This paper was really fun to write! 🏺

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick@animalarchaeology.com · 3w ago

🏺 Since I just reposted this to my Instagram, here’s the paper I wrote with @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on Star Wars and the politicisation of archaeology! Still quite proud of this one. journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

Looking to publish? These articles from #AncientMesomaerica provide a snapshot of the journal’s direction, audience, and editorial priorities. If you think your work will resonate, then get in touch. Collection🔗 https://cup.org/4eErzdC How to publish 🔗 https://cup.org/4vARF8G

Vuelvo luego de un intervalo de descanso! Al ritmo del solsticio, se inicia el Wiñol Tripantu, un nuevo ciclo para la cosmología mapuche. Escribí algo sobre ello para el AAPRA y de paso, sobre la arqueología colaborativa con comunidades indígenas. Enlace en el siguiente posteo

NICE: @rebecca Nagle and Phil DeLoria discuss how in the early republic pretending to be Indian symbolized freedom and helped the colonists form a new, national identity.

Playing Indian | Episode 2

Podcast Episode · First America · S3 E2 · 44m

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Former bioarchaeologist and current science journalist here. I'm a bit baffled (yes) by the criticism of this short, one-year-old BBC story about a medieval cemetery in Wales. A thread. 1/

Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

April's Paper of the Month from Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social is "Without a Roadmap: Reflections on the Emergent Methods of Community-Based Archaeology" by Patricia G. Markert, available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4cJIRWX #archaeology #PaperOfTheMonth

Attention anthropology and anatomy colleagues! My student, Emma, and I are conducting a survey on the ethics of human skeletal remains in higher education. We would greatly appreciate your participation—thank you! #anthropology #anatomy #ethics bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Quién cuida el agua y qué peligro corre? “El serpentear del Ngen ko” sigue el recorrido Foro Trawün itinerante a lo largo del río Chubut, un espacio de encuentro, debate y lucha por su defensa. 📍 Jueves 7 de mayo – 19 h 🎟 Gratis Microcine Filosofía y Letras, UBA #ciclocineyetno

Join us for our last Digital Lunch of the Spring semester, 24 April, 1pm BST: Dr Loes Opgenhaffen "The automated archaeologist. An app to record archaeological visualization practice" To get the zoom link, sign up below: forms.gle/4BsKkUiVLHKJ...

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Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

El poder de reparación y sanacion que tiene una restitución.

Erin L. Thompson@artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Vuelve el #ciclocineyetno esta vuelta en el flamante microcine de Filo:UBA Anexo Bonifacio 🎞️ Jueves 9/04 18h #Gratis Memoria implacable sigue el viaje en el presente de Margarita Canio tras la huellas de Katrulaf, apresado en la "Campaña del Desierto" del siglo 19, pero que sobrevivió para contar.

I hope they recorded this 🎹🤞🏽 www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Martha Argerich and Dong-Hyek Lim review – legendary pianist and mentee create musical magic

This thrilling and idiosyncratic concert moved from Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos to Rachmaninov, Ravel and Schumann

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Hola! Les invito a seguir la cuenta IG del Proyecto NatGeo Camélidos del Pasado y Presente www.instagram.com/camelidospas...

Will archaeological data ever be FAIR? 🌐💻 Nicholson et al. explore why so much data remains hard to find and reuse. They advocate for the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to improve stewardship as open science becomes the standard. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

La fuerza que le imprime la ilustración científica al argumento científico es tremendo y cómo ayuda a una mejor y más amigable narrativa. Hermosas las imagenes de Mauricio Alvarez para transmitir el potente trabajo de @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social y colegas

Ramiro Barberena@ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Why did they leave their homes? We suggest it was a response to a long and multicausal crisis. Low populaiton size, climatic instability and the transmission of infectious diseases-tuberculosis- triggered migration along social networks. This was a resilient response.

I did my best to ask some tough questions to Todd. And I thought he did a good job answering. For those interested in the debates over the timing of hte peopling of the Americas, you don't want to miss this one!

Flint Dibble@flintdibble.bsky.social · 4mo ago

[LIVESTREAM] In a few hours, I'll be chatting with Dr Todd Surovell about the Clovis First debate and his new paper proposing Monte Verde in Chile is dated much later youtube.com/live/czGIhnr...

Me encantó la foto de tapa 😍🧪🏺

Laurent Davin@laurent-davin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢🔬New #PaperAlert! on the cover of @ScienceAdvances : Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Southwest Asia A butterfly clay bead from #Natufian Eynan-Mallaha, colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 y/o) who modeled it 12,000 years ago doi.org/10.1126/scia...

1/6 Just out in @Nature ! 🌽 The history of farming in the southern Andes. In a collaboration between archaeologists, geneticists and Huarpe Indigenous communities, we investigate its origins and consequences in the Uspallata Valley. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes - Nature

In the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p...

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Epa! 🧪🏺

Spencer Wells@spwells.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Study suggests younger age for Chile's important Monte Verde archaeological site ⛏️🌎 www.channelnewsasia.com/business/stu...

Avanza el conocimiento y ahora comprendemos mucho más sobre la incorporación de la agricultura del maíz en el sur andino 🌽 Excelente trabajo de @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social y colegas aportando desde múltiples especialidades. 🧵con el artículo + un hermoso video

Nico Rascovan@nrascovan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

¿Cómo llegó la agricultura al sur de los Andes? ¿Por migración o transmisión cultural? Nuestro nuevo paper en @nature.com combina ADN antiguo, isótopos, arqueología y paleoclima para reconstruir más de 2.000 años de historia en Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Abro hilo🧵 (1/28+)

Uy, cuantas recuerdos leyendo este raconto de vida. Mi papá fanático asi que me crié con toda su producción hasta los '90, incluyendo los libros de cocina que aun tengo!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

Len Deighton obituary

Durante esta semana va a estar disponible online el documental "El juicio" sobre el juicio a las juntas. Se puede ver acá: lumiton.ar/evento/el-ju...

Unos cuantos que les convendría internalizar este mensaje, comenzando por el presiduende estafador. Violento ver palabras como esta replicadas como insultos a diario en las redes

(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔)))@creativeelc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An amazing advert! www.thedrum.com/news/ad-of-t...

Sin Ley de Presupuesto Universitario no podemos brindar a les estudiantes una práctica para reconocer, preparar y cuidar colecciones arqueológicas. Exigimos la aplicación de la Ley N° 27.795 de Financiamiento Universitario. #SinLeyNoSePuede @iarqueouba.bsky.social

Through diverse objects, from stunning gold jewellery to woollen socks, 'Ancient Egypt in 50 discoveries' tells the many, multifaceted stories of life in ancient Egypt and the workers and researchers who uncovered its secrets 🏺 Learn more 🆓 in our #NewBookChronicle doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2

Acá en la Argentina existe el mismo dilema, cuerpos tomados sin consentimiento y que forman parte de colecciones transitorias o permanentes depositadas en museos e instituciones de investigación, que muchas veces no cuentan con un inventario actualizado de sus existencias. #Restitucion

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts

Pasa hace días pero hoy el humo sobre Buenos Aires es insoportable 😫 Me asen los ojos 😒 Están incendiando todo el Delta 🔥

I thought “Shark Rodeos” were a thing of the past, but I guess not. With world shark populations plummeting, I’d say it’s past time we end them. www.change.org/p/myfwc-end-...

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