Mike Morley
@mikegeoarch.bsky.social
Troglodytic Geoarchaeologist & Professor @ Flinders University; Director, Flinders Microarchaeology Laboratory; ARC Future Fellow; Disperscapes Project; Stratigraphy Tamer & Resinator of Sediments; repetitive music lover
Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 17, 2026 ~ Wet bulb alert? "The heating is going to be so big and so obvious that it will lead, for the first time, to a real global discussion of solar geoengineering as a response." billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
An El Niño is brewing
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.
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"The people of the station referred to this as “going walkabout” as if it was trivial, but it was an important part of maintaining their connection to Country." If you read one thing today, take some time to read this from @archaeoiain.bsky.social & colleagues. It reminded me of some fundamentals 🏺
Iain Davidson AU@archaeoiain.bsky.social · 8mo ago🏺 A story about rock art in the Native Title Country of my two fellow authors. In the Conversation theconversation.com/stories-from...
The Centre will support a new generation of transdisciplinary researchers including more than 40 research fellows, 70 PhD and Masters students, and 112 Honours students - with half the opportunities prioritised for Indigenous or those from the Global South. www.miragenews.com/griffith-lan...
Griffith Lands $85M to Revolutionize Human Origins Study
Griffith University has been awarded the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, one of only eight Centres of Excellence
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 early evidence for fire making. Cool. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Earliest evidence of making fire - Nature
Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a pivotal moment i...
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I’m so honoured and excited to be leading this international initative together with so many amazing people and organisations news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/09/g...
Griffith secures $85m to transform global understanding of human origins - Griffith News
Transforming Human Origins Research Centre of Excellence to reframe the study of our species globally.
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ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec). This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.
Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens
ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs
Read the latest from the @flindersuniversity.bsky.social #Archaeology #humanevolution and #dispersal Research Group, @richardjhewitt.bsky.social @mikegeoarch.bsky.social and yours truly, and @Universidad de Alcalá archaeologist @Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Modelling Mobility of Hunter-Gatherer Populations: A Dynamic Simulation Approach Based on Cellular Automata - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Understanding mobility of past hunter-gatherer populations requires dynamic approaches which incorporate uncertainty. Least cost models assume complete knowledge of the terrain on the part of the trav...
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Building works for the formation of the Australian Research Council-funded Australian Microarchaeology and Palaeosciences Facility (AusMAP) is underway here at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Very excited to get the new analytical equipment in once this is done!! #microarchaeology #geoarchaeology
New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues. @katerinad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy
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Slightly delayed, but I appreciate the feature @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Shout out to @mikegeoarch.bsky.social who was a big part of this success.
Get to know PhD student – Vito Hernandez – HDR students in focus
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On behalf of my co-convenors @mikegeoarch.bsky.social, Ali (crouched beside me) & Michelle (left of Chris Hunt), thanks to @mdpetraglia.bsky.social for organising the theme in which our session was in, & everyone who presented their work, those who attended our session, and organised the conference.
10th World Archaeology Congress has wrapped up. Here's us who presented in the session 'Microarchaeology—Using Micro-analytical Techniques to Elucidate the Deep Environmental Past and the Evolution of Our Species'. Our session and the whole of the conference was largely successful
Thanks to all the co-authors and especially @mikegeoarch.bsky.social for the vote of confidence to do some of the microarchaeological analysis. I believe this is my first paper analysing an arid environment site!
Check out our new paper in JAS describing a new Pleistocene combustion feature from the Riverlands in South Australia. Fantastic to collaborate with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, Flinders colleagues and other collaborators
Professor Amy Roberts@profamyroberts.bsky.social · last yr.Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available! #craigwestell @mikegeoarch.bsky.social @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social
Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available! #craigwestell @mikegeoarch.bsky.social @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social
Professor Amy Roberts@profamyroberts.bsky.social · last yr.The eldest concentrating on the novel task of scraping a thin layer of ice off the car windscreen this morning (with my staff card). We don’t get many frosts here but it was bloody cold this morning in the Adelaide Hills
This was originally a poultiggery. The base a home for pigs and the top for hens. The pigs keep the hens warm in winter. A bit of vernacular gorgeousness from Cowside in Langstrothdale, Yorkshire Dales.
New discovery: A #Roman wooden water pipe has been found during works on Brussels Street in Leuven. At a depth of about 4 meters, archaeologists found the wooden water pipe running the entire length of the construction pit, totaling 20 to 30 meters. www.brusselstimes.com/1568387/arch... 🏺
Dozens of scholars in my field appear on my YouTube channel, hundreds share my videos or threads with students, and thousands repost them on social media Archaeologists support ethical, experienced, evidence-driven public content. That's what I provide These clowns just provide lies
It's not exactly subtle, is it? Be sure to watch Louis Theroux's documentary on iPlayer
It's funny how I tend to remember the NME being very hard on us at this period, but here's Each and Every One in their Top 50 singles and Eden at no 20 in the Best Albums, so memory plays tricks. We remember bad reviews more. So it's fun to see this.
Birmingham 81@birmingham81.bsky.social · last yr.Here's a playlist of the NME's top singles of 1984. Something for everybody among these 50 selections 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣4️⃣▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/5LM...
Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25
