Manuel Arroyo-Kalin
@ioa-earthlab.bsky.social
(Geo)archaeologist, Amazonianist, Assoc. Prof @UCL Institute of Archaeology. Leader of Earthlab group and Geoarchaeology Lab.. Coordinator of #PARINÃ (NW Amazon Intercultural Archaeology Programme)
Pinned
The 2025 Earthlab Archaeological Micromorphology course (15-21 Feb 2025): 40h of microscopy covering technique basics & study of reference collections at UCL. Co-organised with Richard Macphail and supported by F. Glanville-Wallis. Amazing to meet many current/future colleagues from 15 countries.
The 2025 Earthlab Archaeological Micromorphology course (15-21 Feb 2025): 40h of microscopy covering technique basics & study of reference collections at UCL. Co-organised with Richard Macphail and supported by F. Glanville-Wallis. Amazing to meet many current/future colleagues from 15 countries.
February 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The 2025 Earthlab Archaeological Micromorphology course (15-21 Feb 2025): 40h of microscopy covering technique basics & study of reference collections at UCL. Co-organised with Richard Macphail and supported by F. Glanville-Wallis. Amazing to meet many current/future colleagues from 15 countries.
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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
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February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺
#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
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#TREES_ThemeTuesday: TREES (@treesdla.bsky.social) is offering PhD studentships in 9 themes across environmental science. 1 theme is …
Environmental Hazards & Pollution🔥🛢️
Search for projects and supervisors on the TREES website:
trees-dla.ac.uk/projects
Environmental Hazards & Pollution🔥🛢️
Search for projects and supervisors on the TREES website:
trees-dla.ac.uk/projects
January 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#TREES_ThemeTuesday: TREES (@treesdla.bsky.social) is offering PhD studentships in 9 themes across environmental science. 1 theme is …
Environmental Hazards & Pollution🔥🛢️
Search for projects and supervisors on the TREES website:
trees-dla.ac.uk/projects
Environmental Hazards & Pollution🔥🛢️
Search for projects and supervisors on the TREES website:
trees-dla.ac.uk/projects
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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
December 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
Trees-DLA PhD applications now *open* for routes 1 and 2. Applications welcome for R1 Geoarchaeology/Archaeobotany project www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how..., co supervised by myself and Dorian Fuller. Deadline: 20 January 2025.
December 23, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Trees-DLA PhD applications now *open* for routes 1 and 2. Applications welcome for R1 Geoarchaeology/Archaeobotany project www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how..., co supervised by myself and Dorian Fuller. Deadline: 20 January 2025.
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1) Postdoc job opportunities…join my TerraForm ERC project, at the University of Malta. One position for a geoarchaeologist and one in GIS/spatial analysis. The formal advert and application procedure will be out soon (and shared here), so I am releasing this as an early notice.
December 19, 2024 at 10:10 AM
1) Postdoc job opportunities…join my TerraForm ERC project, at the University of Malta. One position for a geoarchaeologist and one in GIS/spatial analysis. The formal advert and application procedure will be out soon (and shared here), so I am releasing this as an early notice.
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A new Historic England research report is out on the date of Woodhenge. Great stuff (love a bit of sapwood targetting!) - suspicions that the bank and ditch were later were right and the main timber structure now precisely dated to the 27th century cal BC: historicengland.org.uk/research/res...
Woodhenge, Durrington, Wiltshire: Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modelling | Historic England
Research Report for Woodhenge, Durrington, Wiltshire: Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modelling
historicengland.org.uk
December 12, 2024 at 2:18 PM
A new Historic England research report is out on the date of Woodhenge. Great stuff (love a bit of sapwood targetting!) - suspicions that the bank and ditch were later were right and the main timber structure now precisely dated to the 27th century cal BC: historicengland.org.uk/research/res...
Join a great team! UCL Archaeology South East @archsoutheast.bsky.social are looking for a Geoarchaeologist...…! Deadline 5 January 2025. JD here: Https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=29558
December 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Join a great team! UCL Archaeology South East @archsoutheast.bsky.social are looking for a Geoarchaeologist...…! Deadline 5 January 2025. JD here: Https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=29558
A new volume edited by my colleague Stuart Brookes @br00kes.bsky.social. open access too library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... *press release:
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...
Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD 400-800
A new volume on the Royal Centre at Rendlesham, Suffolk, co-edited by Stuart Brookes and Christopher Scull (UCL Institute of Archaeology), is now available.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 8:52 PM
A new volume edited by my colleague Stuart Brookes @br00kes.bsky.social. open access too library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... *press release:
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...
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2. Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
@nannonstevens.bsky.social
More info and how to apply:
📲 bit.ly/3OXazD5
@nannonstevens.bsky.social
More info and how to apply:
📲 bit.ly/3OXazD5
December 17, 2024 at 9:42 AM
2. Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
@nannonstevens.bsky.social
More info and how to apply:
📲 bit.ly/3OXazD5
@nannonstevens.bsky.social
More info and how to apply:
📲 bit.ly/3OXazD5
Another new @treesdla.bsky.social PhD project funded by NERC, supervised by Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social and Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social at the UCL Institute of Archaeology www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...
