Alex Geurds

Back at pretty @UniLeiden, following a productive visit to @unibirmingham led by @HesterBijl

Weeping willow, dancing in the wind. Spring has sprung at the Oxford Canal ⁦@Oxford_waters⁩ 🌱🌤️😎

@oliviervanburen Lol. Awesome counter-example of globalizing cultural icons. One wonders if it was Rome, Paris, or Washington? Either way, probably not Egypte…

⁦@ArcheoAlex⁩ what about the needle of san miguel tulancingo?

Mexica ocelotl cuauhxicalli, serpent head and Linares’ alebrijes on the SS23 collection of the sports clothing brand Casablanca, which itself of Moroccan and French in background. Thoughts ⁦@LeoLopezLujan⁩ ⁦@MusTemploMayor⁩ ⁦@mna_inah⁩ 😊?

Tomorrow, Tuesday 4pm GMT, very happy to have David Mixter @dwmixter @AnthroBing speaking on Maya resilience and urbanism for the @UniofOxford Americanist Archaeology Seminar @school_of_arch @ajtzib @davidwengrow @chen_guopeng #mesoamerica #maya #Belize . All very welcome!!

Excited about my trip from @school_of_arch & @WolfsonCollege to @ArchAncHistLeic this week and hopefully connect up there with one of my all-time favourite Caribbean Archaeologists @samsonalice3!

Tomorrow at ⁦@school_of_arch⁩ ⁦@UniofOxford⁩ ⁦@chen_guopeng⁩, Panos Kratimenos (⁦@UCLarchaeology⁩) speaking about critical cartography and archaeology for the Americanist Archaeology Seminar #Mesoamerica

Some of my friends are just awesome. Like ⁦@FHReidsma⁩, who’s working on method development for Paleolithic uses of fire, and now has this epic cover to brag about ⁦@LeidenArchaeo⁩ ⁦@tommyhigham⁩ ⁦@chirikure⁩

@HesterBijl @LeidenPsy @OudeSterrewacht @SmitsHermelijn @LUMC_Leiden @LeidenArchaeo Dankjewel @HesterBijl! En nu maar fijn onderzoek en bestuur combineren 💪🏼🔥

@Jorrit_Kelder …Water in de sloot? Oh nee, dat was de avond hè.

Morgenrood…

Listening to Julia Guernsey at the #mesomeetings @UTAustin @UT_AAH @ajtzib, talking about Pacific coast mangroves, salt making, and Izapa. Looks familiar @MarieAndHerPots? Check out this Relaciones Geografias map, now at the Nettie Benson @utlibraries

Very excited about my 📦 today! @UChicagoHum @James_A_Doyle @DumbartonOaks @UTexasPress

@MSUanthropology Welcome, Ethan. Hopefully until soon at Burlington House then! @SocAntiquaries

Congratulations to Dr. Ethan Watrall for being the first MSU professor to be selected as a fellow by the Society of Antiquaries. STORY: bit.ly/3HO8fu7 #MSUSocialScience #MSUAnthropology

@koryoinleiden Het valt dus nog wel mee met het KOG als er ook dit soort scherpe pennen rondlopen.

Heerlijke column.

@MichaelESmith @Jorrit_Kelder This is when Twitter is bliss

@Jorrit_Kelder @ArcheoAlex Thanks for this context!

Is anyone else out there sick of papers that infer environmental causality using the method of eyeballing the fit between a historical event and a wiggly graph? Why is this still acceptable to journals? nature.com/articles/s4158…

@chirikure @tommyhigham So unrelenting @chirikure 😉

@tommyhigham when is the next one coming?

Still have to pinch myself when people send me pics of my book on sale in a real bookshop!! Thanks for sharing!

My DPhil student ⁦@chen_guopeng⁩ is working on causality in archaeology. For a cautionary tale of how archaeology might fall into correlation-causation traps: check out ⁦@TylerVigen⁩ and his fun graphs… #arewesureaboutthis? tylervigen.com/spurious-corre…

Sad news, to close a long and eventful life. Ferdinand would come to Leiden and simply say “Jetzt werde Ich ihnen Mahl etwas lustiges sagen..“ and off he went, discussing Seler, codices, and Maximilian, students at the tip of their seats, with Maarten smiling alongside ❤️

Inaugural volume in an exciting series!