New research finds that 12,000-year-old camel art in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert once marked ancient water sources. Hunter-gatherers may have used the ephemeral water bodies to penetrate deeper into the barren landscape. #RockArt #Archaeology New for @science.org 🧪🏺

To this day I have no idea what my parents were thinking when they brought me (6), never mind themselves, to this movie.

#ESHE2025 Sarah Pederzani ‘ Tracing cold-climate adaptations in early Homo sapiens in Europe …Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria’ How did humans disperse to all climate zones? 🔥! mysterious bone sand 😳? Exciting results from plant/animal LIPID BIOMARKERS- evidence of animal bone fat extraction !

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

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🧹 📈 Spatial stats tested associations among artefacts, fauna, shells & pigments. ▶️ Shells + pigments + Châtelperronian cluster together; ▶️ Bison links with Mousterian ‼️First evidence of shell beads with Châtelperronian artefacts ‼️ (13/20)

I am happy to announce we have created a new Master's program in Cultural Heritage and Environmental Resource Management (CHERM)! 🥳🥳 This is a blended program of Archaeology + Geography & Environmental Studies focused on public & private sector careers 🏺 anthropology.uccs.edu/cherm

1/x It gives me much pleasure to be able to announce that, on my suggestion, the Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the IAU announced yesterday the naming of asteroid: (732272) Langejans ...after TU Delft scientist Geeske Langejans.

Archaeologists may have found the world's oldest mummies: 10,000 years ago, groups smoke-dried their ancestors to preserve them. 🧪🏺

Our latest newletter was just sent out, with some scholar updates and upcoming events we'll be participating in! Interested in getting our quarterly newsletter delivered to your inbox? You can sign up here: 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

Aerial archaeology people - I want opinions... Natural paleochannels, or some kind of enclosure. Around 180m across, and sitting one field south of Cumbria's 3rd largest standing stone... 🤔🤔 #archaeology #LiDAR #prehistory #history 🏺

Mala'e Vakapuna mound is Tonga's oldest known earth mound, dating to around AD 500. Large monuments are a key indicator of centralisation, suggesting that political complexity developed much earlier than previously believed. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

This week’s astonishing artifact is an Indigenous map of the heavens that tells the story of the Skiri Pawnee. 🏺🧪

Always challenging to see the waining of majestic glaciers but clearly the Stubaier, like many glaciers around the world, is on the way out. The challenge is on how we deal with this new space, the greater water (in the short term) and the rapidly changing landscape @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social

Despite being only 80km from the Arctic Circle, stone tools have been found at the c. 6,500-year-old cemetery of Tainiaro, Finland, suggesting it was also a (probably very chilly 🥶) Stone Age settlement. 🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Well it’s been a long two weeks. Our objective was to collect legacy ice from a 10 Kya #Yukon Ice patch for both future research and a caribou diet study. Week one was chainsawing ice out of the face of ancient ice at the Gladstone #archaeology site.

#art #illustration

🏺 Has anyone done functionality experiments on Bronze Age lunate spears? The holes appear to be assumed decorative (or perhaps reducing weight), but would they add anything to lethality, e.g. affecting internal tissue damage? Pics for attention (and also bc these are just gorgeous objects)

🏺 Statement from the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland on #EAA2025 and call to action (with alt-text).

Ice sampling in the mountains #yukon #ice #archaeology

Did Marco Polo’s dad abscond with an ancient Chinese tomb statue? Lead isotope analysis suggests that might be how the Lion of Venice got to Italy in the 13th century. 🏺🧪 (Study published today in @antiquity.ac.uk.)

Air Canada strike is over so standing up to a company that doesn’t want to negotiate in good faith seemed the best thing to do on CUPE’s part. The same thing happened to me in Nov. 2022 with Doug Ford. He folded too like a broken lawn chair lol. 😉 apple.news/AKIQVsbWKSsG...

