Illicit digging on archaeological sites 🏺 in the Martimes ( #NB, #NS #PEI ) by detectorists has boomed in the past decade - part of a global trend - but coinciding locally with the the long-running TV series on Oak Island. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We are in Refuge Harbour, Baffin Island, Nunavut. This will be the furthest north I’ve travelled. Around 71°N

Global warming is providing archaeologists 🏺 with examples of environmental challenges people and wildlife faced at the end of the Pleistocene.

🏺 👏 Educating the public this way could reduce metal detector use / pot hunting. Proactive policy that could benefit other jurisdictions.

"Das Fahrrad mit Beiwagen, eine praktische Neuheit zum Mitnehmen von Kindern bei Ausflügen, in den Strassen Berlins." (The bicycle with sidecar, a practical novelty for taking children on excursions, in the streets of Berlin). 1927.

Dawn arrives in Toronto

‪It's Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m asking our community of travelers to help me spread the word: the earlier prostate cancer is found, the better your chances are of beating it. Visit cancer.org/getscreened to learn more from @acscan.bsky.social & find a screening location near you.

Brilliant colours 🏺 www.ancient-origins.net/news-history...

Tantalizing book excerpt

Life and death. Ancient and contemporary. Customary and unexpected. Seemingly opposing forces charge Jeremy Frey’s basketry with an electric tension.

A weaver's sword (weft beater) in Tengganan, Bali. The close-up view shows the grooves that develop at the striking edge from years of use. This feature is not present on all swords, but when it does it is diagnostic, and has been used to identify archaeological examples

Four years ago, most of these women had never fired fired a gun. By the time they died, they were operating some of Ukraine’s most sophisticated weapons. euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/08/u...

This is a relatable story. “You have to accept it (the internal noise) as part of your environment” my ear doctor explained to me sympathetically. With that, like the author, I found peace in acceptance. #tinnitus

The saga continues… 🏺

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A silver lining to the wildfires? Forests aged 20-40 years the "sweet spot" for carbon sequestration.

JUCUL, PERU: Anthropologists have uncovered how ancient Inca khipus—knotted and colored cords—served as a village climate archive, recording droughts and deluges through tassels and knot patterns. Using radiocarbon dating techniques and AI analysis, researchers can “read” these 68-meter-long cords.

Transformative Elsipogtog youth program needs funding ‘Help us keep the fire burning,’ says Nogemag Youth Program staff Full story by Haiti Augustine nbmediacoop.org/2025/06/24/t...

Fishing pens are considered sustainable fishing method and have been used in Chile’s Patagonian region since pre-Columbian times. Residents of the Huequi Peninsula have restored a fishing pen and discovered that it no longer catches the hundreds of fish it once did.

Appyling lessons from the past in Catacocha, Ecuador. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... 🏺

This is a great piece of journalism. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

www.thestar.com/news/canada/... 😢 🏺

More than a decade ago, the Elisipogtog Mi’kmaw Nation in New Brunswick fought back against fracking and won, resulting in a provincial ban on fracking in effect to this day. Those events and the aftermath are captured in a new doc called Feather Fall.

So much to like about this story 🏺

unclear if this raccoon is casing my parents’ chicken coop or simply looking for an opportunity to ask the chickens about their cars’ extended warranties

Archaeobotanical remains of beech trees 🌳 prove Sicilily was a glacial refugium 🏺

Nice work

I challenge anyone who has used the term "basket weaving course" as a perjorative to analyse and understand the meaning of basketry such as this. As for replication, well, good luck with that, sport.

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - Rhett A. Butler] Long before “biodiversity hotspot” became a conservation cliché, Alwyn Howard Gentry was painstakingly mapping them — one vine, one tree, one tenth-hectare transect at a time.

Alberta Chiefs send a pointed message to Premier Danielle Smith on separation after she unveiled changes to the province's referendum act making it easier for petitions to succeed. She's promised a referendum in 2026. www.aptnnews.ca?p=261786

White smoke means the new pope is neither a boy nor a girl

Gradually Canadianizing my wardrobe. Stanfield's ✅ ... Hanes ❌ DU-ER ✅ ... Levi's ❌ Bonus points cause the Canadian garments are superior quality.

TIL the Fram is in a museum in Oslo. Would love to visit. frammuseum.no/polar-histor...

Echoes of the Indigenous artifacts/belongings in the upcoming/proposed Hudson’s Bay Company auction. #Ethics #Paleosky

Liberation of the Netherlands.. he joined as an underage soldier.. Robert Thomas, Queen’s Own Rifles & was killed in action, March 1945. Buried at Groesbeek. Lest We Forget. Learn about him here: www.blackcanadianveterans.com/post/thomas-...

I don’t do commissions very often but I had a customer that wanted a mug made of her granddog. She loved my pawprints in the sand mugs so I thought why not. So happy with the way it turned out and so is she. #pottery #ceramics #doglover #dog #madeincanada #canadianmade #blacklab #labradorretriever

Hi @jilly.ca How do I get my posts about Atlantic Canada included in the feed? Adding #NewBrunswick doesn’t work for me. Pls help 🙏

This guy knows Earth Day. #rapanui

Finished watching Day of the Jackal, Season One. Can’t wait for Season Two.

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Red ochre for the win 🏺#paleosky www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Canadians in the 25-40 age class are most numerous in our population pyramid. Don’t know what proportion of them are recent immigrants, but if the nation invokes conscription to defend our borders, the immigration surge so many Canadians have lamented suddenly will be seen in a positive light.

Kosmach, in Ukraine’s Hutsul region, is renowned for its pysanka artistry. Centuries-old techniques produce rich yellow-orange eggs adorned with lattices, geometric patterns of deer/horses/birds, flower stalks & Christian symbols like crosses/fish/churches covering the surface.

It’s so satisfying when a silkscreen you make turns out so amazing. I live in Nova Scotia now so have to make my obligatory Libster mugs. Tourist and Lobster season will start soon. #pottery #ceramics #novascotia #madeinthemaritimes #eastcoastvibes #eastcoastartisan #screenprint #makersgonnamake

Walking home tonight from my daughter’s place, we passed through the crowd letting out from the Black Sherif concert at Toronto’s Opera House on Queen Street East. Great way to learn about new artists. Now a committed fan.

The 501 headed west out of Riverside into Corktown under a full moon on a Saturday night.