Read the latest from the @flindersuniversity.bsky.social #Archaeology #humanevolution and #dispersal Research Group, @richardjhewitt.bsky.social @mikegeoarch.bsky.social and yours truly, and @Universidad de Alcalá archaeologist @Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Building works for the formation of the Australian Research Council-funded Australian Microarchaeology and Palaeosciences Facility (AusMAP) is underway here at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Very excited to get the new analytical equipment in once this is done!! #microarchaeology #geoarchaeology

New paper led by Annette Oertle out today focusing on our work at Castelcivita in Italy. A pleasure to work with our wonderful Italian colleagues. @katerinad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Slightly delayed, but I appreciate the feature @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Shout out to @mikegeoarch.bsky.social who was a big part of this success.

On behalf of my co-convenors @mikegeoarch.bsky.social, Ali (crouched beside me) & Michelle (left of Chris Hunt), thanks to @mdpetraglia.bsky.social for organising the theme in which our session was in, & everyone who presented their work, those who attended our session, and organised the conference.

10th World Archaeology Congress has wrapped up. Here's us who presented in the session 'Microarchaeology—Using Micro-analytical Techniques to Elucidate the Deep Environmental Past and the Evolution of Our Species'. Our session and the whole of the conference was largely successful

Thanks to all the co-authors and especially @mikegeoarch.bsky.social for the vote of confidence to do some of the microarchaeological analysis. I believe this is my first paper analysing an arid environment site!

Check out our new paper in JAS describing a new Pleistocene combustion feature from the Riverlands in South Australia. Fantastic to collaborate with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, Flinders colleagues and other collaborators

Our latest research with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation is now available! #craigwestell @mikegeoarch.bsky.social @ingatkatandaan.bsky.social @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

The eldest concentrating on the novel task of scraping a thin layer of ice off the car windscreen this morning (with my staff card). We don’t get many frosts here but it was bloody cold this morning in the Adelaide Hills

This was originally a poultiggery. The base a home for pigs and the top for hens. The pigs keep the hens warm in winter. A bit of vernacular gorgeousness from Cowside in Langstrothdale, Yorkshire Dales.

Contrast (Order and Chaos) https://www.wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/contrast-order-and-chaos

New discovery: A #Roman wooden water pipe has been found during works on Brussels Street in Leuven. At a depth of about 4 meters, archaeologists found the wooden water pipe running the entire length of the construction pit, totaling 20 to 30 meters.  www.brusselstimes.com/1568387/arch... 🏺

Dozens of scholars in my field appear on my YouTube channel, hundreds share my videos or threads with students, and thousands repost them on social media Archaeologists support ethical, experienced, evidence-driven public content. That's what I provide These clowns just provide lies

It's not exactly subtle, is it? Be sure to watch Louis Theroux's documentary on iPlayer

Thirty second of May Day music and dancing for you.

It's funny how I tend to remember the NME being very hard on us at this period, but here's Each and Every One in their Top 50 singles and Eden at no 20 in the Best Albums, so memory plays tricks. We remember bad reviews more. So it's fun to see this.

I just can’t get enough of this album. Totally and utterly mesmerising

Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25

Archaeology with Flint Dibble is expanding to Spotify. Give us a subscribe over there If you missed yesterday's episode, The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr Paul M.M. Cooper @paulmmcooper.bsky.social it is available there We will port older episodes over soon open.spotify.com/episode/1toR...

There is still one day left to apply for our 4 year postdoctoral position here in Vienna...!

More war crimes of the most heinous kind. But Netanyahu continues to walk free and Israel continues its genocide apace. We must not become desensitised to the horrors www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Very excited to have a new publication out! Read 'The lost continent of Lemuria, Neanderthal urges, and the rationale for space exploration' in the latest issue of the Astrosociological Insights Forum. 🏺🧪

Our paper “Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens” has been published in Scientific Reports 🥳 rdcu.be/egqwZ

Homo floresiensis must have really suffered from ‘Marabou Stork Nightmares’ Ping @irvinewelsh.bsky.social

We don’t do things by halves, in Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Getting trolled about my age by academic spamsters. Great

New Publication! New Paper by HEAS Members @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social and @philipnigst.bsky.social et al. on 'Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman‘ 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine' @palarchgroup.bsky.social #HEASPublications

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(No real reason to post more pics from that Leeds Packhorse gig here other than the fact that they are amazing and should be seen by more people. Photos by Julian Gonnermann.)

Tracing the elusive fire use during the LGM: check out our paper lead by @wcmurph.bsky.social on fire features at Korman' 9 in Ukraine. @philipnigst.bsky.social @marjolein-bosch.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social with open access provided by @icarehb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I will send every donated euro/dollar to my Gaza family for basic survival. Everything - water, food, nappies, blankets - is very expensive. Your donations have been helping to keep the 20 people in my core family alive: my five siblings, their mother, spouses and children. gofund.me/7c21df27

I haven’t posted on my family in Gaza in a while - because what is there to say? During the ceasefire, food supply had become easier and my nieces and nephews had returned to school a few hours per week. Now the war is back without any end in sight.

Wow. I just am so grateful for the amazing systems from @elife.bsky.social for review, and from @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social that have made it possible to open up the scientific evidence on some of the most challenging problems in human origins. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

A new executive order from the US President: to rewrite history to favour white men and a triumphalist, colonialist past.

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Want to come and work at York? 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p... #archaeology 🏺🧪

Oh well, at least the Great Barrier Reef is still healthy

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Mass bleaching drains life from Australian reef

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A new study by van Westen et al. shows that the #tippingpoint of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is also found in a high-resolution ocean model which resolves ocean eddies. No surprise to AMOC experts, but it's so computationally expensive to show that this hasn't been done before. 🌊🧵

ARC has “paused” future rounds of grant schemes pending outcomes of its NCGP Policy Review. All schemes previously scheduled to open before 1 July this year will go ahead. But next year’s Laureates, Industry Fellowships & Discovery Indigenous won’t. See table👇 & www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...

Wonderful to wake to the sound of rain drumming on the roof today. First significant rain since October here & first of the year & after a very hot summer. Met someone at school dropoff who said they watched the rain from their terrace with tears in their eyes, that's how dry its been in the hills

One off the bucket list!! Went to see my first (only one in S. hemisphere) and local (only 6 hours away!) GSSP ‘golden spike’ last weekend in the Flinders Ranges in S Australia, marking the end of Snowball Earth and the start of a warm period in which multicellular life began to flourish ~635-538 Ma