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CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · Sep 8

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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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congrats Joey!!

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CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Aug 11

A fun online conference coming up for all the #digitalarchaeology peeps in the Oceania region!

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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Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 27

Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 @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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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social · May 20

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.

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · May 21

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).

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · May 15

Holiday snapshots: out of the frying pan into the… forge.

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Metal Guru

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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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · May 13

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 @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.

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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!

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · May 2

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 @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! 🏛️💻🏺

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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! 🏛️💻🏺

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Apr 9

Excited to finally have my first 'first author' paper out in the world, and thrilled that it combines my two loves of ancient scripts and digital technology 🥰 And a huge thank you to my wonderful @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social co-authors Kabir Manandhar Shrestha and Rob Turnbull, who made this possible!

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Apr 9

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!

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · Apr 3

Just published in JOSS: 'Potnia: A Python library for the conversion of transliterated ancient texts to Unicode' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07725

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Feb 15

@lisarandisi.bsky.social we worked with quite a bit of #ephemera for this project, so it would be cool to chat about what you're up to at the Petrie with the Archaeological Ephemera project!

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Feb 15

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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CAAInt.bsky.social @caaint.bsky.social · Feb 11

🚨 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

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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social · Feb 10

📢#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.

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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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Dec 12

The wax seal of a prominent 19th century palaeontologist, Ebenezer Emmons (1799–1863) of a Trinucleid trilobite. 🪳

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Dec 12

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

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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · Dec 12

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

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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · Dec 2

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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