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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 1d

📣 We are sponsoring a session at the next #LAC2026
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence‬ ‪
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑

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Dan Lawrence @dl-arch.bsky.social · Aug 19

Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and Agent-Based Modelling

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Aug 20

👋 #MeetTheTeam
Michele Abballe is a postdoctoral researcher studying long-term settlement and demographic changes in the Mediterranean. Based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he works near #Ravenna, where many lagoons disappeared. Michele has to work hard to uncover traces of their existence 🕳️⛏

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wishing everyone a cool and wonderful #summer break! ☀️🌊 Here’s a beautiful mosaic from Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily—once a place where Roman elites enjoyed their own version of a #holiday. (Photo: Michele Abballe)

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣Exciting news!
1️⃣Our team member Michele Abballe has recently been awarded a prize for his PhD thesis by the Institute of Archaeology at @czechacademy.bsky.social🎉
2️⃣This comes on top of the award he received last year for 2023 Best PhD Thesis from the journal Heritage by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social🎉

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Jakub Sypiański @sypianski.bsky.social · Jul 28

Our research group Science, Society & Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE at the Ca' Foscari University on Venice is now on BlueSky: @sse1k.bsky.social! I’m a postdoc on the project, working on science & environment between Byzantium and Islam.

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 23

👋 #MeetTheTeam
@nikulinaav.bsky.social
Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social.
Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.

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Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · Jul 20

Last week, I had the opportunity to be an invited respondent at @sse1k.bsky.social session on #resilience and the #environment at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds. My first time in this role! ☺️

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 16

Exciting news! A new #SSE1K data paper is out on #JOAD! 🎉
It presents lots of #archaeological and #geoarchaeological #data from #Ravenna, #Italy. Now freely availble on #Zenodo! 📊
🔗 doi.org/10.5334/joad...

Geoarchaeology and PalaeoDEMs Modelling to Assess the Archaeological Potential of Ravenna and Its Hinterland | Journal of Open Archaeology Data

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 12

Thank you to everyone who joined our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to discuss different aspects of #environment and #resilience. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic congress #IMC2025

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

The final talk of our sessions☝️! Edward Schoolman “Landscapes, Lakes, and the Resilience of Settlement around Rieti and Lucca, 600-1000” #IMC2025

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social is now talking about famine and food supply in Italy, 535-545. Don’t miss the last talks of our session on #disaster ! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Next session - Resilience and Environment: Disaster. First speaker is Kristina Sessa talking about the ransoming of captives and how this was financed in Late Antiquity

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Time for some discussion! Here are our panellists John Haldon, Vicky Manolopoulou, Ismini Lypiridou, Sam Turner, and our moderator Massimiliano Borroni

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Final speaker of this session: Sam Turner (Newcastle) - Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Mane as a Case Study

Sam Turner presents his paper with a PowerPoint slide relating to the dating of agricultural terraces

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Next paper - Vicky Manolopoulou and Ismini Lypiridou present the work that they have been doing as part of SSE1K: Environmental Challenges and Landscape Experience: Constantinople as a Case Study

Vicky Manolopoulou presents her paper with a PowerPoint slide showing a speleothem being drilled and a screenshot of a scientific article

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Speaking now in session 1149 Resilience and Environment in the Mediterranean: Memory - John Haldon (Princeton) - Palaeocologies and Landscapes as Reservoirs of Social Memory: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects

Picture shows map of Anatolia with lake sites with proxy evidence for climatic / environmental conditions

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Don’t miss our second session at 11:15🌸 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · Jul 9

Attending the International Medieval Congress in Leeds for the first time 😊 #IMC2025

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our next paper is virtual: Prof Athanasios Vionis - From Nucleation to Fragmentation and Resilience in the Xeros River Valley, Cyprus: From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, 7th-10th Centuries #IMC2025

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Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social · Jul 9

Exciting papers at #IMC2025 from @sse1k.bsky.social SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE and friends today!
@nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

And we are go! Our first speaker is Dr Michele Abballe (Università Ca’ Foscari) talking about Long-Term Population Dynamics across the Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium #IMC2025

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 9

We’re about to start our first session today at @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬ ☺️

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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · Jul 7

Looking forward to seeing everyone at @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬ ! 🙌✨ Our three sessions " #Resilience and #Environment in the #Mediterranean" are on July 9🗓️, Clarendon Building 1.02📍

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