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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 · Oct 21

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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

link.springer.com

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

And no doubt the Egyptians are glad you could see it there. 🫠

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 6h

Homo sapiens could have hunted with bow and arrow from the onset of the early Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia.
Kitagawa et al 2026
Have we just been assuming these technologically radical bone points are for darts?
It aligns with interpretation of smaller, earlier Neronian points as arrows🦣🏺

examples of broken osseous projectile points from the Aurignacian sites of Vogelherd and Isturizt showing their tip damage compared to experimental examples.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 13h

They may not have the ear of the PM or a bag of money.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 15h

It would be very good to have as much coverage of the Islamophobia envoy as there is of the antisemitism envoy.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 17h

It may be legal but it is corruption pure and simple.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Federal MPs accept free sport tickets from gambling companies amid calls to restrict wagering ads

Tabcorp and Sportsbet provided tickets to at least six Liberal and Labor politicians, register of interests shows

www.theguardian.com

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 17h

Vale Jesse Jackson.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Three frames. 1. Afro-American mother and and child walking along street, dressed for winter, behind them a silhouette of armed man. Child says, “Momma, who was Jesse Jackson?” Mother says, “He was a leading civil rights activist.” 2. Still walking along street, behind them silhouette of man holding up “ICE OUT” placard. 3. Still walking. Silhouette shows man from frame 1 seizing placard and aggressing man from frame 2. Child says “Momma, what were civil rights?”

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon.
The offence is the point.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

Just how spot on was Jon Kudelka.

Pure and simple genius. #auspol

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

And the government thinks the biggest problem is antisemitism
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Race commissioner calls on Pauline Hanson to apologise amid condemnation of ‘reprehensible’ Muslim comments

One Nation leader’s statements about Muslims also labelled ‘bigoted and wrong’ by NSW minister for multiculturalism

www.theguardian.com

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Insouciant Samuel 🦘🐨 🚴‍♂️ @belungerer.bsky.social · 1d

Agree 👍
Little to no consideration of us mug voters.
Bring on the Indies who at least seem to care.
Loving Pococks work
And Larissa Waters for Greens
@larissawaters.bsky.social

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

And we have a government with an unassailable majority and allowing rich resources to be sold overseas with no income to speak of to Australia. Why can't they do something which would benefit all Australians. I mean, even they will get old one day, and we never stop hearing about the PM's dog.

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

Yeah, the people our aggression has given no hope in their home countries.

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Bad immigrants.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Angus Taylor at table with generic colleague at whiteboard holding marker. On whiteboard, two headings: “GOOD IMMIGRANTS” and “BAD IMMIGRANTS”. Under first: “# People like us; # Business people; # Wealthy people; # Cheap labour”. Nothing yet under second. Taylor says: “Well, we DON’T want the kinds of people that come from repressive terrorist regimes…” Colleague says: “You mean, the people most likely to need somewhere safe to flee to?”

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Bad immigrants.
My @smh cartoon.

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

My heart sinks every time I see her name. Her prescriptions are so wrong. They will not stop antisemitism but probably accelerate it. The issue is about racism. That is what needs to be stopped.

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

"Spoils" may be the wrong word, then. This is what I meant by "It's complicated "

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life)

billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

An El Niño is brewing

And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

billmckibben.substack.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

I’m doing my part. Why can’t the gas industry

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT)

Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

thepoint.com.au

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

You mean theft

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

Except for the devastating increase in fossil fuel projects from which the only virtue is that Australia benefits little. Lots of downside, because the atmosphere mixes, but few benefits.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

He looks set to pass without a trace

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 2d

At the end of this week, Anthony Albanese will become Australia's longest serving prime minister since John Howard. He's on track to rival Fraser and Hawke in time in the top job. But to leave what legacy?

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

“If Orwell wrote 1984 by following the threads of what politicians were sewing in 1948, then the ‘social cohesion’ our leaders are threading now are only forming a tighter net to trap us all,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46H1NSI

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 The point is that in a society in which men and women behave as separate groups, whatever the power relations, it may be that the men (supposing they were the bards) would not know much about what the women were used to doing. So stories that say nothing about them may be due to that bias.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

I am sorry this is so difficult. Maybe I am just not very good at explaining it. Larson had a cartoon, which I cannot find, of a group of men, rejoicing that the foreign anthropologists had left because they could now get their women to come back in. My story was the same, not a cartoon. 1/2

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, I did not want to detract from your really interesting observation.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

That there are biases both in terms of actual behaviour but also in terms of how stories are told. My Spanish friend was saying the same as the old Larson cartoon--the notion that women were excluded from certain contexts depends a bit on who is telling the story.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

It reminds me of a story told me in all sincerity by a Spanish friend who had dug in South America. At dinner one day the people from the US left so there were only male native speakers of Spanish there. Then they said to him "Thank goodness they have gone. Now we can get the women to come in."

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

If that was true, and the bards who were Homer were men and singing to men, then men may not have known much about women eating or drinking.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

Why is it in London?

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

So much hatred. But our government does not seem capable of recognising it. Great cartoon.

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