#archaeobirds

Good potential for archaeological seabird bones! Looking forward to hearing more.

Mosaic of a rate biting the leg of a Roman boy. Red blood streams from the boy’s leg. Around are many leaves on an off-white background.

Rat bites boy! Detail of a 4th century AD mosaic in a bed chamber at the extraordinary Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armenira, Sicily. #mosaicmonday #WorldHeritage

A Greek temple on a hill with factories behind in the distance.

Ancient and modern.

Spiky yellow flowers and spiky grey/green thistle leaves.

This beautiful big yellow thistle in Agrigento Sicily is a new one to me - Scolymus grandiflorus.

Artichokes and a temple.

Celebrating International Day for Monuments and Sites with some artichokes and a temple. 😀 🏺
@icomos.bsky.social #WorldHeritage

A pottery bird neck and head - possibly a swan - on a stand in a museum case. Photo: mine.

A lovely swan’s (?) head from the House of the Antefixes at Morgantina, Sicily. #archaeobirds 🏺

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The worst thing in the world is to say "I told you so..." 🌎🌐

eliot looks a bit angry, woolf suspicious

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

"In other words, Conybeare says, 'the foundations of Western thought came from Africa'.”

A small but exceptional Naked Man Orchid (Orchis italica). Saw this hyperchromic stunner in central southern Crete 12.04.26 #orchid #orchis

Anthropology Professor Laura Ng receives $10,000 grant for Wyoming Chinatowns research project The Far Western Foundation recently awarded a $10,000 grant to Anthropology Professor Laura Ng’s research project, titled “Wyoming Chinatowns and Emigrant Home Villages: Archaeologies of Labor, Racial...

A HUGE congrats to Grinnell College's @cocalola.bsky.social on this grant, awarded to support important archaeological work & research at the Rock Springs, WY, Chinatown | 🏺thesandb.com/55311/news/anthropology-...

can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons

Steve McQueen’s new project on the plants of Grenada:
‘I wanted to see what the Arawaks, the Caribs, the Europeans, the Africans, the migrant Chinese and Indian workers would have seen within the one constant thing which would have brought attention to their gaze, a thing of beauty’

Good luck! I'm heading to SE Sicily for the 1st time this week and hoping to fit in a couple of orchid days amongst the archaeology and birding, probably between Ragusa and Siracusa - perhaps Monte Lauro and Vendicari?

What fish redistribution in the Mediterranean is telling us about species’ climate resilience The Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. A scientific study on shifting distribution dynamics examines how its fish species contend with sea warming.

🌊 Climate change is turning the Mediterranean into a live experiment in species resilience.

theconversation.com/what-fish-re...

Lovely! My uncle was Tom Norman of O.normanii - and as a teen I went orchid-hunting with him in Crete, Cyprus and Rhodes, but sadly not Sardinia.

Part of the head and back of an alligator in a shallow wetland.

Watching me, watching you…

INS Professor Delivers Annual Public Lecture at Queen’s University Belfast Irish and Ecology: How Language Enhances Empathy with the Environment is the title of the annual public lecture that Professor Mairéad Nic Craith from INS will deliver at Queen’s University Belfast…

'Irish and Ecology: How Language Enhances Empathy with the Environment'. The annual public lecture that Professor Mairéad Nic Craith from UHI Institute for Northern Studies will deliver at Queen’s University Belfast on 29th April at 18.00hrs. @adammarkham.bsky.social

Monochrome photograph featuring a huge tree with many branches on a flat landscape near other trees

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

A grey and White House

Fancy a view of a massive cardboard mill and the port of Fernandina? The 1888 port offices are on offer at $975k. To be fair you’d probably also see roseate spoonbills daily on the Escambia Street marsh too.

I‘m very happy to see that the latest issue of Early Medieval Europe is now out, featuring ‘The Caliph and the Falcons’, that I wrote with @medivalist.bsky.social, now with actual page numbers! Check it out for arctic falcons, adventurous Scandinavians, ambitious emirs and more!

A green lizard on a white piece of wood, shedding its skin- which is split down the back and looks milky colored and rice paper thin.

It’s been raining a lot the last couple of days. Perfect skin-shedding conditions for this green anole enjoying the sun on a Florida porch. 🦎

A building front with a sign that says Wicked Bao. There are three palm trees in front, two with strings of lights round their trunks. It is dark outside.

This is hands down my favourite restaurant in Fernandina Beach. Super casual, super fresh Asian street food. Founder Nathalie Wu welcomes everyone personally. So many great dishes including pork belly bao, flash fried green beans with nutmeg, & to die for charred octopus. Don’t miss Wicked Bao!

I plan to be there. Cooking up some good ideas with colleagues for events, panels, workshops and field trips.

Part of the Ring of Brodgar stone circle on Orkney. Half the picture is blue sky.

The old ones are the good ones. Part of the extraordinary Ring of Brodgar on Orkney.
#StandingStonesSunday 🏺 #WorldHeritage

An echidna-graced Easter is a blessed Easter 💚

Dandenong Ranges, land of the Wurundjeri woiwurrung

Daffs in a field with trees and a stone wall behind

Farm buildings and trees in early morning light

Weir Farm National Historic Site today. Palm warbler not pictured.

I eke out my days posting about archaeology, birds, biodiversity, climate change & cultural heritage. Most of my posts get 5-20 likes. 2 days ago I posted a wry quote from the WaPo about tourists in DC flipping the bird to Trump in his motorcade. That got 3.2k likes. It's a funny old world. 🧪🌐🌎🏺🗃️🪶