There are certain people you can sit quietly with for hours. Wyll & I used to go to one another’s houses in high school & just sit & read books side by side. We’re both only children, and I think onlies are often particularly sensitive to others nearby. “Wyll, wisdom”, oil, 11”x14”, priv coll.

Shell made nearly $7 billion in profit in the first three months of 2026—double the previous period. BP's Q1 profits also doubled to $3.2 billion. While millions feel economic pain from the disruption of the Iran War, oil and gas companies are making massive sums of money.

Who is ready for the @can-arch.bsky.social conference in 2 days!!! 🎉🎉🎉 #CAA2026

And we're off! Welcome to the 2026 CAA-ACA conference, co-hosted with the Alberta Society of #Archaeology Our first tours are off, board meetings are underway, and attendees are arriving! Get excited for our opening reception tonight, we're so excited to see you! 🏔 🏺 #CAA2026

I've spent the last week deep in the shit that is the state of canadian democracy today and, guys in Ontario, the fact that nothing has been burned down or occupied over Doug Ford's insane attack on democracy is a very, very bad sign. It's a five alarm fire out there.

These #gohabsgo are gonna send me to the grave.

i wrote this to explain some things

Going through folklore narratives of the Glens. Discovered if fishermen had a bad catch they'd dunt their boat againt the pier several times to shake the fairies off into the water. If that aint @hookland.bsky.social ....

Okay, which one of you is this? 🤣

I'm very excited about this book - it's absolutely beautiful, and I am the final chapter! #SpaceArchaeology 🧪 🏺

Gorgeous v short science-inspired #scifi 'I reached under the rug, pulling out the rusted drive wrapped in oily cloth. An artefact from the Time Before Silence. “Raw memory,” I whispered. “Uncut. No AI polish. No emotional dampeners. Just jagged human experience.” ' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anthropological Collections volunteers bring their creativity and attention to detail to caring for objects in our collections. Gail created foam mounts and cushions for a kayak exhibit mount, which is on display in the newly opened America at 250 exhibit. #volunteerappreciationmonth🏛️🏺

Look at these fantastic sessions for #SAA2026 👇 🧪🏺

Would any good soul happen to have a copy of Peritia 2 (1983)? Looking for Kenneth Nicholls' article 'Late medieval Irish annals: two fragments' (pp. 87–102). The main thing I'd like to know is if there are any images of the Annals of Duiske in the article.

Spectacular!🏺

Meanwhile, across the globe, a hide-shoe was lost in the high Norwegian mountain, melting out of an ice patch 20 years ago. Devastating cause, yet a rear glimpse into the organic side of the region’s #bronzeage, c. 1400 BCE 📷: V. Vike, MCH / @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social Info: secretsoftheice.com

Stay off alpine trails in known sheep and goat habitats until mid‑June. This includes areas like Caribou Mountain, Montana Mountain, Nares Mountain, Needle Mountain, Mount White, Mount Perkins, Angelcomb Peak and Thechàl Dhâl (Sheep Mountain). #Yukon #sheep #lambing

Me after hearing about the 62 million men who visited an online rape academy in February

🏺🧪 New paper: heated chert from Australia +45 Ka, poss. > 55 Ka. 15% of analysed #lithics were heated and later knapped. I would have liked more on technological aspects, to refine whether pieces worked before & after heating show differences in reduction etc. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My mid-life tolerant atheist is dying. That 21 year old shithead atheist is crawling back up out of his grave.

Was body perforation a prehistoric coming-of-age ritual? Evidence for a rich tradition of body ornamentation in adult burials from Neolithic Southwest Asia suggests piercing was performed as an indication of maturity and social status. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

1/ Good morning, Europe! Now that you're awake, I'll make a little thread about what we are doing in this paper! This is part of a special issue on kinship in archaeology ed by @pennyend.bsky.social, Sabina Cvecek and Manaasa Raghavan. All the articles and the three commentaries are very worthwhile

Couple of nice new papers for the lithics folks, congratulations to all authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's Yuri's Night! 65 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, But have you ever wondered about Valentina Gagarina, who married him? What was her life like? 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #YurisNight

The more you try to catch joy, the more it runs away. It arrives on its own. When you stop running toward it and begin rooting yourself in the present moment, joy finds you. It rises quietly from the earth beneath your feet, settles into your breath, & becomes something you carry rather than chase.

