Yorke Rowan
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Archaeologist, anthropologist and prehistorian of SW Asia. Research Professor @uchicago @ISAC_UChicago @KitesinContext @GalilPrehistory
University of Chicago
Joined April 2009
Learning about cultural heritage and protection of ancient sites in Jordan with @mokersel from @DePaulU @ISAC_UChicago
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Next week in Chicago (Wed, 7 pm, Nov. 5), at @ISAC_UChicago, on looting and the consequences of demand for arch objects by Morag Kersel @mokersel "Landscape, Loss, and Looting. Lessons Learned at an Early Bronze Age Site, Jordan".
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Jordan, like many nations, faces a persistent and complex problem of looting driven by the demand for cultural artifacts. The illicit excavation an...
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Postdoc position, Copenhagen. Archaeology: Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia 🤩 For further details see
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Wow that is wild I wonder who has control of the White House, Senate, and the House???
Johnson: If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.
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Why Care About Culture When the World Is on Fire? @mokersel introduces the latest excellent issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice
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With the world facing war, climate change, pandemics, and civil unrest, it’s natural to question the importance of preserving culture. Why should we care about archaeology, monuments, traditions,...
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D.C. could've been a state by now if it wasn't for these two
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📢 Two May events at the PEF! 1) "The Beth-Zatha Vase & The Gospel of St. John: Memories of Pagan Jerusalem," with @nathanaelvette 2) "Lessons Learned? Looting, Loss & Landscape at an Early Bronze Age Site, Jordan," with @mokersel More information below 👇
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Next meeting of the #CPACommittee is May 20-23, 2025 - to consider a new request from Vietnam and review the proposed extensions of the U.S. #culturalproperty agreements with Chile, Costa Rica, Italy, and Morocco. @USEmbassyVN @EmbajadaEEUUcl @USEmbassySJo @AmbasciataUSA
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As part of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate “wasteful” government spending, the Department of Health and Human Services eliminated grants to UChicago for research on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and health inequality. https://t.co/BZPXErboxn
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As part of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate “wasteful” government spending, the Department of Health and Human Services eliminated grants to UChicago for research on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19,...
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Very important read
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Protocol is clear. Every single official on that Signal chain needs to hand over their mobile devices. Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Marco Rubio—all of them. This is a matter of national security and the rule of law. If it were anyone else, Republicans would call for this too.
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Stalin and his successors couldn’t silence it. Mao and his successors couldn’t silence it. Khomeini and the ayatollahs couldn’t silence it. But Donald Trump has just silenced the voice of freedom. My latest @PostOpinions column.
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The world’s autocrats are doing somersaults about the silencing of the Voice of America.
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just a nightmare to be honest.
I am bureaucracy's worst nightmare.
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Excellent recent lecture on Cyprus at @ISAC_UChicago by @CMKearnsy
(435) Cyprus, an Archaeological Crossroads - YouTube
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(435) Cyprus, an Archaeological Crossroads - YouTube
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the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket
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New article out. Over the last 5-6 years my team and I have excavated LOTS of these monumental tombs. So what did we find? Check out this thread!!
Across northwest Saudi Arabia are tens of thousands of monumental tombs. But when were these tombs made? How did they develop over time? When did they stop? Well, we can start to answer those questions! Our new paper on Bronze Age tombs is OUT! 🧵1/ https://t.co/VIg5u9x4IN
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By the book: Israel's police raid on an East Jerusalem bookstore is fascism | Opinion | Noa Limone
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