Mesolithic not universally accepted... hmm, I must have spent a good part of my academic career studying a phantom.

Great to see this paper come out! I usually work with teeth and bone fragments – beautiful in their own way of course, but these amazing #Amazonian objects from the Trombetas are on another level. It was a privilege to be involved in their study.
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Canadian content in Liverpool! But no actual caribou, not that that would be a thing…

Declining marine resource use over five centuries of human adaptation on Guanahaní (San Salvador), The Bahamas

Very happy to see this paper come out on Guanahaní, The Bahamas. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
Many thanks to colleagues Mary Jane Berman, Grace Turner and Joanna Ostapkowicz for all their hard work helping to bring this to fruition. It is a companion paper to a previous study.
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Wonderful light through the ‘skindow’ in the reconstructed Early Neolithic house at Butser Ancient Farm. With our new cohort of MSc Arch Sci students.
#butserancientfarm

Agreed and the photo is of a loaf we bought – just struck me as paradoxical. Of course I was recently fishing for wild salmon in BC that started life in a hatchery... Lines are blurred!

It’s hard to get my archaeological brain around this one.
#rewilding ?

A younger and rounder Tanu (aka "Bruno") and his sister are the poster pups on the cover of the 2026 GB spinone club calendar! Do we get royalties?
#Italianspinone

New arrival Tanu, weighing in at 17 kg - he’s a big puppy! Our older dog Kenta is just about tolerating him.
#italianspinone

How to improve the appearance of concrete piers under an overpass.
#GranvilleIsland
#SalishArt

Very high quality “graffiti” in Vancouver!
#FirstNations
#NorthwestCoastArt

8) into the smoker!

6) skip messy step of gutting, left to Bill for forgetting to gas up.

7) cure fish overnight, and dip into maple syrup (that’s Bill).

5) show Dave’s 8 lb coho just because it’s bigger (with adipose fin) - only allowed to be kept by First Nations until 1 October when it opens to all.

4) catch fish, in this case a 4 lb hatchery coho (distinguished by removed adipose fin)

3) heading into Victoria harbour because “somebody” (Bill) forgot to put gas in the boat.

2) heading to good fishing spot off Victoria harbour, on advice of Dave (First Nations, fishing all his life - i.e. we pay attention)

Documenting the entire process of making delicious smoked wild Pacific salmon.
1) on the boat at ungodly hour before sunrise.

Good luck!

Getting my sister into bonsai. Zen in theory. I must be on holiday.

Smoked coho salmon, 24 hours after caught. Not bad on Vancouver Island!

And introducing Tanuki (Tanu), new member of the household, arriving early October!

Multi-isotope biographies and identities of victims of martial victory celebrations in Neolithic Europe Isotopic data of people killed in Neolithic France suggest their attribution to nonlocal victims of war rituals of triumph.

And on a more academic note, many congratulations to Teresa Fernández-Crespo and colleagues on the publication of their paper on the identities of victims of Neolithic violence in Science Advances.

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Kenta's BBC début caught on Bargain Hunt today! Very photogenic. We on the other hand didn't get a look in. Well, except for my hand.

Beautiful setting of All Souls College, Oxford, for what was often a rather dark topic. Many thanks to my co-organisers Teresa Fernández-Crespo (the main driver!), Javier Ordoño and Andrew Wilson, and to all the speakers and contributors!

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Thought long and hard (2 mins at least) about what my first bluesky post should be, and then thought *uck it, I'll just post a picture of Kenta (#spinone), being very attentive in the kitchen.