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Archaeology Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Monday September 09, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Durham Archaeologist Wins Prestigious British Academy Medal
OLD ELVET, England, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- Durham University issued the following news: * * * Professor Sarah Semple has been awarded the British Academy's 2024 Landscape Archaeology Medal for her pioneering research in the field. * * * Sarah, who works in our Department of Archaeology, is known for her explorations of early medieval interactions with and perceptions of the natural and human altered landscape. She has led on influential projects and publications, connected to early medieval Br  more

University College London: References to Ancient Britain Linked to Hostility Online
LONDON, England, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news: Political posts on social media that most frequently referenced ancient history tended to be more extreme, hostile and overwhelmingly negative in tone than average, finds a new study by researchers from UCL and the University of Edinburgh. Their study, published in PLOS One, scrutinised nearly 1.5 million posts using a combination of AI, computational and manual techniques and used a range of sentimen  more