Adorno showing a human face, dated to the AD 650-1400

Amerindian petroglyphs (Photo: Sébastien Perrot-Minnot)

Absolutely thrilled that my trip to Martinique in April is materialising!

Flights booked ☑️
Accommodation booked ☑️

Looking forward to studying the archaeological materials — look at these beauties!

... et j'ai vraiment hâte de déguster la cuisine créole!

#archaeology #ArchaeoSky #Caribbean

Franz Manni and Francesco D'Errico have put together a HUGE book on the state of the art of the #anthropology & #archaeology of body modification 📿🎨 Ancient beads & pigment (& much more) lovers, this one's for you 👀

#Philsky #evosky #archaeosky #humanevo 🏺

The Fate of Behavioral Modernity - Biological Theory Biological Theory - Over the past twenty years, empirical and theoretical advances have significantly reshaped the research agenda on “behavioral modernity” and its conceptualization....

The Fate of Behavioral Modernity now out in BiolTheory (@biologicaltheory.bsky.social) !

Not OA, but you can access the PDF here:
rdcu.be/eTFFX

I hope it helps open up a disenchanted conversation abt the evolution of the concept & possible ways forward.

#philbio #philsky #evosky #archaeosky 🏺💀

Team #ArchaeoSky, #AncientBlueSky, #AllTheSkys!
I have great news - Caitlín Eilís Barrett and Jennifer Carrington's exceptional volume, Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, filled with exceptional contributions and authors has won the #AIA James R. Wiseman Book Award! (1/2)

Please, share widely!

#NationalMuseumsLiverpool #MuseumSky #HistorySky #Skystorians #SkyMuseum #ArchaeoSky #Museums #Art

Join us next week for our Material Worlds Lunchtime Seminars! They are held in person and online, and feature our amazing staff across faculties @liverpooluni.bsky.social working on materiality!

@sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social #ArchaeoSky #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HistorySky

Join us this coming Thursday @livunihss.bsky.social and Friday @WorldMuseum for a documentary screening and a workshop on #Circum-Caribbean art & communities in Liverpool!

Scan the QR code & book your free tickets!

#Archaeology #AcademicSky #NationalMuseumsLiverpool #ArchaeoSky #museums #Liverpool

Digital Cemí Digital Cemí - Immersive Experience

Amazing virtual twin of a #Taíno #cemí —spiritual object— in 3D, very interactive and with all the information about this unique piece, the Taínos past and present, Spanish colonialism & collecting history.

A project by #MuseodiAntropologiaedEtnografia @unito

#FindsFriday #ArchaeoSky #archaeology

This is a very cool tool for medievalists and early-modernists!
#ArchaeoSky #AcademicSky #skyhistory #historysky

Very honoured to give the Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture this year!
Drawing on Latin American scholars and artists, I will explore what an Archaeology of Radical Tenderness is and how transformative can be for our discipline.

#ArchaeoSky #AcademicSky #Archaeology #LatAm #HistoricalArchaeology

📣 Job Alert!
2 PostDocs + 1 Research Assistant position offered as part of the @erc.europa.eu project "New Christian Materiality 1450-1750" (Materia) @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Links: shorturl.at/YqK98, shorturl.at/YeLp4, shorturl.at/IXyE5
#HistorySky #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #ArchaeoSky

Spindle whorl

Closeup of agave leaves

Cotton flowers

One of the most neglected finds in #Caribbean #archaeology —spindle whorls.
This one is from St Lucia ~ AD 600, most likely to spin cotton or agave/maguey fibres.

#FindsFriday #ArchaeoSky #Textiles #TextileArchaeology #Arqueología

Come do a PhD with me! There are two funded-PhD calls open right now—Check them here:

www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

@livunihss.bsky.social #ArchaeoSky #Archaeology

Collar taíno con un colgante de Cemí, de la colección del Metropolitan Museum (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314313)

Collar taíno de piedra con un "cemí" de colgante (Quisqueya [Rep. Dom.], ss. XIII-XV) @metsky.bsky.social
Los cemíes eran fuerzas espirituales relacionadas con los dioses/ancestros que continuaron siendo venerados a pesar del colonialismo español.

