Intriguing evidence for active whale hunting at least 5,000 years ago on southern Brazilian coast 🏺🐳🇧🇷 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

AI which, for a change, is kind of fun. 🇬🇱🍊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS0w...

Almost everything you need to know about Erich von Däniken (dead yesterday): "Chariots of the Gods" was edited and largely rewritten by Nazi writer and editor Utz Utermann, who held important positions in the official Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, amongst other pubs and party activities 🏺👽

"Our recent study indicates there are between 419 and 713 archeologists [sic] employed in CRM in Canada. These are almost certainly underestimates. However, our study further suggests that labour market demand is outpacing supply." @b-thom.bsky.social 🏺 theconversation.com/canada-has-t...

Moose shedding his antlers

'I haven't been the most serious blogger, only writing when the mood takes me. Some years this has been very little. But it has been my constant companion as I have developed some of my core ideas in space archaeology.' (post from 2024) 🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology #Blog

Archaeologists and community historians on the trail of Chinese cowboys in Eastern Oregon: "Working as cowboys, cooks, shepherds, foreman and even as ranchers themselves, these individuals have been hidden in plain sight on the Oregon frontier." 🏺 www.opb.org/article/2026...

"Intelligence is really about learning:" attention #highered @b-thom.bsky.social (open link): www.ft.com/content/e3c4...

Stayin' Alive (AD 1577 version) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGf...

Good essay on Julius Lips' prescient 1937 book "The Savage Hits Back, or, The White Man through Native Eyes." 🏺 #anthropology #racism www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/ha...

Proposed metric for artificial satellite collision risk: the CRASH clock. Now at 2.8 days, prior to starlink-type "megaconstellations" in 2018 clock was at 121 days. @drspacejunk.bsky.social Summary of arxiv paper here mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

cc: @b-thom.bsky.social

If you’re angry about the Cowichan decision, lay the blame where it belongs. For more than a century, provincial and federal governments have tried to dodge the issue of Indigenous Title — creating problems for First Nations and private property owners thenarwhal.ca/opinion-eker... #bchist #cdnHist

Listened to the Reith Lectures with Rutger Bregman on the "Moral Revolution" we need in this moment. Much to agree and disagree with, but disappointing how he relies on "human nature" as the foundational rock of morality. So naive, simplistic, reductionistic. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

A Seattle meme artist known as Sunday Nobody put Handsome Squidward’s face from SpongeBob on an ancient Greek statue and sank it to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea "to confuse future archeologists" 🏺🧽 More of this please greekreporter.com/2025/12/10/p...

Logged onto @dropbox.com for the first time in a few years because invited to a shared folder. Wow has that service ever gone to absolute 💩. Won't let me view that folder because I'm "out of space" and "running out of space". Full of AI slop. Am using zero of 2.5 gigs space. Won't be back.

Is this actually "tool use" any more than a raccoon getting the lid off a garbage can or a bear destroying a punky log for the ants? The wolf does not make or bring a tool to this activity. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/r...

MELTDOWN is an exploration of identity, gender power dynamics, work-life balance, competing goals and dreams, support for mental health, imposter syndrome, and the delights of writing. https://bit.ly/41lawaq ##Science #Glaciers #Hydrology #Fieldwork #Memoir #WomenInSTEM @snowhydro.bsky.social

‘Dan Hicks told The Art Newspaper “While the UK's Culture Secretary continues to stall on progress on allowing national museums to make returns on a case-by-case basis, British non-national museums and even private individuals are moving ahead with returns"’ www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/p...

RIP longtime B.C. Archaeologist Ian Wilson www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie... 🏺

Underwater hunter-killer robots trained on images of sea urchins may be used to rehab Australian urchin barrens www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

An ongoing series by Shawn Gilmore . . . collecting all known appearances of “narrative string theory” (string walls, walls and floors littered with paperwork by obsessives, etc.). 🗣️🧵🌌 www.vaultofculture.com/nst

🚫💩,🔍 www.timescolonist.com/business/bc-...

