Anybody else watching Pursuit of Jade? I am slightly obsessed.

Reburial of human remains from the Revolutionary War. From other stories I read, sounds like they are believed to have died of smallpox. The burials were disturbed by construction and delivered badly mixed up to the NY Stare Museum so it took years to sort & count them.

The kids are not alright.

ATTENTION ARCHAEOLOGISTS🏺: We're hiring a Director of our Archaeological Research Division! Apply today. The museum has been a major force in the archaeological research of Oregon since the early 1930s, and that legacy continues to evolve and grow. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has just named the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape as one of the most endangered historic places in the U.S. as a result of the current efforts to reopen it to drilling.

A wannabe true crime detective in Tucson goes and disturbs a Hohokam cemetery. Unbelievably stupid and genuinely harmful, and it sounds like this fool is completely undeterred. Gift article 🎁

“The perfect amount of ghost is unclear” pretty much nails my revision angst.

He’s saying it outright, like he always does when he’s planning to pull some evil shit.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

“The Maldon pennies were minted between AD997 and 1003, and are in good condition, suggesting they were not in circulation long before they were buried for safe-keeping or lost by a traveller. Fourteen silver pennies may not sound like much today, but at the time this represented a significant sum”

“The Maldon pennies were minted between AD997 and 1003, and are in good condition, suggesting they were not in circulation long before they were buried for safe-keeping or lost by a traveller. Fourteen silver pennies may not sound like much today, but at the time this represented a significant sum”

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Three "fun facts" about Taiwan: #1 Chinese first settled Taiwan in the seventeenth century. Before that it had belonged to the island's Indigenous population for thousands of years. The reason the Chinese came over was because the Dutch East India Company needed farmers for their new colony.

Colors and patterns of California seaweeds #SciArt #PhycologyFriday

For years, my husband's philosophy department annual dinner used to be a shad bake, thanks to an elderly colleague who procured it and cooked in his fireplace. I can't say it was delicious, but he definitely imparted the sense of a Connecticut River tradition. 🎁 gift article

Toby is extra needy and extra cute today. His dad is away at a workshop for a few days, which is really stressful. More snuggles required.

Toby is extra needy and extra cute today. His dad is away at a workshop for a few days, which is really stressful. More snuggles required.

Inside a pharaohs' tomb 📍Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt 📷Stefano Ravalli #travelphotography #travel #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2s1MLdb

My goodness this is cute. Short & Harasti (2026) named a new pipefish species after Snuffleupagus (the giant elephant muppet) Image of Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov. by David Harasti. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Let this radicalize you

tech ceo: we regret to inform you that the torment created by the Torment Nexus is the fault of the depraved author of beloved novel DON’T CREATE THE TORMENT NEXUS

Oregon allocated $10 million for the 2024 wildfire season. It cost more than $350 million.

Hey does anyone have recommendations of books you love for an intro to cultural anthropology course? Textbook and/or recent ethnographies that students find engaging? The class I’ll be teaching counts for gen ed, so some of them won’t even know what anthropology is.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Always a risk to talk about the book before you’ve finished it, but I’m super excited that there’s an archaeologist in this one. And investigations into a recently conquered planet where the inhabitants all seem to be gone… It’s a really dark series but I love the focus on research that keeps going.

Under the Pines, Evening (1888) by Claude Monet

“Today there are around 400,000 bison in North America, with almost 200,000 of them residing on private farms and ranches in the United States. Around 45,000 of those bison are on Mr. Turner’s land, the largest private herd in North America.”

“The gallery is the first in the museum’s history given over to the orphaned masterpieces of the Nazi era. It is also the first such display in France where the paintings are hung so visitors can read the backs. The stamps, labels and inventory marks map how each piece of art moved…into Nazi hands.”

Always a risk to talk about the book before you’ve finished it, but I’m super excited that there’s an archaeologist in this one. And investigations into a recently conquered planet where the inhabitants all seem to be gone… It’s a really dark series but I love the focus on research that keeps going.

Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx

BREAKING: CT Mirror and @propublica.org have won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for "On the Hook," an investigation into how Connecticut's towing practices had come to favor tow companies at the expense of low-income residents. More here: ctmirror.org/series/on-th...

girl that’s it?

"People see a glowing aperture pointed at our planet capable of snuffing out all life as we know it, and they panic. But that’s emotional. Irrational. Grand Moff Tarkin is probably up there doing calibrations we just don’t understand.”

Sting at the Met-- in a story of a shipyard closing. Click to read the preview in the New York NOW roundup in Picture This Post @metropolitanopera.bsky.social #Sting #NYCMusic #NYCOpera #NYCTheater #BarneyNorris #PictureThisPostMusic #PictureThisPostTheater #NewYorkNOW #musicals #leoWarner

last year, my cohort did a march madness-style bracket to determine the best book we read in our u.s. history graduate survey courses. maybe thirty books in total. this was our winner!

🚨Call for Submissions🚨 We are looking for dinosaur ghost stories! Edited by Halli Reid, submissions OPEN NOW May 1-Jun 30. Stories must have a connection to the province of Alberta, Canada. More info: tychebooks.com/submissions

Q14532 (Postdoctoral Research Associate or Fellow in Ancient Disease and Pandemics (interdisciplinary approaches) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

View of Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse

Howlin' good news: Washington’s wolf population increased by 17.4% last year and the number of successful breeding pairs increased by 27%, according to figures released recently by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. More details: biodiv.us/48ulRsG

Because we've decided to let corporations and billionaires sponsor public education. And the power to fund something is the power to destroy it by saying "no."

JUST IN: A deep freeze that struck Colorado earlier this month destroyed seasonal fruit crops from several growers on the state’s Western Slope, including at least one farm’s entire peach harvest.

New statue just dropped

Sunset in Mystic CT tonight

I can’t even….😞

If you're heading to the SAA this week, don't forget to go to the business meeting to recognize all the award winners. I wanted to share the winner of this year's Gene S. Stuart Award, which recognizes outstanding public writing about archaeology. It's by Dr. Petra Creamer, archaeologist at Emory.

“In addition, there is the Botanical Garden of Healing on Valley Street, a remembrance tree at Albertus Magnus College, and soon, Eli’s Garden of Healing in Hamden.”