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Blog Post #43: Graduate Student Feature with Annissa Malvoisin

In this week’s Peopling the Past blog post, we present you with another graduate feature. This week we are highlighting the work of Annissa Malvoisin, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, whose research investigates the ceramic production and trade industry during Meroitic Nubia and its potential far-reaching networks linking Nile Valley civilizations Egypt and Nubia to Iron Age West African cultures in Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Ghana, and Libya.

Peopling the Past Blog #42: Graduate Student Feature with Alice Clinch

This week on the Peopling the Past blog we feature an interview with Alice Clinch, PhD candidate at Cornell University and Leverhulme Trust SAS Fellow. Alice discusses the questions she brings to the procurement, production, and use of various materials, from plaster to marble, bridging the art-science divide in approaching archaeological material.

Blog Post #40: Graduate Student Feature with Justin Lorenzo Biggi

In this next instalment of our ongoing graduate student features, we interview Justin Lorenzo Biggi, who just completed their Masters of Research at the University of Edinburgh. Justin shares his research on epigraphy as an ancient habit that conveyed ideas about gender, disability, and belonging in the ancient world.

Image of the Month

Copper military discharge diploma for Reburrus, a Spanish junior officer (decurion) who served 25 years in the Roman Army. Reburrus had served in the 1st Pannonian cavalry regiment and was granted his retirement and Roman citizenship by the emperor Trajan. This decree also granted citizenship for his children and provided him with the right to a legal marriage—either to his current wife or to a wife in the future. The full inscription and translation can be found on the British Museum inventory page (inv. 1813,1211.2, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

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