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Amanda Pavlick

@akpavlick.bsky.social

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Roman archaeologist (archaic central Italy, domestic religion, Pompeii), Adjunct Prof @ Xavier, UMass Amherst/Tufts/Cincinnati. Wine, whiskey/bourbon, burritos, Red Sox, Bruins, 1 excellent tuxedo cat, maybe a few other interests thrown into the mix

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · Nov 13

What an amazing influx: hello, everyone! I'm an adjunct professor of Classics, New England native (NH, VT, and MA), lover of coffee, wine, burritos. Content here will skew archaeological, primarily Roman and Etruscan, unless I need to yell about the Bruins or Red Sox (it's a bridge year. Again.)

A blonde woman (myself!) inside a concrete and brick tunnel; a section of the Aqua Traiana in Rome

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · Aug 9

My archaeological field training means I can dig a mean trench. I wield a pickaxe with confidence and, dare I say it, aplomb.

I am also trained to say where the bodies are buried but I am willing to learn new skills for the right reasons.

I also make cocktails.

Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · Aug 9

I feel like the corner of this image should have Patsy just standing by, labeled "academic who just wants to talk about citation formats"

Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · Aug 9

Sitting in the window of a cafe and I just saw a woman walk by with a shirt that read "I am not responsible for what my face does when you talk" and I am so here for that energy

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · Jun 24

Don’t jinx it, Vicky!!!

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · Jun 24

Amazing dinner at Luciano with @akpavlick.bsky.social tonight! Carbonara by a Michelin star chef in Rome just hits different 🤌🏻

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · Jun 24

Well now I have to share my risoli, don’t I?

Amazing to see you, especially in such a wonderful place. Let’s do it again some year!!

A dish of rice-sized pasta in a saffron-colored sauce. Alt text struggles to explain how delicious it was!

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · Jun 21

Genuinely astonished at the Etruscan necropoleis I’ve been able to explore in northern Lazio the past few days - their scale, their extent - unbelievable. Pictures here is the Tomba Pola, Sovana, 3rd c. BC.

A rock-cut shrine-shaped tomb in brown volcanic tufo, with one badly eroded but standing column and burial chamber with a long, deep entrance below.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · Jun 21

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Jun 21

i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.

sarah @inmywoodshop.bsky.social · Jun 21

It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 28

Same. Kind of wish I could go home to him each night

Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 28

Leaving them behind is the hardest part!! I'm told mine is missing me something fierce, and the guilt is killing me

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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · May 22

Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

An excerpt from a signboard. The critical feature is an illustration showing two Neolithic farmers, which is clearly a take-off of American Gothic by Grant Wood.

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 22

For those interested in Bea Arthur: www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Bea Arthur, US Marine | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Bernice Frankel's Official Military Personnel File reveals a Golden Girl's WWII service history.

www.nationalww2museum.org

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 22

Today's SCS Blog post on DEI in the Roman army by @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social is a tour de force, and made all the stronger by being absolutely direct in its modern parallels and message. Impressive and powerful stuff.

(Also, the Bea Arthur cameo is fantastic - I'm off to learn more!)

Blog: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Roman Army | Society for Classical Studies

www.classicalstudies.org

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · May 20

A while ago, someone on here (I think @scottbot.bsky.social?) compared the way a lot of people treat GenAI now to the way people treated radium in the 1920s and 30s (ooh, let's put it in a health tonic! toothpaste! haemorrhoid cream!). I think about that a lot.

Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 16

Congratulations!!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · May 15

Unfortunately we've had a last-minute loss from the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History, and so if there is anyone who'd be interested in contributing a chapter on the history of India in video games (from any perspective, range of case studies welcome) please get in touch asap with me!

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 14

My research centers on terracotta, so I’m aware! Something in this just sits wrong with me, but as I said before, having not handled it means I’m at a disadvantage

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 14

Oh, fair enough! Since I'm only going off of one photo that's hardly enough to do an ID - it just kept bothering me. But good to know appraisers have verified it, one assumes they've handled it. Thanks for the info!

Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 14

Far from the point of this (wonderful!) thread, but I'm curious if you have any further data on the material of the statue than the labels? the more I stare at this the more I question if it's not tinted limestone (lack of inclusions being an oddity)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · May 14

Gather round for an example of a provenance by omission, manufactured through the strategic cutting away of red flags. In 2008, this lovely Greek terracotta maiden was offered to the public, described as "ex-American private collection, collected in 1980's-1990's." Then...

Screenshot of a page from an antiquities dealer's catalog available at https://phoenixancientart.com/publications/phoenix-ancientart-2008-crystal-ii/

Screenshot from same catalog describing kouros as coming from an "American private collection, collected in 1980's-1990's."

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 12

Medicaid is on the chopping block.

Please, please call your reps. Find them here: reps.fyi.

This will deeply damage the insurance system overall, to say nothing of cutting millions of people from care.

And again: as an adjunct, I am one of those people.

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 12

Loving this series - really fascinating answers in here! Thanks to the mods team!

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · May 9

#OnThisDay - 9 May - the Ancient Romans celebrated the Lemuria, as Ovid Tells us (Fasti 5.421-422):

"Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead."

Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺

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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 9

Deliciously Italian!

Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 9

When you find out, please post here!!