans & colleagues !
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The Archaeology Centre welcomes Dr. Felipe Rojas Silva who will give a talk titled: “Tightrope Walking in Roman Antiquity (dangling between archaeology and performance)". See poster for details.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Archaeology Centre welcomes Dr. Felipe Rojas Silva who will give a talk titled: “Tightrope Walking in Roman Antiquity (dangling between archaeology and performance)". See poster for details.
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The Archaeological Institute of America (Toronto Chapter) welcomes Dr. Lan Li for a talk titled: "Sealed Bodies, Promised Rebirth: Tang Burial Caves at Longmen." Join in person or online on Zoom: https://shorturl.at/Vz20I
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Archaeological Institute of America (Toronto Chapter) welcomes Dr. Lan Li for a talk titled: "Sealed Bodies, Promised Rebirth: Tang Burial Caves at Longmen." Join in person or online on Zoom: https://shorturl.at/Vz20I
Grateful to Stanley Klassen & @driesdaems.bsky.social who helped us study the pottery in #Jordan over the last few years. This is a well deserved spotlight! Many thanks to all! www.nmc.utoronto.ca/news/nmc-spo... #UofT #NMC #archaeology #ceramics @helsinki.fi
NMC Spotlight: Stanley Klassen
www.nmc.utoronto.ca
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Grateful to Stanley Klassen & @driesdaems.bsky.social who helped us study the pottery in #Jordan over the last few years. This is a well deserved spotlight! Many thanks to all! www.nmc.utoronto.ca/news/nmc-spo... #UofT #NMC #archaeology #ceramics @helsinki.fi
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THESE BOOKS ARE MEDICINAL
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
THESE BOOKS ARE MEDICINAL
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
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I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest Greta Thunberg is literally, in every meaningful way, tougher & a better leader than any elected official. Every single one. Some much more than others.
Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity
Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity
Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest Greta Thunberg is literally, in every meaningful way, tougher & a better leader than any elected official. Every single one. Some much more than others.
Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity
Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity
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A big thank you to Nathan Cornish, Ana Margarida Dias da Silva; Maria Teresa Gonçalves, John R. Schaefer, and Gabriel Tober for getting The Connected Past in Coimbra 2025 started with their exploration of plants, gardens, and modern farming through networks!
#connectedpast #Coimbra
#connectedpast #Coimbra
September 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A big thank you to Nathan Cornish, Ana Margarida Dias da Silva; Maria Teresa Gonçalves, John R. Schaefer, and Gabriel Tober for getting The Connected Past in Coimbra 2025 started with their exploration of plants, gardens, and modern farming through networks!
#connectedpast #Coimbra
#connectedpast #Coimbra
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A wonderful second session of talks featuring topics on the Venice Charter, Renaissance Venetian printing, and museum collections of prehistoric Australian artifacts by Claudine Houbart and Pierre-Henri Lefebvre, Emilio Cammarata, and Friederike Schmidt
#connectedpast #Coimbra #archaeology #history
#connectedpast #Coimbra #archaeology #history
September 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A wonderful second session of talks featuring topics on the Venice Charter, Renaissance Venetian printing, and museum collections of prehistoric Australian artifacts by Claudine Houbart and Pierre-Henri Lefebvre, Emilio Cammarata, and Friederike Schmidt
#connectedpast #Coimbra #archaeology #history
#connectedpast #Coimbra #archaeology #history
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A big thank you to our keynote speaker Fiona Coward who presented her paper 'Diversifying networks, new kinds of relationships: comparing bio-social and socio-material windows on urbanisation processes in the Bronze Age Levant' to cap-off the first day of talks
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A big thank you to our keynote speaker Fiona Coward who presented her paper 'Diversifying networks, new kinds of relationships: comparing bio-social and socio-material windows on urbanisation processes in the Bronze Age Levant' to cap-off the first day of talks
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
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Day 2 began with intriguing papers that used network analysis to explore documentary and textual evidence from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the local to continental scale by Kristiyan Simeonov, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Joel Santos and Tânia Casimiro. Well done everybody!
#connectedpast #history
#connectedpast #history
September 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Day 2 began with intriguing papers that used network analysis to explore documentary and textual evidence from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the local to continental scale by Kristiyan Simeonov, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Joel Santos and Tânia Casimiro. Well done everybody!
#connectedpast #history
#connectedpast #history
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The second day of presentations continued with three talks showing outlining innovative applications of network analysis to oral histories, inter-state communication, and linguistic mobility by Jiajie Zhang, Alessio Cardillo, and Olga Solovova.
#connectedpast #language #oralhistory #socialnetworks
#connectedpast #language #oralhistory #socialnetworks
September 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The second day of presentations continued with three talks showing outlining innovative applications of network analysis to oral histories, inter-state communication, and linguistic mobility by Jiajie Zhang, Alessio Cardillo, and Olga Solovova.
#connectedpast #language #oralhistory #socialnetworks
#connectedpast #language #oralhistory #socialnetworks
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The afternoon of Day 2 began with three exciting presentations exploring technological development, epistolary networks of 20th century China, and models of Bronze Age Aegean from Cristina Pattuelli, Marcus Bingenheimer, and Ray Rivers. Well done everybody!
#connectedpast #networks
#connectedpast #networks
September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The afternoon of Day 2 began with three exciting presentations exploring technological development, epistolary networks of 20th century China, and models of Bronze Age Aegean from Cristina Pattuelli, Marcus Bingenheimer, and Ray Rivers. Well done everybody!