Awesome.

Do you have a (hand)axe to grind? Antiquity publishes debate pieces on contentious issues to stimulate #archaeology discussion 🏺 Find out more and submit an #AntiquityDebate here: antiquity.ac.uk/submit

Excavation at the Kitsissut Island Cluster, Greenland found evidence for occupation 4,500 years ago. Requiring an open-water journey in skin-on-frame watercraft, the finds highlight the seafaring skills of Early Paleo-Inuit communities #MaritimeMonday 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

An archaeologist searching archives found evidence of binary lots going back nearly 13,000 years, suggesting Native Americans were using probability at the end of the last Ice Age - possibly as a way to make strangers into trading partners.🏺🧪

April Fools Day is CANCELED this year. We have been through ENOUGH

I’ll be talking about our Maritime Academy site as part of the RAI lecture series next week. Come along to hear about the site and what it can tell us about humans in Britain 330ish thousand years ago. For free entry email [email protected] www.royalarchinst.org/events/2026/...

Next week, in London, hear about the most important Middle Pleistocene site to be discovered in Britain the last decade. 🏺🦣

…As Juneau wakes up to yet another fresh layer of snow…

This is just out! A study of the remains of baleen whales in Iron Age contexts from Scania, Southern Sweden, led by Dr Stella Macheridis, to which I have had the great pleasure to contribute, together with Paul Petterson, Mats Rundgren and Sam Greeves. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you're thinking of attending the Canadian Archaeological Association 2026 in Canmore, and you've got something to say about pseudoarchaeology and anti-intellectualism, come join the conversation! 🏺 We've already got some interesting abstracts listed and more on the way! Deadline is tomorrow!

i did not make this up. this is an actual screenshot, from right now.

The thing about the Venuses is that they confound modern interpretation. I really like this. 🏺

🙋🏻‍♀️ Hello wonderful #KINDRED readers! 📚 I have a request - if you've spotted any typos/factual errors/things that don't make sense, or things you reckon should be updated, I'd be immensely grateful to hear about them - either reply here 👇 , DM or email me 📨 🖼️ by @cavetoonist.bsky.social

Perhaps we may have wiped out the mammoths and mastodons, but human destructiveness is not fate. Destructive by nature? What human-driven extinctions of mammoths and mastodons mean for today’s planetary environmental crisis 🏺🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Canada is closing the door to asylum seekers while ramping up deportations. This is racist state violence. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

We often link symbolic complexity to the Neolithic, but it starts earlier. Between ~15–11.6 ka, the first sedentary societies in the #Levant were already making clay ornaments, experimenting with identity and social expression, and even involving children in craft production 🏺🧪 👇

Two new studies of Neanderthal DNA from @massilanilab.bsky.social, @hrougier.bsky.social, @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and others show our ancient cousins survived for millennia in small, geographically isolated groups. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🧬🏺

🧪 🏺 🦣 Nice coverage of 2 new #Neanderthal aDNA papers. V. interesting: - extremely low global population estimates - intense impact of MIS4, but not earlier glacials? - how we intersect this with archaeological evidence of technological diversity & cultural change is crucial, and v. challenging

📜New blog post is out - I wrote about 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' and what it means to be in dialogue with archival material. animalarchaeology.com/2026/03/20/n...

Archaeologists found a cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo. 🏺🧪

🏺 #HumanOrigins Q: What's the general opinion on the older dating for Nyayanga?

Interesting review of the post glacial formation of the creek drainage where the Monte Verde site was located. This geo-archaeological investigation suggests that the cultural floors at the site were formed in mid Holocene after the creek downgraded into glacial outwash.

Q -Does anyone know of any illustrations comparing full bodies of H. floresiensis with A. afarensis (or other australopithecines)? @fossilhistory.bsky.social

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Here’s what happened: