Archaeological materials, material culture, and experimental archaeology research group and lab at @UniShefArch
Sheffield, UK
Joined October 2019
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Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
Really excited to share our first speakers for #Spring2022 👏 Starting March 8th, we'll have some wonderful talks! Stay tuned📚☕️
📍At @UniShefArch
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#Archaeology #ArchaeologyTalks #archaeologytwitter
While we had fruitful discussions during @AntiquityTAG on the future of archaeology globally on Friday (and thanks to all our participants for contributing!), it's worth being reminded of just one example of what we're up against and working within...
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This Friday, it's @AntiquityTAG, and we're hosting a rather existential discussion in the afternoon (14:00 - 17:30 GMT)...
"Archaeology: Why Are We Doing This"
Info and registration here:
2021tagconference.wordpress.…
Great speakers and pertinent ideas included!
@UniShefArch
Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
As you know, we will be making an experimental archaeological replica of the Tetney axe/mace head and handle with @UniShefArch @Hugh_Willmott @HistoricEngland
Grand... a road trip to Doorus Point, Galway Bay, on Ireland’s Atlantic coast to collect materials is now the plan!
Always great to hear about what our research network is up to
@ShefArchMat alumnus Sergios Menelaou, now @UCYOfficial, is presenting his research online this Monday (11th)
Borderlands as areas of connectivity during the third millennium BC
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Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
NEW! Does the decision to close @UniShefArch make financial sense? Not on UEB’s figures.
Read how details unearthed by an FoI request show that keeping Archaeology open makes @SheffieldUni £1.6m better off over the next 5 years. #SaveSheffieldArchaeology
ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/does-th…
Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
Archaeology is “a really powerful tool for understanding who we are and where we come from”, and this has “a surprising mental health benefit”, says @Chris_Whitwood, organiser of Campaign to Save British Archaeology bit.ly/2WjGa9W
Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
Archaeology has a reputation for being too middle class, white and confined to Russell Group Unis. Providers such as Hull, Worcester (and Sheffield's foundation year pathway), were changing this. These closures are pulling up the drawbridge (again) #Archaeology #Dig4Arch
Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
Another archaeology university department closure @worcester_uni - a worrying trend as more Unis outside the Russell Group close. Narrowing the diversity of choice for HE will ultimately lead to a less diverse workforce. It’s obvious we have a lot of work to do 😞#Dig4Arch
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Once again, another UK archaeology department is facing closure...
Please sign the petition to save the Department of Archaeology at Worcester
change.org/p/university-of-w…
Sheffield, Chester, Hull, now York. The list grows.
UK university administrators are repeatedly using arbitrary, and in some cases biased, reasoning to shut world-leading programs and departments.
Here in Sheffield, our fight to #SaveSheffieldArchaeology continues
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Fantastic work by our Masters student Paul! @UniShefArch
And the results of my experimental archaeology! Proof that peat works as an iron smelting fuel! It was a short smelt at just 3 hours but it produced a 'bloom' (the larger pieces to the left of the clay tùyere) with some metallic iron, and plenty of slags to analyse.
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Don't forget! Our next seminar is coming up tomorrow with Sheffield Archaeomaterials alumni Dr Nerantzis Nerantzis:
Gold in the City: Precious Metals Extraction at Pistyros, Northern Greece During the Classical-Hellenistic Periods
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Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
Upon the announcement of my first class qualification in archaeology, I have never been prouder to be a sheffield archaeologist taught by @UniShefArch. Here's to overturning a misinformed decision so there will be many more (1/2)
Sheffield Archaeomaterials retweeted
BREAKING: Staff at @sheffielduni will ballot for industrial action over the decision to close the archaeology department
If management does not cancel the plans it will face disruption in the autumn
@UniShefArch @sheffielducu
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
ucu.org.uk/article/11674/Uni…
This isn't the end of the fight
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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On this morning of our rally, further reporting on how badly @UniShefArch, its staff and students, have been treated by @sheffielduni :
thepipeline.info/blog/2021/0…
Rally starts at 11:00 today...
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
Unethical. Flawed. Biased.
Plans for @UniShefArch have recieved little support within the University, nationally, and internationally.
Join us tomorrow for our virtual rally and let's #SaveSheffieldArchaeology and turn this terrible decision around.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS!
A series of new publications this week and last from members of our group, including the proceedings from 2020's 2nd EAStS conference. Congratulations all!:
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Experimental Iron Smelting in a Bowl Furnace
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Assessing the Recipe Traditions of Bronze Age Mould Production in China
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