“Being an archaeologist can be a very frustrating profession”
Ancient skeleton unearthed in France is latest to be found sitting upright
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“A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62”
www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…
#paleontology #library #invertebrates
Ruba Rombic Glassware
Sugar Bowl and Creamer
by Reuben Haley, c. 1927
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
New discovery: A wooden structure, identified as river bank protection of the #Roman harbour, has been unearthed in Cologne.
www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-...
#RomanArchaeology #archaeology 🏺
Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical researchers studying what they called “SuperAgers.”
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
Another sign that Christmas is near: youtu.be/a8qE6WQmNus?...
And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
More 1984 gift ideas.
#Sears #Wishbook #1980s #tshirts #IndianaJones #BuckarooBanzai #TV #knightrider
It’s not Christmastime until Darlene Love sings.
Christmas, Baby Please Come Home
Liquor gift set season is upon us. #bourbon 🥃
Ain't No Haint Gonna Run Me Off: tcrex.net/2025/10/27/aint-no-haint...
REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
Nipper. #Albany #NY #publicart #RCA #dogs
Perhaps take a bus? There was a Tehran-Baghdad route by the mid 1920s. The Nairn bus merged with that company in 1926.
United Steelworkers Building
United Steelworkers Building (also known as the IBM Building, and several other names) in #Pittsburgh PA. Built in the early #1960s with a steel load-bearing exoskeleton, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Pla... tcrex.net/2025/09/15/united-steelw...
MAC (Mike Cumella), longtime host of WFMU's "Antique Phonograph Hour," was featured in this New York Times article on cereal-box records (gift link).
That was eggspected
Aghast?
Who writes these headlines? Shouldn’t it always be “Boffins Baffled by…”?