Zenobie Garrett
zenobiewan.bsky.social
Zenobie Garrett
@zenobiewan.bsky.social
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Archaeologist. American. Alliterator. Asst Director of Dún Ailinne Field School, Kildare. Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Limerick with IrelandMapped.
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Great @archaeological.org talk looking at new analyses of cattle material from Çatalhöyük by @uncertainarch.bsky.social from @harvard.edu. Modelling shows skew towards female cattle in later periods, shifts to Konya(?) plain, and the suggestion of garden hunting as a strategy. Lots to think about.
does anyone know what happened to the website Digitised Diseases? I wanted to run a paleopathology lab in my archaeology class but it doesn't seem to be working. Any good alternatives for looking at 3D models of skeletal pathologies?
Anyone know what is up with the excavations.ie website? It was down all weekend. Came back for a bit but sometime loaded random ad pages instead and now seems to be down again?
Slightly humored by how my job applications folder really shows the roller coaster of postdoc precarity.
How many books should one have for the field? Currently have a pile of 10 but you never know what you’re going to want to read!
Please, for the love of Pete, make the monies look different. Sincerely, someone trying to sort their field wallet.
Will you accept drafts using shenanigans measurements with the provision they’ll be converted to tomfoolery units for publication?
This is the kind of mischief I LIVE to get up to on site.
Good morning everyone 🏺

May your day soar like this archaeologist, who experimented with different ways of taking aerial photos of sites. In this case, a 9.7-meter tall extendable ladder for cleaning streetlights.

🔗 from the #AntiquityArchive (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Aww! I talked way too fast and flubbed what I was going to say but the good people at @dri.ie were kind and sent something. Love working w/ colleagues who know it’s not just about output but about the environment created around research! Thanks @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for everything!
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This weekend we've travelled across the County testing the new community collection app for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. Thanks to those who approached to ask about the project and how they can get involved

@heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social
Not quite! Ceremonial Iron Age centre with lots of prehistoric activity all the way back to the Neolithic!
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"Most of the fighting in palaeoanthropology is simply a function of the wild imbalance between the number of palaeoanthropologists, which is large, and the number of objects available for them to study, which is very much not."

Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...
www.theguardian.com
Working down in Kildare on a site called Dún Ailinne!
5 am. But field work will be starting then so I’ll already be on that early schedule!
Ooh thanks for sharing looks fab! Going to brave the 9 am time difference and register!
The desktop of someone applying for jobs - 🎶4 cover letters, 3 CVs, 2 employment apps, and a comfort show on repeat🎵
This was a really great workshop to attend. It’s always great to see others research AND roll up your sleeves and have a frank conversation about tackling sustainability. Many thanks to the @dri.ie and particularly @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for organizing this!
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a thing i find unrealistic in movies is villain origin stories. i just think the reason the scientist went rogue is more likely:
-another update to the online learning environment or
-ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people.
honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research
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We're all set for the Conference of Irish Geographers starting tomorrow 😍 @irelandmapped.bsky.social exhibition in place and all set up ready
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Wow the cover of the 1973 Hew Report (precursor to 1974's Data Privacy Act) is *wild*. ia601702.us.archive.org/8/items/reco...
Shoutout 2 @lisagriffith.bsky.social 4 doing the hard work of herding the authorial cats & to Stuart for being so involved in creating great tech he’s not on the social techs. And to @profkdlilley.bsky.social & @catsporter.bsky.social for their brilliant contributions here and the entire project!
DRI's @lisagriffith.bsky.social and Stuart Kenny along with members of the @irelandmapped.bsky.social project contributed to a new paper on ‘A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’: Connecting Collections for Nineteenth-Century Ireland: doi.org/10.5334/johd... #Mapping #OrdnanceSurvey
‘A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’: Connecting Collections for Nineteenth-Century Ireland | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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