Kamil Kopij
@kkopij.bsky.social
archaeo @JagiellonianUni . Roman archaeo, South Jordan: http://artu-dtu.archeo.uj.edu.pl, propaganda, digiarchaeo of public meetings
Go, Caps, Go!
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Go, Caps, Go!
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Kamil Kopij
@kkopij.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Publication alert! Our analysis of publicly available satellite imagery from the last ten years shows that in Tūwāneh (S Jordan), of the 723 looting pits we recorded, 140 were created between August 2013 and November 2022. The research was funded by IDUB @ Jagiellonian Univeristy
According to Hunt & Lipo,rats likely hepled drive Rapa Nui's deforestation but not its societal collapse. New modelling by H&L suggests rats heavily impacted slow-reproducing palms, with boom-bust rodent population cycle tied to palm decline www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reassessing the role of Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) deforestation: Faunal evidence and ecological modeling
The role of introduced Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) in the deforestation of Rapa Nui remains a contentious issue. Several critics, including Mieth…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
According to Hunt & Lipo,rats likely hepled drive Rapa Nui's deforestation but not its societal collapse. New modelling by H&L suggests rats heavily impacted slow-reproducing palms, with boom-bust rodent population cycle tied to palm decline www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...
Updates to RRDP specimens
At long last, we have migrated the objects accessible in the SITNAM public database into a CollectiveAccess back-end. SITNAM was initially...
numishare.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...
I admit that 10 ya I'd never have thought that archaeology would take me on the one hand all the way to Jordan, and on the other to a MoCap Lab! Fun, fun, fun!
Thx, @4drl1.bsky.social
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"Praecipua pronuntiationis adiumenta..." project. More: projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/618725...
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Thx, @4drl1.bsky.social
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"Praecipua pronuntiationis adiumenta..." project. More: projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/618725...
@ncn.gov.pl
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I admit that 10 ya I'd never have thought that archaeology would take me on the one hand all the way to Jordan, and on the other to a MoCap Lab! Fun, fun, fun!
Thx, @4drl1.bsky.social
.
"Praecipua pronuntiationis adiumenta..." project. More: projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/618725...
@ncn.gov.pl
Thx, @4drl1.bsky.social
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"Praecipua pronuntiationis adiumenta..." project. More: projekty.ncn.gov.pl/opisy/618725...
@ncn.gov.pl
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Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...
Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...
Po dłuższej przerwie, recenzja dla Mądrych Książek @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. Duża dawka zdrowego rozsądku (i kubeł zimnej wody) ws podboju Marsa oraz fascynujące rozważania nad prawem kosmicznym od @weinersmith.bsky.social @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.madreksiazki.uj.edu.pl/aktualnosci/...
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August 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Po dłuższej przerwie, recenzja dla Mądrych Książek @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. Duża dawka zdrowego rozsądku (i kubeł zimnej wody) ws podboju Marsa oraz fascynujące rozważania nad prawem kosmicznym od @weinersmith.bsky.social @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.madreksiazki.uj.edu.pl/aktualnosci/...
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Reposted by Kamil Kopij
I wrote an article on ancient reception, exploring AI-generated images and inequality.
Big thanks to the editors and anonymous reviewers, who offered clear, constructive suggestions for improvement.
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
Big thanks to the editors and anonymous reviewers, who offered clear, constructive suggestions for improvement.
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
June 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I wrote an article on ancient reception, exploring AI-generated images and inequality.
Big thanks to the editors and anonymous reviewers, who offered clear, constructive suggestions for improvement.
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
Big thanks to the editors and anonymous reviewers, who offered clear, constructive suggestions for improvement.
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
faravid.journal.fi/article/view...
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Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is currently 99p on Kindle - that's a massive discount as the hardback is normally priced at £20. Why not give it a go, even if you think historical non-fiction isn't your thing - you never know, you might love it! shorturl.at/RKHSF
June 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is currently 99p on Kindle - that's a massive discount as the hardback is normally priced at £20. Why not give it a go, even if you think historical non-fiction isn't your thing - you never know, you might love it! shorturl.at/RKHSF
New study uses #AI to identify Roman imperial portraits without relying on hairstyles. Facial recognition software classified emperors despite hair and beards being removed, proving visual markers beyond coiffure exist. #DigitalHumanities journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/da...
Beyond Hairstyle
| International Journal for Digital Art History
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June 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
New study uses #AI to identify Roman imperial portraits without relying on hairstyles. Facial recognition software classified emperors despite hair and beards being removed, proving visual markers beyond coiffure exist. #DigitalHumanities journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/da...
Looking for a journal in Classics or Mediterranean archaeology?
SAAC is a diamond open-access, independent journal. We charge no fees to authors, and all content is freely available to all.
It's run entirely on a voluntary basis by its editorial team and peer reviewers journals.akademicka.pl/saac/
SAAC is a diamond open-access, independent journal. We charge no fees to authors, and all content is freely available to all.
It's run entirely on a voluntary basis by its editorial team and peer reviewers journals.akademicka.pl/saac/
June 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Looking for a journal in Classics or Mediterranean archaeology?
SAAC is a diamond open-access, independent journal. We charge no fees to authors, and all content is freely available to all.
It's run entirely on a voluntary basis by its editorial team and peer reviewers journals.akademicka.pl/saac/
SAAC is a diamond open-access, independent journal. We charge no fees to authors, and all content is freely available to all.
It's run entirely on a voluntary basis by its editorial team and peer reviewers journals.akademicka.pl/saac/
Katharina Meinecke and Sascha D. Schmitz presented different motion capture tools for the study of ancient sculptures. Turns out that a lot of Hellenistic sculpture poses are unnatural and very uncomfortable
June 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Katharina Meinecke and Sascha D. Schmitz presented different motion capture tools for the study of ancient sculptures. Turns out that a lot of Hellenistic sculpture poses are unnatural and very uncomfortable
Dynamic Perspectives –
Advancing Archaeology with 3D Tools Workshop in Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik in Berlin. Nice venue, looking forward to the papers!
