View of a rock garden with succulents at dusk, large threatening clouds in the distant sky
View of patio table in Proven e with two citronelles and a bowl of olives, at dusk
Patio table at night with wine and cheese
French patios are best patios 🫒🍷🌵🧀
Figure Six from Singh 2026 showing schematics of menhir raising using cribwork and ropes on the left, and a photo of the raising of an approximately 4 metre tall stone on the right. Caption reads: Illustrations of the traditional methods of stone erection and the erected stone monument: a) the stone placed near the erection site; b) the stone lifted using the wooden rod and wooden support; c) the partially erected stone at the erection site; d) the erected stone; e) the erected stone.
Mosaic of 8 photos, Figure 4 in the Singh 2016 article, showing the large stone as quarried, moving from the quarry by hand and rollers, and then with the aid of a truck to the place it will be erected. Caption reads: The quarry crew quarries at the quarry site while the organising team supervises the work progress; (b) the quarried stone is pulled or pushed out from the quarry site; (c) pulling the stone from the quarry site; d) pushing/pulling the quarried stone on the lower hill slope; (e) forest firing; (f) loading the stone on the truck; (g) the transportation of stone; (h) people gathered to erect unload and erect the stone in the evening.
Large menhirs in Willong Khullen village. Hundreds are present in this landscape near the Myanmar border.
Interesting new ethnographic article by O.P. Singh showing the quarrying and transportation of a #megalithic stone monument measuring 4.87 × 1.31 × 0.88 m, in far NE India. Article seems gated at the moment doi.org/10.1080/1751... @clonehenge.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social 🏺#archaeology
With a volume of about 5.6 cubic metres, this single stone megalith likely weighed more than 12,500 kg.
"It is worth noting that there is a local belief in Willong Khullen that a demon sits on the stone and makes it heavy to move, but when these words are shouted, the demon laughs and leaves, making the stone lighter for the stone pullers."
"Around 40 men hauled the stone away from the quarry site
and placed it over the wooden rods to facilitate easy movement of the stone. While pulling the stone, one man shouted, ‘mameilungle . . . sameilungle.!’ (pubic hairs), and
the rest of the pullers responded, ‘hei . . . hei.'
Figure Six from Singh 2026 showing schematics of menhir raising using cribwork and ropes on the left, and a photo of the raising of an approximately 4 metre tall stone on the right. Caption reads: Illustrations of the traditional methods of stone erection and the erected stone monument: a) the stone placed near the erection site; b) the stone lifted using the wooden rod and wooden support; c) the partially erected stone at the erection site; d) the erected stone; e) the erected stone.
Mosaic of 8 photos, Figure 4 in the Singh 2016 article, showing the large stone as quarried, moving from the quarry by hand and rollers, and then with the aid of a truck to the place it will be erected. Caption reads: The quarry crew quarries at the quarry site while the organising team supervises the work progress; (b) the quarried stone is pulled or pushed out from the quarry site; (c) pulling the stone from the quarry site; d) pushing/pulling the quarried stone on the lower hill slope; (e) forest firing; (f) loading the stone on the truck; (g) the transportation of stone; (h) people gathered to erect unload and erect the stone in the evening.
Large menhirs in Willong Khullen village. Hundreds are present in this landscape near the Myanmar border.
Interesting new ethnographic article by O.P. Singh showing the quarrying and transportation of a #megalithic stone monument measuring 4.87 × 1.31 × 0.88 m, in far NE India. Article seems gated at the moment doi.org/10.1080/1751... @clonehenge.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social 🏺#archaeology
Robert Phillips, the political executive of First Nations Summit: "What’s better: an empty box or no box at all? I think they’re basically the same.” BC First Nations oppose amendments to gut DRIPA #bcpoli
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Poor governance in the form of "Crown Misconduct" is the root cause of anxieties caused by the recent Cowichan Decision:
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Side view of an eagle very close to the water with talons loaded with many herring. In the water behind the eagle, herring are flopping in the air after the eagle had punched into the herring ball.
Cool shot of an eagle snatching up fistfuls of herring in Haida Gwaii. From @jagsbean on instagram. #herring #eagles #haidagwaii www.instagram.com/p/DWFVvDeARPm/ @iainmckechnie.bsky.social
Woodcut print in the medieval style featuring a nude man and woman running from a looming flying saucer, while an alien with slender limbs and almond eyes beckons to them. Art is by Drew Meger from CoreyPress.com
Must find a copy of this alien themed woodcut by Drew Meger www.coreypress.com#/die-flucht/ 👽🛸
Bar chart showing the discrepancy between the intended and actual changes in 2024 international student enrolment in Canadian post-secondary institutions.
