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David
@archaeomather.bsky.social
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Minnesota environmental archaeologist, writer & terrible gardener - always researching the archaeology of bear ceremonialism, obsessed with museums, historical designations & monuments
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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 8d
My daughter & her pals are making their own version of the Sabotage video ⭐️
Mirror selfie of a young woman with sunglasses and a big mustache, and 1970s men’s clothing. 3 photos of 3 young people on a staircase dressed as the Beastie Boys Sabotage video.
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artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Will remember this excuse next time I want to cancel a class...
Onion headline reading "hungover Egyptologist just gonna call in cursed today"
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Inside you there are two Maggies...
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Maggie, my Monday telework buddy.
A beautiful cat looking regal. A beautiful cat looking silly and out of focus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A good Mi'gmaq word that I have just learned: mui'newqamigsit, or "[that person] has the temperament of a bear."
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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archeaids.bsky.social
Oligocene-Miocene silicified coral Indigenous hard percussion flake & bifacial thinning flake from the Wetherington Island Site (8HI473), Hillsborough Co., Florida. 1/ #fossils #archaeology
Dorsal & ventral sides of dark to light honey brown colored secondary (has some cortex) flakes with inch/cm scale.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
A nice lady previously unknown to me started to put her container of croissants into my shopping cart at Costco, and all I could manage to say was “Um …”
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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chrissteller.bsky.social
This encapsulates something about the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is author and former St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Larry Millett, speaking on how far apart the Twin Cities were, psychologically and practically, pre-interstate.
n S Having grown up in north Minneapolis but now living near downtown St. Paul, Millett has been gathering evidence his whole life. He prefers his home of the last five decades. "When I started at the Pioneer Press in 1972, I think I had been to downtown St. Paul two or three times in my whole life. My parents didn't have a car," said Millett, who recalls that it could be an hourlong trip from north Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul in the days before the freeway connected the cities. "I'd been there for high school basketball tournaments but I knew nothing about St. Paul when I came for the interview. It seemed so exotic." He's heard all of the generalizations about the twins but said, "The one truth I do believe is that St. Paul is a big small town and Minneapolis is a small big city." From a review/article/interview on Millett's new book in today's The Minnesota Star Tribune, written by Chris Hewitt.
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Snowflakes in the air!
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Innocent!
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#OnThisDay Nov 9, 1975, 2:15pm: SS Edmund Fitzgerald pulls away from Burlington Northern Railroad Ore Dock No. 1 in Superior, Wisconsin, laden with 26,000 long tons of taconite destined for National Steel at River Rouge in Detroit, Michigan.
color photo of the edmund fitzgerald low in the water ready to depart, the huge ore dock looms behind and above it. This photo was taken In 6 months earlier loading at one of the DM&IR ore docks in Duluth, Minnesota.
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Almost midnight
Bare tree branches against a cloudy night sky with a bright moon.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Beer light reflection at our new favorite local tonight, lots of loud singing here but everyone is so good so it’s kind of like being at a concert.
Double reflection of a Modelo neon light with skull motif intermixed with reflections of a soccer match on tv and another sign.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Regimental flag of the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry from the Spanish-American War, displayed in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol.
Looking down into the rotunda with a star pattern in the floor, marble columns, and the regimental flag which appears similar to a square American flag.
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Lithographs by Ernesto García Cabral:
“Hastio, June 7” (1925) and “Head of a Woman” (1924), seen recently in the Gatsby at 100 exhibit at the Minnesota Institute of Art.
Art deco image of a reclining woman with bobbed hair wearing a glamorous dress. Lithograph of a woman’s face. She has curly short hair and a hat with feathers.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Vampire!
A fuzzy cute cat. His top canines are poking over his lower lip.
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays and altered the course of medical history. Pictured: images from one of the 1st series of x-rays ever produced (just 2 weeks after Roentgen published his discovery). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #WorldRadiographyDay
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Hey look at me, I have a big glass of beer!
Tall glass labeled Leinenkugel’s filled with Dos Equis beer and a lime wedge on top.
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
Maggie seems unconcerned. It takes a good cat without a fingergun to completely ignore a bad guy with a fingergun. Absolutely devastating.
My hand pointing a fingergun at out cat Maggie, who clearly doesn’t care.
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!

Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!

Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
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#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
My photo shows detail from a Roman fresco (wall painting) in a corridor at Villa A, the luxurious so-called ‘Villa Poppaea’ at ancient Oplontis (modern day Torre Annunziata) in the Bay of Naples, Italy. The fresco depicts a small light brown bird standing on a small pinky-brown wooden shelf, against a vibrant red background panel. The bird is shown in profile, facing left, with plummage painted in various shades of light brown and grey to beautifully depict detail of its feathers. The bird is lowering its head with beak open, about to peck into a fig on the shelf in front. There are two further figs painted behind the bird which have already been pecked into. The figs are painted light brown. The figs which have already been pecked into have cream flesh and red seeds.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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doktrock.bsky.social
"Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating"
A newspaper article w photo of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. : "in their academic paper, the researchers wrote that the sprawling, 540 room marble complex contained conclusive proof that a distinct political entity known as "the legislative branch" once existed specifically to serve the American people." (source: The Onion)
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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kristenwixx.bsky.social
I'm going to be disappointed if the Beaver Supermoon doesn't look like this...
A giant beaver on the moon.
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Admin sunset yesterday
Sunset seen down the street from the Minnesota Department of Administration building, with illuminated windows at dusk.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
archaeomather.bsky.social
My wife just informed me that this full moon is apparently called the “Full Beaver Supermoon” and my question is WHY HAD I NOT ALREADY LEARNED THIS FROM BLUESKY?? I don’t know about you but I pay good money for a
subscription to this website.
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Check out the midcentury modern light fixture in the entrance stairwell of the Centennial Office Building, bordering the Minnesota State Capitol Mall.
A space age chandelier suspended from a ceiling.
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM