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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4d

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society…

..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image”

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere

www.cambridge.org

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Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe this is a time to have a roundtable or panel discussion about threats to archaeology/gists in Canada, drawing folks accross Canada from Parks, CRM, academia, etc. to talk about identifying different types of threats and suggestions on how best to document and address them 🤔
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CAA / ACA @can-arch.bsky.social · 8d

It's TIME! Our call for session proposals is open!
We're preparing for the 58th Annual General Meeting of the CAA / ACA, in Canmore, Alberta, & we want you to join us!
We are accepting Session Proposals until January 15, 2026, so head to the link in our bio! 🏺 #CanArch #archaeology #conference

A graphic advertising the CAA 2p26 Canmore, Alberta. There is an image of a human figure holding a disc or circle, slightly abstract, in red and grey. Ti the figure's left, it says 'Call for Sessions is Open! Deadline: January 15, 2026'

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 6d

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

#archaeology 🏺 #photography

An historic black & white image of the box excavations at Maiden Castle during Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in 1937. Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 6d

Finished up the yard work in what has been a beautiful sunny week. However, by deciding to put the tools away ‘tomorrow’ I have called down the wrath of the gods. #yukon #whitehorse. Sorry.

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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 7d

#whitehorse

Doug Rutherford @dougrutherford.bsky.social · 7d

I’m artist in the window at Yukon Artists at Work gallery for the next three days, and my apprentices are despondent that they won’t be able to come and help (no cat-accessible washrooms).

Black cat lying with her head over the edge of the table.

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Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 9d

"...they are finding about 30 new holes in the ground each day... the activity has drastically increased over the past couple of weeks."

Hmmmm, this is concerning 🤔

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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Parks Canada warns against unauthorized digs at parks along N.B.-N.S. border | CBC News

Parks Canada is raising the alarm over unauthorized archaeological activities at Fort Beauséjour–Fort Cumberland National Historic Site and Beaubassin and Fort Lawrence National Historic Sites.

www.cbc.ca

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 16d

New research finds that 12,000-year-old camel art in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert once marked ancient water sources.

Hunter-gatherers may have used the ephemeral water bodies to penetrate deeper into the barren landscape.

#RockArt #Archaeology

New for @science.org 🧪🏺

Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago

www.science.org

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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 17d

To this day I have no idea what my parents were thinking when they brought me (6), never mind themselves, to this movie.

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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 19d

#ESHE2025
Sarah Pederzani ‘ Tracing cold-climate adaptations in early Homo sapiens in Europe …Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria’
How did humans disperse to all climate zones?
🔥! mysterious bone sand 😳?
Exciting results from plant/animal LIPID BIOMARKERS- evidence of animal bone fat extraction !

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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 24d

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out!

Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...

#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament

Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 24d

@hrougier.bsky.social @umr5608traces.bsky.social @univrouen.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @mnhn.fr #MuséeNationalPréhistoire @cerege.bsky.social @archeosciences-bordeaux.fr @rennesuniv.bsky.social @ubmontaigne.bsky.social @ull.es @trentuniversity.bsky.social

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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 24d

🧹 📈 Spatial stats tested associations among artefacts, fauna, shells & pigments.
▶️ Shells + pigments + Châtelperronian cluster together;
▶️ Bison links with Mousterian

‼️First evidence of shell beads with Châtelperronian artefacts ‼️

(13/20)

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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 23d

Wordle 1,557 2/6

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Soooo close. Rats!

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 23d

I am happy to announce we have created a new Master's program in Cultural Heritage and Environmental Resource Management (CHERM)! 🥳🥳 This is a blended program of Archaeology + Geography & Environmental Studies focused on public & private sector careers 🏺 anthropology.uccs.edu/cherm

Cultural Heritage and Environmental Resource Management, MA | Department of Anthropology

UCCS is home to more than 12,000 driven students and over 800 experienced faculty members. Choose from more than 100 options within 50 undergraduate, 24 graduate, and seven doctoral degrees. Take a vi...

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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 23d

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It gives me much pleasure to be able to announce that, on my suggestion, the Working Group on Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the IAU announced yesterday the naming of asteroid:

(732272) Langejans

...after TU Delft scientist Geeske Langejans.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Sep 15

Archaeologists may have found the world's oldest mummies: 10,000 years ago, groups smoke-dried their ancestors to preserve them. 🧪🏺

World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

www.livescience.com

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 29d

Our latest newletter was just sent out, with some scholar updates and upcoming events we'll be participating in! Interested in getting our quarterly newsletter delivered to your inbox? You can sign up here: 🏺
www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

How To Get Involved

www.ualberta.ca

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 29d

Aerial archaeology people - I want opinions...

Natural paleochannels, or some kind of enclosure. Around 180m across, and sitting one field south of Cumbria's 3rd largest standing stone... 🤔🤔

#archaeology #LiDAR #prehistory #history 🏺

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 16

Mala'e Vakapuna mound is Tonga's oldest known earth mound, dating to around AD 500. Large monuments are a key indicator of centralisation, suggesting that political complexity developed much earlier than previously believed.

🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Plan of Mala'e Vakapuna mound and the surrounding area, highlighting smaller mounds around the site.

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · Sep 16

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

Cave dig expands to learn more about hunter-gatherers

Humans inhabited Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously thought

timesofmalta.com

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Sep 15

This week’s astonishing artifact is an Indigenous map of the heavens that tells the story of the Skiri Pawnee. 🏺🧪

Pawnee Star Chart: A precontact elk-skin map used by Indigenous priests to tell an origin story

The unique map depicts patterns of stars in the night sky, but its meaning is debated.

www.livescience.com

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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social · Sep 13

Always challenging to see the waining of majestic glaciers but clearly the Stubaier, like many glaciers around the world, is on the way out. The challenge is on how we deal with this new space, the greater water (in the short term) and the rapidly changing landscape @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 12

Despite being only 80km from the Arctic Circle, stone tools have been found at the c. 6,500-year-old cemetery of Tainiaro, Finland, suggesting it was also a (probably very chilly 🥶) Stone Age settlement.

🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Hand wearing a blue latex glove, holding a small piece of worked stone.

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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · Sep 11

It’s north of Haines Junction. There are smaller sites like this all over the southern lakes and ruby ranges.

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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · Sep 11

That trailer then moved it to Edmonton where received it and began the accessioning and sampling process. Going from too hot on a Yukon mountain top to -35c in and Edmonton lab! We’re sun burnt, frost bitten but generally happy it all worked out!

Bagged ice blocks in University of Alberta Ice Core -25c working space

First Yukon ice patch legacy sample for ice core library. Carson Hedberg (Brown University) pictured.

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