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Emily Tour
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Early career archaeologist ⛏️ PhD candidate at University of Melbourne🏺 Obsessed with scripts, tablets and sealings 📜 Dabbling in all things digital, including 3D modelling, GMM, phylogenetics and machine learning 🤖 (she/they)
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Mark your calendars! The 2025 CAA Australasia Online Conference is coming Oct 2nd-3rd with 21 talks by speakers from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia & Europe discussing a variety of interesting digital #archaeology projects! 🏺 Get your FREE tickets here:
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CAA Australasia 2025 Online Conference
A free online conference on digital archaeology hosted by CAA Australasia.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Just today and tomorrow left to submit your abstracts for our free online digital archaeology conference (2-4 October)! We're accepting both 15-minute papers and 5-minute lightning talks.

Submit your abstracts here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
On the left a photograph of a drone resting on red-brown iron-ore rock outcropping overlooking spinifex grasslands. On the right the green CAA Australasia logo.
August 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
touremily.bsky.social
A fun online conference coming up for all the #digitalarchaeology peeps in the Oceania region!
caa-australasia.bsky.social CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · Aug 11
📢 Conference alert! CAA Australasia are holding their third online conference, from Thurs 2nd to Sat 4th October, 2025. We're currently calling for abstracts on digital and computational archaeology (15-min presentations or 5-min lightning talks), due Tues 19th Aug: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....
2025 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Australasia Third Online Conference
The Australasian chapter of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology is hosting our third free online conference later this year and invites contributions from archaeologists base...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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irishashyt.bsky.social
New cuneiform pieces coming soon!
I’m trying a new technique to make them look more worn and aged. And they are tiny! The earring charms are just 1x2cm.
#crafting 👩‍🎨✍️ #sumerian #cuneiform #archaeology #history #mesopotamia #akkadia #uruk
Close up of tan painted rectangles with impressed cuneiform
August 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.
July 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
touremily.bsky.social
Next Wednesday 23 July: Check out CAA Australasia's upcoming panel on digital recording techniques in the field! Completely online and free to attend (and if you can't make it live, a recording will be made available on our YouTube channel after the event!) www.youtube.com/channel/UCdb...
caa-australasia.bsky.social CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · Jul 15
Our next event is "Demystifying Digital Field Recording", a free online panel exploring the hot topics in digital field recording! The panel takes place next Wednesday 23 July, 6pm AEST, make sure to register at the link:

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Demystifying Digital Field Recording | CAA Australasia Panel
Join us for a discussion of hot topics in digital field recording!
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July 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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It’s #WorldBeeDay, so we're taking a look at this bee-utifully decorated beehive! Made from a hollowed out a tree truck, care has been taken to repair the hive when cracks appeared in the wood.
A cylindrical wooden beehive with each end closed by a wooden disc. It is decorated with a pattern which has been burnt into the surface of the wood. Cracks have been repaired with plant fibre loops.
May 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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PhD-ing at the Knossos Research Centre this week, under the strict supervision of Naomi and Dakos, the work-life balance police 👮‍♀️⚱️🫡☀️😾
A small black cat is laying on a desk in front of a laptop, preventing the ability to complete any work. A chunky ginger and white cat is marching across a cobble surface, on a mission (to get cuddles, presumably).
May 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Holiday snapshots: out of the frying pan into the… forge.

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It’s always interesting to realise how much I’ve unconsciously and unquestionably absorbed a set of assumptions. To judge from this week’s visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens with…
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May 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
touremily.bsky.social
It's always such a joy and privilege with any conference to get to visit new places, present my research, gather new ideas and tools, reconnect with old colleagues, and make new friends – and #CAA2025 ticked all those boxes and more 😊 Can't wait for Vienna next year!
caa-australasia.bsky.social CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · May 13
Looking back at the amazing week that was #CAA2025 in Athens! Our Australasia crew repped with some great presentations, and there was an excellent program of panels filled with digital ethics, archaeogaming, network analysis, digital field recording, 3D modelling, machine learning, and more!
CAA Australasia member Corey Noxon standing at a lectern in a lecture theatre, with a large slide presentation behind him reading 'Multiscalar Digital Recording of Archaeological Features and Pottery Remains at the Suwahara Site, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan'. CAA Australasia member Emily Tour sitting at a table and presenting, with a slide presentation behind her reading 'More than just pretty faces: Exploring shape data derived from 3D models of artefacts.' CAA Australasia members Aleks Michalewicz and Brian Armstrong standing in front of a slide presentation with images showing the UNESCO Budj Bim cultural landscape and its location within Australia.
May 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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caa-australasia.bsky.social
Looking back at the amazing week that was #CAA2025 in Athens! Our Australasia crew repped with some great presentations, and there was an excellent program of panels filled with digital ethics, archaeogaming, network analysis, digital field recording, 3D modelling, machine learning, and more!
CAA Australasia member Corey Noxon standing at a lectern in a lecture theatre, with a large slide presentation behind him reading 'Multiscalar Digital Recording of Archaeological Features and Pottery Remains at the Suwahara Site, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan'. CAA Australasia member Emily Tour sitting at a table and presenting, with a slide presentation behind her reading 'More than just pretty faces: Exploring shape data derived from 3D models of artefacts.' CAA Australasia members Aleks Michalewicz and Brian Armstrong standing in front of a slide presentation with images showing the UNESCO Budj Bim cultural landscape and its location within Australia.
May 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
touremily.bsky.social
Can't wait for #CAA2025 (even though I'm madly rushing pack AND finish my paper before jumping on the plane this evening 😭). I'll be presenting my PhD research on Bronze Age Aegean administrative devices, aided by #photogrammetry, #shapeanalysis and #phylogenetics. Hope to catch some of you there!
caa-australasia.bsky.social CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · Apr 28
Only one week to go until #CAA2025, folks! Head to the program page to check out the sessions and papers, and start planning out your conference schedule: 👉https://2025.caaconference.org/program/. See you in Athens for an exciting week of #digitalarchaeology research! 🏛️💻🏺
May 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Only one week to go until #CAA2025, folks! Head to the program page to check out the sessions and papers, and start planning out your conference schedule: 👉https://2025.caaconference.org/program/. See you in Athens for an exciting week of #digitalarchaeology research! 🏛️💻🏺
April 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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We have officially published Potnia in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🐍👁️👉🏽 doi.org/10.21105/jos.... Potnia is a #Python library for the conversion of transliterated #ancienttexts into Unicode. It currently supports Linear A and B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform, with many new languages on the way!
Logo for the Potnia Python library. A roughly rectangular red background (the shape of a Minoan clay tablet), with the white outline of a woman with flowing hair, wearing a layered skirt, and holding a staff in a powerful pose to the left, and the white text 'POTNIA' to the right, with the corresponding Linear B symbols directly above it.
April 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Just published in JOSS: 'Potnia: A Python library for the conversion of transliterated ancient texts to Unicode' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07725
April 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
touremily.bsky.social
For V Day this year, the universe gifted me with the publication of my first co-authored article, on material from Lahun at the AIA, Melbourne 🥰 My main contributions were the sections on the seal impression + stamp seal, but I also shed many tears learning how to use QGIS, so please admire fig. 1 😂
The fourth box: Material from Lahun in the Collection of the Australian Institute of Archaeology | Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology
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February 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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🚨 Early Bird Registration Now Open for #CAA2025! 🚨

