Can't wait for this book!

South America—the last continent to be settled—was peopled in surprisingly complex way Genetically diverse groups arrived in three waves, some potentially carrying genes acquired from long-ago Australasian ancestors

To think geneticists once assumed the population history of South America would be boring! (Blame colonialism, as usual 🙄)

My latest news story for @science.org 🏺 🧪
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Meanwhile, at Monte Verde The peopling archaeologists are fighting again 👀

More thoughts on my recent story about THAT Monte Verde paper, in my newsletter The Antiquarian theantiquarian.email/archive/mean...

Civilizations: A Novel A Novel

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Civilizations: A Book Club (part 3), feat. Andrew Dana Hudson In which the Inca (and Aztecs) conquer and reshape Europe

Part 3: Inca redistribution > European feudalism, Aztec human sacrifices in Paris, and a riff on the all-time banger Don Quixote theantiquarian.email/archive/civi...

Civilizations: A Book Club (part 2), feat. Andrew Dana Hudson In which the Inca discover the “New World”

Part 2: Atahualpa's arrival in Europe, first mover advantage, and who stands to gain when an empire falls theantiquarian.email/archive/civi...

Civilizations: A Book Club (part 1), feat. Andrew Dana Hudson In which first contact between Europe and the Americas goes rather differently

What would history look like if the Inca empire conquered Europe? @solarshades.club and I went long on the alternate history novel Civilizations, and now you can read our whole book club! Part 1: Vikings, Columbus, and whether or not we have to care about germs theantiquarian.email/archive/civi...

Thank you!! Peopling of the Americas is a fascinating topic but honestly it's the DRAMA that keeps me coming back

Debate explodes over age of key South American archaeological site New study argues Monte Verde is far younger than once thought, challenging when people arrived in the Americas

The peopling of the Americas archaeologists are fighting again 👀 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...

Civilizations: A Book Club (part 1), feat. Lizzie Wade Discussing Laurent Binet’s alternate history novel, in which first contact between Europe and the Americas goes rather differently...

What if Columbus sailed to America...and got his ass beat? Discussing one of my favorite alt history novels with @lizziewade.bsky.social

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(2/3) it’s with mixed feelings that we now share these shocking details of the scale and depth of enduring violence, posthumous abuse, secrecy, neglect, and silence about over a quarter of a million human remains in over 250 UK museums. (That’s a higher number than the population of Southampton.)

The animals of Copán Click here for Classic Maya cuteness

I just went to Copán for the first time. It's like a less crowded Palenque—and it's full of adorable animal sculptures theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

Say their names Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Oney Judge, Moll, and Joe

"They are terrified we will feel rage, sadness, and shame they can’t appropriate to turn us against each other; they live in fear that we might use those feelings to reach out in solidarity instead."
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bless you @brittanytrang.com!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for a year

The most haunting scene in Pluribus On culture and conformity

Let's talk restocking Sprouts and Kusimayu's goat theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

I've received so many great recs for other bog body books since I sent this that I think I'll have to do a second installment. Reply with your favorites please!

same!

The bog bodies book club Reviews of three recent entries

I recently read three books featuring bog bodies and I have thoughts, obviously theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

As this difficult and confusing year draws to a close, give the gift of embracing the end of the world. My book APOCALYPSE will show you how bookshop.org/p/books/apoc...

The Best Books of 2025 The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

So thrilled that APOCALYPSE is a New Yorker best book of the year! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

The books that made APOCALYPSE My subconscious’s bibliography

This holiday season, curl up with these melancholy yet stirring tales of worlds past, present, and alternate -- all inspirations as I wrote APOCALYPSE theantiquarian.email/archive/the-...

Is the past a distraction? Not when the future depends on it

The Global North will go to any length to conceal its past from itself, and it's destroying the world. theantiquarian.email/archive/is-t...

Flyer for a talk entitled "Adaptación Humana a Metals Tóxicos en América Prehispánica" martes 2 de diciembre, 7 pm, Auditorio de Humanidades, PUCP

Cool talk alert! I gotta spend more time in Peru 🇵🇪 🏺 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

We All Feel Like the World's Ending Because It Is (Kind Of) with Lizzie Wade YouTube video by Adam Conover

Thanksgiving dinner still not sitting quite right? Join me in excoriating colonialism, history's greatest apocalypse, on this week's Factually! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_Y...

Apocalypse A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Boo...

Not sure what to get your dad for the holidays? Dads agree: APOCALYPSE is a great dad gift! www.harpercollins.com/products/apo...

The warp of destiny I’m into the Vikings now

My newfound Viking interest came upon me unexpectedly and at exactly the right time—a feeling the Vikings would have recognized. 🏺
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Is AI an apocalypse? Against technological inevitability

And for more on AI and archaeology.... theantiquarian.email/archive/is-a... 🏺

To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’ A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies

Great story about the value of Indigenous-led archaeology in the Amazon...against this backdrop: "a contest promoted by the company OpenAI challenged citizen researchers worldwide to use [lidar] to find ancient cities in the Amazon" with no consultation 😡🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...

How Normal Is A Celebrity Allowed To Be?  | Defector Elyse Myers is famous for being normal—32-year-old brunette, married with two kids, lives in Nebraska kind of normal. Her press often refers to her as “The Internet’s Best Friend.” In her four years i...

"But this is the fundamental difference between art and content. The art exists without you, and it has to stand up for itself." This separation has been one of the best and worst feelings of publishing a book defector.com/how-normal-i...

Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species

Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...