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Iain Davidson AU

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Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578 .. more

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 21d

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Art or Scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication

This book descibes the origin and evolution of art and that art consists of relationships between people. It challenges the standard definitions of art

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Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 9h

Tonight’s #archaeology poem is an attempt at a Rondel. They can’t all be bangers :/
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15h

Winner by TKO, Joyce Carol Oates!

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Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.

Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 1d

#MedievalMonday A Late Anglo-Saxon carving on an archway inside St Bene't's Church, #Cambridge, 1000-1050 AD

It possibly shows a lion or maybe mythological creature

#archaeology #history #photooftheday

A stone carving of a lion-like animal in a stone wall

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

NO. You should write it.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised I can link through ResearchGate, so here you are:
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(PDF) "Somos todos de fuera"—We are all from somewhere else. Thoughts on the responsibilities of archaeologists

PDF | On Jan 1, 2011, I. Davidson published "Somos todos de fuera"—We are all from somewhere else. Thoughts on the responsibilities of archaeologists | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

I love this. Congratulations. It evokes the feeling of field survey so well.

Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight’s #archaeology poem reflects on late-season survey and shovel-testing. It is in the Dansa form. I’m nearing my goal of 50 original archaeology poems based on my past year in #CRM, all written in different forms. Thanks for reading.
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Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 1d

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

I was asked to give a paper on Postcolonial archaeology. I realised I had something to say putting together my experiences in Spain and then in Australia. My final bit of writing should be helping an Aboriginal friend of 40 yrs write her memoirs. Send me an email and I'll send you the paper.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

I would never read it, but the synthesis book on "Unexpected Connections" would be great.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

If you wanna have a read, it's actually now available as digital copy if you've got institutional access (...or bung me a message and I'll email you a copy!!)

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The Fortifications of Nevis, West Indies, from the 17th Century to the Present Day: Protected Interests?

This study examines the development and decline of the 17th and 18th century English/British fortifications of Nevis, West Indies. The forts were first built in the early 17th century and continued to...

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Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social · 3d

Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

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What is the purpose of Barnaby Joyce?

Barnaby Joyce has always talked a story about himself bigger than the brim on his Hopalong Cassidy hat. He is a one-man plot line, but his achievements for the people he professes to represent are sli...

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

See my recent comment. Those Kites Sven was talking about were in Jordan and they are now massively documented in the north of Saudi Arabia by @MikePetraglia's team.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

And a friend of mine was talking about Desert Kites in the late 1960s and no one took him seriously.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 3d

These are chacus: funnel-shaped hunting traps used in the high altitudes of northern Chile to capture vicuña, a wild relative of the alpaca. Even after herding and agropastoralism was adopted, chacus continued to be used by persevering forager groups.

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🏺 #Archaeology

Two satellite images of chacus: drystone structures made up of two walls forming a V-shape, tapering to a circular enclosure.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 3d

Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous:
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.

Peering across the behavioral repertoire (predictions 2a-b).

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 3d

#FindsFriday from the historic palace of Benin City. Ranging from pre-colonial bronzework of the Benin Kingdom to late-colonial-era Nigerian police regalia, they reveal the most-comprehensive archaeological picture of Benin City’s history to date.

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Some of the material culture found during the excavations, such as a bronze bell and pot, glass bottles, glazed ceramic sherds and clay pipes.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 4d

Then PAY us for it.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

You think. Some of us thought he unravelled long before that.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

Do you really want this to happen right now? With the present regime in control? You might argue that it was a major failing of Biden that this did not happen

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

If that bloke is something to do with football we are lucky there was not a kiss on the lips.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 5d

Just swear her in and rip of the bandage.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

Reminds me of the Brazilian Women's Beach Volleyball team one Olympics who had BRA written on their pants. I did not look to see whether they had PANTS written on their bikini tops.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5d

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected 43 days ago.

Republicans still refuse to swear her in because she is the final vote needed to release the Epstein Files.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

People complaining about Socialism always use Capitalism as the example.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

I think I was a little inaccurate before. Look out for this at 8am on Saturday Eastern Standard Time in Australia.
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Ancient DNA: New Revelations | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

Get ready for this. 8am Eastern Standard Time in Australia
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Ancient DNA: New Revelations | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 5d

This looks like an excellent introduction.

On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social · Mar 26

"The Origins of Humankind" is now live! 👏

We’ve assembled the world’s leading experts to reconstruct humanity’s 4-billion-year origin story—with cutting-edge science as our guide.

The first episode is out now!

Listen. Read. Subscribe. All for free at:
👉 onhumans.substack.com/origins

Origins of Humankind

Where do we come from?

onhumans.substack.com

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Iain Davidson, Gerald Friedman

𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369.bsky.social · 5d

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