“Being an archaeologist can be a very frustrating profession”

Ancient skeleton unearthed in France is latest to be found sitting upright

“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

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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, part of Northwestern’s ‘SuperAgers’ study, dies at 111 She was the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher.

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)

Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (Official Video) YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

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-...

Or perhaps a #70s Oak Barrel #bar set?
#1970s #vintage #Sears #wishbook

More 1984 gift ideas.

#Sears #Wishbook #1980s #tshirts #IndianaJones #BuckarooBanzai #TV #knightrider

1984 Christmas wishlist?

#1980s #Sears #wishbook #Atari #D&D

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

Large Milkweed Bugs on #milkweed pod #native plants #NY #insects

Perhaps take a bus? There was a Tehran-Baghdad route by the mid 1920s. The Nairn bus merged with that company in 1926.

#nj #nativeplants

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...

Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible. (Gift Article) Decades ago, singles were printed on cereal boxes as cutout prizes. Now, a dedicated few are working to save these cardboard treasures from extinction.

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).

Bunnyhenge

#California #henge #monument #rabbit

That was eggspected

Aghast?

Who writes these headlines? Shouldn’t it always be “Boffins Baffled by…”?

How to find lost objects: 6 techniques that really work We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.

We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.