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Roman and Byzantine Archaeology from Athens GA.

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Feb 1

The University of Georgia in Athens GA has the biggest Latin program and best enrollments in the USA, according to MLA: send us your students!! https://news.uga.edu/uga-latin-program-named-largest-in-nation/

UGA Latin program named largest in nation

It continues to innovate and attract a broad range of students.

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · 23d

i do not have the energy for self promotion anymore -- thanks, tenure --

but LinkedIn seems to be where the strivers are congregating these days

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · 28d

publications.dainst.org/journals/ist...

Bd. 74 (2024): Istanbuler Mitteilungen | Istanbuler Mitteilungen

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · 29d

Have been slightly obsessed with this for a while now youtu.be/PJ9PMydTVYE?...

Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte • Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

YouTube video by Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Oct 2

Learned yesterday that a recent MA grad from our department had manuscript for new edition of a fairly important and substantial Late Antique Latin text accepted by Brepols.

Wow. 😮

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 10

Time for another adventure...

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 19

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yumengang = Jade Gate in the Han dynasty Great Wall, marking point of transition between China and the Western Regions / Central Asia.. an astounding number of fire signal towers all throughout this area also.. at another gate Maquanwan nearby 12.5k Han documents excavated 1970s

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 17

Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, from today. Absolutely incredible place.

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 17

Xuanquanzhi: way-station on the Han road to western regions, near Dunhuang, excavated in 1990s and home to another *giant* new museum that just opened in August (site pictured, museum 5km to west)

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 15

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 14

Will add: talking with Bernhard Palme today, the noted Viennese papyrologist:

Perhaps 30,000 Roman-Byzantine papyri published that are maybe 10% of the total, but no one really knows. May be much more than that total. But probably 90% unpublished.

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 14

Dunhuang tomorrow: what a ridiculously rich place, and i am *so excited*

For lack of a better thing to easily share: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang

Dunhuang - Wikipedia

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 14

Apropos to our conference topic: a bronze copy of a decree for new universal measurements by the Qin dynasty 221-206 BC.

I had the benefit of live translation from the original today (not AI) which i will not attempt to replicate.

But the comparisons are rich.

Also, no find spots indicated 🤷‍♂️

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 14

New museum for archaeology and historical collections in Shanghai: opened 2024. Not a regional museum, but a national collection like Beijing. Typological organization by floor. *Totally packed*. And also free.

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 12

Just a taste, sans comments

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 12

Had 14 hour day here, nine hours of papers.. three more days of the same here in Shanghai then on to Dunhuang

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 12

Will post some images from slides and comments later, but *holy sh%t* the scale and extent of documentation and archaeology here is absolutely wild.. newly discovered cached archives eg related to ancient logisticsl/administrative networks with *tens of thousands* of docs in a single cache

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 12

Fascinating first day in Shanghai with conference here, focused on connections and comparisons between Zhou-Qin-Han China with Achaemenid and Parthian Persia

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 11

Vending machine in my hotel has duck necks, a bag for about $2.50 USD.

🦆 I will report / quack back about 🦆

Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 10

Time for another adventure...

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 6

Mission of liberal arts institution should be to make knowledge of wide range of disciplines available. RS or etc can all teach "critical thinking" and attention to text. Fine. But as you say: students are *interested* and fields should be available for curiosity. But decline in lang ed is *baddd*

scary.as

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Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social · Sep 6

The comparison i like to make is with nuclear or astro-physics, fwiw: we don't need *a lot* of nuclear or astro-physics majors, but it's pretty damned important to have a few!! Maintaining that pipeline of professionals is critical

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