#HalafTwitter: best book on the Neolithic of Southwest Asia or Anatolia published in the last 5-10 years: GO.
August 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#HalafTwitter: best book on the Neolithic of Southwest Asia or Anatolia published in the last 5-10 years: GO.
#HalafTwitter Holding everyone in this tiny community in my heart. 🖤
June 3, 2024 at 5:20 AM
#HalafTwitter Holding everyone in this tiny community in my heart. 🖤
Maybe I should resurrect the "Neolithic modernity" stuff I keep taking out of my ceramics chapter. #HalafTwitter
Linda Hurcombe discussing the Future of Prehistory, what Prehistory has to offer to Future, what Future prehistorians will talk about us and what is the future of @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social in her talk in the Future of Prehistory online event #Archaeology
April 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Maybe I should resurrect the "Neolithic modernity" stuff I keep taking out of my ceramics chapter. #HalafTwitter
See also my uncomfortable realization that Interpreting the Late Neolithic is now 12 years old. 😬 #HalafTwitter
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
See also my uncomfortable realization that Interpreting the Late Neolithic is now 12 years old. 😬 #HalafTwitter
#HalafTwitter Oh no! Very sad news! My condolences to everyone at the excavations at Kaman Kalehöyük, home of a legendarily strong team (and even a Japanese garden!).
Kaman Kalehoyuk: The death of renowned Japanese archaeologist Sachihiro Omura has been announced, aged 75.
July 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#HalafTwitter Oh no! Very sad news! My condolences to everyone at the excavations at Kaman Kalehöyük, home of a legendarily strong team (and even a Japanese garden!).
Very sorry to hear the news of the death of legendary archaeologist #PattyJoWatson, who, among other work, co-directed the first excavation of a Late Neolithic/Halaf site that held to Processual archaeology's methodological standards at Girikihaciyan in SE Türkiye. #HalafTwitter
August 3, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Very sorry to hear the news of the death of legendary archaeologist #PattyJoWatson, who, among other work, co-directed the first excavation of a Late Neolithic/Halaf site that held to Processual archaeology's methodological standards at Girikihaciyan in SE Türkiye. #HalafTwitter
Really wish I could talk to Olivier Nieuwenhuyse right now. It's not fair. #HalafTwitter 😪
October 4, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Really wish I could talk to Olivier Nieuwenhuyse right now. It's not fair. #HalafTwitter 😪
What's your favorite article on the 8.2 ky Event in Western Asia?? It seems like it had such a profound impact on the Late Neolithic, but it's weirdly underrpresented (I think?) in the lit. Anxious to hear your thoughts or lit recs.
Was just reading a ch from Ian Gilligan's book hmm. #HalafTwitter
Was just reading a ch from Ian Gilligan's book hmm. #HalafTwitter
December 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
What's your favorite article on the 8.2 ky Event in Western Asia?? It seems like it had such a profound impact on the Late Neolithic, but it's weirdly underrpresented (I think?) in the lit. Anxious to hear your thoughts or lit recs.
Was just reading a ch from Ian Gilligan's book hmm. #HalafTwitter
Was just reading a ch from Ian Gilligan's book hmm. #HalafTwitter
Looking at the 2022 R. Matthews and Fazeli Nashli open access book on Iran for JWare references, and found these citations of the Henricksons. The first time I met Bob I was in college and he was working at the Borders Books on Rockville Pike. He was so kind to me. <3 #HalafTwitter
October 4, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Looking at the 2022 R. Matthews and Fazeli Nashli open access book on Iran for JWare references, and found these citations of the Henricksons. The first time I met Bob I was in college and he was working at the Borders Books on Rockville Pike. He was so kind to me. <3 #HalafTwitter
I get to talk about the Nebra Sky Disk today in my first ever archaeoastronomy/ cultural astronomy class lecture! #HalafTwitter
April 5, 2024 at 5:31 PM
I get to talk about the Nebra Sky Disk today in my first ever archaeoastronomy/ cultural astronomy class lecture! #HalafTwitter
Are there any Natufian specialists out there who could answer some questions for me, please? #HalafTwitter
January 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Are there any Natufian specialists out there who could answer some questions for me, please? #HalafTwitter
#HalafTwitter Amazing!
