Curt
@neoriffic.bsky.social
Archaeologist
Work: CRM in BC, 🍁
Research: Ancient Southwest Asia
Player/writer of TTRPGs, veteran, nerd.
(he/him)
Living and learning in the unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation.
Trans Rights, BLM, MMIWG2S, Stop Asian Hate, Free Palestine
Work: CRM in BC, 🍁
Research: Ancient Southwest Asia
Player/writer of TTRPGs, veteran, nerd.
(he/him)
Living and learning in the unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation.
Trans Rights, BLM, MMIWG2S, Stop Asian Hate, Free Palestine
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Reading this superb book on the tail of Turtle Island. @ivpress.bsky.social @choklotubbe.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Reading this superb book on the tail of Turtle Island. @ivpress.bsky.social @choklotubbe.bsky.social
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A REQUEST: I have a student who is wheelchair bound+their dream is to participate in an archaeological
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A REQUEST: I have a student who is wheelchair bound+their dream is to participate in an archaeological
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
excavation... not a "token" desk job but for real, to dig. Their disability means they have to stay in the chair. What is out there for opportunities/adaptive aids etc? 🏺 (shared w their blessing)
A perfect example of how sometimes accurate results do not provide helpful data. 😂
![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiaaaa2fduedn5fusan4xvikaehxgps2yxdlv7vb3j7ep323zta2u4@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
A perfect example of how sometimes accurate results do not provide helpful data. 😂
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Don’t forget to follow the links for our new MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD in our advert in latest issue of Current World Archaeology !
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Don’t forget to follow the links for our new MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD in our advert in latest issue of Current World Archaeology !
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
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Please share and/or fill this out if it applies to you: forms.gle/6TuZYUzhAznR...
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Please share and/or fill this out if it applies to you: forms.gle/6TuZYUzhAznR...
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies?
This Call for Papers is for you!
Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference!
Link in the reply.
This Call for Papers is for you!
Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference!
Link in the reply.
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies?
This Call for Papers is for you!
Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference!
Link in the reply.
This Call for Papers is for you!
Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference!
Link in the reply.
White folks complaining about the Bad Bunny's halftime show are 100% showing how accustomed they are to fully-dominating white media that they are incapable of appreciating or even understanding the power of representation for minority groups.
In other words, they are uninteresting dork ass losers.
In other words, they are uninteresting dork ass losers.
February 10, 2026 at 2:46 AM
White folks complaining about the Bad Bunny's halftime show are 100% showing how accustomed they are to fully-dominating white media that they are incapable of appreciating or even understanding the power of representation for minority groups.
In other words, they are uninteresting dork ass losers.
In other words, they are uninteresting dork ass losers.
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
Neat demonstration of how artificial so-called intelligence is taking us backwards.
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge
Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap away. Phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatche...
phys.org
February 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
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Guys!!!!
Fantastic news! It appears that an individual has used a program to download the data from the historic places register and created a new site with it! If all the data is accurate, this will become a valuable site for researchers across the country.
🏺 #heritage
heritageguide.ca/search?q=New...
🏺 #heritage
heritageguide.ca/search?q=New...
Search | Heritage GuideHeritage Guide
Search thousands of Canadian heritage sites.
heritageguide.ca
February 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Guys!!!!
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Dr Brian Thom @b-thom.bsky.social of @uvicanthro.bsky.social weighs in on the current controversies in BC Archaeological practice and offers a useful comparison to Japanese practice 🏺🇯🇵 #archaeology
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
Comment: B.C. archeological sites are not a ‘misfortune’
The Heritage Conservation Act is in urgent need of reform.
www.timescolonist.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Dr Brian Thom @b-thom.bsky.social of @uvicanthro.bsky.social weighs in on the current controversies in BC Archaeological practice and offers a useful comparison to Japanese practice 🏺🇯🇵 #archaeology
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
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This is going to be a really fun and stimulating session on pseudoarchaeology and communicating archaeology at the upcoming meeting of the @can-arch.bsky.social in beautiful Canmore, AB, May 6-10!
Let's get this party started!🏺🇨🇦
Looking for papers for #CAA2026
How do you share archaeology?
