Dr. Smiti Nathan

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Archaeologist 🏺 & Public Educator 🧪 Academic research: archaeology, Bronze & Iron Age Oman, Ancient Ethiopia, archaeobotany, GIS, remote sensing, ethnoarchaeology https://smitinathan.com

Illustrated podcast cover for “Curiosity Meets The Past,” created by Laura Fajín Riveiro. It shows a stylized side profile of host Dr. Smiti Nathan wearing gold hoop earrings and a scarf, facing left. Surrounding her are illustrated motifs like a ceramic pot, ancient architecture, leaves, and abstract shapes evoking time and memory. The background features warm terracotta, gold, and teal hues. The podcast title appears in bold charcoal grey colors with a shadow in the top right.
screenshot of Smiti Nathan's Sapiens Magazine article titled, "Piecing Together the Puzzle of Oman's Ancient Towers". There is a blurb and a picture. In the bottom right corner, a blue box is highlighting where a person could click to change the translation.
charred date palm fragment. You can actually see some vascular bundles!
A piece of copper slag from an ancient mining site in Oman being held by a hand. The green specks are some traced bits of copper.
Underneath a ginkgo tree that has yellow leaves
Black and white photo of a cat with a hat. It's in a frame with the caption "Mouse Trap" Source Image details: English: Image from Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) by Eulalie Osgood Grover with the caption: "‘THE MOUSE TRAP’" Date 1911 Source Project Gutenberg ebook 61852 via Internet Archive and Distributed Proofreaders Author Rotograph Company
Asset number 1613100356 Description Full: Front Sock for the left foot of a child with separation between the big toe and four other toes worked in 6 or 7 colours of wool yarn (several S-spun strands, Z-plied) in a single needle looping technique sometimes called naalebinding and worked from the toe upwards. Each toe is made separately from dark green wool (10 rows). The two toes are then joined and worked in bands of the following colours: salmon pink (4 rows), purple (4 rows), bluish-green (4 rows), dark red (6 rows), green (2 rows). The sole of the heel is then worked. The heel section is worked in bands of salmon pink (3 rows), purple (3 rows), dark blue (2 rows), salmon pink (8 rows), purple (4 rows), yellow (4 rows). A welt across the instep marks where the loops are worked in the round. The top edge is continuous and curls over; a loose thread of red wool forms part of a tie or tassel at the centre front. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Painted flamingos on a wall in an oasis village in Oman