Brandi L MacDonald
@brandileewhat.bsky.social
Archaeologist and ArchSci nerd. Faculty at Archaeometry Lab at MURR. Managing editor @ArchaeometryJNL. Board member @SocietyArchScience. Provenance and pigments. #FirstGen she/her #archaeology 🏺views expressed here are my own
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Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia
Like stone artefacts, ochres (Earth mineral pigments) are durable, surviving from deep time archaeological contexts across the globe, leaving lasting …
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May 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New paper out on chert sourcing for our project in Eswatini. #ArchSci 🏺
📄📢New article: Bader, Sommer, Linstädter, Masia, Blessing, Forrester, & MacDonald (2025). Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, 106302. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
June 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
New paper out on chert sourcing for our project in Eswatini. #ArchSci 🏺
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all this fascism is terrible for my anxiety disorder
June 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
all this fascism is terrible for my anxiety disorder
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
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American #archaeology friends and colleagues: I suggest you start data scraping NOW from ANY Federal repository you might use for GIS data, etc., I'm working on the NOAA coastal LiDAR here. Message me to collab.
January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
American #archaeology friends and colleagues: I suggest you start data scraping NOW from ANY Federal repository you might use for GIS data, etc., I'm working on the NOAA coastal LiDAR here. Message me to collab.
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Postdoc stable isotope analysis
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Stable Isotope Analysis) at University of York
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January 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Postdoc stable isotope analysis
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📢 Award Announcement!
The Charles C. Kolb award for Archaeological Ceramics submissions window is now open! The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) offers one award per year to the best published paper on science-based archaeological ceramics research. More info here bit.ly/4fmIX51
Pls RT!
The Charles C. Kolb award for Archaeological Ceramics submissions window is now open! The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) offers one award per year to the best published paper on science-based archaeological ceramics research. More info here bit.ly/4fmIX51
Pls RT!
Charles C. Kolb Award for Archaeological Ceramics - Society for Archaeological Sciences
Society for Archaeological Sciences
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December 15, 2024 at 4:07 PM
📢 Award Announcement!
The Charles C. Kolb award for Archaeological Ceramics submissions window is now open! The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) offers one award per year to the best published paper on science-based archaeological ceramics research. More info here bit.ly/4fmIX51
Pls RT!
The Charles C. Kolb award for Archaeological Ceramics submissions window is now open! The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) offers one award per year to the best published paper on science-based archaeological ceramics research. More info here bit.ly/4fmIX51
Pls RT!
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🏺Made the local paper 😁
Excited about this research!
Excited about this research!
Monticello researchers receive funding for largest study of colonoware in history
For 24 years, Monticello’s Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery has been studying and cataloging artifacts left behind by early and enslaved Americans, creating an online arch...
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December 11, 2024 at 10:57 PM
🏺Made the local paper 😁
Excited about this research!
Excited about this research!
Very excited to play a supporting role in this Colonoware project with a kickass team of researchers 💜🏺#ArchSci #archaeology #NSF
Co-PIs include @dirtaverse.bsky.social and @brandileewhat.bsky.social!
December 14, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Very excited to play a supporting role in this Colonoware project with a kickass team of researchers 💜🏺#ArchSci #archaeology #NSF
Crawling back out into the world after 11 days of being terribly sick. I’m lucky to have friends bring me food (thanksgiving leftovers 4EVA), but 0/10 do not recommend. Inbox and to-do list have reached disaster levels. I’d rather stay in bed until January. Stay healthy, folks.
December 3, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Crawling back out into the world after 11 days of being terribly sick. I’m lucky to have friends bring me food (thanksgiving leftovers 4EVA), but 0/10 do not recommend. Inbox and to-do list have reached disaster levels. I’d rather stay in bed until January. Stay healthy, folks.
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MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM
MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
I’ve always wondered about this. Great write up!
I wrote this because of this common question. peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/w...
Why don’t archivists digitize everything?
Today on the blog we’re tackling one of our most frequently asked questions: “Why don’t you digitize everything?” and its related runner-up, “When will you be putting all your records o…
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November 25, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I’ve always wondered about this. Great write up!
Rock carvings at Alta, Norway. UNESCO World Heritage. August, 2024 📸
November 21, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Rock carvings at Alta, Norway. UNESCO World Heritage. August, 2024 📸
Some pics from our recent ochre workshop at the Alta Museum. Making ochre with the lovely Heidi G and Beth V.
November 17, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Some pics from our recent ochre workshop at the Alta Museum. Making ochre with the lovely Heidi G and Beth V.
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Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.
November 15, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.
November 16, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Have never watched boxing once in my life. This live fight on Netflix, Paul vs Tyson, will be my first. Here’s my play-by-play completely uneducated commentary: 🧵
November 16, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Have never watched boxing once in my life. This live fight on Netflix, Paul vs Tyson, will be my first. Here’s my play-by-play completely uneducated commentary: 🧵
It’s truly astounding when your institution wants to publicly tout you and your lab as a crow jewel of research achievement, while simultaneously taking away your research capacity, office space, and resources. Nobody is immune to university administration. The institution will never love you back.
November 16, 2024 at 1:02 AM
It’s truly astounding when your institution wants to publicly tout you and your lab as a crow jewel of research achievement, while simultaneously taking away your research capacity, office space, and resources. Nobody is immune to university administration. The institution will never love you back.
In case you missed it! Our paper "Ochre Communities of Practice in Stone Age Eswatini" is out, OA in Nature Communications. This study has been close to my heart for many years and I'm so happy it's out. Some highlights... /🧵🏺
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Ochre communities of practice in Stone Age Eswatini - Nature Communications
Mineral pigments have been used by humans and human ancestors for at least 500 thousand years. Here, the authors document ochre provisioning in Middle and Late Stone Age Eswatini, demonstrate the pres...
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November 14, 2024 at 6:20 PM
In case you missed it! Our paper "Ochre Communities of Practice in Stone Age Eswatini" is out, OA in Nature Communications. This study has been close to my heart for many years and I'm so happy it's out. Some highlights... /🧵🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So many new followers in the wake of the tw****r death spiral! A bit about me: Faculty & PI at the Archaeometry Lab at the MU Research Reactor. I specialize in provenance and materials characterization in archaeological science. I'm a neutron/X-ray/mass-spec/Raman nerd. I use those techniques... 🏺🧵
November 14, 2024 at 4:28 PM
So many new followers in the wake of the tw****r death spiral! A bit about me: Faculty & PI at the Archaeometry Lab at the MU Research Reactor. I specialize in provenance and materials characterization in archaeological science. I'm a neutron/X-ray/mass-spec/Raman nerd. I use those techniques... 🏺🧵
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November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
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The authors in the Archaeology as Service issue saw service as working with communities and had goals of establishing the authority and knowledge of descendant communities and heritage protection. Most papers include community members as authors. Articles are Open Access: tinyurl.com/4uwb5sjf
November 28, 2023 at 2:37 PM
The authors in the Archaeology as Service issue saw service as working with communities and had goals of establishing the authority and knowledge of descendant communities and heritage protection. Most papers include community members as authors. Articles are Open Access: tinyurl.com/4uwb5sjf
officially declaring: the entire year of 2023 is my villain origin story
November 4, 2023 at 11:46 PM
officially declaring: the entire year of 2023 is my villain origin story