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...

A medical historical museum contends with its collection of human remains

Good review of current developments in US American Science policy and politics. Open Access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Archaeologists may be interested in this podcast and the Bundy story generally, for how they tried to intellectually clear Indigenous history of the land ("they lost that claim" [to the land]) and their related damage to archaeological sites and belongings during the 2014 and 2016 land occupations 🏺

Newly posted documentary from Deutsche Welle on the Neanderthal archaeological record at Mandrin Cave on the Rhône River, southern France. 🏺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKV...

Sapiens: The origins and obsolescence of an epithet -- a fun and wide-ranging essay on taxonomy of Homo sapiens by @hunterdukes.bsky.social "In 2023, Hern offered his own redefinition of humans as Homo ecophagus (the man who devours the ecosystem)"🏺 www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/du...

The vast majority of TC readers will come away thinking "geez, it's a double standard, First Nations are ruining nature, and they're not even using stone tools". IndigiNews needs to do a feature and tell the story properly!

Obtuse (deliberately?) article about Paquachin First Nation in Saanich constructing a clam garden. Well meaning neighbour interferes. Clueless Mayor is clueless. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... @iainmckechnie.bsky.social @b-thom.bsky.social

We are thrilled to invite you to #Salt&Silver a solstice festival on the legacy of the Herring Girls, labour, class, and solidarity. Part of @joannecoates.bsky.social Red Herring programme of events, join us for a weekend of talks, performances, and events. Visit timespan.org.uk/programme/ev...

Want to learn about the history of the labor movement in American cultural resource management 🏺? Check out our Labor in Archaeology Zine! A printable version is available on google drive at the link in our bio so you can print your own copies to share!

How herring lost their memory (over-fishing of older individuals) 🐟🚫🧠 @judeisabella.bsky.social @iainmckechnie.bsky.social nautil.us/how-these-fi...

Elegant Minoan ewer from Bronze Age Crete. The dense reed-type decoration was created with deftly painted brushstrokes by an ancient artist some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'

Long, well-written article on the machinations around the discovery and study of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Unsurprisingly, the only one of the cast of characters who seems to have suffered meaningful career consequences was a young, female grad student 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

@theguardian.com this is very very poor...

crabs in a bucket | patreon.com/lubchansky

A really outstanding guide to the history of tectonic plates, continents, super-continents, and their influence on biological evolution. Put together by Angus Lo github.com/szupie #geology #evolution #teaching 🌎🦕🦈🦤🐴🏺 szupie.github.io/supercontine...