Exciting news! 🗓 Early bird registration for CAA 2025 is officially OPEN!
🔗 Register now: 2025.caaconference.org/registration/

#CAA2025 #EarlyBird #ConferenceRegistration #Athens2025 #AcademicEvent
🚨 Early Bird Registration Now Open for #CAA2025! 🚨
February 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
touremily.bsky.social
📢#booklaunch alert for my wonderful PhD supervisor, Robert Turnbull 📢If Bayesian phylogenetics, manuscript studies or textual criticism are up your alley, you should definitely tune in this coming Thursday 13 Feb @ 3pm! In-person at UniMelb, or on Zoom.
mdap-unimelb.bsky.social Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social · Feb 6
Join us for the launch of Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and Its Family with discussion from author @RobTurnbull & scholars in Arabic manuscripts, textual criticism and New Testament studies.
🗓️ Thu 13 Feb 3pm @melbconnect inc afternoon tea or via Zoom
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Book Launch: Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and Its Family
Come and hear about the significance of this Arabic translation for understanding of the history of how the Gospels were transmitted.
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February 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The wax seal of a prominent 19th century palaeontologist, Ebenezer Emmons (1799–1863) of a Trinucleid trilobite. 🪳
December 12, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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And ready to bake! Replicating Gravettian iconography in cookie dough. 🦣🏺
Six Cookies in the shape of the Venus of Willendotf lined up.on a baking tray
December 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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My review of New Documents in Mycenaean Greek is now out in BMCR! Tldr: essential reference work for Linear B studies, but I've tried to give some tips esp for new students/researchers on how to use it productively & a few things to watch out for

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#AncientBluesky 🏺
Two large volumes of "The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek", edited by John Killen, each with a photograph of a Linear B tablet on the cover. Volume 1: Introductory Essays and drawings of selected tablets; volume 2: selected tablets and endmatter
December 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)

Link for application:
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December 2, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Really cool #Jomon artifact of the week from the Oyu Stone Circle site in Akita. This little clay tablet is Doban-kun, and they're dated to about 3,500 years ago during the Late Jomon period. There's an interesting pattern used in it's design that's pretty special...
#archaeology #Japan
Picture of "Doban-kun" in a display case. This clay tablet figurine is decorated with a pattern of impressed dots, with a large distinctive mouth, two deeper set eyes, five dots running down the center of the figurine with three dots to the left of the centerline and 4 dots to the right.
December 10, 2024 at 12:53 AM
touremily.bsky.social
End of the academic year got me feeling like a bad quality photo of some even worse taxidermy ✌🏽 #spotthedifference Running on no sleep and all adrenaline, but excited for one more presentation today at the fabulous De/Coding Digital Archaeology Symposium 😍 www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap/events/...
Photo of a very tired Emily on the left, with a slightly pained smile/grimace, and a poor quality photo of some a poor quality taxidermy of a primate (?) on the right, also with a slightly pained smile/grimace
November 28, 2024 at 8:13 PM
touremily.bsky.social
This Sat @ 13:30 AEDT, I'll be presenting at my first programming conference, on a little Python library I've been working on with some colleagues 🐍 Nervous about speaking in front of a technical audience, but excited to show 'Potnia' off to the world (or Melbourne, at least 😅) #digitalarchaeology
Details of Emily's talk at PyCon AU 2024, titled '"Introducing Potnia: A Python language library for the conversion of ancient texts to Unicode". PyCon AU is being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 22–26 November 2024. Speakers are Emily Tour and Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, and talk will be held at Eureka 2, Saturday, 1:30pm. Registration link is pycon.org.au/attend
November 20, 2024 at 9:06 PM