Advancing Archaeology with 3D Tools Workshop in Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik in Berlin. Nice venue, looking forward to the papers!
June 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Dynamic Perspectives –
Advancing Archaeology with 3D Tools Workshop in Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik in Berlin. Nice venue, looking forward to the papers!
Advancing Archaeology with 3D Tools Workshop in Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik in Berlin. Nice venue, looking forward to the papers!
Reposted by Kamil Kopij
Ancient Palmyra suffers at the hands of looters and antiquities traffickers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad
Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ancient Palmyra suffers at the hands of looters and antiquities traffickers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Medieval Murder Maps. Un site de cartographie interactive sur les meurtres en Angleterre à la fin du Moyen Âge cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2025/06/Medi... par @mirbole01.bsky.social
Medieval Murder Maps. Un site de cartographie interactive sur les meurtres en Angleterre à la fin du Moyen Âge
Cartographie numérique, Géomatique, SIG, Geoweb, Bigdata, Opendata, Data visualisation
cartonumerique.blogspot.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Medieval Murder Maps. Un site de cartographie interactive sur les meurtres en Angleterre à la fin du Moyen Âge cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2025/06/Medi... par @mirbole01.bsky.social
#Archaeoacoustic analysis of Site 26LN211 (Nevada) reveals a unique soundscape: clear transmission, minimal echoes. Unlike other sites in WRN, it may have supported storytelling & ritual over echo-based ceremonies. #Artsoundscapes www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
June 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#Archaeoacoustic analysis of Site 26LN211 (Nevada) reveals a unique soundscape: clear transmission, minimal echoes. Unlike other sites in WRN, it may have supported storytelling & ritual over echo-based ceremonies. #Artsoundscapes www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14...
In Roman politics, ancestral masks — imagines maiorum — were more than symbols: they were visual proof of noble lineage and civic virtue. But what happened when politicians had no aristocratic ancestors to parade?
May 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In Roman politics, ancestral masks — imagines maiorum — were more than symbols: they were visual proof of noble lineage and civic virtue. But what happened when politicians had no aristocratic ancestors to parade?
A new Roman marching camp discovered in the NL, beyond the borders of the Empire. The site was identified using LiDAR and aerial photography. This was followed by a surface survey with metal detectors and trial excavations, which helped date it to the 2nd century CE.
www.uu.nl/en/news/roma...
www.uu.nl/en/news/roma...
Roman army camp found beyond Roman Empire’s northern frontier
“What makes this find so remarkable is that the camp lies beyond the frontier of the Roman Empire,” says Saskia Stevens. That border was some 25 kilometres south.
www.uu.nl
May 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A new Roman marching camp discovered in the NL, beyond the borders of the Empire. The site was identified using LiDAR and aerial photography. This was followed by a surface survey with metal detectors and trial excavations, which helped date it to the 2nd century CE.
www.uu.nl/en/news/roma...
www.uu.nl/en/news/roma...
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🎉 #TRAJ Volume 8 is launched!
Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more!
FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...
Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more!
FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...
May 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🎉 #TRAJ Volume 8 is launched!
Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more!
FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...
Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more!
FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...
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"“In fact,” Shalvi told All That’s Interesting, “Tel Shiqmona yielded more purple-stained pottery fragments than all other ancient sites combined.”"
allthatsinteresting....
allthatsinteresting....
A 2,900-Year-Old Factory That Produced Tyrian Purple — The Most Prized Dye Of The Ancient World — Has Been Found In Israel
Archaeologists in Tel Shiqmona uncovered the 2,900-year-old remains of a factory that produced the rare and expensive dye Tyrian purple.
allthatsinteresting.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"“In fact,” Shalvi told All That’s Interesting, “Tel Shiqmona yielded more purple-stained pottery fragments than all other ancient sites combined.”"
allthatsinteresting....
allthatsinteresting....
Human-animal combats (venationes) are well known from numerous written sources, inscriptions, and artworks scattered across the Roman Empire.
April 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Human-animal combats (venationes) are well known from numerous written sources, inscriptions, and artworks scattered across the Roman Empire.
Thanks to the Bible, we are all familiar with the census of Quirinius, which took place in Judea and Syria in 6 CE. But what was the actual purpose of the census? In his article, Jared Kreiner analyses provincial censuses in the Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus
April 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Thanks to the Bible, we are all familiar with the census of Quirinius, which took place in Judea and Syria in 6 CE. But what was the actual purpose of the census? In his article, Jared Kreiner analyses provincial censuses in the Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus
esterday, the results of a major aDNA study were published, analysing the genetic material of 210 skeletons buried in areas associated with Punic civilisation – from Spain and Sardinia, through Sicily, to the shores of modern-day Tunisia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
esterday, the results of a major aDNA study were published, analysing the genetic material of 210 skeletons buried in areas associated with Punic civilisation – from Spain and Sardinia, through Sicily, to the shores of modern-day Tunisia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Launching today - our biggest ever project! Sonic Heritage explores the sounds of the world’s most famous sights, with 270 UNESCO World Heritage sites and items of intangible heritage, all reimagined by artists to create a new way to experience these incredible spaces 🏛️🎧 citiesandmemory.com/heritage
April 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Launching today - our biggest ever project! Sonic Heritage explores the sounds of the world’s most famous sights, with 270 UNESCO World Heritage sites and items of intangible heritage, all reimagined by artists to create a new way to experience these incredible spaces 🏛️🎧 citiesandmemory.com/heritage