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Dr. David Hopwood
@drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
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Paleoanthropologist and Bioarchaeologist fascinated by the evolution of early hominin behaviour, and burial practice in the more recent archaeological past. Dad of a teen, soccer fanatic and long suffering Canucks fan
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drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
That's a wrap on #CABA_ACAB in Victoria. It was an awesome conference filled with excellent talks, posters and conversation. Not least of all from all the incredible students here.
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
tlecaque.bsky.social Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Oct 13
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
Please don't disturb her, she is hard at work
May 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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rickylongthread.bsky.social
True!
March 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
Very sad news. She was a tremendous influence on my perspective of human evolution
nilese.bsky.social Niles Eldredge @nilese.bsky.social · Feb 10
I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.
February 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
Ha this is awesome
February 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
Anthropology has a serious image problem, apparently even in Academia. You can pretty much name any other discipline and people have an idea what it's about, but bring up Anthro and the most common refrain is "What's that"
stephenberquist.bsky.social Stephen Berquist @stephenberquist.bsky.social · Dec 27
Seems like an awfully high percentage of groundbreaking discoveries across the social sciences are established fact in anthropology
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 26
By mapping the meanings of the words used to communicate emotions across more than one-third of the planet’s spoken languages, a study in Science found that there is significant variation in how emotions are expressed across cultures. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/41X6dDk
December 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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adancingferret.bsky.social
Kindle edition on sale today

Limited-time deal: Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age a.co/d/3beg9Yn
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
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December 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
My current state grading
December 20, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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barbiewithatude.bsky.social
Again, not #Caturday, but 'tis the season, so...

#EmiBoz
Pic of large black cat looming over quaint village valley, with text "Your chances of getting eaten by Yule Cat are low, but not zero".
December 16, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Best of SAPIENS 2024. Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine www.sapiens.org/culture/best...
Best of SAPIENS 2024
Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights into everything human to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine.
www.sapiens.org
December 12, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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txufa.bsky.social
Proud supervisor post. A wonderful paper led by Eboni Westbury on new methods to record bone surface modifications. Years on the making but finally out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A New Open‐Access Method Applying GIS Techniques to the Study of Slicing, Scraping, and Tooth Marks
The study of bone surface modifications (BSMs) offers a window into behaviors and subsistence strategies adopted by ancient hominins. Geospatial software have become valuable tools for BSM analysis, ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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vcampanacho.bsky.social
The first Biological Anthropologists Starter Pack has reached its limit! I've created a second starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be added! 🧬📚 #BioAnthro #Anthro go.bsky.app/DMNUzHV
December 10, 2024 at 4:44 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
I am sure I will not spend an unreasonable amount of time playing with this rather than grading all my final exams and papers...
joelsimon.bsky.social Joel Simon @joelsimon.bsky.social · Dec 10
Inspired by a visit to the incredible cave paintings at Lascaux last week I made a site where you can make your own hand paintings 🖐️

www.joelsimon.net/forgotten-dr...
December 10, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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anthrodish.bsky.social
have a super cool AnthroDish episode today with paleobotanist & archaeologist Dr Shalen Prado on
using phytoliths and pottery to uncover plant based eating in medieval Scotland! #archaeology #foodpodcast

www.anthrodish.com/episodes/sha...
141: Uncovering Medieval Pictish Foodways through Paleobotany with Dr. Shalen Prado — AnthroDish
Oftentimes, when we think about plant-human relationships, we’re thinking about our contemporary lives and how plants factor into it – be it North American plant-based diets or what we’re growing in o...
www.anthrodish.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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ancientchildren.bsky.social
Read about our recent research just published. Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collections theconversation.com/forgotten-hi... via
@ConversationEDU
Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collections
Our new analysis of the skeletal remains and records of babies in a NZ museum collection shows they were largely born to unmarried mothers or lower-class families.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:17 AM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
This is everything
decafjedi.com Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · Dec 8
I love art.
This image shows Garfield humorously reinterpreted in the style of the iconic Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai. Garfield is personified as the towering wave, with his face and fur blending into the flowing water and lasagna noodles cascading down in place of sea foam. The background features a vivid red sun and Mount Fuji, anchoring the piece in its Japanese art inspiration. Boats caught in the lasagna-laden waves carry familiar characters like Odie and Jon, emphasizing Garfield’s gluttonous personality with lasagna as a recurring motif. The composition merges classical Japanese aesthetics with playful, Garfield-themed humor.
December 9, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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johnhawks.net
Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at “Dragon Bone Hill”, or Zhoukoudian, in November, 1936. The locus L hominins including this one, skull XII, lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago.
Illustration of Zhoukodian skull XII. Text: Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at Zhoukoudian in November, 1936. The locus L hominins lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago. The series of hominin remains from Zhoukoudian were named by Davidson Black as Sinanthropus pekinensis, but anthropologists today regard them as one of the best-known fossil samples of Homo erectus. Like other cranial remains from Zhoukoudian, the cranial base of skull XII was broken away, nearly all the facial bones are missing, and some extensive damage exists along the outside of the cranial vault. This evidence is consistent with the kind of damage left by large carnivores. A concordance of evidence from the site suggests that cave hyenas were responsible for accumulating many of the hominin remains at Zhoukoudian.
December 7, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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dizachster.bsky.social
What the human-like hand of Homo naledi suggests about human evolution, development, behavior #FossilFriday
lawnchairanthropology.com/2024/12/05/t...
The hand of Homo naledi points to life before birth
Homo naledi is one of my favorite extinct humans, in part because its impressive fossil record provides rare insights into patterns and process of growth and development. When researchers began rec…
lawnchairanthropology.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Trent University (Canada) invites applications for a tenure track appointment in Forensic Anthropology at the rank of Assistant Professor, cross-appointed between the Department of Forensic Science and the Department of Anthropology www.trentu.ca/humanresourc...
Assistant Professor (Forensic Anthropology) – Tenure Track - Human Resources - Trent UniversityThe Campaign ForMomentousActionResearchLeadershipDebatePerformanceConnectionDiscoveryIdeasPlacesStewardsh...
www.trentu.ca
December 5, 2024 at 4:55 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
Earlier it was Lucy and friends, now this. It is fascinating to imagine an ecological landscape where multiple hominins would have interacted. #Evolution is so very cool
ivg.bsky.social Isabelle Vella Gregory @ivg.bsky.social · Nov 28
This is seriously exciting. Full paper here. Tomorrow’s reading for me (bc these old bones are tired). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 28, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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thelastfarm.bsky.social
“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions | CBC News
A new study indicates Indigenous peoples in what is now British Columbia have been cultivating the beaked hazelnut for thousands of years, challenging assumptions that pre-colonial Indigenous people were only hunter-gatherers.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2024 at 2:41 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
Great end to last night at #ASOR2024, with the #Bioarchaeology session. Lots of really interesting papers and Q&A. My paper is now done, I managed to work in a Batman reference and all is good
November 23, 2024 at 1:45 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
Made it to #ASOR2024 went to a couple papers, walked the book line (to much to stick in luggage) and now having a beer, love #conferencelife
November 21, 2024 at 8:44 PM
drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
I love this about human evolution. Multiple species coexisting, basically until what 40-50kya. I am sure my students just smile and shake their head as I wax poetic about a time when Neandertals, Denisovans, Humans, Hobbits etc roamed the earth together

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Ancient human ancestor Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggests
Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there.
www.livescience.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:47 PM