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Dr Amanda 💀 Markham
@archaeoamanda.bsky.social
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Archaeologist & anthropologist. Koori. 🖤💛❤️ ANU PhD & Flinders MA.

My day job= Aboriginal archaeology + human osteology 💀+ zooarchaeology 🦘 & herding cats.

Research: Comingled, fragmentary remains | Faunal assemblages| UV taphonomy.

Ngaiawang Country 🇳🇿
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Dr Amanda 💀 Markham @archaeoamanda.bsky.social · Oct 4
I am writing articles on #AboriginalArchaeology, my own Aboriginal culture, my work with comingled-fragmentary human remains, faunal assemblages and occasional book/reading related posts here: comingledremains.substack.com
Comingled Remains | Amanda Markham | Substack
I write about Aboriginal archaeology, human osteology, zooarchaeology and bone taphonomy. I'm a Koori (NSW Aboriginal) archaeologist and anthropologist. Also posts about books and reading. Click to re...
comingledremains.substack.com
archaeoamanda.bsky.social
I am laughing so hard at certain people now, my abs hurt.
January 7, 2026 at 8:24 AM
archaeoamanda.bsky.social
Happy New Year! I hope you've had a good one. Had a wonderful Christmas and New Year, quiet and at home with family. I'm still on leave until next week. Spending the time planning, reading and exercising.
January 7, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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yardgonewild.bsky.social
Stuff Squirrels do😄
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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austarchaeology.bsky.social
A Conversation piece - 25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space theconversation.com/25-years-of-... /em
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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janephuong.bsky.social
#TreeBark
Barks of different gum trees.
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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austarchaeology.bsky.social
The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) "More than materials: collaborative approaches in cultural heritage conservation" conference will be in Brisbane from 12-14 November. Delegates can also attend online.
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/co... /em
Conservation conference invites broader sector to join conversations in heritage protection
The upcoming conservation conference will consider how to protect Australian art and cultural heritage
www.artshub.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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scurtis-summers.bsky.social
I have the pleasure of delivering this year's keynote for the Monty Losowsky Memorial Lecture Competition at
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
Tickets are limited, so early booking is advised. #bioarchaeology #palaeopathology #medicine
www.ticketsource.co.uk/limecpd/mont...
September 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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intarcheditor.bsky.social
In 2020, Wessex Archaeology excavated the site of a Victorian slum in the maritime town of Gravesend, #Kent, putting a rare spotlight on the neighborhood’s working-class inhabitants and the Dickensian living conditions they were subject to.
'A State of Things Which Ought Not to be Permitted': Excavation of 19th-century slums (Bull Yard, Horn Yard, Swan Yard and Market Alley) surrounding Bank Street at 'The Charter', Gravesend
Nineteenth-century remains in Gravesend (Kent, UK) were revealed by excavation, chiefly comprising buildings, along with wells and cesspits. Historic maps, newspaper archives and other sources have be...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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hilarydigs.bsky.social
Just watching the morning news on the ABC - how do we go from a news story about an indigenous man with dementia being found deceased in a river to being all hunky dory and talking about sport? Why do we move on from tragedy & indigenous deaths so quickly? Why is sport more important?
October 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
archaeoamanda.bsky.social
I am very, very wary of who follows me here.
October 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
Icelandic Mortuary Practices of the Viking Age www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDg4... @shieldofskuld.bsky.social
Icelandic Mortuary Practices of the Viking Age
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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rickicoughlan.bsky.social
Sound UP! When a gang of young male Superb Lyrebirds surround you, often within less than a metre. I zoomed back to 80mm but often had to lean back to get this footage. I've left it largely unedited to capture the mayhem of the moment. #birds #birding #nature #lyrebirds
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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austarchaeology.bsky.social
An ambitious engineering project is underway to build a full-size replica of the Juukan Gorge rock shelter www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... /em
Inside the ambitious plan to fill void left by Juukan Gorge destruction
A full-scale replica of the Juukan Gorge rock shelter, destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto, will be built over the remains of the original in Western Australia's north.
www.abc.net.au
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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jensnotroff.com
Original study:

@carriemongle.bsky.social et al., New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei, @nature.com 15 Oct 2025. 🔓

archaeology.org/news/2025/10...
News - Fossil Study Suggests Early Hominid May Have Made Tools - Archaeology Magazine
STONY BROOK, NEW YORK—According to a Science News report, a study of hand and wrist […]
archaeology.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
'Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Archaeology of Death'. Here's a blog post containing the session abstract, paper abstracts + slides for the in-person talks + videos/links for the digital contributions for Friday's TAG session
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/m...
Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Archaeology of Death
This post provides a compilation of the in-person and digital contributions to the Theoretical Archaeology Group 46th Annual Meeting session ‘Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Ar…
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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jensnotroff.com
Archaeologists baffled by headline suggesting they're shocked by major new analysis confirming long-discussed (deep) historic social phenomenon. 😲😱🙄

🏺 www.independent.co.uk/news/science... via @the-independent.com
Archaeologists shocked to discover first women-centric community in Europe
Scientists analysed DNA from a set of burial grounds in Dorset
www.independent.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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jensnotroff.com
🏺 Blast from the past: Been a great pleasure to chat #archaeology and some of my own earlier work and research with none other than @jomarchant.bsky.social over at the #WhereTheWildThoughtsAre podcast.

🎧 shows.acast.com/where-the-wi...
Black graphic tile with white text and a skull illustration in the center. Text reads: “Episode 10. Spirits, skulls & scorpions. Journey into Göbekli Tepe. With archaeologist Jens Notroff.” A small orange circle says “Where the wild thoughts are.”
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Part of my family here today. I was there in spirit
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Repatriation brings 'tears of joy' as remains re-buried after decades
An emotional ceremony for the repatriation of Aboriginal remains that had been held by institutions, including the South Australian Museum, has been held in Adelaide's north at a site that is now a re...
www.abc.net.au
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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@cybersalukis.bsky.social are you a Saluki owner?
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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kevpeirce.bsky.social
Sentinel in the solitude: enduring the wide, open country.

South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.

#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #AustralianCountry #LoneTree #RuralPhotography #CountryLandscape #NaturePhotography
A photograph of a lone, sprawling green tree in the center of a dry, expansive paddock, likely rural Australia. The ground in the foreground is covered in blurred pale, dry grass, and a thin wire fence runs horizontally across the middle ground. A smaller, taller tree stands slightly behind and above the main tree. The background is a gently rising, blurred, ochre colored hill topped with a line of dark distant trees under a bright sky.
October 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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osteoarc.bsky.social
🏺 The best archaeology is of course the archaeology where the documentation has turned into archaeology itself.
An old and fragmented caramel-colored piece of paper with old handwriting in pencil in a plastic ziploc find bag held by a gloved hand.
June 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
archaeoamanda.bsky.social
I can see from the amount of eyes/reposts that this story is getting that Australians would rather talk about an overseas war than the real issues hurting Aboriginal people in remote communities. Our mob needs help with this. Where is the outrage?
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Small, local museums will always be my favourites.

A couple of pics from today's jaunt to the Isle of Mull Museum in Tobermory...
October 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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hillfortian.bsky.social
Some good stuff here on hillforts in Wessex from @paulwhitewick.bsky.social

Don't let the clickbaity title card/intro put you off. There's some excellent well researched unpacking here.
youtu.be/q7IH_0ayuxg?...
Hillfort MYTHS: Everything We Got WRONG
YouTube video by Paul Whitewick
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October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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gardensofthesilent.bsky.social
Echoes of time in a field of repose.

St Johns Cemetery, Kapunda, South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽.

#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography #cemeterylovers
A black and white, wide angle photograph showing an old cemetery with numerous headstones of various shapes and sizes scattered across a dry, grassy field. In the mid-ground, a line of decorative iron fencing separates rows of graves. In the background, several bare, deciduous trees stand against a hazy sky. Many of the headstones appear weathered, some leaning.
October 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM