Christian Thomas
@christiandthomas.bsky.social
If they hunt, I gather / Archaeologist into cultural landscapes, Ice Patches, Arrows and Atlatls, traditional economies / Father / appreciator of loud music / Yukon Territory, Canada.
I’m not jealous of all this feasting I’m seeing in the socials.
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’m not jealous of all this feasting I’m seeing in the socials.
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Thanks for the suggestions! The basic context is that at least one of my (historic) sites shell midden was used as an aggregate (maybe a spiritual element too 👀) in concrete, and I was just curious if there would be a way for me to determine which of the middens on the island it came from. Thanks!
🏺 Archaeology question:
Say I've found some shell midden that has been removed from its original context and placed into a secondary context. But I know that its org. location is likely one of the middens nearby. Is there a way for me to test to determine its org. location, like an XRF for shell?
Say I've found some shell midden that has been removed from its original context and placed into a secondary context. But I know that its org. location is likely one of the middens nearby. Is there a way for me to test to determine its org. location, like an XRF for shell?
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thanks for the suggestions! The basic context is that at least one of my (historic) sites shell midden was used as an aggregate (maybe a spiritual element too 👀) in concrete, and I was just curious if there would be a way for me to determine which of the middens on the island it came from. Thanks!
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Environmental DNA evidence of settlement in Iceland from c. 810 rather than the 870s - and much more besides. Summarised in the New Scientist but that's behind a paywall. Here's the original research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Environmental DNA evidence of settlement in Iceland from c. 810 rather than the 870s - and much more besides. Summarised in the New Scientist but that's behind a paywall. Here's the original research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
There's no vestige of beginning, no prospect of an end
When we all disintegrate, it will all happen again, yeah
If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away
And believe these words you hear when you think your path is clear
We have no control
When we all disintegrate, it will all happen again, yeah
If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away
And believe these words you hear when you think your path is clear
We have no control
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
There's no vestige of beginning, no prospect of an end
When we all disintegrate, it will all happen again, yeah
If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away
And believe these words you hear when you think your path is clear
We have no control
When we all disintegrate, it will all happen again, yeah
If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away
And believe these words you hear when you think your path is clear
We have no control
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Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
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November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
1/7
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Finally!
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Finally!
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
#cave of horrors! 100k spiders in this cave!! Living with centipedes and scorpions! Nope!🤣
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
Why the world's largest-known spider web surprised this scientist | CBC Radio
Serban Sarbu, a cave scientist, thought he’d seen everything — until he entered a pitch-black cave along the Albania–Greece border. Inside, he found the world’s largest known spider web, and he explai...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#cave of horrors! 100k spiders in this cave!! Living with centipedes and scorpions! Nope!🤣
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
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"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant now done with the contrast paints layer. All that's left is the fine details!
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant now done with the contrast paints layer. All that's left is the fine details!
This photo is so hardcore!
I may have to form a rock band, so I can use this as the cover of our first cd.
www.livescience.com/space/the-su...
www.livescience.com/space/the-su...
Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required met...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This photo is so hardcore!
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I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
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November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
And this effect is felt across the entire Inuvialuit/Inuit north. In #Yukon we have witnessed accelerated erosion take the last intact pre colonial features from Qikiqtaruk and Sabine Point regions in the past three years.
Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology.
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
How climate change is threatening Indigenous Yup’ik heritage « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog
On 12 October, 2025, Typhoon Halong reached the shores of Southwestern Alaska, with devastating consequences for many of the Indigenous communities living here. Whole villages were destroyed and…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
And this effect is felt across the entire Inuvialuit/Inuit north. In #Yukon we have witnessed accelerated erosion take the last intact pre colonial features from Qikiqtaruk and Sabine Point regions in the past three years.
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Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty
Quantitative analysis of canid skulls points to an earlier origin of dog diversity
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
1976, my wife’s parents leave Britain for Canada as economic migrants looking for a new beginning.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
1976, my wife’s parents leave Britain for Canada as economic migrants looking for a new beginning.
A cool wooden hunting structure found in Norway.
Surprising find near the trap: a wooden oar with incised decoration that had been brought up the 4500-ft-tall mountain. (Pic of it and a cute axe-shaped brooch in link.)🏺🧪
Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains
The well-preserved reindeer trap may be unique in Europe.
www.livescience.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A cool wooden hunting structure found in Norway.
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"What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness — or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair. Metal, one fan told me, is 'a strange road to joy.'" This is so lovely, @btoastie.bsky.social:
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness — or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair. Metal, one fan told me, is 'a strange road to joy.'" This is so lovely, @btoastie.bsky.social:
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Quaternary people, I need to source a high-resolution graphics file of an up-to-date Marine Isotope curve? One I can use at two different resolution, one 1,000,000 to present, the other 100,000 to present. Any idea where to look? Has anything definitively replaced Railsback? 🦣
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Quaternary people, I need to source a high-resolution graphics file of an up-to-date Marine Isotope curve? One I can use at two different resolution, one 1,000,000 to present, the other 100,000 to present. Any idea where to look? Has anything definitively replaced Railsback? 🦣
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Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It snowed! No a big surprise for #yukon in November, but after 4 or 5 weird warm weather months it’s a bit of a relief to see something normal. Hopefully the rest of the winter is normal but who knows with climate change.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It snowed! No a big surprise for #yukon in November, but after 4 or 5 weird warm weather months it’s a bit of a relief to see something normal. Hopefully the rest of the winter is normal but who knows with climate change.
They say #whitehorse will finally get #snow today. Here is a before. Fingers crossed the we are buried by tomorrow morning!!! #yukon
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
They say #whitehorse will finally get #snow today. Here is a before. Fingers crossed the we are buried by tomorrow morning!!! #yukon
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!