Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.

this is such a fantastic example of the transformative power of design when used collaboratively and intelligently. the visual design of this campaign is deep-rooted in history and culture and is thoughtful and beautiful

This is streaming live tomorrow at 1 pm EST!

Is @nkjemisin.bsky.social going to use this as a plot point in a third Great Cities novel?

Tres artefactos de ocre de Zaskalnaya (Crimea): posibles lápices para uso simbólico por neandertales. Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea

Can you imagine what our ancestors thought of these? Pure magic.

Last day to get early bird rates for #TAG2025 in York.

Look @clmorgan.bsky.social and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, Brenna Hassett is coming prepared for our #TAG2025 session on worldbuilding in Archaeology!

Taking a moment to recognize how lucky I am, someone is paying me to paint sloths.

Worked tree resin!! I'm always sad that we recover so few textiles and so little wood in the arcgaeological record, but tree resin is a category of material that never would gave occurred to me!

‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin

This and the joyful deployment of absurdity at ICE protests is reminding me of China Mieville’s “The Last Days of New Paris”, a novel in which the surrealists’ creations have been brought to life to fight the Nazis. Giant terrifying exquisite corpses roaming the streets, etc.

Boo, closes 2 days before I get to London for the first time in 14 years.

An exhibition of fantasy maps all drawn by the fantasy author, Ursula K. Le Guin, has opened in central London. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/map...

I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... please share!

‘Tis the Season of Leftover Pie for Breakfast and I’ll take any on offer. Leftover Canadian or American Thanksgiving pie, leftover Christmas pie, leftover I-randomly-made-a-pie pie. The best part of any holiday.

The Nunalleq Digital Museum is a museum of Yup’ik archaeology in Alaska. Placing sovereignty in the hands of the descendent communities, it makes the #archaeology accessible whilst ensuring it is relevant to the community today #IndigenousPeoplesDay Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺

As it turns out, coyotes are good climbers. They loped up and down these limestone cliffs like they were mountain goats. #mammals 🌿

Any paleobotanist (or palaeobotanist) here that is not included in this starter pack? Let me know and I'll add you go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

Scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach the nests of bearded vultures, which have a diet of bones and paint their feathers red with mud. Inside the nests were perfectly preserved human artifacts from the Middle Ages. By me, for Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... 🧪

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵 Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Please please please everyone (pls reskeet) who is involved with a uni/college academic program (broadly speaking) conected to games Could you write a quick comment + links if any apply to what you and your institution are doing in that sphere? I need to show what's out there. 1/ #AncientBluesky 🗃️

Early bird registration and bursary applications are now open for Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference 2025 in lovely York: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.

Hey so I’m reading some poems in Toronto this afternoon

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

Ok, for those doing lots of work on an iPad, what’s your desk setup? How are you not destroying your neck? #illustration #SciArt

A major perk of being a science illustrator is constantly learning new things. I recently got to delve into the world of North American mastodons while creating this editorial illo to accompany new research from @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social Ancient DNA Centre. 1/2 #SciArt #paleoart #illustration

Orestes Pursued by the Furies https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/orestes-pursued-by-the-furies-1921

Reading deeply about animals for the chapter I hope to finish this semester, thinking about how they created early medieval landscapes with their communities. What are folks favorite articles/chapters/books on horses, pigs, cows, sheep or goats? Any period or field! #medievalsky 🏺 #academicsky

Me reading another headline saying “Spending as little as 5 minutes outside with nature improves quality of life”: “yeah, yeah, yeah” Me tearing myself away from my computer to walk the dog around the neighborhood and spotting a large clump of goldenrod with pollinators buzzing:

I ran into him once at a hotel in Ankara. He quizzed me on Çatalhöyük plants, looking for fermentation possibilities. This was soon after he & Dogfish Head made Midas Touch, a beer based on plant remains from Gordion. He really popularized creative approaches to plant cultivation beyond subsistence.

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

What exactly is #archInk? It started in 2018 by Dr. Katherine Cook with daily drawing prompts exploring archaeological themes. The goal is not to create perfect "art" but should be rather seen as a daily practice connecting with archaeology and each other through creative practices 1/3

20 Visibility 21 Embodiment 22 Provenance 23 Absence 24 Toolmark 25 Reclamation 26 Ephemeral 27 Justice 28 Looted 29 Temporality 30 Becoming 31 Afterlife

Here the list in writing: 1 Pigment 2 Shell 3 Residue 4 Bronze 5 Flint 6 Horn 7 Textile 8 Stratigraphy 9 Ivory 10 Palimpsest 11 Transformation 12 Echo 13 Pseudoscience 14 Network 15 Bioarchaeology 16 Gatekeeping 17 Ownership 18 Exclusion 19 Preservation

Here's the official #archInk2025 prompt list - 31 days of archaeological (illustration) prompts for October. From pigment and bronze to provenance and afterlife, each prompt open to be explored through drawing or other techniques and mediums. Ready to join in? #archInk

The talented Louis Ginnett painted this mural for Brighton + Hove Grammar School Sussex in 1937 Entitled *Hollingbury Camp: Full Circle* it depicts the excavation of a Bronze Age burial The motorcyclist is TE Lawrence, who died in 1935 Did he really visit a dig in Brighton? 🤔 #HillfortsWednesday

Come make maps with me on Saturday at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket! I've done this activity at three conferences and now you'll get to experience it yourself! Families with kids older than 13 are welcome 🗺️

Fellow citizens of Hamilton Ontario, a thoughtful musing :

darth I've been drawing televisions from movies Mars Attacks (1996) I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) E. T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

I was influenced by some tiktokkers to start playing with playdoh for printing! It has potential, and I like the imperfectness of it (very wabi suki). I’ll be testing it on medieval tiles next!

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Incredible #SciArt. Imagine a zoologist telling their origin story in 2045: “I first became fascinated by animal behavior while on a family holiday to Disney World. I begged my mom to buy me the Animal Poop Candy & then ran around the park, eating each one in front of the matching animal enclosure.”

Reassure me I’ll be ok if I quit all Adobe products, please! Right now I’m using procreate in place of PS and am looking at Affinity to replace AI and Id. Any other suggestions? (I’m a Mac user). #SciArt #Illustration