SSE1K
@sse1k.bsky.social
Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE - ERC Consolidator Grant (2023-2027) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia - @helenfoxhallforbes@bsky.social / @dl-arch@bsky.social
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✨Don’t miss the second talk in our Online Seminar Series today!
Our Online Seminar Series continues!
🎙️Prof. Alessandro Fontana (Università di Padova) “The Diluvium Aquarum: geoarchaeological constraints of extreme floods in Northeast Italy during the Early Middle Ages”
🕒10/11/2025 15:00 CET
📍Please register for online attendance: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
🎙️Prof. Alessandro Fontana (Università di Padova) “The Diluvium Aquarum: geoarchaeological constraints of extreme floods in Northeast Italy during the Early Middle Ages”
🕒10/11/2025 15:00 CET
📍Please register for online attendance: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
✨Don’t miss the second talk in our Online Seminar Series today!
Our Online Seminar Series continues!
🎙️Prof. Alessandro Fontana (Università di Padova) “The Diluvium Aquarum: geoarchaeological constraints of extreme floods in Northeast Italy during the Early Middle Ages”
🕒10/11/2025 15:00 CET
📍Please register for online attendance: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
🎙️Prof. Alessandro Fontana (Università di Padova) “The Diluvium Aquarum: geoarchaeological constraints of extreme floods in Northeast Italy during the Early Middle Ages”
🕒10/11/2025 15:00 CET
📍Please register for online attendance: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our Online Seminar Series continues!
🎙️Prof. Alessandro Fontana (Università di Padova) “The Diluvium Aquarum: geoarchaeological constraints of extreme floods in Northeast Italy during the Early Middle Ages”
🕒10/11/2025 15:00 CET
📍Please register for online attendance: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
🎙️Prof. Alessandro Fontana (Università di Padova) “The Diluvium Aquarum: geoarchaeological constraints of extreme floods in Northeast Italy during the Early Middle Ages”
🕒10/11/2025 15:00 CET
📍Please register for online attendance: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
📣 Great news! There’s still a week to join our session on Archaeodemography at #LAC2026, as the call for papers has been extended until 7 November 2025 🎉
📣 We are sponsoring a session at the next #LAC2026
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📣 Great news! There’s still a week to join our session on Archaeodemography at #LAC2026, as the call for papers has been extended until 7 November 2025 🎉
⏰ Don’t forget! The call for papers for our #LAC2026 session on Archaeodemography is open until 31 October 2025 🎉
📣 We are sponsoring a session at the next #LAC2026
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
⏰ Don’t forget! The call for papers for our #LAC2026 session on Archaeodemography is open until 31 October 2025 🎉
🌍 Interested in the deep history of human impact on the #environment?
Check out our new study led by our postdoctoral researcher @nikulinaav.bsky.social on how #Neanderthals and #Mesolithic foragers shaped European #landscapes long before #farming!
#Paleoecology #HumanImpact #Anthropocene
Check out our new study led by our postdoctoral researcher @nikulinaav.bsky.social on how #Neanderthals and #Mesolithic foragers shaped European #landscapes long before #farming!
#Paleoecology #HumanImpact #Anthropocene
🔥Before farming, hunter-gatherers already transformed nearly half of Europe’s #landscapes via burning and hunting!
Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process
👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Paleoecology #Anthropocene
Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process
👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Paleoecology #Anthropocene
On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared
Recent studies have highlighted evidence of human impact on landscapes dating back to the Late Pleistocene–long before the advent of agriculture. Quantifying the extent of vegetation transformations b...
journals.plos.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🌍 Interested in the deep history of human impact on the #environment?
Check out our new study led by our postdoctoral researcher @nikulinaav.bsky.social on how #Neanderthals and #Mesolithic foragers shaped European #landscapes long before #farming!
#Paleoecology #HumanImpact #Anthropocene
Check out our new study led by our postdoctoral researcher @nikulinaav.bsky.social on how #Neanderthals and #Mesolithic foragers shaped European #landscapes long before #farming!
#Paleoecology #HumanImpact #Anthropocene
Many thanks to all who attended the first talk of our Online Seminar Series yesterday🌟Join us again on 10 November for Prof. Alessandro Fontana’s talk!
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Many thanks to all who attended the first talk of our Online Seminar Series yesterday🌟Join us again on 10 November for Prof. Alessandro Fontana’s talk!
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
🚨Don’t miss the first talk in our Online Seminar Series today!
📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🚨Don’t miss the first talk in our Online Seminar Series today!
📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
📣 We are sponsoring a session at the next #LAC2026
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
📣 We are sponsoring a session at the next #LAC2026
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
Our team members Michele Abballe and Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social are co-organising with Alessio Palmisano and Francesca Chelazzi a session on Archaeodemography🎉
Why not join us? The call for papers is out until 31 October 2025! 🕑
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Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean...
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durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and Agent-Based Modelling
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
👋 #MeetTheTeam
Michele Abballe is a postdoctoral researcher studying long-term settlement and demographic changes in the Mediterranean. Based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he works near #Ravenna, where many lagoons disappeared. Michele has to work hard to uncover traces of their existence 🕳️⛏
Michele Abballe is a postdoctoral researcher studying long-term settlement and demographic changes in the Mediterranean. Based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he works near #Ravenna, where many lagoons disappeared. Michele has to work hard to uncover traces of their existence 🕳️⛏
August 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
👋 #MeetTheTeam
Michele Abballe is a postdoctoral researcher studying long-term settlement and demographic changes in the Mediterranean. Based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he works near #Ravenna, where many lagoons disappeared. Michele has to work hard to uncover traces of their existence 🕳️⛏
Michele Abballe is a postdoctoral researcher studying long-term settlement and demographic changes in the Mediterranean. Based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he works near #Ravenna, where many lagoons disappeared. Michele has to work hard to uncover traces of their existence 🕳️⛏
📣Exciting news!
