Dan Lawrence
@dl-arch.bsky.social
Professor at Durham Archaeology, Southwest Asia, Landscapes, Complexity. Also tenor, father, socialist.
Thanks to the @antiquity.ac.uk team for making this cool video summarising our recent paper, featuring drone footage from the steppe hero @peterjbrown.bsky.social himself!
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
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🏺 #Archaeology
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November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Thanks to the @antiquity.ac.uk team for making this cool video summarising our recent paper, featuring drone footage from the steppe hero @peterjbrown.bsky.social himself!
Nice write-up of our recent paper @antiquity.ac.uk paper in New Scientist - thanks to @chrisnsimms.bsky.social for taking an interest!
This came as a big surprise to me: In the grasslands of Central Asia, long the domain of mobile peoples living in yurts, a giant settlement dating back 3600 years has been discovered. 🧪 #BronzeAge #science #archaeology
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Vast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of Kazakhstan
A major settlement in Central Asia called Semiyarka dating back to 1600 BC had houses, a big central building and even an industrial zone for producing copper and bronze
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November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Nice write-up of our recent paper @antiquity.ac.uk paper in New Scientist - thanks to @chrisnsimms.bsky.social for taking an interest!
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New paper out! 🥳
We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.
Read the full open access paper here:
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#Archaeology #NetworkScience
We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.
Read the full open access paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Archaeology #NetworkScience
The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems
Analysing and understanding connectivity of human social networks of (ancient) societies offers new perspectives on their functioning. However, social…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New paper out! 🥳
We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.
Read the full open access paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Archaeology #NetworkScience
We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.
Read the full open access paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Archaeology #NetworkScience
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Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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📣 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! 🕑
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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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...
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1 month to apply for a cool postdoc position in my team!
Looking for a postdoc position in quantitative palaeoecology with focus on vegetation? Come to work in my interdisciplinary project in Prague (full-time for 2 years).
August 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
1 month to apply for a cool postdoc position in my team!
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New volume of Journal of Urban Archaeology Vol. 11 (2025) www.brepolsonline.net/toc/jua/2025... @brepols.net Archaeological Perspectives on Urban Sustainability @dl-arch.bsky.social
Journal of Urban Archaeology: Vol 11
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July 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
New volume of Journal of Urban Archaeology Vol. 11 (2025) www.brepolsonline.net/toc/jua/2025... @brepols.net Archaeological Perspectives on Urban Sustainability @dl-arch.bsky.social
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This is the most hot dog guy meme coded thing I have seen in my entire life. Actually feel the hot dog guy could take lessons from this
July 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is the most hot dog guy meme coded thing I have seen in my entire life. Actually feel the hot dog guy could take lessons from this
Nice short write-up of some of the outcomes of my CLaSS project here. Looking forward to telling the @erc.europa.eu Scientific Council about it all in a couple of weeks!
We will host the @erc.europa.eu scientific council meeting this June. On the lead up, we're showcasing our ERC-funded projects including Prof. Dan Lawrence's research on the relationship between climate change & societies. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wTnsq
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June 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nice short write-up of some of the outcomes of my CLaSS project here. Looking forward to telling the @erc.europa.eu Scientific Council about it all in a couple of weeks!
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UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
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Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Publication day for our @pnas.org Special Feature on inequality in the deep past bit.ly/WInqSF How do the transitions to agriculture, urbanisation and hierarchy impact wealth inequality? What social forces produced sustainable, equal societies in the past? Some answers (and more questions) inside!
April 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Publication day for our @pnas.org Special Feature on inequality in the deep past bit.ly/WInqSF How do the transitions to agriculture, urbanisation and hierarchy impact wealth inequality? What social forces produced sustainable, equal societies in the past? Some answers (and more questions) inside!
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Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for #SustainableUrbanism, past, present and future by @dl-arch.bsky.social @mwdegruchy.bsky.social et al
https://buff.ly/4jQ4s1x
#OpenAccess #archaeology #Mesopotamia #sustainability
https://buff.ly/4jQ4s1x
#OpenAccess #archaeology #Mesopotamia #sustainability
February 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for #SustainableUrbanism, past, present and future by @dl-arch.bsky.social @mwdegruchy.bsky.social et al
https://buff.ly/4jQ4s1x
#OpenAccess #archaeology #Mesopotamia #sustainability
https://buff.ly/4jQ4s1x
#OpenAccess #archaeology #Mesopotamia #sustainability
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Please follow our new Contemporary Archaeology account - showcasing the work being done exploring the archaeology of the contemporary world by students in the Dept of Archaeology, Durham University
@ducontemparch.bsky.social
@ducontemparch.bsky.social
Welcome to the new Bluesky account for the Contemporary Archaeology module run by the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. This is a course where we explore the archaeology of the contemporary world in a hands-on way.
February 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Please follow our new Contemporary Archaeology account - showcasing the work being done exploring the archaeology of the contemporary world by students in the Dept of Archaeology, Durham University
@ducontemparch.bsky.social
@ducontemparch.bsky.social
New paper! What did people use as fuel in Southwest Asia over the last 8,000 years? authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... TLDR - mostly whatever was lying around, including pruning waste, dung and olive cakes when population pressure meant they ran out of decent wood
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January 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New paper! What did people use as fuel in Southwest Asia over the last 8,000 years? authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... TLDR - mostly whatever was lying around, including pruning waste, dung and olive cakes when population pressure meant they ran out of decent wood
New paper reconstructing land use across Southwest Asia 6,000 years ago, plus comparisons with standard models www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TLDR: incorporate archaeological data in your reconstructions, kids!
TLDR: incorporate archaeological data in your reconstructions, kids!
A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets
Land use and land cover (LULC) changes have important biophysical and biogeochemical effects on climate via a variety of mechanisms. Several climate m…
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December 18, 2024 at 2:23 PM
New paper reconstructing land use across Southwest Asia 6,000 years ago, plus comparisons with standard models www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TLDR: incorporate archaeological data in your reconstructions, kids!
TLDR: incorporate archaeological data in your reconstructions, kids!