The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal leaders were moved to tears after President Trump signed the measure. n.pr/3L95mJU

Pretty grateful to have Nod Hill Brewery just around the corner. Great pick-up Irish night starting the weekend off right.

🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙 Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile). We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago. Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl #aDNA #popgen Thread below🧵 Reposts appreciated :)

This entire train got blown over this morning northwest of Cheyenne

Our online short course starting in January 2026 focuses on #runes – a writing system that developed in western Europe in the first millennium AD. #archaeology #ThinkUHI #Viking #Norse #Runology

Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

How much interaction did the Romans have with Ancient India? The discovery of graves for pet monkeys on the Egyptian coast suggest that some Romans, including soldiers, likely kept exotic pets in their households.

🚨PUBLISHED🚨 The #Archaeology of #Olive #Oil Production in #Roman & pre-Roman #Italy 🫒 READ: doi.org/10.1086/737823 ➡️Good data for Neolithic & BA olive exploitation & cultivation ➡️Possible earliest rotary olive crusher in the Med (7th c. BCE) ➡️Roman era oil prod widely & larger-scale across Italy 🧵

This is a lovely piece.

Des trésors archéologiques dans le métro de Rome : la station Colisée ouvre ses portes après 13 ans de travaux. www.rtbf.be/article/des-...

The team behind Climate.us aims to provide the same kind of reliable, fresh content that used to be available via Climate.gov. We hope you’ll support us. #ClimateForUs

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

Another story about photographers who have no care for conservation. 🌏 📷 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣 Applications are now open for our 2026 Summer Field Schools in Greece: Engaging Communities & Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage. Join us to build practical skills, work with experts and local communities, and apply your learning in the field. 🔗 Apply now: heritagemanagement.org/summerfields...

Just Huginn at the moment, Muninn might be flying around the world now. They probably know what they’re doing.

Just out! Another story from a Harvard ASPR Fellow: Unearthing What Archaeologists Can and Cannot Know www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

I would have loved to be in Stavanger for this. 🏺#zooarchaeology @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social

I've read the intro and the Ingold piece and I can already tell this is a banger of a special issue on more-than-human agency in conservation. 🌎🌐

Twenty years after Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Prize, Wanjira Mathai says crises have deepened and the world grown more fragmented — but Africa’s youth, green industrialization and renewable energy potential still offer real hope, she says.

From @worldheritageusa.bsky.social

#ornithology 🪶🧪🌐🌏

Cleaning out the spice cupboard on a snowy afternoon & came across this bottle of vanilla. We bought it in a market in the Seychelles on our honeymoon 32 years ago. I think it may have finally passed it's sell-by date. But we'll keep it. #foodhistory #foodarchaeology

New articles out on zooarchaeological research in the Roman city of Carnuntum/Austria: check out on #academia.edu and #researchgate 📚 #zooarchaeology #archaeozoology #archaeology #Romanarchaeology #research ____ univie.academia.edu/NisaKircheng... www.researchgate.net/profile/Nisa...

Yesterday & today. Tomorrow?

Norway has proposed Snowy Owl be added to Convention on Migratory Species Appendix II, at #CMSCOP15 (Brazil, March 2026), as a species of unfavourable conservation status requiring international agreement for its conservation. @cms.int Scientific Council will evaluate the proposal this week in Bonn.

🏺The New Yorker on Orkney's Neolithic archaeology. Mentions for @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social and others.

For the photographers out there. 📷🤳 #WorldHeritage

#Archaeobirds , gladly.

Another cold day starts, and what a beautiful start it is.

Looking forward to seeing this when I'm next in Boston. It's at Kings Chapel on Tremont St & was created as part of their "reconciliation project". It honours the 219 enslaved people (so far) know to be tied to the church. The podcast is very much worth a listen. @worldheritageusa.bsky.social.

'The Stove, Fitzroy Square.' Although Duncan Grant painted a great variety of subjects throughout his career, it is perhaps in portraits of his daughter Angelica that he is at his most personal, revealing and unselfconscious as in this depiction of her in his studio from 1936.

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂 Booking available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

For those Old Norse and Viking lovers, the Norse in the North conference has made it to Bluesky! As we’re finalizing the CFP for 2026 at Leeds, please follow @norseinthenorth.bsky.social for updates! #oldnorse #medievalsky #postgraduate #conference #medieval

An anti-fascist Christmas carol from @billybragg.bsky.social

This is great news! After years of work Wiltshire Museum has been awarded £8.4 million by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore & convert the derelict Assize Court in Devizes: wins for the museum, the building, the town & world heritage www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/assizes/

This is the dodo content I'm here for! #extinction #archaeobirds 🪶

This is INSANE! Serious book-burning vibes in the Department of Interior's order to review all materials in National Park Service gift shops for wokeness. Does being printed in a sans-serif font also warrant removal?🌎 #nationalparks #history #climatejustice

Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps

‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake. Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Or ornithonymics? We have some stuff in the @ragnasislands.bsky.social blog...

Given the inconsistent use of hyphens, I want to know what the former London Zoo meerkat was an expert in.

#climateheritage #zooarchaeology 🌏🏺

Very cool! #zooarchaeology #EnvHist 🗃️