Archaeologist & zooarchaeologist (she/her/hers) Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen SEAS Postdoctoral programme Center for early Sapien Behavior (SapienCE) Department of Archaeology
Heading to Cape Town today for the 2023 #archaeology field season at #BlombosCave !
Blombos Cave is located on the southern cape of South Africa and has a #MiddleStoneAge component between 100,000 and ~72,000 as well as a #LateStoneAge occupation
Artifacts important to the understanding of early human behavior have been found here such as the oldest drawing of #ochre on a silcrete flake at 73,000 and a ochre grinding toolkit at 100,000
Excavation starts Feb 4th! @AsiaArchaeologist on #tiktok
#Postdoc in #geoarchaeology at SapienCE position recently announced! Application due March 12th.
(Posting available in Norwegian and English) #archaeology
Which #Wetlands to Protect? #SupremeCourt Will Soon Decide
US loses about 60,000 acres of wetlands a year. An upcoming Supreme Court decision could settle decades of legal ambiguity about which wetlands should get federal protection under #CleanWaterAct
https://bit.ly/3CgntG8
I feel like the title says it all for this one: “Solving the two-decades-old murder case through joint application of ZooMS and ancient DNA approaches”
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02944-5
Testing out the app R Discover for finding more academic articles. I like google scholar alerts because they are often very relevant. The past few days, this app has been giving a bit of a broader range of articles, but I’m not against it. Found some interesting ones so far and seems useful for coming across articles I might not otherwise. 🤔
"Neolithic gender is remarkably elusive." - To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space - gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-archaeology/article/to-gender-or-not-to-gender-exploring-gender-variations-through-time-and-space/233DF85AFEA29A765D05C8735E681CE8#article #neolithic #BronzeAge #genderStudies
In 22 days I’ll be heading to the field for the first time since before the #pandemic started! I’ll be working at the #archaeology site of #BlombosCave in #SouthAfrica as part of #SapienCE
At the moment, the plan is I’ll be doing a lot of #3dscanning with the #Artec space spider (best name ever!). This is a trial run to try scanning the unit stratigraphy and any special finds— I’ve scanned objects before, but anyone have tips for scanning stratigraphy? #fieldwork
Photo by Magnus Haaland
@ArchaeoIain very fair!! Sometimes I get a little carried away in enthusiasm— I definitely have a lot of questions (including the question of dating). One of them is how the marking were assessed— I.e., in person? Off of photos, drawings?
Planning to read over this a couple more times, but rock art is not my specialty sadly so I’m sure to miss things— for instance im sure there are other hypotheses about these markings, but I am not familiar with them! Will have to do some digging!
Fascinating find!! “An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar”
Not just #Lascaux but numerous European sites in the Mid-Upper #paleolithic were tracking horse, fish, cervid (and more) spawning/mating and birth.
I don’t know if another example of such an explicit painted record of tracking animal seasonality like this— anyone have other recommendations? #archaeology
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000415
Bacon et al 2023: Fig 1
Study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics
500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many archeologists previously thought.
That's according to a study in Latin American Antiquity that shows the ruling K'iche' elite took a hands-off approach when it came to managing the procurement and trade of obsidian by people outside their region of central control.
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mayas-market-based-economics.html
@CANI I haven’t read Stone Blind (although I will be now!) but I have read “A fatal thing happened on the way to the forum” by Dr. Southon and absolutely loved it! If I was in the area I would definitely attend!
The first event of CANI's 2023 will be a Q&A between Natalie Haynes and Dr Emma Southon in Waterstones Belfast
on 16 January from 7pm.
***TICKET ONLY***
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-natalie-haynes-tickets-502540380807
Late Palaeolithic needle and a needle grinding stone on display @Archeonationale. Arguably one of the most influential and reliable designs. 🪡
@hoopes made some very interesting AI images based on artifacts.
One more potential abuse of image generating AI: Art dealers online could just make up non-existent object to sell. This could be fairly hard to detect.
Excited to be officially hosting the session at ICAZ 2023 in Cairns, Australia with Dr. Carin Andersson Dahl “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Zooarchaeology and Marine Sustainability”!
This session will focus on how to practically foster an interdisciplinary approach to marine sustainability with the goal of increasing communication and collaboration across fields.
Abstract submission opens Jan 4th !
#zooarchaeology #archaeology #geology #ecology #biology #ocean #sustainability
Clamshells Face the Acid Test
This Indigenous Trick May Help Protect #Shellfish Against #Acidification
For coastal #tribes, nurturing clam beds was “actually kind of protecting your vault, your bank.”
https://bit.ly/3HuN1Tp
Ness of Brodgar - 'Around the Ness: The Stones of Via' https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/stones-of-via/ #Orkney #Neolithic #BronzeAge
David Wengrow’s latest article ‘Apocalypse No! Pseudo-Archaeology, Ancient Tech-Lords, and Ordinary People’ tackles how Graham Hancock’s pseudo-archaeology erases the contributions of the ‘ordinary’ people of antiquity in favour of a nostalgia to be dominated by ‘natural’ masters, echoing racial theories like that of Egyptologist Flinders Petrie https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancock/
@ArchaeoIain 😲 oh my that sounds terrifying 😅
