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This textbook is designed for undergraduate archaeology students to help them learn interpretive skills in the classroom through problem-oriented, active learning exercises. For anyone interested, I would be happy to tell you more about it!

We measure the surface texture before and after use from scans taken with focus variation microscopy, and use multiscale geometric analyses to determine if the surface textures are measurably different

In this study we conduct a series of experiments using shell tools to determine whether is it possible to distinguish different types of contact materials from surface traces (photos of hands doing the messy work)

This is the best thread I've read in a while. Nothing like the solidarity of 11,000 faculty just wanting fewer emails in their inbox 🤣

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Follow me here for posts about my research, lithics, quantitative microscopy, refugees and higher education, academic publishing, and random thoughts about university administration!

In my administrative roles, I am the co-Editor in Chief for the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at TU.

I help coordinate refugee programming for TU, including support refugee-background students, running our Every Campus A Refuge chapter, and teaching cultural orientation classes for resettlement agencies. You can learn more about this work here www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/communities/...

Outside of archaeology, I work with refugee communities in Tulsa. I am passionate about expanding access to higher education for refugees, as well as creating supportive communities for newcomers.

I am particularly interested in #lithics, and how we can learn about past human behaviors through understanding their function. This has lead me to work with engineers to identify tool function through applying methods developed for surface metrology to archaeological objects.

My research is mostly focused on the transitions from hunting-gathering to the origins of agriculture, with a interest in hunter-gatherers before the Neolithic. I direct fieldwork projects in Jordan and Cyprus, working on Epipalaeolithic sites.

This is such an amazing starter pack! Is it possible to add me as well?