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Just moving our tweets archive over to BlueSky so we don't lose all the hilarious, profound, moving and yet dazzlingly pithy things we've shared over the years & we can keep the memories there too. You're welcome. @romanpalace @UCLarchaeology @UCamArchaeology @butserfarm you?
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Curious about doing a PhD? Looking to gain some laboratory experience?
Applications are now OPEN for 2025 UNIQ+ postgraduate research internships at Oxford University. Our lab has two fantastic tephra projects available! Deadline is 19 February.
ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate…
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The Fellows Garden at Exeter College this morning ❄️
📷 | @ExeterCollegeOx
ALT Exeter College Fellows garden in the snow.
Kicking off the new year, our paper by @leo_speidel et al. is out describing what to me is a breakthrough in ancient genomics. By using genealogies to study ancestry we can get much more resolution to study finer-scale history. We call this method Twigstats.
We’re filming in our #radiocarbon lab today with the amazing “2Toms”! Our student film stars are learning that a Hollywood life entails a lot of waiting! @OxRadiocarbon
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Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓
‘The darker angels of our nature’: assemblage of butchered Early Bronze Age human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK - Rick J. Schulting et al. 18/18
buff.ly/41jFssG
ALT Title, authors and abstract of the article.
Try as I might, there is no way to make this research story seasonally festive @RickSchulting. Cannibalism in Early Bronze Age England @AntiquityJ #prehistory #archaeology #osteoarchaeology ox.ac.uk/news/2024-12-16-ana…
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📢 Job opportunity! We're looking for someone passionate, driven, and highly organised to join our small team and help create exceptional visitor experiences and events, from big festivals to intimate fireside storytelling.
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🚨 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR UNIQ 2025! 🚨
If you're a UK state school student with good grades, apply now to be part of UNIQ!
What are you waiting for? Applications close on 23 January at midday. Apply here: uniq.ox.ac.uk/apply2025/✨
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Good luck to all candidates doing their Oxford interviews over the next couple of weeks 🤞
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ALT Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera and surrounding Oxford University buildings illuminated at twilight.
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Quite astonishing find of a very late underground pagan shrine at Aphrodisias by my Oxford colleague Ine Jacobs. development.ox.ac.uk/impact-…
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We do love a sunset 🌅
📷 | UmairAtOxford (October, 2024)
ALT View of a sunset from an archway at University Church. In the background Christ Church's Tom Tower can be seen.
ALT View of an orange sunset with Tom Tower in the distance.
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🚨 New Podcast🚨
🛠️ A Lost Anglo-Saxon Estate and the Viking Great Army
Uncover an early medieval archaeological site in Northumberland that reveals:
💡 Anglo-Saxon textile & metalworking?
⚔️ Evidence of a Viking Great Army camp?
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'We can confidently estimate that around 50% of heritage sites in the Gaza Strip have been damaged, with many structures near-demolished.'
@school_of_arch's Dr Michael Fradley & Dr Bill Finlayson explain how archaeologists are documenting the damage to Gaza's cultural heritage.
ALT Image showing a damaged building with the caption: Gaza’s cultural heritage has been devastated by the conflict with Israel – this is how archaeologists are documenting the damage
Bill Finlayson & Michael Fradley of our Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East & North Africa (@EAMENA123 ) writing in @ConversationUK about how they are documenting the damage to Gaza's heritage theconversation.com/gazas-cu…