"A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic, though a curious interpreter of it, was driven to admit." Capote, In Cold Blood.

Had no idea. I’m definitely removing those from the organ donor card and adding to the estate holdings. 🍆

ICYMI!! Our book is out in the world, & we're so proud! If you want to grab a copy, use code SPIN2909 for 50% hard copies from now til the end of Jan! 🏺 #archaeology #deathstudies

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Thank you everyone, for all the love and support on this one 👏 You don’t need ugly useless hashtags. We all just need to share the awesome work that we find… … and I’m so glad you all found me.🙌

Evening light, Lake Laberge. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2116.

Because these fools figured out how to make fire and expand primate habitat, I now exist in this miserable condition. #yukon

🔔 What can the sounds of everyday life reveal about the past? 🎙️ In this episode of Curiosity Meets The Past, podcast producer & host of ReCurrent (@gettymuseum.bsky.social), Jaime Roque, discusses how he documents and shares stories of the past through sound 🏺 youtu.be/mSlAj0PgZQA

I think I've been working on a sculpture version of "The Diminished" off and on for, I don't know, a few years now? Well, I have a base version finally sculpted (multimedia) and now I just need to refine the details before painting.

I’m not jealous of all this feasting I’m seeing in the socials.

Thanks for the suggestions! The basic context is that at least one of my (historic) sites shell midden was used as an aggregate (maybe a spiritual element too 👀) in concrete, and I was just curious if there would be a way for me to determine which of the middens on the island it came from. Thanks!

Environmental DNA evidence of settlement in Iceland from c. 810 rather than the 870s - and much more besides. Summarised in the New Scientist but that's behind a paywall. Here's the original research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There's no vestige of beginning, no prospect of an end When we all disintegrate, it will all happen again, yeah If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away And believe these words you hear when you think your path is clear We have no control

Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖 Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com! We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago. 1/7

Finally! My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone. You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...

#cave of horrors! 100k spiders in this cave!! Living with centipedes and scorpions! Nope!🤣 www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art... Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant now done with the contrast paints layer. All that's left is the fine details!

This photo is so hardcore!

I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?

Pilot Mountain. #Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2090.

And this effect is felt across the entire Inuvialuit/Inuit north. In #Yukon we have witnessed accelerated erosion take the last intact pre colonial features from Qikiqtaruk and Sabine Point regions in the past three years.

Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1976, my wife’s parents leave Britain for Canada as economic migrants looking for a new beginning.

A cool wooden hunting structure found in Norway.

"What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness — or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair. Metal, one fan told me, is 'a strange road to joy.'" This is so lovely, @btoastie.bsky.social:

#yukon project is weird. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Quaternary people, I need to source a high-resolution graphics file of an up-to-date Marine Isotope curve? One I can use at two different resolution, one 1,000,000 to present, the other 100,000 to present. Any idea where to look? Has anything definitively replaced Railsback? 🦣

Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear..... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It snowed! No a big surprise for #yukon in November, but after 4 or 5 weird warm weather months it’s a bit of a relief to see something normal. Hopefully the rest of the winter is normal but who knows with climate change.

They say #whitehorse will finally get #snow today. Here is a before. Fingers crossed the we are buried by tomorrow morning!!! #yukon

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

Moonlight. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2079.

Gotta feel for the #jays. Great run. Lost by an inch.

Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colage', and I wrote a paper on the evolution of #collectiveintelligence, epistemic #nicheconstruction, and the material traces of #hominin alterations to informational landscapes. Forthcoming in PTRS B! Preprint 🔗👇 osf.io/preprints/so... 🧪🏺 #philsky #paleosky #evosky

Destruction of cultural sites is only a small part of what is lost in severe weather events, but in a world where climate change driven catastrophic weather events are becoming more common, we need more and better methods for dealing with the impacts. 🏺 www.chron.com/news/article...

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit. 🏺

Reconstruction of pre-colonial Yup'ik life in Alaska, by archaeologist and artist Alice Watterson. Based on photos by Yup’ik photographer Jacqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland, the reconstructions are informed from a local perspective #InternationalArtistDay 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 Satellite images uncover 'millennia of survival in the Andes' and suggest hunting and gathering persisted long after agriculture appeared. #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologynews.bsky.social 🏺 archaeologymag.com/2025/10/sate...

High-quality Denisovan genome, reconstructed from a molar found at Denisova Cave. Belonged to a man who lived ~200 Kya A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan 🏺🧪 S. Peyregne, @benceviola.bsky.social, @elenaessel.bsky.social, @janetk.bsky.social et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new study of an Australian boomerang 🪃 is out! ‘How forensic analysis & traditional knowledge reveal the story of a unique boomerang’ in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-forensic... And our in-depth research article in ‘Australian Archaeology’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏺

“To be brutally candid, due to the proactive cancellation of this grant, $20 million of hardworking U.S. tax dollars are currently sitting in the U.S. treasury instead of swept into the Kuskokwim River,” EPA press secretary Brigit Hirsch said. Monsters. #akleg

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society… ..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Maybe this is a time to have a roundtable or panel discussion about threats to archaeology/gists in Canada, drawing folks accross Canada from Parks, CRM, academia, etc. to talk about identifying different types of threats and suggestions on how best to document and address them 🤔 🏺

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph! Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive) #archaeology 🏺 #photography

Finished up the yard work in what has been a beautiful sunny week. However, by deciding to put the tools away ‘tomorrow’ I have called down the wrath of the gods. #yukon #whitehorse. Sorry.

"...they are finding about 30 new holes in the ground each day... the activity has drastically increased over the past couple of weeks." Hmmmm, this is concerning 🤔 🏺 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...