Lizzie Wade
@lizziewade.bsky.social
Archaeology writer. Author of APOCALYPSE: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures. Subscribe to The Antiquarian newsletter: https://theantiquarian.email
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My newfound Viking interest came upon me unexpectedly and at exactly the right time—a feeling the Vikings would have recognized. 🏺
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The warp of destiny
I’m into the Vikings now
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November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My newfound Viking interest came upon me unexpectedly and at exactly the right time—a feeling the Vikings would have recognized. 🏺
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Great story about the value of Indigenous-led archaeology in the Amazon...against this backdrop: "a contest promoted by the company OpenAI challenged citizen researchers worldwide to use [lidar] to find ancient cities in the Amazon" with no consultation 😡🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
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November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Great story about the value of Indigenous-led archaeology in the Amazon...against this backdrop: "a contest promoted by the company OpenAI challenged citizen researchers worldwide to use [lidar] to find ancient cities in the Amazon" with no consultation 😡🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...
"But this is the fundamental difference between art and content. The art exists without you, and it has to stand up for itself." This separation has been one of the best and worst feelings of publishing a book defector.com/how-normal-i...
How Normal Is A Celebrity Allowed To Be? | Defector
Elyse Myers is famous for being normal—32-year-old brunette, married with two kids, lives in Nebraska kind of normal. Her press often refers to her as “The Internet’s Best Friend.” In her four years i...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"But this is the fundamental difference between art and content. The art exists without you, and it has to stand up for itself." This separation has been one of the best and worst feelings of publishing a book defector.com/how-normal-i...
Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species
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November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
"But there’s an even more insidious myth about technological inevitability and its capacity for destruction lurking deeper in the past: The supposed superiority of European technology at the time of contact with the Americas." theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
Is AI an apocalypse?
Against technological inevitability
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November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"But there’s an even more insidious myth about technological inevitability and its capacity for destruction lurking deeper in the past: The supposed superiority of European technology at the time of contact with the Americas." theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
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With the History Channel now getting into the AI game, it's probably not too long before we start getting AI *giant* human skeletons.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
With the History Channel now getting into the AI game, it's probably not too long before we start getting AI *giant* human skeletons.
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AI isn't an apocalypse. But our myths about technological progress might be. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
Is AI an apocalypse?
Against technological inevitability
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November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
AI isn't an apocalypse. But our myths about technological progress might be. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...
This week in The Antiquarian, the long and winding road of Moctezuma's headdress theantiquarian.email/archive/empi...
Empires of feathers
On the penacho de Moctezuma
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November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This week in The Antiquarian, the long and winding road of Moctezuma's headdress theantiquarian.email/archive/empi...
My little blog is growing up 🥹 It's now The Antiquarian, a weekly newsletter exploring what we know about the past, how we learn it, and why it matters. theantiquarian.email/archive/welc...
Welcome to The Antiquarian
Because the past matters more than ever
theantiquarian.email
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My little blog is growing up 🥹 It's now The Antiquarian, a weekly newsletter exploring what we know about the past, how we learn it, and why it matters. theantiquarian.email/archive/welc...