Very cool! We're working on refining the timing of rat decline/extirpation and also controlling for biases in research effort - perhaps we should talk?

For those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf!

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A fascinating large piece of archaeological detective work: using ZooMS to identify whale species from worked artifacts across European coastal sites. Each specimen helps reconstruct historical whale populations and human-whale interactions! 🐋 #archaeology #IZAZ2024

If you have any bones for @archaeorattus.bsky.social to build their database, let them know!

Zooarchaeology, ZooMS, radiocarbon, aDNA, isotopes and historical research, all capped off with some population modelling. It's all very exciting. Stay tuned for updates!

What you *can* expect are updates from the RATTUS team on what is (IMO anyway) some really very cool research. Piecing together scattered records of tiny, seemingly insignificant bones and using them to tell stories about the broad sweep of human history across a continent and two millennia.

So from now on this is a Proper Project Account, rather than my own super-niche brand of personal rat/archaeology ramblings that some of you might remember from Twitter. That's probably for the best.