Evidence of oldest known alphabetic unearthed in Syrian dig. The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations… #Writing #Language #Script #Archeology #Anthropology #CulturalGeography
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient-alphabet-discovered-syria/

Not what I'm "supposed" to be doing, but a Saturday morning catching up with my Danish #newspaper #InformationDK is always an enlightening way to spend a weekend... Love this obituary in their series, and an incredible article on the #Amazon from last week.. I'm also loving the #Almanak series of #nature writing by #CulturalGeography specialist Emmy Perez Fjalland

This is a fascinating project mapping #Traveller communities, identifying places of belonging and places of unbelonging for Travellers of different ages and genders.

Thank you to @karenetill for sharing

#Mapping #SocialInclusion #CulturalGeography @MinceirBeoir https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/62f124c0295c439ebd0de48f4ce2619c

New #Introduction.

I lecture in cultural #geography at #CardiffUniversity.

I research and teach about #cities, #aesthetics, #authority, the #body, #borders, #art, #creativity, #CulturalGeography, #theory, #philosophy.

I currently lead a #participatory #actionresearch project looking at #gender, #race, #violence, and embodied methods in a #favela in Rio de Janeiro.

I enjoy #gardening, #allotment, #photography, #piano, #cello. Working hard to learn #Portuguese. I live in #Bristol.