#HalafNotTwitter Look at these obsidian blades!
Great trip at Hokkaido, Japan and work on the microblade industries at the Shirataki Geopark #obsidian #UpperPaleolithic
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
#HalafNotTwitter Look at these obsidian blades!
Look, the Mamdani sign generator works.
#HalafNotTwitter
#HalafNotTwitter
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Look, the Mamdani sign generator works.
#HalafNotTwitter
#HalafNotTwitter
@curiousdynamics.bsky.social Respectfully, I'm going to suggest games aren't appropriate for learning about Neolithic egalitarian communities. Self-aggrandizement is discouraged in egalitarian communities where cooperation, rather than competition, is highly valued. #HalafNotTwitter
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
@curiousdynamics.bsky.social Respectfully, I'm going to suggest games aren't appropriate for learning about Neolithic egalitarian communities. Self-aggrandizement is discouraged in egalitarian communities where cooperation, rather than competition, is highly valued. #HalafNotTwitter
Josh Pollard kicking off today’s Neolithic Studies Group conference on the theme of kinship #NSGKinship
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I need to read the paper asap, bc I was under the impression that previous aDNA showed the bodies buried under the floors of the "history houses" weren't biologically related to each other. Can any of you clarify?
Featuring some familiar names!
#HalafNotTwitter
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Featuring some familiar names!
#HalafNotTwitter
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Ancient 'female-centered' society thrived 9,000 years ago in proto-city in Turkey
Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.
www.livescience.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I need to read the paper asap, bc I was under the impression that previous aDNA showed the bodies buried under the floors of the "history houses" weren't biologically related to each other. Can any of you clarify?
Featuring some familiar names!
#HalafNotTwitter
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Featuring some familiar names!
#HalafNotTwitter
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Pardon, #HalafNotTwitter, I forgot we've escaped.
June 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Pardon, #HalafNotTwitter, I forgot we've escaped.
Literally me with every paper ever written about Domuztepe. #HalafNotTwitter
I have become my (academic) mom:
Oh, this looks like a relevant paper!
Oh, I already saved a copy.
Oh, I seem to have read it...probably just skimmed it.
Oh, I highlighted and commented throughout, but don't remember anything. 🤦🏻♀️
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #GPDBrain
Oh, this looks like a relevant paper!
Oh, I already saved a copy.
Oh, I seem to have read it...probably just skimmed it.
Oh, I highlighted and commented throughout, but don't remember anything. 🤦🏻♀️
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #GPDBrain
June 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Literally me with every paper ever written about Domuztepe. #HalafNotTwitter
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
#HalafNotTwitter Researcher: Ah, yes, that's the Halaf cultural phenomenon, where only 1/6 largest sites has been adequately excavated (they ate each other!), 2 are on conflict-ridden borders, one is underwater, & one is just very sad.
#HalafNotTwitter Researcher: Ah, yes, that's the Halaf cultural phenomenon, where only 1/6 largest sites has been adequately excavated (they ate each other!), 2 are on conflict-ridden borders, one is underwater, & one is just very sad.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Early medievalist: Ah, yes, that's the seventh century. It's not so much a gap as you have to cross reference multiple later sources from different genres, consult a 19th century German thesis, get the archaeological data...
Early medievalist: Ah, yes, that's the seventh century. It's not so much a gap as you have to cross reference multiple later sources from different genres, consult a 19th century German thesis, get the archaeological data...
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
May 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
#HalafNotTwitter Researcher: Ah, yes, that's the Halaf cultural phenomenon, where only 1/6 largest sites has been adequately excavated (they ate each other!), 2 are on conflict-ridden borders, one is underwater, & one is just very sad.
#HalafNotTwitter Researcher: Ah, yes, that's the Halaf cultural phenomenon, where only 1/6 largest sites has been adequately excavated (they ate each other!), 2 are on conflict-ridden borders, one is underwater, & one is just very sad.
I should know the answer to this already, but I don't: is Neo-Lithics just not publishing any more?? I was just trying to look up the latest issue at ex-oriente but it only runs up to 2021. What's up?? #HalafNotTwitter
@jensnotroff.com do you know??
@jensnotroff.com do you know??
December 11, 2024 at 11:54 PM
I should know the answer to this already, but I don't: is Neo-Lithics just not publishing any more?? I was just trying to look up the latest issue at ex-oriente but it only runs up to 2021. What's up?? #HalafNotTwitter
@jensnotroff.com do you know??
@jensnotroff.com do you know??
Tell Sabi Abyad and Umm el-Marea/Deir Hafr under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham control. #HalafNotTwitter
PS I am as confused as anyone about who all these different groups are.
PS I am as confused as anyone about who all these different groups are.
December 8, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Tell Sabi Abyad and Umm el-Marea/Deir Hafr under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham control. #HalafNotTwitter
PS I am as confused as anyone about who all these different groups are.
PS I am as confused as anyone about who all these different groups are.
#HalafNotTwitter!!!!!
Making "focaccia" in Neolithic SW Asia 🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses
www.nature.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:49 PM
#HalafNotTwitter!!!!!
Hey #HalafNotTwitter, check out this Ubaid figurine from Bahra 1 in Kuwait. What do you think of the mouth?? Mid-6th mil. Courtesy the glorious Elif Denel.
www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/11...
www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/11...
Kuwaiti-Polish team discovers unique Ubaid figurine
This year's finds by Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission at Bahra 1, a prehistoric site in the Al-Subiyah desert of Northern Kuwait.
www.archaeology.wiki
November 29, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Hey #HalafNotTwitter, check out this Ubaid figurine from Bahra 1 in Kuwait. What do you think of the mouth?? Mid-6th mil. Courtesy the glorious Elif Denel.
www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/11...
www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/11...
MY CERAMICS CHAPTER!!! #HalafNotTwitter
November 21, 2024 at 3:47 AM
MY CERAMICS CHAPTER!!! #HalafNotTwitter
Halaf/Late Neolithic peoe, where are you?? @prehistoryteller.bsky.social is doing a thing. #HalafNotTwitter
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Halaf/Late Neolithic peoe, where are you?? @prehistoryteller.bsky.social is doing a thing. #HalafNotTwitter
!!!! #HalafNotTwitter
Someone built an application about the so-called Stone Mounds of SE Turkey (I guess for World Neolithic Congress), I downloaded it and it looks nice! 🏺
November 12, 2024 at 11:18 AM
!!!! #HalafNotTwitter
Everyone at the World Neolithic Congress in Urfa, tell me how it's going!! 😪 #HalafNotTwitter
November 4, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Everyone at the World Neolithic Congress in Urfa, tell me how it's going!! 😪 #HalafNotTwitter
LOOK AT THE STONE VESSELS. OMG. Really sort of changes one's view of the Ceramic Neolithic, eh. #HalafNotTwitter
You know this: the kitchen a mess, dishes not done …
Good for us, though! This fascinating 🏺 find from #Karahantepe offers a glimpse of a #kitchen situation, stone vessels and stone plates, at the beginning of food production in early #Neolithic SE #Anatolia.
📷 Mehmet Nuri Ersoy
Good for us, though! This fascinating 🏺 find from #Karahantepe offers a glimpse of a #kitchen situation, stone vessels and stone plates, at the beginning of food production in early #Neolithic SE #Anatolia.
📷 Mehmet Nuri Ersoy
October 20, 2024 at 3:33 PM
LOOK AT THE STONE VESSELS. OMG. Really sort of changes one's view of the Ceramic Neolithic, eh. #HalafNotTwitter
Right?? I didn't expect that. There's so much bull symbolism floating around in so many different areas that it seems like these might make ideal camp or structure sites, maybe?? I do wonder if the Heck cattle do the same thing. #HalafNotTwitter
October 11, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Right?? I didn't expect that. There's so much bull symbolism floating around in so many different areas that it seems like these might make ideal camp or structure sites, maybe?? I do wonder if the Heck cattle do the same thing. #HalafNotTwitter
#HalafNotTwitter Aurochs news!!
Here's a question: are there Neolithic populations anywhere who were building their round houses inside the aurochs "bull pits" described here?? It seems like that's something we might be able to figure out stratigraphically. How big were they? #HalafTwitter
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Herd of tauros to be released into Highlands to recreate aurochs effect
Large, cattle-like tauros will shape landscape and strengthen wildlife as huge, extinct herbivore once did
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2024 at 4:29 PM
#HalafNotTwitter Aurochs news!!
#HalafNotTwitter I swear Ididn't choose this Friday Writing Group seat intentionally.
September 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
#HalafNotTwitter I swear Ididn't choose this Friday Writing Group seat intentionally.
I like how you're going with the very sensible #Halafsky and I've been doing #HalafNotTwitter like a big ol' grumpypants. 😅
March 4, 2024 at 12:50 PM
I like how you're going with the very sensible #Halafsky and I've been doing #HalafNotTwitter like a big ol' grumpypants. 😅
Oh wait, that's ground obsidian and not burnished ceramics?! Halaf people made tiny delicate ground obsidian vessels but there isn't a publication that talks about them alone; to my knowledge, they onky appear in Elizabeth Healey's work (and I think we have a fragment, not sure). #HalafNotTwitter
January 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Oh wait, that's ground obsidian and not burnished ceramics?! Halaf people made tiny delicate ground obsidian vessels but there isn't a publication that talks about them alone; to my knowledge, they onky appear in Elizabeth Healey's work (and I think we have a fragment, not sure). #HalafNotTwitter
#HalafNotTwitter Per onliNeolithic on That Other Site, there's a one day symposium at Anamed Istanbul to honor Mihriman Özbaşaran on 13 Feb. Program reposted from @/onliNeolithic which isn't represented here (I think). @/seramandalina says it will prob be broadcast online but they're not sure yet.
January 11, 2024 at 9:28 PM
#HalafNotTwitter Per onliNeolithic on That Other Site, there's a one day symposium at Anamed Istanbul to honor Mihriman Özbaşaran on 13 Feb. Program reposted from @/onliNeolithic which isn't represented here (I think). @/seramandalina says it will prob be broadcast online but they're not sure yet.
For what we knew at the time it was painted, yes. Some of the vessels from Domuztepe have changed that, so I would add more elevated granaries, pebble surfaces, trees, large vessels in exterior spaces, and maybe reed or wood pens or fences. #HalafNotTwitter
January 3, 2024 at 3:55 PM
For what we knew at the time it was painted, yes. Some of the vessels from Domuztepe have changed that, so I would add more elevated granaries, pebble surfaces, trees, large vessels in exterior spaces, and maybe reed or wood pens or fences. #HalafNotTwitter