Alex Slucky

“And I cried. For myself. For this woman talkin’ about love. For all the women who have ever stretched their bodies out anticipating civilization and finding ruins.” By Sonia Sanchez, from “Just Don’t Never Give Up on Love,” Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

"Monuments of Merv: Traditional Buildings of the Karakum" eds.Georgina Herrman, Hugh Kennedy PUB: Society of Antiquaries of London Available in Open access as PDF. library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…

Of Dishes and Discourse Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food Geert Jan van Gelder. Routledge 1999 #OpenAccess Introduction & Front Matter PDF 🎯 api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400… Preview PDF ⬇️ doi.org/10.4324/978131…

#OpenAccess History of Civilizations of Central Asia UNESCO PUB Volume 1 unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… Volume 2 unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… Volume 3 unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… Volume 4 unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… Volume 5 unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… Volume 6 unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0…

The festival “Abrezagan” was observed in Iran, Bactria, and Sogdiana on the last day of the 11th month of the year. This festival involved water splashing - people would splash water from bowls or buckets on each other.

We have a bioarch + theory session at @TAG2025_York this year! To submit an abstract find our session “Molecular theory or Theoretical Mooecules” tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-pa…

🌱On our #AralSea expeditions, Sayyora discovered the power of the black goji plant. Now she’s transforming that research into green jobs—growing 500 seedlings & creating sustainable cultivation methods for youth in remote communities. #MondayMotivation🔗 go.undp.org/UWm

@eranudturan YES!! I will email you

Reminder that we are always looking for new team members to expand our group and allow us to do more! Get in touch if you’re interested in recreating the world of early medieval Sogdiana!

Earliest Use of Psychoactive and Medicinal Plant ‘Harmal’ Identified in Iron Age Arabia - A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind a plant still used in traditional medicine and household fumigation practices today gea.mpg.de/153598/earlies…

A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B gathers leading voices in archaeology, evolutionary biology, & plant science to redefine one of the most debated concepts in biology & the social sciences: #domestication Learn more gea.mpg.de/150331/new-spe…

What is domestication exactly, how did it occur, and what role did humans really play in developing the first crops and livestock? The upcoming book "Nature’s Greatest Success" tackles all these questions, presenting a new paradigm of domestication gea.mpg.de/149905/new-boo…

The way 'Equal Rites' by Terry Pratchett written in 1987 holds up as a fantastic critique of 2024 gender essentialism is striking...

#NewRelease #OpenAccess Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region eds. Ninja Bumann et al. De Gruyter 2025 ⬇️ #contents" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">degruyter.com/document/doi/1… doi.org/10.1515/978311…

Snippets of Rome🇮🇹

@itsrapha83 Love the lake ohrid church shot!

Mandatory Europe Appreciation post

Delighted to be awarded seed funding by the @BritishAcademy_ & Humboldt Foundation for our workshop and collaborative project next year on 'Human-Animal Relationships, Extractivism and the Anthropocene' stay tuned for details! #envhums thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti…

Pastry from c. 700-750, found at Astana near Turfan in Xinjiang. It is neat when real food is found in excavations. idp.bl.uk/collection/69E…

The Taliban has just banned Afghan women from attending nursing school. Imagine: you cannot pursue any education, even healthcare, because of the sole reason that you are a woman. We are witnessing the erasure of women in real-time. It is beyond horror.

I've been awarded an @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant to be held at @UniWarszawski Stay tuned for the #INASIA project studying the Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Central Asia.

anti-intellectualism is one of the main characteristics of fascism by the way

The Humanities Doctorate predates the medical degree by CENTURIES