Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out on chert sourcing for our project in Eswatini. #ArchSci 🏺

Come visit our Virtual Reality display in Studio 3, room 1.24 at WAC-10 in Darwin. #WAC10

all this fascism is terrible for my anxiety disorder

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

American #archaeology friends and colleagues: I suggest you start data scraping NOW from ANY Federal repository you might use for GIS data, etc., I'm working on the NOAA coastal LiDAR here. Message me to collab.

Postdoc stable isotope analysis www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLH400/p...

📢 Award Announcement! The Charles C. Kolb award for Archaeological Ceramics submissions window is now open! The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) offers one award per year to the best published paper on science-based archaeological ceramics research. More info here bit.ly/4fmIX51 Pls RT!

🏺Made the local paper 😁 Excited about this research!

Very excited to play a supporting role in this Colonoware project with a kickass team of researchers 💜🏺#ArchSci #archaeology #NSF

Crawling back out into the world after 11 days of being terribly sick. I’m lucky to have friends bring me food (thanksgiving leftovers 4EVA), but 0/10 do not recommend. Inbox and to-do list have reached disaster levels. I’d rather stay in bed until January. Stay healthy, folks.

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

I’ve always wondered about this. Great write up!

Rock carvings at Alta, Norway. UNESCO World Heritage. August, 2024 📸

Some pics from our recent ochre workshop at the Alta Museum. Making ochre with the lovely Heidi G and Beth V.

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

Some rock art from a recent fieldwork trip to Eswatini. #archaeology #RockArt #ochre

Have never watched boxing once in my life. This live fight on Netflix, Paul vs Tyson, will be my first. Here’s my play-by-play completely uneducated commentary: 🧵

It’s truly astounding when your institution wants to publicly tout you and your lab as a crow jewel of research achievement, while simultaneously taking away your research capacity, office space, and resources. Nobody is immune to university administration. The institution will never love you back.

In case you missed it! Our paper "Ochre Communities of Practice in Stone Age Eswatini" is out, OA in Nature Communications. This study has been close to my heart for many years and I'm so happy it's out. Some highlights... /🧵🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So many new followers in the wake of the tw****r death spiral! A bit about me: Faculty & PI at the Archaeometry Lab at the MU Research Reactor. I specialize in provenance and materials characterization in archaeological science. I'm a neutron/X-ray/mass-spec/Raman nerd. I use those techniques... 🏺🧵

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The authors in the Archaeology as Service issue saw service as working with communities and had goals of establishing the authority and knowledge of descendant communities and heritage protection. Most papers include community members as authors. Articles are Open Access: tinyurl.com/4uwb5sjf

officially declaring: the entire year of 2023 is my villain origin story