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Dr. Petra Creamer
@petramcreamer.bsky.social
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Archaeologist specializing in the Near East/SWANA regions! Asst Prof Emory, Director of RLIIM in Iraqi Kurdistan. Remote sensing, mortuary archaeology, and ancient empires. Writing a book on imperial impacts on landscape and community in Assyria (she/they)
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The ASOR Program Committee seeks 4 new members to serve a 3-year term (2026–2028) with possibility of a 2nd term. We are interested in applications from members whose research area(s) are complementary to or not represented by current members of the PC. The brief app. is due Dec. 5: buff.ly/B16v7ds
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Hot off the presses - new article on the faunal remains from Hamoukar! Big thanks to co-authors Max Price, Diana Fennimore, Salam Al Kuntar, and Clemens Reichel for helping get this out into the world.
Cities are different animals: A zooarchaeology of urbanism at Hamoukar, Syria, 5th–3rd millennia BC
The advent of urbanism marks a significant shift in human lifeways, and comparative study has shown that the world has seen many different forms of ur…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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New issue of American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 129, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aja/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @petramcreamer.bsky.social @driesdaems.bsky.social @archaeological.org
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September 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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hyperallergic.com Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Jul 10
On the heels of a historic municipal work stoppage that left Philadelphia’s streets drowning in mounting garbage piles, unionized staff at the Penn Museum are inching toward a strike to obtain higher wages from the University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in the city.
Penn Museum Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
“Too many of the workers we represent at the Museum struggle to make ends meet,” said the union, which is urging the University of Pennsylvania to increase wages.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Summer is in full swing, but it’s not too early to think about your fall calendar. The Annual Meeting Program-at-a-Glance, as well as information about business meetings and special events, can be found on the 2025 ASOR Annual Meeting Schedules Page. Check it out here: buff.ly/nZBO4y4
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July 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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May 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📰 Excavations at Nineveh, modern Iraq, uncover a relief depicting Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, surrounded by Mesopotamian deities 🏺

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Archaeologists Unearth an Ancient Relief Depicting an Assyrian King and Rare Deities
The artifact was found in Mosul, Iraq, buried in the ancient city of Nineveh
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May 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I wrote a piece for @sapiens-org.bsky.social! Teaching with unprovenanced artifacts is tricky at best, so I discuss how my experiences with the Carlos Museum and my work in Iraq meet somewhere in the middle.
sapiens.org SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · May 7
“Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisition—so long as that recent history pervades the lesson.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
May 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Back in the field and looking good! Stay tuned for updates on our 4th (wow!!) season at Qach Rresh, an Assyrian-Achaemenid admin site in Iraqi Kurdistan! 🏺 🪏 🤓
May 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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I'm glad I never knew about the nightmare that is Equipment Procurement Systems because I might've been scared off of being an archaeologist because of it 🫠 I was not built for this level of tracking down and filling out forms.
April 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Available through open access at AI & Society rdcu.be/eiqHf

#evolution #ai #artificiallife #evolutionarycomputing #computing #evolutionarytheory #blackmirror #academia #academicsky #aihype
Darwin in the machine: addressing algorithmic individuation through evolutionary narratives in computing
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April 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
petramcreamer.bsky.social
An absolute embarrassment for Ohio, but no surprises there. I had an amazing education at Ohio State and this will effectively gut that and so many other institutions.
March 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Working on Syrian archaeology or cultural heritage? Submit an abstract for @asor-research.bsky.social's annual meeting in the Archaeology of Syria session! Abstracts due March 15. Papers can be virtual or in-person, and scholarships are available for registration fees.
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2025 CALL FOR PAPERS—ASOR Annual Meeting - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
ASOR invites paper and workshop presentation proposals for the hybrid 2025 Annual Meeting, November 19-22. #ASOR25
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March 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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BlueSky, help me to spread the word!
--> Abstract submissions are now open for the ASOR Panel on "Pop Culture and Near Eastern Archaeology" for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston (hybrid) - November 19-22, 2025!
"The papers in this session represent a multidisciplinary discussion of approaches to
March 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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If Donald Trump can override our elected officials’ control of the purse strings, we are effectively entering a period of taxation without representation.
March 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
petramcreamer.bsky.social
Exciting results hitting the presses about the Neolithic in Oman!! @archbot44.bsky.social and @pi-hisoka.bsky.social run a pretty awesome project 😎🏺
March 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
petramcreamer.bsky.social
I'm here at Harvard! Giving a talk today on Assyrian control and our results from excavating at Qach Rresh. Pop in if you're in Cambridge! 🏺😁
February 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
petramcreamer.bsky.social
Red wine, dog, and getting this dang (overdue) draft done. 🍷🖋️
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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We have an @asor-research.bsky.social session!

"Towards a Working Ancient Economy: The Bronze Age"

Link here: www.asor.org/am/2025/appr...
Towards a Working Ancient Economy: The Bronze Age Session Chairs: Eric Aupperle, Harvard University; Andrew Deloucas, Harvard University; Declan Maloneys, Harvard University; Taha Yurttas, Harvard University Description: The first history we have is arguably an economic one: a record rooted in the practical concerns of administration, resource allocation, and labor management. The need to control and quantify goods was a driving force not only for accounting technology, but for the development of institutions. Written and material records of the Bronze Age provide unparalleled clarity in documenting chains of production and distribution networks. As such, the study of Bronze Age economic history offers a window into a past that can encompass all strata of society. This member-organized session invites papers on ancient economy based on written, material, and visual sources in any imaginable combination. This includes examinations of traditional sources of economic information (written accounts, sealing hierarchies, spatial analyses) as well as wider discussions of the social, legal, and political context of economy. The session embraces a wide geographic area, welcoming papers from Greater Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia and the Aegean, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Gulf, Central Asia, and beyond. Possible topics include trade networks, economic crises, labor history, debt, and civic institutions.
February 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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well-meaning-robot.bsky.social
Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.

TWENTY.

As in, they call that getting slammed.

So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.

TWENTY is a lot.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Nice!! Can't wait to read.
michael-lewis.bsky.social Michael Lewis @michael-lewis.bsky.social · Feb 3
📝✨ Newly published article from my PhD is out now! Investigating the firing temperature of 4th millennium pottery from Kurdistan region of Iraq using FTIR

#archaeology #Mesopotamia

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February 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM