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David
@archaeomather.bsky.social
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Minnesota environmental archaeologist, writer & terrible gardener - always researching the archaeology of bear ceremonialism, obsessed with museums, historical designations & monuments
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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 27d
My daughter & her pals are making their own version of the Sabotage video ⭐️
Mirror selfie of a young woman with sunglasses and a big mustache, and 1970s men’s clothing. 3 photos of 3 young people on a staircase dressed as the Beastie Boys Sabotage video.
archaeomather.bsky.social
My wife took me out to brunch ❤️

Now I’m back to our regularly scheduled #Caturday business
Fuzzy cat curled up along my legs on the couch.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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aidanosullivan.bsky.social
Storytelling, it’s what archaeology is for. Telling stories about people, different ways of being, strangeness, the diversity of the human condition - that how we organise our world, our societies, our relationships with people, places, animals, plants, things, & time have not always been like this
archaeologyuk.bsky.social Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 8d
New landmark research out today: We've just launched Trowel and Error, the most in-depth look in 25 years at how audiences want to engage with archaeology. The findings are clear: people want human, accessible, story-led archaeology.

Read the report here 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Person smiling whilst taking part in a workshop Person with glasses creating a collage
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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dean.bsky.social
Remembering Billy Strayhorn on his birthday 🎂
📷 Gjon Mili, mid-1940s

"It is virtually impossible to think of another 20th-century artist whose prodigious talents were matched by so overwhelming a sense of modesty and conflicted desire to recede."
- Ginia Bellafante
Strayhorn stands with his hands in his pocket & his legs apart.
November 29, 2024 at 2:44 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Alexander Calder’s “4 Great Pyramids (c. 1970 - 79) and “Two Half Discs” (1971), seen at the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth last month.
Lithograph of stylized pyramids with lines and round shapes above. Lithograph of stylized pyramids.
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
#Caturday morning zoomies at our house
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild.

Ladybug
Hedgehog
Jackalope
Sleestack
Cat
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
For Last Four Friday, here’s my #LastFourWatched
Movie posters on Letterboxd of The Blue Gardenia (1953), The Northman (2022), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), and Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999).
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Hey get over here, the banana bread is done!
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Momentarily still life, with fuzz.
A handsome fuzzy cat.
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Map of the Southern Tip of South America with the Strait of Magellan, showing an expedition of 1599-1600, Baptista van Doetechum, 1646. With #penguin.
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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romanceofbooks.bsky.social
Steel engraving after Audubon’s ‘Wild Turkey, Female and Young’ for ‘The
Naturalist’s Library’ published by William Home Lizars, Edinburgh, 1834.

Copperplate engraving from Audubon’s ‘The Birds of America,’ published 1827-1838. Engraved, printed, and colored by Robert Havell & Son.

#rarebooks
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
I’m really full so I’m having a cookie, seems like a really good idea
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to.

The Replacements
Prince
Kiss (no makeup)
Kiss (makeup)
Trip Shakespeare
dangermike.bsky.social Mikeymike @dangermike.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to.

Slayer
Aphex Twin
Village People
DJ Shadow
Slayer
mattm00n.bsky.social Matt Moon @mattm00n.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen -

Oasis Maine Road
Sambroso All Stars present The Buena Vista Social Club
Muse
Cut La Chemist
The Staves
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
My daughter is cooking her first turkey this year for friendsgiving in New York. My wife & I went out for dim sum. It was delicious and I ate too much (but I would do it again).
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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science.org
The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
A shorthair domestic cat gazes upward.
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
I’m thankful for all of you, also for this cup of coffee right now
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
I haven’t seen the parking lot turkey at work for a while, hope he’s having a great thanksgiving!
A wild turkey next to a tree in a parking lot.
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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saralovesyou.bsky.social
Sahan Journal’s reporting on this is very good (and makes SPPD’s behavior look even worse). I feel so badly for everyone who is enduring these violations.
Family of man swept up in St. Paul raid say agents had no warrant
A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members of a second man swept up in the operation say they were taunted and humiliated during a ...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
A hand holding a card with an illustration of a butterfly flying in the sky. The card has decorative borders and text in two languages. The setting is indoors.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
The cat is snoring, adorable little snuffles
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
The best cat thread: All hail Jim!
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d
THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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cingraham.bsky.social
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul. At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants. Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization. The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected. Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency. We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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keithpille.bsky.social
Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
An inflatable Death Star with a wreath around the primary weapon and text printed on it saying “May CHRIST be with you”
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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jillhasday.bsky.social
On this day in 1883, Sojourner Truth died. Born into slavery in New York, she became a suffragist and abolitionist. Truth probably never used the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman,” but she did mock white men who opposed women’s rights. #WeTheMen

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Sojourner Truth
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM