Simon Wyatt-Spratt
@swyattspratt.bsky.social
#Archaeology PhD student at the University of Sydney researching the lithic technologies of the ancestors of Indigenous Australians
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5976-3614
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5976-3614
Hello from the USYD Archaeology Hub!
April 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Hello from the USYD Archaeology Hub!
Probably the most interesting thing about the way Indigenous Australia cores have been illustrated is that they keep getting flipped up and down depending on whether the author thinks they were a tool or a core.
January 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Probably the most interesting thing about the way Indigenous Australia cores have been illustrated is that they keep getting flipped up and down depending on whether the author thinks they were a tool or a core.
While most papers don't give an explicit definition, the term has been defined 100+ times in some strikingly different ways since the 20th century. 4/5
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
While most papers don't give an explicit definition, the term has been defined 100+ times in some strikingly different ways since the 20th century. 4/5
This isn't just about correctly counting cores, it impacts the way we interpret raw material use, artefact use, site use and wider patterns of technology and reveals how different archaeologists think about lithics. 3/5
January 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This isn't just about correctly counting cores, it impacts the way we interpret raw material use, artefact use, site use and wider patterns of technology and reveals how different archaeologists think about lithics. 3/5
It looks at the different terms and definitions archaeologists have used for "core" or core types in Australia. Isn't this just pure pedantry I hear you asking? 2/5
January 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It looks at the different terms and definitions archaeologists have used for "core" or core types in Australia. Isn't this just pure pedantry I hear you asking? 2/5
3rd & final session
- @touremily.bsky.social and Kabir Manandhar demonstrating new computational tools for understanding ancient scripts (great slide format too)
- Andrew Turner and colleagues on using phylogenetics to trace the evolution Latin manuscript texts
- @touremily.bsky.social and Kabir Manandhar demonstrating new computational tools for understanding ancient scripts (great slide format too)
- Andrew Turner and colleagues on using phylogenetics to trace the evolution Latin manuscript texts
November 29, 2024 at 4:51 AM
3rd & final session
- @touremily.bsky.social and Kabir Manandhar demonstrating new computational tools for understanding ancient scripts (great slide format too)
- Andrew Turner and colleagues on using phylogenetics to trace the evolution Latin manuscript texts
- @touremily.bsky.social and Kabir Manandhar demonstrating new computational tools for understanding ancient scripts (great slide format too)
- Andrew Turner and colleagues on using phylogenetics to trace the evolution Latin manuscript texts
2nd session chaired by @touremily.bsky.social
- Karen Thompson on solving knotty problems about khipu with multiple datasets
- @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social on similarities between historical research and data cleaning and analysis
- Michelle Richards on pXRFs, Big Data and Best Practice
- Karen Thompson on solving knotty problems about khipu with multiple datasets
- @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social on similarities between historical research and data cleaning and analysis
- Michelle Richards on pXRFs, Big Data and Best Practice
November 29, 2024 at 3:19 AM
2nd session chaired by @touremily.bsky.social
- Karen Thompson on solving knotty problems about khipu with multiple datasets
- @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social on similarities between historical research and data cleaning and analysis
- Michelle Richards on pXRFs, Big Data and Best Practice
- Karen Thompson on solving knotty problems about khipu with multiple datasets
- @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social on similarities between historical research and data cleaning and analysis
- Michelle Richards on pXRFs, Big Data and Best Practice
Great first session
- The scale, challenges and rewards of modelling and visualising the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Tom Keep's review of 3D modelling (and the project he's distracted himself from his PhD work, which spoke to me personally)
- Using micro-CT to explore historic dentistry practices
- The scale, challenges and rewards of modelling and visualising the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Tom Keep's review of 3D modelling (and the project he's distracted himself from his PhD work, which spoke to me personally)
- Using micro-CT to explore historic dentistry practices
November 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Great first session
- The scale, challenges and rewards of modelling and visualising the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Tom Keep's review of 3D modelling (and the project he's distracted himself from his PhD work, which spoke to me personally)
- Using micro-CT to explore historic dentistry practices
- The scale, challenges and rewards of modelling and visualising the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
- Tom Keep's review of 3D modelling (and the project he's distracted himself from his PhD work, which spoke to me personally)
- Using micro-CT to explore historic dentistry practices
Looking forward to a day of digital #archaeology organised by @caa-australasia.bsky.social. There are still spaces available to attend remotely: events.humanitix.com/de-coding-di...
November 28, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Looking forward to a day of digital #archaeology organised by @caa-australasia.bsky.social. There are still spaces available to attend remotely: events.humanitix.com/de-coding-di...
I’ve heard of palaeontologists, palaeobotanists, palaeoecologists, and palaeographers but I’ve never heard of “paleoarchaeologists” until today.
December 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
I’ve heard of palaeontologists, palaeobotanists, palaeoecologists, and palaeographers but I’ve never heard of “paleoarchaeologists” until today.
A big thank you to both to @joshemmitt for his editorial patience and to my supervisor @AmyMosigWay for reading and commenting on a much, much too long first draft and for the occasional bit of (requested/needed) brutal honesty. 7/7
December 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
A big thank you to both to @joshemmitt for his editorial patience and to my supervisor @AmyMosigWay for reading and commenting on a much, much too long first draft and for the occasional bit of (requested/needed) brutal honesty. 7/7
3) The archetypal 3D lithic analysis paper would be a 3D landmark morphometrics study on an Acheulean handaxe assemblage from Europe (maybe west Asia or eastern/southern Africa). It’s probably got an experimental component and it’s likely to be looking at hominid cognition. 6/7
December 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
3) The archetypal 3D lithic analysis paper would be a 3D landmark morphometrics study on an Acheulean handaxe assemblage from Europe (maybe west Asia or eastern/southern Africa). It’s probably got an experimental component and it’s likely to be looking at hominid cognition. 6/7
2) While the field has really diversified over the last 5 years the keyword analysis still shows gaps. Analysis is heavily concentrated on techno-morphological studies of a few types of ‘standardised’ artefacts, impacting on where studies are carried out. 5/7
December 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
2) While the field has really diversified over the last 5 years the keyword analysis still shows gaps. Analysis is heavily concentrated on techno-morphological studies of a few types of ‘standardised’ artefacts, impacting on where studies are carried out. 5/7
Here’s three of the key findings. 1) The earliest 3D lithic analysis paper I’ve been able to find is from 2002 published in @AntiquityJ. Since then 200+ papers have been published that use 3D models to either analyse or illustrate stone artefacts. 4/7
December 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Here’s three of the key findings. 1) The earliest 3D lithic analysis paper I’ve been able to find is from 2002 published in @AntiquityJ. Since then 200+ papers have been published that use 3D models to either analyse or illustrate stone artefacts. 4/7
I used a bibliometric analysis to explore the social, intellectual and conceptual development of the field. I did this in #RStats mostly with the @bibliometrix package. This is my first coding attempt, so sorry for all the solecisms contained within:3/7
github.com/simon-wyatt-sp…
github.com/simon-wyatt-sp…
December 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
I used a bibliometric analysis to explore the social, intellectual and conceptual development of the field. I did this in #RStats mostly with the @bibliometrix package. This is my first coding attempt, so sorry for all the solecisms contained within:3/7
github.com/simon-wyatt-sp…
github.com/simon-wyatt-sp…
But why should you care about this niche topic in an already niche field? 1) 3D modelling has been described as having a revolutionary impact on lithic analysis, 2) it's increasingly common, 3) how 3D modelling is used isn’t just a simple choice in analytical tools. 2/7
December 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
But why should you care about this niche topic in an already niche field? 1) 3D modelling has been described as having a revolutionary impact on lithic analysis, 2) it's increasingly common, 3) how 3D modelling is used isn’t just a simple choice in analytical tools. 2/7
My first sole-authored paper and the first paper from my PhD has just been published in @JournalCAA, ‘After the Revolution: A Review of 3D Modelling as a Tool for Stone Analysis' (OA).1/7
doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.1…
doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.1…
December 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
My first sole-authored paper and the first paper from my PhD has just been published in @JournalCAA, ‘After the Revolution: A Review of 3D Modelling as a Tool for Stone Analysis' (OA).1/7
doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.1…
doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.1…
Amusing text on your find bags is all well and good, but real eccentricity is when you draw your finds on your finds bags.
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December 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Amusing text on your find bags is all well and good, but real eccentricity is when you draw your finds on your finds bags.
x.com/sparkliferous/…
x.com/sparkliferous/…
No geometric microliths though.
December 18, 2024 at 2:14 AM
No geometric microliths though.
A proper assemblage.
December 18, 2024 at 2:14 AM
A proper assemblage.
There was a lot of them
December 18, 2024 at 2:14 AM
There was a lot of them
It was a lovely surprise to see giant Bondi points embedded in the footpath at Rouse Hill to represent the area’s Darug history.
December 18, 2024 at 2:14 AM
It was a lovely surprise to see giant Bondi points embedded in the footpath at Rouse Hill to represent the area’s Darug history.
For #FlintFriday another possibly Egyptian handaxe the teaching collection from Department of Archaeology at @UsydSOPHI. Why and how we have it are questions no one has the answer to.
December 18, 2024 at 2:12 AM
For #FlintFriday another possibly Egyptian handaxe the teaching collection from Department of Archaeology at @UsydSOPHI. Why and how we have it are questions no one has the answer to.
For #FlintFriday a 30cm long Levallois blade core (possibly) from the “Wady El Sheik”, Egypt. Possibly collected in 1900. Definitely now part of the archaeology teaching collection @UsydSOPHI.
December 18, 2024 at 2:12 AM
For #FlintFriday a 30cm long Levallois blade core (possibly) from the “Wady El Sheik”, Egypt. Possibly collected in 1900. Definitely now part of the archaeology teaching collection @UsydSOPHI.