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Minneapolis employs mussels, too! They send emails and text messages to their supervisors (Really!! Not a joke!!) www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Just published! A review (open access) of archaeological land snail analysis as a discipline in Britain 50(+) years after the publication of JG Evans's Land Snails in Archaeology doi.org/10.61733/jco... 🏺

Freshly published in Open Quaternary, this is a nice multi-proxy (pollen/ plant macros/ sclerochronology) study of a later prehistoric landscape in Oman openquaternary.com/articles/10.... 🏺

🏺🚨 New paper alert! 🚨🧪 Early Upper Palaeolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy): shellfish consumption and ornament production. Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for Contributions: Archaeo+Malacology Newsletter Issue 41. Deadline Feb 28th. archaeomalacology.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/c...

You have until next Friday to submit abstracts for 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology @isba11.bsky.social Turin 26-29 August 2025 www.isba11.com/abstract-sub...