PS friend was at Karahantepe yesterday, HOT D**M I don't know what to make of it.
PS friend was at Karahantepe yesterday, HOT D**M I don't know what to make of it.
New evidence for copper metallurgy in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺
How Anatolia’s last hunter-gatherers pioneered copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago - Türkiye Today
New findings in Anatolia show that hunter-gatherers were experimenting with copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early technology.
www.turkiyetoday.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#HalafTwitter Amazing!
PS friend was at Karahantepe yesterday, HOT D**M I don't know what to make of it.
PS friend was at Karahantepe yesterday, HOT D**M I don't know what to make of it.
OK someone somewhere posted something--maybe on a different site--about an obsidian mirror *with a handle* from a Neolithic site the other day. Where was it???? #HalafTwitter
September 13, 2024 at 5:09 PM
OK someone somewhere posted something--maybe on a different site--about an obsidian mirror *with a handle* from a Neolithic site the other day. Where was it???? #HalafTwitter
#HalafTwitter Old friends from Domuztepe! Some of the only images we have showing how Halaf people depicted themselves.
June 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#HalafTwitter Old friends from Domuztepe! Some of the only images we have showing how Halaf people depicted themselves.
AUROCHS!! #Zooarchaeology #HalafTwitter
I know I’m not team bovid, but it would take a heart of stone not to admire this 10,600 year old Aurochs from Vig in Denmark. #archaeology 🏺
October 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
AUROCHS!! #Zooarchaeology #HalafTwitter
I feel like it's 1930 in so many different ways. 👀
BUT check out the quotes by Heggerty about his competing hypothesis in the Times article.
I'm surprised he didn't bring up our little bulls.
BUT check out the quotes by Heggerty about his competing hypothesis in the Times article.
I'm surprised he didn't bring up our little bulls.
February 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
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/...
Oooh looks like there are some new spicy Halaf articles out! I haven't read it yet, but I'm guessing the one by Garfinkel (of Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture) on secret societies will be...either really cool or really divisive, depends on how he actually engaged the anthro lit. #HalafTwitter
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Oooh looks like there are some new spicy Halaf articles out! I haven't read it yet, but I'm guessing the one by Garfinkel (of Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture) on secret societies will be...either really cool or really divisive, depends on how he actually engaged the anthro lit. #HalafTwitter
Per my post the other day, and the Pre-Print I posted last week.
I repeat: it really is 1930 in so many ways. (The little blurb from Reich at the end of the Times press release claiming that it actually proves past diversity failed to mention their Yamnaya pop replacement pubs.)
#HalafTwitter
I repeat: it really is 1930 in so many ways. (The little blurb from Reich at the end of the Times press release claiming that it actually proves past diversity failed to mention their Yamnaya pop replacement pubs.)
#HalafTwitter
Another day, another Harvard genetics paper on the whereabouts of an (I really stress this) purely *imaginary “Indo-European homeland” - published in Nature, to the applause of alt-right and white supremacists the world over, but of course, all in the name of “good science”..
February 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Per my post the other day, and the Pre-Print I posted last week.
I repeat: it really is 1930 in so many ways. (The little blurb from Reich at the end of the Times press release claiming that it actually proves past diversity failed to mention their Yamnaya pop replacement pubs.)
#HalafTwitter
I repeat: it really is 1930 in so many ways. (The little blurb from Reich at the end of the Times press release claiming that it actually proves past diversity failed to mention their Yamnaya pop replacement pubs.)