#JuevesAmericaIndigena #arqueología #ArchaeoSky

Homes of ‘working-class Romans’ discovered during Rome metro dig Experts say the relics at Piazza Venezia appear to resemble a multistorey complex of homes and shops

#archaeosky | Angela Giuffrida

Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions Program Aeneas, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historians

| Ian Sample #archaeosky

A team of archaeologists works on a mounded archaeological site, the city of Eridu in southern Iraq. Mud bricks are visible in the excavation. Image: Alla Al-Marjani/Reuters/GTRES

Ancient Eridu (Tell Abu Shahrein in Southern Iraq) is memorialized in Sumerian literature and historiography as the first city, the place to which the scepter of kingship first descended. It was inhabited since at least 5500 BCE.
#archaeosky
#archaeology
#Mesopotamia
🏺🧵

Charlotte Bell standing next to some Roman stonework.

Meet Charlotte Bell, a fourth-year PhD student in Archaeology @livancworlds.bsky.social where her research aims to put right the misrepresentation of women's lives in Roman Britain news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/25/b... #AcademicSky #ArchaeoSky

Archaeology without digging in the “Cradle of Humankind” to unlock mystery of ancient human evolution Archaeologists using new methods have unlocked more mysteries of ancient human development hidden under the surface in southern Africa.

#archaeosky 🧪 cosmosmagazine.com/history/arch...

Excerpt from a journal written in a childish cursive script. It reads "We ate lunch and then went to a museum that had French indian artifacts. Some of them were very similar to American indian artifacts. The museum was about the people of Savoie, the part of France we are in."

🏺 And that little girl went on to learn French and become an archaeologist, both of which would change her interpretation of the museum 😂.
Can you fault my logic though?
#archaeosky

Perspectives on Human Variation: Philosophy meets Evolutionary Anthropology

The "Perspectives on Human Variation" workshop (Leuven, 6-7 June) now has a website! 💀🧪🤠🏺

Deadline for abstract submissions: March 21st.

#hpbio #Philsky #archaeosky #paleosky #humanevo #anthropology

hiw.kuleuven.be/nl/nieuws-ag...

“Perspectives on Human Variation: Philosophy meets Evolutionary Anthropology” KU Leuven, June 6-7 2025 Workshop: “Perspectives on Human Variation: Philosophy meets Evolutionary Anthropology” KU Leuven, June 6-7 2025   Organizers: Andra Meneganzin and Grant Ramsey When: 6-7 Ju...

Grant Ramsey and I are running a workshop next June in Leuven on philosophy and evolutionary anthropology, featuring an exciting line-up of... well, philosophers of human evolution and paleoanthropologists!

We also have a CfA, open until March 21! 🧪🏺

#hpbio #Philsky #archaeosky #paleosky #humanevo

"/Below/" the financial district?! 😲 How / why do things like this get buried & lost track of, in the first place, #archaeosky?

Philosophy and prehistory: new perspectives on minds, art, and culture - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences This article introduces the special issue “Philosophy and Prehistory: New Perspectives on Minds, Art, and Culture.” The primary motivation for the issue was to create a space where philosophy and evol...

Fantastic special issue on Philosophy and Prehistory—be sure to check it out! 🏺 🧪 #philsky #hpbio #cogsci #philmind #humanevo #archaeosky

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Romanian fossils are earliest evidence of hominins in Europe, predating other finds by half a million years Analysis of bones butchered by ancient human ancestors shows they represent the oldest direct evidence of hominins in Europe.

#archaeosky 🧪 cosmosmagazine.com/history/pala...

#Archaeology #pottery peeps: looking for assistance for a potter friend finding documentation for #roman oil chandeliers etc she makes as pictured. She remembers seeing photos but is having a hard time digging it up, per se. Suggestions in comments? #Archaeosky

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

@pnas.org

#ancientrome #romanhistory
#archaeosky #leadpoisoning

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Been thinking about radioarchaeology lately. A sci-fi concept where intrepid archaeologists travel FTL to intercept the original broadcasts of lost media and preserve them. I think I first read about it in a Jack McDevitt story but I don't remember its name.

#scifi #archaeosky #SFFtalk

Longswords clash at the ARFL regional HEMA tournament at MKDF on November 9th while ref Jonathon nimbly avoids the action

One of my varied and sundry habits is taking pictures of historical European martial arts events. Long time lurker around #archaeosky, first time poster, so let’s get this #HEMAsky going!

Welcome to #archaeosky. We have knowledge to share about our human past and why it matters today

We dig trenches & piece together artifacts, analyze biomolecules & translate dead languages. And fight against misinformation

But most of all, we are into dirty old things and not ashamed to admit it 🏺