#connectedpast #networks
#connectedpast #networks
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Our final session of Day 2 featured two insightful presentations on religious networks from Late Antiquity in the Near East and the early Middle Ages of Spain by Jamie Wood and Irina Barash. Thank you for such intriguing papers!
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Our final session of Day 2 featured two insightful presentations on religious networks from Late Antiquity in the Near East and the early Middle Ages of Spain by Jamie Wood and Irina Barash. Thank you for such intriguing papers!
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
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Day 3 began with three talks on material networks with talks which applied network analysis to datasets of materials recovered in the archaeological record from Bronze Age China, Iron Age Italy, and the Roman world by Yating Liao, Adrian Proestos, and Bogdan Lăpușan.
#connectedpast #archaeology
#connectedpast #archaeology
September 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Day 3 began with three talks on material networks with talks which applied network analysis to datasets of materials recovered in the archaeological record from Bronze Age China, Iron Age Italy, and the Roman world by Yating Liao, Adrian Proestos, and Bogdan Lăpușan.
#connectedpast #archaeology
#connectedpast #archaeology
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Yet more wonderful presentations came in the second session of Day 3 covering Ancient Greek temple architecture, Hittite prosopography, and Etruscan epigraphy by George Veloudios, Lucas G. Freire, and Tom Francis. Thank you everyone!
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Yet more wonderful presentations came in the second session of Day 3 covering Ancient Greek temple architecture, Hittite prosopography, and Etruscan epigraphy by George Veloudios, Lucas G. Freire, and Tom Francis. Thank you everyone!
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
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Yet more network explorations of the ancient Hittite, Italian, and Roman Dacian worlds offered unique insight into the past through pottery and mortuary finds. Thank you so much to Dylan G. Winchell, Stephen J. Smith, and Marina Musteața!
#connectedpast #ceramics #pottery #Dacia
#connectedpast #ceramics #pottery #Dacia
September 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Yet more network explorations of the ancient Hittite, Italian, and Roman Dacian worlds offered unique insight into the past through pottery and mortuary finds. Thank you so much to Dylan G. Winchell, Stephen J. Smith, and Marina Musteața!
#connectedpast #ceramics #pottery #Dacia
#connectedpast #ceramics #pottery #Dacia
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The Connected Past 2025 Coimbra conference had its last session focused on Egypt with Chana Algarvio discussing iconography in the Achaemenid Empire and Hossam Hegazi and Tamer Ali presenting religious networks. Thank you and well done everyone!
#conntectedpast #Egyptology
#conntectedpast #Egyptology
September 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Connected Past 2025 Coimbra conference had its last session focused on Egypt with Chana Algarvio discussing iconography in the Achaemenid Empire and Hossam Hegazi and Tamer Ali presenting religious networks. Thank you and well done everyone!
#conntectedpast #Egyptology
#conntectedpast #Egyptology
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The Connected Past Coimbra 2025 was a resounding success. We would like to thank our speakers and our colleagues Joel, Tania, Riccardo, and Carlos who helped host the event in Coimbra. Stay tuned for updates on Connected Past events and for next year's event in Toronto, Canada!
#connectedpast
#connectedpast
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Connected Past Coimbra 2025 was a resounding success. We would like to thank our speakers and our colleagues Joel, Tania, Riccardo, and Carlos who helped host the event in Coimbra. Stay tuned for updates on Connected Past events and for next year's event in Toronto, Canada!
#connectedpast
#connectedpast
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The Archaeology Centre will host The Grassby Lecture in Canadian Archaeology. This year, we welcome Dr. James Connolly who will give a talk titled: "Demography and the Systematics of Culture Change: Problems and Possibilities in Ontario's Late Woodland Period." See poster for details.
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Archaeology Centre will host The Grassby Lecture in Canadian Archaeology. This year, we welcome Dr. James Connolly who will give a talk titled: "Demography and the Systematics of Culture Change: Problems and Possibilities in Ontario's Late Woodland Period." See poster for details.
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The Department of Art History and the Graduate Union of Students of Art cordially invite you to Do What You Love, the 12th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium. See poster for details.
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Department of Art History and the Graduate Union of Students of Art cordially invite you to Do What You Love, the 12th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium. See poster for details.
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The Archaeology Centre welcomes Dr. Felipe Rojas Silva who will give a talk titled: “Tightrope Walking in Roman Antiquity (dangling between archaeology and performance)". See poster for details.
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Archaeology Centre welcomes Dr. Felipe Rojas Silva who will give a talk titled: “Tightrope Walking in Roman Antiquity (dangling between archaeology and performance)". See poster for details.
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Quick reminder @thinkuhi.bsky.social UHI free online symposium: The Future of Northern & Arctic Islands 2050 and Beyond. 19/09/25 1.00pm - 5.00pm UK Time. Looking at the registrations it looks like a good turnout is on the cards.
Register tinyurl.com/2kpkrbt4
Register tinyurl.com/2kpkrbt4
September 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Quick reminder @thinkuhi.bsky.social UHI free online symposium: The Future of Northern & Arctic Islands 2050 and Beyond. 19/09/25 1.00pm - 5.00pm UK Time. Looking at the registrations it looks like a good turnout is on the cards.
Register tinyurl.com/2kpkrbt4
Register tinyurl.com/2kpkrbt4
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Oh no, not more pastel de nata @theconnectedpast.bsky.social! Oh, go on then... Possibly the best-catered Connected Past event to date?!
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Oh no, not more pastel de nata @theconnectedpast.bsky.social! Oh, go on then... Possibly the best-catered Connected Past event to date?!