#HalafTwitter
Feeling extremely sad over the end of my latest teaching contract, my lab, and my great students, which I loved, and the big hopeless void of whatever comes next.
Please tell me some interesting archaeology, astronomy, or critter news to take my brain off this hellscape of a world. #HalafTwitter 🖤
Please tell me some interesting archaeology, astronomy, or critter news to take my brain off this hellscape of a world. #HalafTwitter 🖤
July 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Feeling extremely sad over the end of my latest teaching contract, my lab, and my great students, which I loved, and the big hopeless void of whatever comes next.
Please tell me some interesting archaeology, astronomy, or critter news to take my brain off this hellscape of a world. #HalafTwitter 🖤
Please tell me some interesting archaeology, astronomy, or critter news to take my brain off this hellscape of a world. #HalafTwitter 🖤
#HalafTwitter We weren't the first!
📰 >12,000-year-old skull from north-west Italy confirmed as Europe's oldest cranial modification, indicating head shaping was practiced during the Upper Palaeolithic
#ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/08/euro...
#ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social
archaeologymag.com/2025/08/euro...
Europe’s oldest cranial modification found in Italian cave
'Oddly shaped head' left in Italian cave 12,500 years ago is Europe's oldest known case of cranial modification, study finds
archaeologymag.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#HalafTwitter We weren't the first!
You know what I love? I love when certain official Insta pages for certain very large & important excavations in Türkiye post pics of event stages w/rows of men & not a single woman in sight. A site famous for women's representation but modern women are invisible in public discourse!! #HalafTwitter
November 21, 2023 at 8:03 PM
You know what I love? I love when certain official Insta pages for certain very large & important excavations in Türkiye post pics of event stages w/rows of men & not a single woman in sight. A site famous for women's representation but modern women are invisible in public discourse!! #HalafTwitter
MARCH. MAMMAL. MADNESS. #2026MMM
I've learned so much from so many different people in archaeology, astronomy, env sci, Tweeps in Türkiye, so many different areas! I've connected with #HalafTwitter, way back Arecibo Cats, shared my beloved Cmdr Orion's life with her many friends, & now Italy.
I've learned so much from so many different people in archaeology, astronomy, env sci, Tweeps in Türkiye, so many different areas! I've connected with #HalafTwitter, way back Arecibo Cats, shared my beloved Cmdr Orion's life with her many friends, & now Italy.
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
MARCH. MAMMAL. MADNESS. #2026MMM
I've learned so much from so many different people in archaeology, astronomy, env sci, Tweeps in Türkiye, so many different areas! I've connected with #HalafTwitter, way back Arecibo Cats, shared my beloved Cmdr Orion's life with her many friends, & now Italy.
I've learned so much from so many different people in archaeology, astronomy, env sci, Tweeps in Türkiye, so many different areas! I've connected with #HalafTwitter, way back Arecibo Cats, shared my beloved Cmdr Orion's life with her many friends, & now Italy.
I've been discussing w/my students that there are 3 real stories w/the SW Asian Neolithic:
--Pyrotech (bread, plaster, ceramics, metal)
--Something shifting in the way people conceptualize both their relationships with Nature and gender (part of the same thing)
--Collapse at 8.2 ky
#HalafTwitter
--Pyrotech (bread, plaster, ceramics, metal)
--Something shifting in the way people conceptualize both their relationships with Nature and gender (part of the same thing)
--Collapse at 8.2 ky
#HalafTwitter
March 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I've been discussing w/my students that there are 3 real stories w/the SW Asian Neolithic:
--Pyrotech (bread, plaster, ceramics, metal)
--Something shifting in the way people conceptualize both their relationships with Nature and gender (part of the same thing)
--Collapse at 8.2 ky
#HalafTwitter
--Pyrotech (bread, plaster, ceramics, metal)
--Something shifting in the way people conceptualize both their relationships with Nature and gender (part of the same thing)
--Collapse at 8.2 ky
#HalafTwitter