🚨 Job alert! The new Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for a scientific coordinator to start as soon as possible. Please see link for full advertisement text and information. Deadline for applications: September 15 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

The split-based antler point from the Early Aurignacian sequence at Grotta della Cala, southern Italy, provides new insights into Early Upper Paleolithic osseous technology. Read our recently published paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 1/2 🏺🦣

I wrote a new summary/analysis type piece on paleoproteomics. Ngl, I'm super excited to see where this technique goes and what new stuff we will learn! 🧪🏺

#heritage #archaeology #alberta

Lovely piece of work. I'm imagining the contortions the far-right history bros will be needing to do to get around this one... 🤣 #Archaeology 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

More and more evidence to support movements of peoples in the EMA- here people from sub Saharan Africa buried in Kent. Every time I teach a finding like this to a class, they are surprised, because it up ends what they have been taught, often in grade school, about the hegemonic white Middle Ages.

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👀 Next week's Crow Canyon webinar (Aug 14 @ 4:00 PM MST) should be fantastic. The FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network has been doing amazing work on establishing ethical data governance protocols in archaeology. 🧪🏺Link in comments below 👇

If I may put on my ex-academic hat today, I have a new peer-reviewed article out in the J of Mediterranean Archaeology! We did an mtDNA analysis of people buried at Gabii over the span of about a millennium. 🏺🧪

🏺🧪🦣 Also applies to Palaeolithic cave paintings. We're never going to 'crack the code' of their precise meanings (despite regular claims from people to have done so) but that doesn't mean we can't learn an awful lot through creative archaeological investigation and interpretation

Check it out: former IPIA scholars Lyndsay Dagg and Dr. Liam Wadsworth are co-authors on a great new paper about the John Ware homestead, a homestead belonging to one of the prairies first Black residents. 🏺

#archaeology great article relating very old remains on a salmon stream. Dates as old as 14.1 k.

New genomic analysis of people who lived in the Italian Alps during the Copper Age suggests groups may have been patrilineal — but also that Ötzi was surprisingly dissimilar to these neighbors. 🧪🏺

Cure the disease? Hell no. Ban the symptom? Hell yes.

Really cool story!

Interested in the #Archaeology of Oceania? Today is your final chance to access our collection of Oceania archaeology completely FREE! 🏺 Don't miss out on the latest research from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the wider Pacific: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The rib bone healed around the flint arrowhead, archaeologists found. 🧪🏺

I don't think the concern is so much about "sidestepping archaeological norms" as is it about the lack of ethics, the increased potential of looting and vandalism by people who want to play Indiana Jones or prove pseudoarchaeological claims "true", and the exploitation of Indigenous heritage.🏺

Projectile points from the highland wetlands (bofedales)and salt flats of the Dry Puna of northern Chile #FlintFriday Vital sources of food and raw materials for both hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, the wetlands were occupied over 12,000 years ago 🏺 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

#chocolate Its the same way in my house

Neandertal predation agenda reveals seasonal strategies during MIS 5–4 transition in Axlor, northatlantic Iberia 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Finds the ecological characteristics of Axlor Level D were particularly favourable for the procurement of animal-derived resources by Neanderthals.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/c... Sighing in Canadian

“We should have awards and whenever someone achieves $100 million, which is already obscene, we give them a bronze statue of a dick, and when you get $1 billion, we could give them an even bigger dick.” …why is nobody quoting this part of the interview? www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

We’ve waded through over 10% of the fifty-six recommendations from the Independent Review Board of the Victoria Gold Eagle Mine heap leach pad failure. Here’s number six. The entire report is at www.pwc.com/ca/en/car/vi... #Yukon #mining

New discoveries from the Pleistocene-age Gantangqing site in southwestern China reveal a diverse collection of wooden tools dated from ~361,000 to 250,000 years ago, marking the earliest known evidence of complex wooden tool technology in East Asia. Learn more in Science: scim.ag/4krE5y3

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