"a low-impact survey method was developed by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band ... cultural materials returned to their original location following in-field analyses. .. as Sanchez reiterated in the morning meeting, "everything remains in place." @b-thom.bsky.social www.miragenews.com/field-school...

No archaeologists.🏺

Truth - Child Welfare - Economic Development - Gender - Land - Media Indigenous writers on the TRC Calls to Action, 10 years later. 🇨🇦 thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

"Cordes knew that anytime a code was written, a new algorithm developed or a cryptocurrency exchanged, there was a new chance to encode Indigenous epistemology." #AI #Indigenous #highered thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

#unexpectedprimatology #downfall 🦍🦧🐒

Excellent brief review of the process which led to the recent Cowichan land claims court decision, by noted scholar of Indigenous:Crown legal relationships, Professor Hamar Foster www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Traces of blue Indigo, derived from inedible plants (e.g., Woad), at a 34,000 year old site in the Caucasus points to very early plant-based dyes and pigments. Article includes nice video of replicative experiments. phys.org/news/2025-09... 🏺

Canadian geoscientists are planning to revise formal geological unit names to eliminate culturally insensitive or offensive terms. Open Access. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.... 🏺⚒️

The 1891 opening of Port Pirie / Broken Hill lead mine and Smelter in South Australia showed up almost immediately in Antarctic Ice. theconversation.com/lead-polluti... #anthropocene

Over-reliance on International students for cynical financial reasons (high tuition) was administrative malpractice at BC Universities, yet the consequences are falling only on faculty and staff. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/w...

Archaeology of Skateboarding at Kelvin Wheelies in Glasgow. More info here: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... 🏺🛹

This older article is making the rounds again via @kottke.org - interesting that once again a spectacular find was languishing on museum shelves, this time for 90 years. Gift link. 🏺 🎵🐚 #archaeology www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/s...

So casual: "Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders confirmed by cipher hidden in 1850s journals of prominent Western Australian pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the shame and silence." @b-thom.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"... in a beautiful twist of expectations, scientists have now found that the louder the monkey’s calls, the smaller the monkey’s balls."🐒🏑 #primatology #anthropology www.vice.com/en/article/t...

A significant step towards enhanced marine stewardship and the safeguarding of culturally significant ocean spaces to [...] "assert our rights and manage our core marine territory as the saltwater people of Tsawout" www.vicnews.com/local-news/t...

@historicalmarker.bsky.social This sign may miss a lot of nuance ….

[the Kula ring ] was a strictly ceremonial system geared to enhancing the prestige of male elites [....] ensconced in an atmosphere of pretend hostility between the parties. Trump explained, by Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai(!) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It's an archaeological Culturally Modified Tree (CMT) - write a site report 🏺

Jerk and his wife finally get some serious consequences after a lifetime illegally pillaging the marine ecosystem of the Salish Sea and elsewhere. Continued to offend while on bail and during the trial itself. 🐟 nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/07/28/r...

The transfer is part of the Snuneymuxw First Nation and British Columbia Land Transfer Agreement that was penned in 2020 ... the latest parcel is located in an area called Mount Benson North, also known as te’tuxwtun cheknews.ca/b-c-transfer...

Today in 🐟 typos:

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

I’ve been around blue herons my whole life but I never knew they could (or wanted to) impale gophers through the brain 🧠 🦩

Typically excellent reporting from @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social‬ on the continuing impact of the Lasqueti Island community-oriented archaeological project led by SFU's Dana Lepofsky 🏺 www.timescolonist.com/islander/in-...

www.squamishchief.com/local-news/s... "History was made Thursday with a massive land agreement between the province and Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish Nation). A land use agreement with the Nation adds 20,000 hectares of legally protected land to the Nation’s territory."

"This is reflective of the difficulty that many scholars have in imagining a world characterized by substantial female power despite abundant archaeological, historic, and ethnographic evidence that matriarchal fields of power were and are widespread" 🏺🧬 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

'The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language." Unpaywalled link below. #primatology 🍌🦍🍌 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...