Last day of classes for the Spring semester at VIU, and what a beautiful day to end on @viuniversity.bsky.social

Last day of teaching for the Spring semester, now all the grading I am behind on becomes very real

That's a wrap on #CABA_ACAB in Victoria. It was an awesome conference filled with excellent talks, posters and conversation. Not least of all from all the incredible students here.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Please don't disturb her, she is hard at work

True!

Very sad news. She was a tremendous influence on my perspective of human evolution

Ha this is awesome

Anthropology has a serious image problem, apparently even in Academia. You can pretty much name any other discipline and people have an idea what it's about, but bring up Anthro and the most common refrain is "What's that"

Kindle edition on sale today Limited-time deal: Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age a.co/d/3beg9Yn

My current state grading

Again, not #Caturday, but 'tis the season, so... #EmiBoz

Best of SAPIENS 2024. Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine www.sapiens.org/culture/best...

Proud supervisor post. A wonderful paper led by Eboni Westbury on new methods to record bone surface modifications. Years on the making but finally out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The first Biological Anthropologists Starter Pack has reached its limit! I've created a second starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be added! 🧬📚 #BioAnthro #Anthro go.bsky.app/DMNUzHV

I am sure I will not spend an unreasonable amount of time playing with this rather than grading all my final exams and papers...

have a super cool AnthroDish episode today with paleobotanist & archaeologist Dr Shalen Prado on using phytoliths and pottery to uncover plant based eating in medieval Scotland! #archaeology #foodpodcast www.anthrodish.com/episodes/sha...

Read about our recent research just published. Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collections theconversation.com/forgotten-hi... via @ConversationEDU

This is everything

Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at “Dragon Bone Hill”, or Zhoukoudian, in November, 1936. The locus L hominins including this one, skull XII, lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago.

What the human-like hand of Homo naledi suggests about human evolution, development, behavior #FossilFriday lawnchairanthropology.com/2024/12/05/t...

Trent University (Canada) invites applications for a tenure track appointment in Forensic Anthropology at the rank of Assistant Professor, cross-appointed between the Department of Forensic Science and the Department of Anthropology www.trentu.ca/humanresourc...

Earlier it was Lucy and friends, now this. It is fascinating to imagine an ecological landscape where multiple hominins would have interacted. #Evolution is so very cool

“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Great end to last night at #ASOR2024, with the #Bioarchaeology session. Lots of really interesting papers and Q&A. My paper is now done, I managed to work in a Batman reference and all is good

Made it to #ASOR2024 went to a couple papers, walked the book line (to much to stick in luggage) and now having a beer, love #conferencelife

I love this about human evolution. Multiple species coexisting, basically until what 40-50kya. I am sure my students just smile and shake their head as I wax poetic about a time when Neandertals, Denisovans, Humans, Hobbits etc roamed the earth together www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Humans’ uniquely high metabolic rates helped fuel the evolution of our species’ large brains, high reproductive rates, and extended longevity. Metabolic scaling, energy allocation tradeoffs, and the evolution of humans’ unique metabolism 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Heading to #ASOR2024 in Boston. If you are interested in Late Chalcolithic burial practice at a small site in south eastern Turkey have I got a paper for you...well maybe, not sure exactly what I am trying to say but hey my ppt was submitted 2 weeks ago and I am sure they will be perfectly matched 😂

It's that time of the semester, and this made me smile.

Curious what others think about this claim. I find it highly speculative to push these conclusions back to early Homo. Not that hominins were eating meat, sure, but as a primary food source? 1/2

Flat earthers just need a cat and then they would get it

Sabre-tooth's had toe beans!

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Really outstanding review of the DNA science of Denisovans out now in Nature Reviews Genetics, by Stéphane Peyrégne, Viviane Slon and Janet Kelso. Highly recommended if you follow this field. t.co/7BtjeUAkrg

Looking forward to when Paleo bsky and X is back to being about all the great work being done in the field and not ridiculous, unethical publicity stunts

Statement from the Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology on the launch of hominin fossils into sub-orbit