Establishing Limits of late Neanderthal Presence in Britain. | UCL Trees
For over a quarter of a century the late Neanderthal record of Britain has been considered to relate entirely to a short period between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. This episode of reoccupation is tho...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 16, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Another new @treesdla.bsky.social PhD project funded by NERC, supervised by Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social and Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social at the UCL Institute of Archaeology www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...
Applications to Trees-DLA (
new NERC PhD training scheme for UCL, www.trees-dla.ac.uk), should open in next few days; the deadline is 20 January 2025. Do get in touch if Route 2 suits your ideas for a PhD project at the UCL Institute of Archaeology: Geoarchaeology, Landscape history, Amazonia...
new NERC PhD training scheme for UCL, www.trees-dla.ac.uk), should open in next few days; the deadline is 20 January 2025. Do get in touch if Route 2 suits your ideas for a PhD project at the UCL Institute of Archaeology: Geoarchaeology, Landscape history, Amazonia...
December 14, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Applications to Trees-DLA (
new NERC PhD training scheme for UCL, www.trees-dla.ac.uk), should open in next few days; the deadline is 20 January 2025. Do get in touch if Route 2 suits your ideas for a PhD project at the UCL Institute of Archaeology: Geoarchaeology, Landscape history, Amazonia...
new NERC PhD training scheme for UCL, www.trees-dla.ac.uk), should open in next few days; the deadline is 20 January 2025. Do get in touch if Route 2 suits your ideas for a PhD project at the UCL Institute of Archaeology: Geoarchaeology, Landscape history, Amazonia...
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🚨 TREES Projects Are Live! 🚨
🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal.
🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025.
🔗 www.trees-dla.ac.uk
#PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA
🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal.
🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025.
🔗 www.trees-dla.ac.uk
#PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA
December 6, 2024 at 1:49 PM
🚨 TREES Projects Are Live! 🚨
🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal.
🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025.
🔗 www.trees-dla.ac.uk
#PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA
🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal.
🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025.
🔗 www.trees-dla.ac.uk
#PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA
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The Community Archaeology Geophysics Group (which grew out of the work led by Kris Lockyear (UCL IoA): "Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past") has been presented with the prestigious Britannia Award by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
Read more here:
bit.ly/3D2yzlq
#LocalAndGlobal
Read more here:
bit.ly/3D2yzlq
#LocalAndGlobal
Britannia Award for Community Archaeology Geophysics Group
The Community Archaeology Geophysics Group has been presented with the prestigious Britannia Award by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
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December 6, 2024 at 1:50 PM
The Community Archaeology Geophysics Group (which grew out of the work led by Kris Lockyear (UCL IoA): "Sensing the Iron Age and Roman Past") has been presented with the prestigious Britannia Award by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
Read more here:
bit.ly/3D2yzlq
#LocalAndGlobal
Read more here:
bit.ly/3D2yzlq
#LocalAndGlobal
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Not one but two job alerts today!
Laboratory Technician (Archaeobotany) - bit.ly/3BhIa7m
Laboratory Technician (Osteology) - bit.ly/3OI6q5O
Closing date for both 1st Jan 2025
#LocalAndGlobal
Laboratory Technician (Archaeobotany) - bit.ly/3BhIa7m
Laboratory Technician (Osteology) - bit.ly/3OI6q5O
Closing date for both 1st Jan 2025
#LocalAndGlobal
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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December 6, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Not one but two job alerts today!
Laboratory Technician (Archaeobotany) - bit.ly/3BhIa7m
Laboratory Technician (Osteology) - bit.ly/3OI6q5O
Closing date for both 1st Jan 2025
#LocalAndGlobal
Laboratory Technician (Archaeobotany) - bit.ly/3BhIa7m
Laboratory Technician (Osteology) - bit.ly/3OI6q5O
Closing date for both 1st Jan 2025
#LocalAndGlobal
Delighted to announce a funded PhD project in geoarchaeology/archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how.... The research will take place as part of the Brazil-UK project "Voices of Indigenous Amazonia" www.amazoniamaisdez.org.br/en/post/with...
How old is slash-and-burn in Amazonia? | UCL Trees
Slash-and-burn is the dominant strategy for plant cultivation in rural Amazonia yet its antiquity in pre-Colonial times is unclear. Ascertaining both its antiquity and differences compared to modern s...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 6, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Delighted to announce a funded PhD project in geoarchaeology/archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how.... The research will take place as part of the Brazil-UK project "Voices of Indigenous Amazonia" www.amazoniamaisdez.org.br/en/post/with...
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November 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Mayan canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatán coastal plain.
The ancient canals, paired with holding ponds, wr used to channel & catch freshwater species for at least 1,000 yrs or longer.
#Landscape #Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
4,000-year-old canals used for fishing by Maya predecessors discovered in Belize
New research revealed canals used for about 1,000 years to channel and catch freshwater fish on the Yucatán peninsula
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Mayan canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatán coastal plain.
The ancient canals, paired with holding ponds, wr used to channel & catch freshwater species for at least 1,000 yrs or longer.
#Landscape #Archaeology
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...