Jesse Wolfhagen

Gold Cypriot bucranium pendant from the late Bronze age. Cyprus served as a crossroad for metalworking since 1550 BC Read how these remarkable decorations ended up in Italy 3000 years later 🐮 ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/boocrania 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Cyprus

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Was already sleepy and had a big soup lunch. Fighting for my life and living the dream.

Figure of a Child Seated atop a Pig, 2nd–1st B.C, 📸 by @tomnweston

If you're heading to the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress next week a workshop is being held with the aim of establishing an ICAZ Indo-Pacific Working Group. www.ippasecretariat.org/ippa2026/wor... Email Rosalind (rosalind.gillis@dainst.de) and Juan (jcrofes@up.edu.ph) to register.

@heinrich.senate.gov please change your position and support and protect Section 106. Respect Tribal sovereignty and the input of local communities. As a NM Democrat, I am so disappointed in you. Section 106 is so important to protecting the Cultural Heritage of our state.

New OA paper out!🎉 We tested an antibody-based technique to detect uracil in DNA, a chemical change that accumulates after death and is one of the hallmarks of aDNA. The results suggest that uracil content could offer a useful clue when deciding which DNA extracts to investigate further for aDNA🔎

Cool site

So apparently the Republican facing Ed Markey is a straight-up groomer pedophile? When he was 20 years old, he started a relationship with a 15-year old and had her move in with him after she graduated high school! And nobody is talking about this?!?!? wmasspi.com/2026/10/op-e...

sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

Friendly reminder that the deadline for bids for ICAZ 2031 is 30th November 2026. Bids should be sent to icazsecretary@gmail.com and will be voted on by the International Committee at the meeting in Vancouver, 2027. #ICAZ #Zooarch

Our new paper is out. Ancient #proteomics of ochre-containing sediment from South Africa (64 ka) identified traces of collagen proteins from eland (Taurotragus oryx). This finding provides new evidence for the complex technical and symbolic behaviors of early Homo sapiens. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Find out more about the "poofy" caterpillars prognostication skills. www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/06/m...

The woolly caterpillar predicts a mild Rhode Island winter. 📸: Ben Ryan / Mapleville Farm

Another astonishing victory in the ongoing War Against Metaphor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Really lovely article on archaeology through the eyes of archaeologists' 'spouses, parents, children, and close friends' - just published in Public Archaeology: 'Archaeological Osmosis or How Is Archaeology Seen by Those Who Share Our Lives?' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This reminds me of that scene in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron with the puma attack. Except this was a whole herd of cattle bullying one bear when it tried to go after a calf. (Photos by Wayne Ray)

Pacemaker companies getting a little too familiar

Monty Hall problem playing out almost too perfectly at our major minor fair today 🤣

📰 Discovery of a faience workshop in the ancient Nubian capital of Napata sheds light on power and production in the Kingdom of Kush 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via Daily News Egypt www.dailynewsegypt.com/2026/10/20/a...

and so the next Nathan Fielder project presents itself

I'm glad that the book for the 50 years of @icaz-news.bsky.social is out lockwoodpressonline.com/index.php/eb.... It includes the most important paper I've written. It's not OA but should you want a copy of my chapter, drop me an email at u.albarella@sheffield.ac.uk or say it so in comments.

After this backlash, Nscale is saying they've never planned to "bulldoze" the trees, as viral social media posts claimed. But they and the governor's office do plan to move them, which experts say will almost definitely kill them within a few years. www.404media.co/west-virgini...

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

i don't often talk about my process or how i think about what i'm doing and really enjoyed the opportunity to do just that earlier this year captivated.buzzsprout.com/2569769/epis...

CSUN Biology seeks a "Bird or Mammal Biologist" studying extant, non-model birds or mammals, and having experience in collections management, to teach Avian Ecology and/or Mammalogy and help steward our natural history collections (showy examples pictured) careers.pageuppeople.com/873/nr/en-us...

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Thinking some more about how archaeological illustration is always created and viewed in a larger context, in my case broadly Western culture. Does anyone have good examples of #SciArt created by and for consumption in a different cultural setting? … 🐡 #archaeology 🏺 #DataViz #ArtHistory

Ever wondered what seals, cormorants and snails can tell us about the Early Middle Ages? I humbly recommend my new(ish) article on how many small human practices in coastal Scotland built the foundations for larger social changes... link.springer.com/article/10.1... #envhist 🏺 #medievalsky

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Why would I ever want to do a puzzle? What enjoyment is there in time spent producing something, seeing chaos turned into order?

What could be more Halloween than a BAT? How about a bat colored like a JACK-O-LANTERN? Let's meet the Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta), also called the butterfly bat, native to SE Asia. 🦇🎃 (📷: MerlinTuttle.org)

🦴 What can animal bones reveal about the daily lives of working-class communities in 19th-century New York City? 🎙️ In this episode of Curiosity Meets the Past, archaeologist and zooarchaeologist, Pam Crabtree, walks us through her research at two Lower Manhattan sites 🏺🧪 youtu.be/K5GtMrN5Cxc

First class of the semester is completed. Running iteration 9 of my seminar, How to Pay Attention. Doing it fully on paper this year, but the web copy of the syllabus is here: classes.nickseaver.net/HTPA/

First day of zooarchaeology lab:

Can't wait for folks to learn the Rays have three mascots, each more confounding than the next.

I have some metaphysical questions about this subject line

What a talking point for the whole "parents upset their kids are cutting them out of their lives" nonsense we've been subjected to lately.

Remember, this is the BEST POSSIBLE VERSION of the story Acton's estranged mother can give. (and the source is... telling www.operationrescue.org/ohio-health-...)

🏺 🧪 Saw this earlier in the year and agree with all Huw's points, especially regarding the simplification of the archaeological evidence

(1/7) Interesting new pre-print by Reich (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...). Archaeological and geographical claims can be questioned imo though. Some kind of population contact between an early Homo sapiens population and Neanderthals is evident, but there are lots different specific scenarios.

Archaeologists found an oak baker's peel with a game board carved on the back, possibly so that medieval chefs could while away the time waiting for bread to bake. 🧪🏺

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