New mug from @traficantes.bsky.social #NoPasarán

CARTA member and Palaeoanthropologist Chris Stringer guides us through the Denisovan story, revealing what’s known and what mysteries remain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zq...

The last word on Erich von Däniken should be from the great science communicator, Carl Sagan who wrote, "That writing as careless as Däniken's, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times."

Please don’t let BlueSky become polluted with bullshit #pseudoarchaeology the way Twitter has. We don’t need no Ancient Aliens. We don’t need no Graham Hancock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoa...

Police attack antifascists confronting the fascist group Núcleo Nacional in Catalunya. #NoPassaran

@jwhoopes2.bsky.social How popular Time Team has been. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

New questions, new perspectives, new answers #archaeology 🧪🏺 Technological analysis of bone tool collections in Cordoba- Argentina that successfully fills a major gap in understanding how these ancient communities organized their craft production and daily life phys.org/news/2025-12...

Who among us will ever forget where we were and what we were doing when we learned that undocumented migrants to the United States were taking all the atom-splitting jobs

This anodyne BS is how the NYT summarizes the most corrupt presidency in US history. Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was; he lied. He said he would get prices down; he lied. He said he'd only deport criminals; he lied. He started wars and attacked his own people.

Latest from me at @journalspectre.bsky.social: I trace how Richard Spencer and other white nationalists have shifted their strategy to stay relevant and rebuild after years of delay forming and antifascist resistance. They are building a new cadre, and have less opposition today.

@jwhoopes2.bsky.social www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Solidarity.

I would love it if you listened to some of this music! open.spotify.com/artist/40nN0...

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla... Uh. NO. I've been using Firefox ever since it was Netscape, but if they move forward with this, that'll be the end for my use.

-laughs nervously- What the fuck?

"I was embarrassed," Tim Miller said of Trump's speech. "It's really unbelievably stupid that we're here, that this person is the president, and that that was real—that was not a spoof."

JESUS CHRIST, are we PAYING for this new White House SHIT?

Kimbal Musk has publicly admitted that he and his brother Elon were in the country illegally for years before applying for citizenship—so unless they admitted this on their immigration forms, they must be deported immediately. Every journalist should be buzzing about this.

www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... Looking at @archeodgarcia.bsky.social @inrap.fr @archeonationale.bsky.social Dahud et la Cite d'Ys When legends meet maritime archaeology. @davidpetts1.bsky.social @peterreavill.bsky.social @jasoncolavito.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social @jwhoopes2.bsky.social 🧵⬇️

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Ancient genomes show 100,000 years of human isolation and striking genetic differences in southern Africa A new genetic study indicates that ancient communities in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation, developing a distinct set of genetic traits that... archaeologymag.com/2025/12/anci...

BIG NEWS: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco returns to Cambodia 13 antiquities linked to the late indicted antiquities trafficker Douglas Latchford by an investigation of Homeland Security Investigations and Cambodian authorities. about.asianart.org/press/asian-...

The Prajnaparamita was part of notorious Christian Humann’s Pan-Asian Collection, passed through Robert H. Ellsworth and was sold at Sotheby’s in 1990 before being donated to the museum in 2015

William Wolff connections: The Harihara was acquired by William H. Wolff Inc. before 1968, passed to Dr. Arthur M. Sackler and gifted to the museum in 1987 Uma was acquired from William H. Wolff Inc. in 1972, the sculpture entered Sackler’s collection and was donated to the museum in 1987

NYT: Smithsonian Returns Three Khmer Artifacts Thought Looted to Cambodia The objects were the first returned under a 2022 policy requiring the institution to weigh a wider range of factors, like plunder under colonial rule, when deciding to repatriate items. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/a...

Now this is cool. Or rather hot. Well, you know what I mean. 😉 With fire-cracked #flint handaxes alongside two fragments of iron #pyrite, new research at Barnham, UK, seems to suggest deliberate #fire making … 400,000 years ago! 🔥🏺 R. Davis et al. in @nature.com 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The fibers were likely dry when sewn. The wood swells when out in water which would tighten the join. Fast forward to about 15 mins in to see modern builders from Kerala sewing a boat to see the technique in action: youtu.be/3_HXVJpgTaY?...

Sewing is much less time consuming than mortise and tenon joinery. So that may have been a factor. It also creates a flexible hull which can be useful when navigating shallow waterways such as all the lagoons and canals around the region. BUT sewn boats are also on the rocky eastern Adriatic coast

The Roman shipwreck at Comacchio, Italy, is over 21 m long and 5.62 m wide. It was discovered in 1980 during the maintenance of a drainage canal. The vessel was loaded with amphorae, lead ingots, and boxwood logs. It dates to the 1st c. BC. 📷Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici Emilia Romagna 🏺

Side note: whenever I talk about hand-held pXRF "guns" (not a gun, but TV sci-fi laser gun-shaped) in archaeological lab methods, I emphasize the importance of making the satisfying "pew pew pew" sound out loud, since it doesn't do anything. 😉

Friend: I found this isolated point near my deer stand. What type is it. Me: Godley. Fan-shaped base, small flake scars, size smaller than a Yarbrough & doesn't have corner notches like the Ellis. Him: I'd never guessed that type. Why does everybody only look at shape & not overall morphology?😠

There is a website for #RealArchaeology content creators. real-archaeology.com

Throughout this entire ‘antifa’ red scare MAGA has consistently spoken about this alleged terrorist threat as if they simultaneously know a lot about it but also as if they’re awaiting a full report that will never come. It’s obviously a strategy to seem knowledgeable without having to back it up.

My followers on BlueSky now outnumber the ones I have on that other platform. Thanks so much for your interest!

Fantastic last day of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike. Great speech by our president @davidhayes4.bsky.social. Disgust for the behaviour of the #Sheffield Uni management is growing. Great support from Students' Union, @greenparty.org.uk. Students & staff united in a common front. @ucu.org.uk

🌊Just out! We reviewed the history of human-ocean interactions, focusing on the Pacific coast of the Southern Central Asmerican Isthmus (Panamá and Costa Rica). Over 16K years of stories on culture, environment, and ecology! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... Illustration: Madeline Dall

This week I’ve been at a #UNESCO workshop in Aix en Provence, at the former internment and transit camp of Camp des Milles, which has a very impressive heritage presentation dedicated to genocide prevention. 👏🏻👏🏻

Americans are the biggest suckers on the planet. Complete bunch of Charlie Browns.

Yikes! Not again! www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...

Once momentum towards restitution began in 2021, it proceeded quickly. The museum contacted Benin's royal family, the items were reclassified as loans, and they returned in 2024. Learn more: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...

Two of these items, a wooden hen and a bronze relief plaque, ended up with the University of Iowa's Stanley Museum of Art in 1986 and 2001, respectively. Both items took independent paths through several galleries and private dealers before arriving at the Stanley Museum.

New Case: The Stanley Museum Benin Bronzes, contributed by Emma Cudlipp. In 1897, after the fall of Benin City during Britain's "Punitive Expedition", numerous artefacts were spirited away and dispersed worldwide.

Well, college clearly wasn't going to work out for her with that tragedy of an essay. On to a MAGA podcast it is then.

“you have to think of Ħal Saflieni not as a place where music was played, but as a musical instrument in itself, because the resonances are so strong that if you play anything in there, the building rings.”

Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies