Lizzie Wade

One way the ancient Maya worshipped their ancestors? Returning to a cave burial over centuries to leave offerings of human teeth 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...

This week on the @science.org podcast, radiocarbon dating is overturning archeologists' understanding of the Inca Empire w/ @lizziewade.bsky.social www.science.org/content/podc...

It turns out Wolf Hall is a lot better if you already know who Thomas Cromwell was theantiquarian.email/archive/retu...

Thrilled that APOCALYPSE was a finalist for @sciencewriters.org's Science and Society Award! www.nasw.org/2026Sciencei...

ah yes I see we're being forced discuss the AI apocalypse again. I've come prepared theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a...

I wrote about Absence by @solarshades.club and the surprising idea it captures about the allure of cities theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

Geologists in movies have a one-in-three mortality rate.

Proteins recovered from 400,000-year-old fossils show humans living today may have inherited genes from Homo erectus: "There’s far greater complexity in terms of hominins across Eurasia than previously recognized," says @york.ac.uk geochemist Kirsty Penkman. @science.org

Can't wait for this book!

To think geneticists once assumed the population history of South America would be boring! (Blame colonialism, as usual 🙄) My latest news story for @science.org 🏺 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

More thoughts on my recent story about THAT Monte Verde paper, in my newsletter The Antiquarian theantiquarian.email/archive/mean...

The peopling of the Americas archaeologists are fighting again 👀 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...

What if Columbus sailed to America...and got his ass beat? Discussing one of my favorite alt history novels with @lizziewade.bsky.social www.solarshades.club/p/civilizati...

(2/3) it’s with mixed feelings that we now share these shocking details of the scale and depth of enduring violence, posthumous abuse, secrecy, neglect, and silence about over a quarter of a million human remains in over 250 UK museums. (That’s a higher number than the population of Southampton.)

I just went to Copán for the first time. It's like a less crowded Palenque—and it's full of adorable animal sculptures theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

"They are terrified we will feel rage, sadness, and shame they can’t appropriate to turn us against each other; they live in fear that we might use those feelings to reach out in solidarity instead." theantiquarian.email/archive/say-...

bless you @brittanytrang.com!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for a year

Let's talk restocking Sprouts and Kusimayu's goat theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

I've received so many great recs for other bog body books since I sent this that I think I'll have to do a second installment. Reply with your favorites please!

I recently read three books featuring bog bodies and I have thoughts, obviously theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

As this difficult and confusing year draws to a close, give the gift of embracing the end of the world. My book APOCALYPSE will show you how bookshop.org/p/books/apoc...

So thrilled that APOCALYPSE is a New Yorker best book of the year! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

This holiday season, curl up with these melancholy yet stirring tales of worlds past, present, and alternate -- all inspirations as I wrote APOCALYPSE theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

The Global North will go to any length to conceal its past from itself, and it's destroying the world. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-t...

Cool talk alert! I gotta spend more time in Peru 🇵🇪 🏺 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

Thanksgiving dinner still not sitting quite right? Join me in excoriating colonialism, history's greatest apocalypse, on this week's Factually! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_Y...

Not sure what to get your dad for the holidays? Dads agree: APOCALYPSE is a great dad gift! www.harpercollins.com/products/apo...

My newfound Viking interest came upon me unexpectedly and at exactly the right time—a feeling the Vikings would have recognized. 🏺 theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

"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...

"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...

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...

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...