1️⃣Our team member Michele Abballe has recently been awarded a prize for his PhD thesis by the Institute of Archaeology at @czechacademy.bsky.social🎉
2️⃣This comes on top of the award he received last year for 2023 Best PhD Thesis from the journal Heritage by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social🎉
1️⃣Our team member Michele Abballe has recently been awarded a prize for his PhD thesis by the Institute of Archaeology at @czechacademy.bsky.social🎉
2️⃣This comes on top of the award he received last year for 2023 Best PhD Thesis from the journal Heritage by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social🎉
July 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📣Exciting news!
1️⃣Our team member Michele Abballe has recently been awarded a prize for his PhD thesis by the Institute of Archaeology at @czechacademy.bsky.social🎉
2️⃣This comes on top of the award he received last year for 2023 Best PhD Thesis from the journal Heritage by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social🎉
1️⃣Our team member Michele Abballe has recently been awarded a prize for his PhD thesis by the Institute of Archaeology at @czechacademy.bsky.social🎉
2️⃣This comes on top of the award he received last year for 2023 Best PhD Thesis from the journal Heritage by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social🎉
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Our research group Science, Society & Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE at the Ca' Foscari University on Venice is now on BlueSky: @sse1k.bsky.social! I’m a postdoc on the project, working on science & environment between Byzantium and Islam.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Our research group Science, Society & Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE at the Ca' Foscari University on Venice is now on BlueSky: @sse1k.bsky.social! I’m a postdoc on the project, working on science & environment between Byzantium and Islam.
👋 #MeetTheTeam
@nikulinaav.bsky.social
Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social.
Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.
@nikulinaav.bsky.social
Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social.
Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.
July 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
👋 #MeetTheTeam
@nikulinaav.bsky.social
Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social.
Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.
@nikulinaav.bsky.social
Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social.
Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.
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Last week, I had the opportunity to be an invited respondent at @sse1k.bsky.social session on #resilience and the #environment at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds. My first time in this role! ☺️
July 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Last week, I had the opportunity to be an invited respondent at @sse1k.bsky.social session on #resilience and the #environment at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds. My first time in this role! ☺️
Exciting news! A new #SSE1K data paper is out on #JOAD! 🎉
It presents lots of #archaeological and #geoarchaeological #data from #Ravenna, #Italy. Now freely availble on #Zenodo! 📊
🔗 doi.org/10.5334/joad...
It presents lots of #archaeological and #geoarchaeological #data from #Ravenna, #Italy. Now freely availble on #Zenodo! 📊
🔗 doi.org/10.5334/joad...
Geoarchaeology and PalaeoDEMs Modelling to Assess the Archaeological Potential of Ravenna and Its Hinterland | Journal of Open Archaeology Data
doi.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Exciting news! A new #SSE1K data paper is out on #JOAD! 🎉
It presents lots of #archaeological and #geoarchaeological #data from #Ravenna, #Italy. Now freely availble on #Zenodo! 📊
🔗 doi.org/10.5334/joad...
It presents lots of #archaeological and #geoarchaeological #data from #Ravenna, #Italy. Now freely availble on #Zenodo! 📊
🔗 doi.org/10.5334/joad...
Thank you to everyone who joined our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to discuss different aspects of #environment and #resilience. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic congress #IMC2025
July 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to discuss different aspects of #environment and #resilience. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic congress #IMC2025
The final talk of our sessions☝️! Edward Schoolman “Landscapes, Lakes, and the Resilience of Settlement around Rieti and Lucca, 600-1000” #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The final talk of our sessions☝️! Edward Schoolman “Landscapes, Lakes, and the Resilience of Settlement around Rieti and Lucca, 600-1000” #IMC2025
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social is now talking about famine and food supply in Italy, 535-545. Don’t miss the last talks of our session on #disaster ! @imc-leeds.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social is now talking about famine and food supply in Italy, 535-545. Don’t miss the last talks of our session on #disaster ! @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Next session - Resilience and Environment: Disaster. First speaker is Kristina Sessa talking about the ransoming of captives and how this was financed in Late Antiquity
July 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Next session - Resilience and Environment: Disaster. First speaker is Kristina Sessa talking about the ransoming of captives and how this was financed in Late Antiquity
Time for some discussion! Here are our panellists John Haldon, Vicky Manolopoulou, Ismini Lypiridou, Sam Turner, and our moderator Massimiliano Borroni
July 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Time for some discussion! Here are our panellists John Haldon, Vicky Manolopoulou, Ismini Lypiridou, Sam Turner, and our moderator Massimiliano Borroni
Final speaker of this session: Sam Turner (Newcastle) - Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Mane as a Case Study
July 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Final speaker of this session: Sam Turner (Newcastle) - Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Mane as a Case Study
Next paper - Vicky Manolopoulou and Ismini Lypiridou present the work that they have been doing as part of SSE1K: Environmental Challenges and Landscape Experience: Constantinople as a Case Study
July 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Next paper - Vicky Manolopoulou and Ismini Lypiridou present the work that they have been doing as part of SSE1K: Environmental Challenges and Landscape Experience: Constantinople as a Case Study
Speaking now in session 1149 Resilience and Environment in the Mediterranean: Memory - John Haldon (Princeton) - Palaeocologies and Landscapes as Reservoirs of Social Memory: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects
July 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Speaking now in session 1149 Resilience and Environment in the Mediterranean: Memory - John Haldon (Princeton) - Palaeocologies and Landscapes as Reservoirs of Social Memory: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects