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Katherine V Huntley
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Roman archaeologist. Professor. Director of the Libarna Urban Landscapes Project (@libarnaulp.bsky.social). Working on cultural change, urbanization & domestic life in NW Italy. Interested in children, gender, religion in the Ancient World. She/her. T1
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Katherine V Huntley @kvallie.bsky.social · Nov 11
This is a letterbox I saw in Arquata Scrivia (the town that hosts the Libarna Urban Landscapes Project when we are carrying out our fieldwork). It's got a beautiful message: "No adverts, only letters of love."
A green letterbox with the following written on it in Italian: "No pubblicità, solo lettere d'amore." In English: "No adverts, only letters of love."
kvallie.bsky.social
Re: Society for the Study of the Past “emergency meeting” on the classics listserv: : archaeologists are well aware of the ways archaeology is politicized & have long been working to combat it. The meeting feels performative & like virtue signaling.
July 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
Screenshot of grant guidelines with highlighted funding restrictions that include promotion of gender ideology, promotion of discriminatory equity ideology, promotion of dei or deia activities or initiatives, and environmental justice initiatives or activities.
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Please consider helping my sister's friend, Ash Bradley, who is a single mother whose house burned down in Altadena. "She and her daughter were out of town, and her sister was only able to flee with her cat. Any donation you can make will be so appreciated."
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Donate to Help Ashley's family recover from the Eaton Fire in Altadena, organized by Ashley Bradley
Hello friends, We are Seanne Winslow and Lizzie Sam, and we … Ashley Bradley needs your support for Help Ashley's family recover from the Eaton Fire in Altadena
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January 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Please consider helping my sister's friends Nancy Kiu and Angela Alba, along with their young daughter, who are without a home because of the Eaton Fire. "If you have anything extra to give, this beautiful family would be so appreciative."
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Donate to Support Angela, Nancy, and Amaya After the Eaton Fire, organized by Rachel Johnston
Our dear friends Angela, Nancy, and Amaya (plus pets!) lost thei… Rachel Johnston needs your support for Support Angela, Nancy, and Amaya After the Eaton Fire
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January 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Please consider helping my sister's friend, Luke Passmore, who she worked with and who lost his house in Altadena. "He's the sweetest, most generous guy, and such a talented writer."
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Donate to Summer and Luke lost their home, organized by Amy tenowich
My name is Amy Tenowich, in Los Angeles, and one of my best friends and her husband lost … Amy tenowich needs your support for Summer and Luke lost their home
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January 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Please consider helping my sister's friend Corrine, who was the first person to give her a job when she arrived in LA. She's a generous, kind, thoughtful human being.
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Donate to Support Needed for Corinne & Ben After LA Wild Fires, organized by Nicole Daddio
AND JUST LIKE THAT... 331 PARKMAN STREET IS GONE. Our bel… Nicole Daddio needs your support for Support Needed for Corinne & Ben After LA Wild Fires
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January 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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If you are looking for a GoFundMe which has barely received any love, please consider my babysitter’s friend.

While her boyfriend was busy saving animals (most were saved thanks to their hard work!), their home burned down and all their belongings were destroyed. 💔

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Donate to Help the Ortega Navarro family Rebuild After Fire Loss, organized by Xochitl Loza
Dear family, friends and kind strangers At 8 pm on Tuesday, my … Xochitl Loza needs your support for Help the Ortega Navarro family Rebuild After Fire Loss
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January 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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#StarTrek fam: Star Trek: Voyager writer Raf Green and his daughter lost their home in the #PalisaadesFire.

I’ve worked with Raf on 2 different shows & he’s one of the best people I know.

Please consider donating to help them out in their hour of need. Thank you.

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Donate to Help Raf and Daisy Rebuild After Fire, organized by Daisy Green
In the recent Palisades fire the apartment building that my dad, Raf and I lived in … Daisy Green needs your support for Help Raf and Daisy Rebuild After Fire
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January 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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In a remarkable feat of ancient DNA analysis, researchers have reconstructed the genetic story of a baby boy who lived over 17,000 years ago in Ice Age Europe. The findings reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived ...
The Life of a 17,000-Year-Old Infant from Ice Age Italy
A Glimpse into the Past: DNA Unveils a Young Life
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December 16, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Can you help a fellow women's historian with her Birkbeck MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences and ambitions of those who practice history. Fill in her 10-question survey to add your experience (and please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn
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December 12, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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The story of Yusra, the Palestinian archaeologist, who discovered Tabun 1, the skull of a neanderthal, on Mount Carmel, has always stuck w/ me. I'm excited someone made a documentary about her. I hope it gets the support it needs. #archaeology #history
www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/sheffield...
Yusra — Palestine Film Institute
After discovering a photo from the 1930s featuring an Arabic woman and a British archaeologist, director Salim Abu Jabal becomes intrigued: the Palestinian woman in the picture appears to have discove...
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December 11, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Support @workingclassicists.bsky.social

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Put your money where your mouths are and support the most genuinely inclusive group there is. Enough champagne socialism.

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December 9, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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👀. @amchristensen.bsky.social I would be ok if we found a mosaic like this ;)
romanpalace.bsky.social Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Dec 9
Okay, The Internet.... we need to talk...🤔

#MosaicMonday
December 9, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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H/t to @billcaraher.bsky.social for sharing this article about Turin’s Egyptian Museum in his Friday Varia. I visited in 2022 when I joined @libarnaulp.bsky.social & was amazed. Great to get this overview. www.apollo-magazine.com/turin-egypti...
Turin’s Egyptian Museum turns 200 | Apollo Magazine
One of the few institutions devoted solely to Egyptian antiquities, the Museo Egizio also tells the story of Italy’s long and complex relationship with the land of the pharaohs, writes Christina Riggs
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December 7, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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#RomanSiteSaturday This is the Roman site of Libarna. Founded in 148BCE, it lay in Liguria along a major trade route across Northern Italy. The area was home to the Ligures, peoples who shared some cultural links w/ the Celts. Follow our excavations there @libarnaulp.bsky.social #AncientBlueSky
Photo shows the remains of two square city blocks and the elliptical amphitheater. Between the two city blocks is the ancient road that led directly to the amphitheater. The walls are only preserved enough to show the footprints of the buildings. Green grass covers parts of the site and there is a line of pine trees behind the amphitheater. In the background there are the foothills, with the sanctuary of Monte Spineto on the top of one. The sky is blue and cloudless.
December 7, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Hey @c6h11cn.bsky.social hope this gives you a good laugh :)
December 6, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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#FortressFriday This is the medieval fort of Gavi in Italy. It was used as a POW prison in WWII. The only escapee: Capt. John Pringle. He survived the fall from the battlements & steep slope to make it to the Swiss border, but was caught before he could cross. He survived the war & passed in 2000.
An image of the side of the fort from inside the fortifications that shows the three levels that the fort is built on. View of the town of Gavi from a tower. The window frames the image of roofs with red tile surrounded by green trees. Stone steps leading up inside the rock-hewn entrance to the fort. There is a railing to the right side and a modern door letting in light at the top of the stairs. A view from the fort high up on the hill from a car park in Gavi.
December 6, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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#AdoorableThursday A small wooden shrine for household gods from the #Roman city of Herculaneum, Italy, 1st cent. CE. The shrine is in the form of a temple with double doors. Incredible preservation due to the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed the town. #AncientBluesky #Archaeology
Carbonized wooden shrine in the form of a temple. A double door, slightly open is flanked by two corinthian columns. Above the columns is a architrave with diamond shapes carved into it. The doors each have two large depressed panels on them.
December 6, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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#Woodensday A rocking cradle discovered in the #Roman city of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD. It was made of oak & discovered in the House of M. Pilus Primigenius Granianus. Excavation records reveal there were the remains of a mattress & infant. AncientBluesky
Black and white image of a carbonized wooden cradle for an infant. It as a slatted bottom and curved runners that would have allowed it to be rocked.
December 4, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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@archaeologytube.bsky.social I did an illustration tutorial on my blog a few years ago, that might be useful for you!! 🏺

spadeandthegrave.com/2020/06/19/a...
An Introduction of Archaeological Illustration: Small Finds Workshop
This Friday, June 19th (Juneteenth), I taught an online workshop for the Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeology Society (NLAS). In case you missed the workshop or wanted a refresher after we wrapped…
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December 2, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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#MuseumMonday If you like old curio museums & find yourself in Turin, Italy, consider stopping by the Museo della frutta that has the lab & work of botanist Francesco Garnier Valletti. He was interested in biodiversity & made hundreds of wax models of different varieties of fruit. #history
Photo of the laboratory with a large dark wooden table in the center with a tile top. On it are various glass vessels and other instruments. To the left is a tall, dark wood and glass display with various glass instruments. Next to it is a radiator with a shelf above it. In the back a large window lets light into the room. A museum display case with some of Valletti's moulds, predominantly ones for pears. They are white and have a single hole to pour in the hot wax. Some are lying in halves to show the shape inside. There are also some long instruments with wooden handles for removing and shaping the model. A tall, dark wood and glass display case with 3 rows. They display wax models of different varieties of peaches and pits. The bottom row has glass vessels with samples in them. In the center of the case is a large sign with gold lettering that reads in Italian "Collezione di Frutti Artificiali Modellati Dal Prof. Fr. Garnier Valletti," which translates to "The Collection of Artificial Fruit Models from Professor Francesco Garnier Valletti." Above the sign is an old clock with Roman numerals. A dark wood and glass display case with three rows and three columns. The top row has models of different varieties of apples, mostly ones that are a mix of red and green in color. The middle row has models of cherries. And the bottom row has models of various types of mushrooms.
December 2, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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#SculptureSunday The archaeological museum of Cremona, Italy, has done a fabulous job with the display of this Ancient Roman sculpture fragment from the 1st-2nd cent. CE. Sadly we will probably never know who the own of this lovely derrière was. AncientBluesky #archaeology
A white marble sculpture fragment of an individual's posterior. It is set on a grey stand against a black background.
December 2, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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#FindsFriday A prehistoric (Early Bronze Age 1A) plow from Northern Italy. Known as the Lavagnone Plow, it was discovered in 1978. It dates to ca. 2000 BCE and is made of oak. It is the oldest plow that has been discovered. In the Museo Civico Archeologico G. Rambotti in Desenzano del Garda.
A large oak plow in a museum display case with in image of a man using the plow from a prehistoric pot. The plow itself has three parts: the plow stock, that works through the soil; the plow beam that fastens to a yoke; and the plow-stilt, a shaft that controls the direct and depth of the furrow.
November 29, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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We must never underestimate the power of protest! The plebeians demonstrated this, but so did Roman women. Despite lacking political authority, they also successfully protested what they saw as injustices. Here's a short article I wrote about them a while back: www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/n...
November 29, 2024 at 7:28 AM