Even stone tools. I laid out a Mesolithic excavation plan & finds 1:1 in an office. You can see the hearths "of gossip", where people sat, knapped flints, maybe a kids' area, moved around, the swept tepee circle, rubbish dumps, food prep, arrow repairs, and a stone anvil seat. Spookily intimate.

Day 1 of 2 day research trip to Ceide/Belderrig with Jessica Smyth, Philippe de Smedt & Sam Kelley @arctic-glacial.bsky.social. Lively weather! Fantastic day in Belderrig. lots of new ideas. Mesolithic site. Neolithic field systems. Bronze Age activity. Deglacial/glacial evd & spectacular geology

Interested in Holocene Hunter-Gatherers? Come to UISPP Poznan (31 Aug-4 Sep) for session "Adapting to Diversity: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Varied World Landscapes" org. Frederica Fontana (Ferrara), Jacek Kabaciński (Polish Acad Sci) & me. Abstract below - deadline Feb 28th. uispp2026.syskonf.pl

Early Irish Asceticism. They've invented Early Irish Asecticism... except without the good bits. Like hallucinations brought on by near starvation, internecine warfare, blinding close relatives, ever present cattle raids at dawn, and feral sheep and the way they might look at ye...

Pleased to do honours at launch of ‘Booleying in Ireland’ by Theresa McDonald. Anything you will ever wish to know re. #booleying #transhumance in Achill & beyond is here. Fruits of years of interdisciplinary research @universityofgalway.bsky.social @globalgalway.bsky.social @nmireland.bsky.social

🚨 New Paper Alert! We investigated the developmental trajectories of intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic social norm acquisition among BaYaka and Bandongo in northern Rep. Congo, a community where inter-ethnic cooperation is common. We found that... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Interested in Holocene Hunter-Gatherers? Come to UISPP Poznan (31 Aug-4 Sep) for session "Adapting to Diversity: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Varied World Landscapes" org. Frederica Fontana (Ferrara), Jacek Kabaciński (Polish Acad Sci) & me. Abstract below - deadline Feb 28th. uispp2026.syskonf.pl

Latest podcast! We talk to Simone Kenyon, choreographer + artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired by the lyrical & embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book. shorturl.at/ac6QE #Cairngorms @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Hunter-Gatherer Research Group Lab. Students volunteer for a couple of hours a week. They gain experience processing samples. We get samples processed! Everyone is happy... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access: Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale). doi.org/10.11588/pro...

wow... this looks AMAZING! Congratulations to all involved. I know what I'm spending my free time reading for the next week while

I love how accurate the reconstruction is: she is carving a small alder trunk, in the right direction on the basis of the toolmarks we documented on the tool, with the landscape, palaeolake and fauna in the background all rooted in the evidence from Marathousa 1. Thank you Katerina & Gleiver!👏

A foraging teenager was mauled by a bear 27,000 years ago, skeleton shows www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-fo...

Hunter-Gatherer Research Group Lithic Lunchtimes @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social . Students select artefacts and sketch them as a way of understanding production processes. And a v nice butt-trimmed blade (Late/Final Mesolithic)

Join the OPW National Monuments Service as an apprentice Stonecutter/Stonemason! Learn traditional skills while conserving heritage. Apply now: gov.ie/opw #Stonecutting #Stonemasonry #HeritageConservation #TraditionalSkills #Craftsmanship #NationalMonuments #Apprenticeship #CulturalHeritage

"Capturing Light" by Coast Salish artist Maynard Johnny Jr. Raven is stealing the sun for humanity. See more of his work here: steinbruecknativegal...

The Mesolithic people evidently depicted fish exactly as any of us would today. But what is the fish swimming towards? Could it be a net? We don't know of course, but if you were to argue for Mesolithic art as a storytelling practice, this axe from Skalstrup Mose would be relevant to bring up

500 runners to run through Halifax’s historic buildings | This Easter’s Halifax Urban Trail, the first of its kind in Britain, promises runners a unique tour of the town’s top sights | Andrew Bibby

📖 Volume 42 – Nigel Monaghan, INJ Editor, reflects on The Irish Naturalists’ Journal 1925–2025, celebrating 100 years of Irish natural history publishing. Subscribe: irishnaturalistsjournal.org #INJCentenary #Nature #Science

Local manufacture of 'Mesolithic' things on a LBK site - very cool...

"@alicerudge.bsky.social has conducted remarkable fieldwork and her analysis of how Batek sense others is a distinctive contribution to the anthropology of ethics, difference, voices and the senses," writes Catherine Allerton for the Asian Journal of Social Science. bit.ly/4sCVSrh

Missed this when it came out over Christmas - a nice synthesis of current research on #Neanderthal diet (featuring some thoughts from me) in @nautil.us nautil.us/eat-like-a-n...

Open for Sept 2026 entry!!! Campus based MSc details below. Also our PT distance learning Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology. Contact me for details. @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

This Thursday, from the comfort of your own home, you can join us and @socantscot.bsky.social with speaker Prof. Hannah Cobb FSA FSAScot for an online lecture on how care in archaeology has the potential to be an act of radical and transformative resistance. www.sal.org.uk/event/care-f...

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

Reminder.

Our new paper in Hunter-Gatherer Research! We explored women’s decision-making power within households in two subsistence communities with different gender norms (BaYaka foragers & Bandongo fisher-farmers) in the Congolese rainforest ✨ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains. shorturl.at/DfOrj @graemewarren.bsky.social @mcornelissen.bsky.social @subfossilguy.bsky.social @farsouthhistory.bsky.social

Tough weatherday for fieldwork at Ferriter's Cove with Martin Moucheron and Deborah Buchanan. Lots of nice Late/Final Mesolithic shell layers to cheer us up though!

Our first archaeology research seminar of 2026 is a cracker! On Thursday 15 Jan at 12.35pm, Dr Emma Stockley of @archanchistleic.bsky.social will be coming to talk to us about prehistoric lithic landscapes on Dartmoor. In preson and online, all welcome!

My new paper on time and studies of human behavior and evolution is out - Just FYI it's a theory paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Older women in both communities report higher autonomy than younger women. Both BaYaka and Bandongo women make decisions on food sharing. However, BaYaka women report greater control over financial and healthcare decisions than Bandongo women, who often share decision-making with their husbands"

Wicklow hill fort identified as oldest prehistoric ‘proto-town’ in Ireland

MSc/GDiploma in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social. 1 yr FT, 2 yr PT. Open now for Sept 2026 entry. Contact me for details! www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

MSc/GDiploma in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social. 1 yr FT, 2 yr PT. Open now for Sept 2026 entry. Contact me for details! www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

Great to read Vivek's interview with Bob - lots of interesting things here. And not just the insights into Binford's data collection 😱. Thanks to both Vivek and Bob for the publication!

The @benpitcher.bsky.social article which this blog discusses is fantastic (links in blog). And the parody wood cuts a brilliant way of summarising it... Congratulations on such great work Ben!

On line (virtual) Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology coordinated (and mainly taught by) me @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social . 1 module a term for 3 terms. Open now for applications for Sept 2026 start. Please share! www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

On line (virtual) Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology coordinated (and mainly taught by) me @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social . 1 module a term for 3 terms. Open now for applications for Sept 2026 start. Please share! www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

This seems to summarise things well... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

More on the significance of our UKRI QUADRAT DTP funded excavations at Brusselstown Ring, Co. Wicklow (Ire.) @jodarchaeology.bsky.social @lindaboutoille.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @quadratdtp.bsky.social @ukri.org @antiquity.ac.uk bbc.com/news/article...

"In 2022 the article total was ∼47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth—if any—in the number of practicing scientists" "Specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year" with consequences on "citation behaviors" inter alia.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

🎄 New paper! 🎁 Since the 20s it's been said that "the Hadza don't use traps". Except sporadic snaring, none have been reported. So I was excited to find baited cage traps in use. More exciting, this was cross-cultural transmission — seldom seen in action! 1/​5 tinyurl.com/cagetrap

Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.

Letter to the editor, December 2010 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

We looked at 10 years of archaeology tenure-track job ads (2013–2023) to see what departments actually ask for: topics, methods, regions, and application materials. Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1017/aaq.... Data and R code used for the study are openly available here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