What has been your experience navigating the muddy waters between pseudoarchaeology and real research?
How can we do better as a field, a discipline, and community to combat anti-intellectualism?
Looking for papers for #CAA2026
How do you share archaeology?
What has been your experience navigating the muddy waters between pseudoarchaeology and real research?
How can we do better as a field, a discipline, and community to combat anti-intellectualism?
January 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
This is going to be a really fun and stimulating session on pseudoarchaeology and communicating archaeology at the upcoming meeting of the @can-arch.bsky.social in beautiful Canmore, AB, May 6-10!
Let's get this party started!🏺🇨🇦
Looking for papers for #CAA2026
How do you share archaeology?
What has been your experience navigating the muddy waters between pseudoarchaeology and real research?
How can we do better as a field, a discipline, and community to combat anti-intellectualism?
Looking for papers for #CAA2026
How do you share archaeology?
What has been your experience navigating the muddy waters between pseudoarchaeology and real research?
How can we do better as a field, a discipline, and community to combat anti-intellectualism?
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Let's get this party started!🏺🇨🇦
Looking for papers for #CAA2026
How do you share archaeology?
What has been your experience navigating the muddy waters between pseudoarchaeology and real research?
How can we do better as a field, a discipline, and community to combat anti-intellectualism?
Looking for papers for #CAA2026
How do you share archaeology?
What has been your experience navigating the muddy waters between pseudoarchaeology and real research?
How can we do better as a field, a discipline, and community to combat anti-intellectualism?
Super proud of my wife and her team for snagging a gold medal at the 2026 Canadian Whiskey Awards with their ultra-limited batch Suburban Unruly Whisky! 🏅🥃
(Already sold out forever, in case you were wondering.)
(Already sold out forever, in case you were wondering.)
January 16, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Super proud of my wife and her team for snagging a gold medal at the 2026 Canadian Whiskey Awards with their ultra-limited batch Suburban Unruly Whisky! 🏅🥃
(Already sold out forever, in case you were wondering.)
(Already sold out forever, in case you were wondering.)
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The volume on the iconography of Göbekli Tepe‘s pillars is finally out. Although the site is not unique any more, it still represents the largest corpus of Early Neolithic (9th/10th millennium BC) imagery. This is largely due to the work of Klaus Schmidt, who passed away far too early in 2014.
January 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The volume on the iconography of Göbekli Tepe‘s pillars is finally out. Although the site is not unique any more, it still represents the largest corpus of Early Neolithic (9th/10th millennium BC) imagery. This is largely due to the work of Klaus Schmidt, who passed away far too early in 2014.
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You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.
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“Thanks to our latest findings, we now know that early citizens of the United States had a more nuanced system of government than previously thought,” said Professor Lee Somers, director of the site excavation
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
theonion.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
“Thanks to our latest findings, we now know that early citizens of the United States had a more nuanced system of government than previously thought,” said Professor Lee Somers, director of the site excavation
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Exciting new job opportunity with the Nunavut Government!
There is an opening for a Project Assessment Archaeologist is accepting applications now! Check out the link below for more information! 🏺 #archaeology #nunavut #jobs
www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/proj...
There is an opening for a Project Assessment Archaeologist is accepting applications now! Check out the link below for more information! 🏺 #archaeology #nunavut #jobs
www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/proj...
www.gov.nu.ca
January 13, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Exciting new job opportunity with the Nunavut Government!
There is an opening for a Project Assessment Archaeologist is accepting applications now! Check out the link below for more information! 🏺 #archaeology #nunavut #jobs
www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/proj...
There is an opening for a Project Assessment Archaeologist is accepting applications now! Check out the link below for more information! 🏺 #archaeology #nunavut #jobs
www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/proj...
Turns out it wasn't as bad as I lost sleep over.
The drywall needs replacing, but the leak is coming from a vent.
It's not even that bad. But the torrential rain we've been having turned a no biggie to a biggie.
I think I've bought myself some time to learn how to fix it.
It's been a long day. 😮💨
The drywall needs replacing, but the leak is coming from a vent.
It's not even that bad. But the torrential rain we've been having turned a no biggie to a biggie.
I think I've bought myself some time to learn how to fix it.
It's been a long day. 😮💨
January 13, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Turns out it wasn't as bad as I lost sleep over.
The drywall needs replacing, but the leak is coming from a vent.
It's not even that bad. But the torrential rain we've been having turned a no biggie to a biggie.
I think I've bought myself some time to learn how to fix it.
It's been a long day. 😮💨
The drywall needs replacing, but the leak is coming from a vent.
It's not even that bad. But the torrential rain we've been having turned a no biggie to a biggie.
I think I've bought myself some time to learn how to fix it.
It's been a long day. 😮💨
Me: It's a new year, and I've more or less got a lot of the things from 2025 in order or in the works. I'm feeling good and I'm going to really challenge myself this ye...
Son: Hey dad, what's that *pointing at the ceiling*
Me: That, my son, is water damage. I suppose our roof is leaking.
Son: Hey dad, what's that *pointing at the ceiling*
Me: That, my son, is water damage. I suppose our roof is leaking.
January 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Me: It's a new year, and I've more or less got a lot of the things from 2025 in order or in the works. I'm feeling good and I'm going to really challenge myself this ye...
Son: Hey dad, what's that *pointing at the ceiling*
Me: That, my son, is water damage. I suppose our roof is leaking.
Son: Hey dad, what's that *pointing at the ceiling*
Me: That, my son, is water damage. I suppose our roof is leaking.
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Who were the world’s first brewers? Tune into The Delicious Legacy podcast with Professor Tate Paulette to find out!🏺
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Where Beer Began: Is the Mesopotamian Origin Story Correct & The Birth of Brewing
Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 12/24/2025 · 50m
podcasts.apple.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Who were the world’s first brewers? Tune into The Delicious Legacy podcast with Professor Tate Paulette to find out!🏺
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
This is the closest that Trump has come to saying something that makes any sense.
Unfortunately he lacks the ability to exhibit any amount of reflection.
I'm a fan of challenging authority over territory based on old Europeans planting a flag somewhere. But let's problematise that closer to home.
Unfortunately he lacks the ability to exhibit any amount of reflection.
I'm a fan of challenging authority over territory based on old Europeans planting a flag somewhere. But let's problematise that closer to home.
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
This is the closest that Trump has come to saying something that makes any sense.
Unfortunately he lacks the ability to exhibit any amount of reflection.
I'm a fan of challenging authority over territory based on old Europeans planting a flag somewhere. But let's problematise that closer to home.
Unfortunately he lacks the ability to exhibit any amount of reflection.
I'm a fan of challenging authority over territory based on old Europeans planting a flag somewhere. But let's problematise that closer to home.
This photo goes hard. ✊
January 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
This photo goes hard. ✊
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Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences.
NEW in the Conversation by Amundsen-Meyer, Holyoke, and Munro-- grounded in their newly published work from Advances!
theconversation.com/canada-has-t...
NEW in the Conversation by Amundsen-Meyer, Holyoke, and Munro-- grounded in their newly published work from Advances!
theconversation.com/canada-has-t...
Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences
Protecting heritage in Canada requires training more archeologists and equipping them with the tools and education to do so.
theconversation.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences.
NEW in the Conversation by Amundsen-Meyer, Holyoke, and Munro-- grounded in their newly published work from Advances!
theconversation.com/canada-has-t...
NEW in the Conversation by Amundsen-Meyer, Holyoke, and Munro-- grounded in their newly published work from Advances!
theconversation.com/canada-has-t...
Got this book for Christmas! Really looking forward to digging in! 🏺
On February 7, join the West Vancouver Memorial Library and the District of West Vancouver Archives for "Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells with Bob Muckle."
Learn more: https://ow.ly/NwRs50XTcXM
Learn more: https://ow.ly/NwRs50XTcXM
Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells with Bob Muckle - West Vancouver Memorial Library
In celebration of Heritage Week later this month, Bob Muckle, author of Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells, will talk about British Columbia's fascinating array of famous and lesser-known archaeological sites, from footprints left in mud on Calvert Island 13,000 years ago to remnants of COVID-19 left behind in
ow.ly
January 8, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Got this book for Christmas! Really looking forward to digging in! 🏺