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Dr Andrea Kay
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🗿Archaeologist🔬Environmental Scientist 🌱 Traveler 🌎 Nerd 🤓

Assistant Professor @Uni. Texas at Arlington, Affiliated Researcher @Max Planck Geoanth.

My work is focused on archaeological evidence of land use, subsistence, and human-environment interaction.
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Final day of the #IslandLegacies conference today! So grateful for the convergence of such a fantastic group of scholars and thinkers. It has been truly inspirational!
June 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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#saveWOT The Wheel of Time deserves to be completed with this wonderful cast. It needs to find another platform, #HBO, #AppleTV, or others, to give this amazing story the future it deserves. Fans don’t give up! #wheeloftime #Wotskies #Wotcon2025 #TheWheelofTime #JordanCon2025 #WOTIdol
May 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Our new paper just out in @nature.com

By analyzing speleothems we were able to reconstruct the palaeoclimate of northern Arabia over the past 8-million-years!

Work led by Monika Markowska (University of Northumbria)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years - Nature
A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals bet...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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National Geographic piece on our latest research our in @nature.com where we document recurrent humid periods in Arabia over the past 8-million-years

www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
Saudi Arabia's vast desert was once a lush, green paradise
A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.
www.nationalgeographic.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It's a cold, foggy, frosty morning in western Washington, so it's a good thing the power is back on!
November 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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I’m very sad to hear that Colin Renfrew, a giant in the field of Prehistoric Archaeology, has joined the realm of the ancients. An academic archaeologist with one foot firmly in the trench, he combined theory & fieldwork with flair - and had a knack for asking the right questions. His work lives on
November 24, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Hello. This is your friendly reminder to tax the churches.
November 22, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Still life with sprouted tomato 🍅 🌱
November 20, 2024 at 7:34 PM
But my phone still has some battery 🤣
So.... Power outage map in my area.. Don't expect much from anyone from Seattle suburbs today.
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
The rainy, cold, and windy weather in western Washington today has me daydreaming about beautiful Thai beaches...
November 19, 2024 at 9:59 PM
I have a work from home research assistant today. He's definitely a personality hire. 🐶
November 18, 2024 at 11:24 PM
That canceled TV show I'll never stop thinking about...
November 17, 2024 at 8:09 AM