Someone must be feeding this little native miner who nearly walked inside my office this morning to ask directly that I do the same.

Making my way back from another successful season of the ABM project (cyprockart.org).
Grateful to our research partners, especially Laura Rangers, Balngarrawarra and Waarnthuurr-iin Rangers and Tradditional Owners for hosting conservation & dating activities this year

Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia Like stone artefacts, ochres (Earth mineral pigments) are durable, surviving from deep time archaeological contexts across the globe, leaving lasting …

Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Blood moon.
A bit different to the Cyclone last weekend.

While Uni Vice-Chancellors rake in millions, young researchers struggle to survive Australia's university Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world, while Australia's PhD students are some of the lowest paid. That is not a sign of a healthy education system.

Australia’s university Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world.
Australia’s PhD students are some of the lowest paid.
That is not a sign of a healthy education system.

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Wonder what stories these stunning ochres hold...

Fresh migrant from Mordor (the Twitter hellscape). Still settling in.