Archaeology of prehistoric Southwest Asia. Network Science and material culture. Kinship studies, multispecies archaeology and anthropology. Currently postdoctoral researcher with AviArch@UniTO.
Camilla Mazzucato
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#AviArch news! Paper by Paperini et al on the classification of duck bones using AI just publishes in Journal of Archaeological Sciences!
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‘If anything, it’s a bit surprising that cows have taken so long to be added to the tool-using club. In 2009, octopuses were seen carrying around coconut shells. At least since Darwin, there has been much tedious wrangling over what counts as tool use.’
Liam Shaw:
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Bologna Antifascista Sempre
Two for joy
What a wonderful week of learning and discussion at the PAASTA Bioinformatics Summer School 2026! 🧬💻🌍
Thanks to all the instructors for generously sharing their expertise. Thanks to the participants whose enthusiasm, questions, and discussions made the summer school a vibrant event.
"The university sector is also one of the last places in society where critical ideas are discussed and debated, and where young people can be exposed to such ideas...No wonder we now have endless media stories about university education being a waste of money"
New article from the AviArch Project (Ramazan Parmaksız, Beatrice Demarchi, Lisa Yeomans) on the archaeological avifauna of Turkey and the identification of its remains (bone and eggshell) using palaeoproteomics 🦆🦢🐦 @archaeobiomics.bsky.social #Aviarch
The EAA votes are out
The great majority of our archaeological community has voted in favour of the petitions raised by #concernedEAA. We asked for a democratic process, we asked for accountability, and for the need to acknowledge the horrific genocidal policy of Israel against Gaza.
In early medieval England, kinship was central to social organisation, determining your social position and possibilities for marriage #SpousesDay 👫
However, ancient DNA suggests social relationships were often prioritised over biological relatedness.
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🏺 #Archaeology
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In the last decade, the use of neural networks has accelerated the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems into archaeology. These systems…
Kinship can be difficult to discern in the archaeological record, but the study of ancient DNA offers a useful window into one form of kinship: biological relatedness. Here, the authors explore possible kin connections at the post-Roman site of Worth Matravers in south-west England.
Il Governo vuole stravolgere le regole sulla caccia: più mesi per sparare, aumento delle specie cacciabili, meno aree protette, fucili anche in spiaggia e nei boschi, migliaia di uccelli catturati rin...