Canadian government targeted an 18% reduction in International Students at BC post-Secondary in 2024, received a 66% reduction instead 🤡 #highered. @b-thom.bsky.social
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The article this news piece is based on can be found here, though it is paywalled outside of library access doi.org/10.1016/j.ar...
Another iron artifact made from a meteorite has been found in China, this one is Bronze Age from the Sanxingdui locale and is perhaps 3,000 years old @drspacejunk.bsky.social 🏺
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"Indigenous peoples are often presented as beings outside of history — always the same, never changing. ... instead of following a standard museum chronology, the exhibits reflect Indigenous understandings of history on their own terms" #museums
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Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Duncan and his group, and others, have recently been turning up very old sites on the Nimpkish River and also in the Holberg area, in the 13,500 to 14,000 calBP frame. Only one published so far, another very close www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Archaeologists reveal the role of women in an early historic lumber camp in NE Oregon @bobmuckle.bsky.social 🏺#archaeology
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Curiously, this has also been my experience in Italy
Does it surprise anyone that body cam footage caught an agent using ChatGPT to compile an incident report?
Artificial turf sports fields are a long lasting source of water pollution lethal to salmon. Note: the chemical in question ultimately derives from vehicle tires, so the problem is likely much more widespread. 🐟🔫🛞
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A text selection screenshot from the linked article. "It is both troubling and telling, however, that none of the pundits critical of the Cowichan decision have acknowledged the key facts or the legal principles at work in the case. The public has not been informed that the Cowichan case arose because corrupt government officials conspired to illegally claim the lands at issue for themselves. There has been no discussion of the difference between statutory and constitutional rights or the history and role of Aboriginal title in Canadian constitutionalism. If the public knew of the legal-historical context and understood the Cowichan case from a fact-based perspective, the justice of the decision might shine through the criticisms.This case comment offers a counterpoint to those criticisms, and to the online sound bites and click-bait that have tended to distort the decision and exaggerate its significance.7 Put briefly, the Cowichan decision is narrowly limited to the particular historical facts in the case. It is notthe “tip of the iceberg.”8 It does not put private property rights at risk across British Columbia. Instead, the Cowichan decision confirms that our existing constitutional framework provides an opportunity for the Crown to remedy a longstanding fraud by negotiating win-win solutions with Cowichan Tribes."
A comment from UBC adjunct professor James Hickling on the Cowichan Decision and private property rights in B.C. (PDF) #indigenous #bcpoli @b-thom.bsky.social
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Sketch of an unstable tower, the tower is labelled "All Archaeological Interpretations" while the weakest but of the foundation is labelled "Ethnographic Analogies from Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts". The image is a relabelled verstion of an xkcd comic found at https://xkcd.com/2347/
My inner curmudgeon woke up a little sassy today 🏺#archaeology
Sea otters cracking open oysters at the Oregon Zoo 🦦⚒️🦪
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Gumbaynggirr academic Gary Foley's collection of documents and photographs - an interesting look into Indigenous activism in Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... #archives #ephemera
Announcement of SFU seminar reading: This week's SFU Archaeology seminar talk will be given (in person and online) by Dr. Gail Anderson (SFU Criminology) presenting: “Eaters of the Dead: The Fate of Bodies in the Ocean" Thursday, March 12th, 3:30 pm PST Abstract: "A great deal of forensic entomology research is concentrated on the terrestrial environment, yet many bodies are found in the ocean. This talk will show some of the marine taphonomic studies I have conducted in the Salish Sea, in Howe Sound, Saanich Inlet and Georgia Strait, at a variety of depths and seasons using pig carcasses as human proxies. The first carcasses were placed in Howe Sound in collaboration with the RCMP Dive Team, Vancouver Aquarium, Canadian Coastguard and the Canadian Amphibious Search Team. Carcasses went through traditional decompositional stages at several depths, but faunal colonization was impacted by depth and season, as well as sediment type. These studies were limited by diver availability, weather conditions, safety and depth. The subsequent studies were conducted in collaboration with Ocean Networks Canada’s Victoria Experimental Network Underseas (VENUS) cabled, underwater laboratory, which involved real-time, remotely operated cameras, vehicles and instruments to monitor carcass decomposition 24/7. Carcasses were scavenged rather than decomposed and skeletonization varied from 3-4 days to months depending on a number of variables, but primarily driven by oxygen levels." For those attending in person, we’ll be in Saywell Hall 9152 at 3:30pm. For those attending online, please register in advance (up until moments before the talk!) at this link: https://sfu.zoom.us/meeting/register/AmExDiR5TNKE5Z27vzGHuQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Seminar from @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social this week is on human #forensics - decomposition in the ocean, given by Dr Gail Anderson.
On campus or by zoom (register in advance) sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
