All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history 🌎🌍🌏 aeon.co/essays/there...

Anatolia’s First Phoenician Find: Human-Faced Glass Beads and Baby Jar Burials Unearthed ⛏️🇹🇷 arkeonews.net/anatolias-fi...

There is still good science being posted on X, despite Ⓜ️elon’s efforts to make it a…well, you know. The bot-posted precious metal silliness is absolutely ridiculous, though. 🤖📱

Ancient Puebloans kept macaws and parrots in great houses for ceremonial use ⛏️🦜🌎 phys.org/news/2025-12...

“The bone skates would have allowed residents to travel efficiently across [the] frozen [Kerch Strait], likely for purposes related to trade, communication, seasonal movement, or economic activity.” ⛸️⛏️🇷🇺 arkeonews.net/archaeologis...

Humans and other hominins in Sulawesi 50,000 years ago: 'These two populations may have met and interacted with each other' 💀🇮🇩 www.bbc.com/indonesia/ar...

How did Bronze Age plague spread? A sheep might solve the mystery. 🦠🧬⛏️ phys.org/news/2025-12...

New Guineans and Aboriginal Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests 🧬🌏 phys.org/news/2025-12...

Merry Christmas from Lombok! 🎄🏝️🇮🇩

“Until now, mainstream scholarship held that Oghuz Turkish only became a written language in the 13th century, following the spread of Arabic script during the Seljuk and post-Seljuk periods.” ⛏️🇰🇿 arkeonews.net/kultobe-insc...

Late Miocene megalake regressions in Eurasia 🌊🌏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No Mortar, No Cement, No Metal – How Sardinia’s Nuragic Towers Have Defied Gravity for 3,500 Years ⛏️🏰🇮🇹 arkeonews.net/no-mortar-no...

7 of the Most Fascinating Archaeological Finds of 2025 ⛏️ www.history.com/articles/arc...

“By sequencing the DNA, the research team was, on a weekly basis, able to identify the presence of 2,700 organism groups within several miles of the station, and track how their populations increased or decreased over 34 years.” 🧬💨 phys.org/news/2025-12...

Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines 🗺️🇦🇺 theconversation.com/stories-from...

8.2 ka event triggered social transformation, not destruction, at China's Jiahu site ⛏️🇨🇳 phys.org/news/2025-12...

A Warming Arctic May Be Changing Polar Bears’ DNA 🧬🐻‍❄️ Wild… nautil.us/a-warming-ar...

New biomolecular technique uncovers millet in medieval Ukrainian dental calculus 🌾🦷 Very cool. phys.org/news/2025-12...

Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor 💀🇿🇦 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Romania confirms first leprosy cases in over 40 years, two more under investigation 🦠🇷🇴 Yikes… www.romania-insider.com/romania-lepr...

Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France 🤿⛏️🇫🇷 www.bbc.com/news/article...

“The scientists do not know exactly what has caused this pandemic, but Cano said humans were ‘probably involved’ in the distribution of the disease. Current theories about its transmission include shipping, changes to currents and abnormal wave activity.” 🦠🪸 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cats' purrs reveal who's who better than their meows 😺 phys.org/news/2025-12...

Personal risk tolerance has sweeping implications for how societies evolve ⚠️🌍 phys.org/news/2025-12...

Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children 🧬👶 Li-Fraumeni - yikes… www.bbc.com/news/article...

1,500-Year-Old Church-Like Structure Offers New Insight into Christian–Zoroastrian Relations in Northern Iraq ⛏️🔥⛪️🇮🇶 arkeonews.net/1500-year-ol...

“Before AI grows to full scale, every nation must confront a mirror. The question is not how fast AI can be adopted, but what kind of people we wish to be.” 🤖🪞🌏 www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...

Congratulations @mdpetraglia.bsky.social! ⛏️🌏🇦🇺

The ‘hobbits’ mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home ⛏️💀🇮🇩 theconversation.com/the-hobbits-...

Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast 🤿⛏️🇪🇬 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

How a fatal virus sparked Pulau Ubin’s mouse-deer boom 🦠🦌🇸🇬 www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

China’s new secret weapon in biotech race: Tibet animal poop with newfound germs 🧬🦠🏔️🇨🇳 www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly 🌡️☘️ theconversation.com/56-million-y...

The 23rd IPPA Congress - Sessions ⛏️🌏 Really looking forward to this… www.ippasecretariat.org/ippa2026/ses...

How volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe 🌋🦠 phys.org/news/2025-12...

10-thousand-year-old genomes from southern Africa change picture of human evolution 🧬🌍 phys.org/news/2025-12...

It’s been a while since I shot a sunset with my real camera…🌅🏝️🇮🇩

Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa ⛏️🇴🇲 Fascinating new paper by @abu-werda.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bronze Mask Pendants, Tiger Motifs and Elite Horse Gear: Rare 4th-Century BC Ritual Complex Discovered in the Southern Urals ⛏️🇷🇺 arkeonews.net/bronze-mask-...

New discoveries reveal Tell Abraq's role in ancient Persian Gulf trade ⛏️🇦🇪 phys.org/news/2025-12...

Fascinating talk by Emma Pomeroy on the Shanidar Neanderthals - the archival photographs in particular were amazing. And as always, many thanks to @heasvienna.bsky.social for making their seminar series available online! ⛏️💀🇮🇶

Inside the Ostrich Effect: How Ignorance Has Become a Survival Strategy 🤦‍♂️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ancient Chinese DNA shows gender bias in human sacrifice ritual 4,000 years ago 🧬⛏️🇨🇳 www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

The countries with the most threatened species in the world 🦧🦏🐅 Indonesia at #2… www.cntraveller.in/story/the-co...

Domestic cats haven't been around as long as we thought 🧬🐈 www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Dating a North American rock art tradition that lasted 175 generations ⛏️🎨🌎 phys.org/news/2025-11...

Who built a mysterious ancient city in western China? ⛏️🇨🇳 www.science.org/content/arti...

"When the central lowlands were hit by drought, this may have triggered a cascading series of crises: wars between cities over resources, the collapse of royal dynasties, mass migrations, disruption of trade routes, and so on." ⛏️🇬🇹 phys.org/news/2025-11...

The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago 🌾📜 theconversation.com/the-real-rea...

"The findings are really striking—they provide strong evidence that humans and golden retrievers have shared genetic roots for their behavior.” 🐕🧑 phys.org/news/2025-11...