Brianna Muir
@archaeolobree.bsky.social
Biological Anthropology, Isotopes, & Mortuary Archaeology 🦴 | Currently working in Public Health 🩺 | Science Communicator 🧪 | She/her | Views are my own
Oh you think humans are special? Well the crows at my house take the gravel from out the front and then use it as a tool to try and break my windows to get to my pet rats
November 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Oh you think humans are special? Well the crows at my house take the gravel from out the front and then use it as a tool to try and break my windows to get to my pet rats
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Great opening plenary by Prof Matt Fox about the role of intuition in epidemiology - some key takeaways were that intuition can be helpful, but also detrimental. Quantifying uncertainty can be a good strategy to avoid making readers (and yourself) not have to use intuition!
#AEA2025
#AEA2025
July 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Great opening plenary by Prof Matt Fox about the role of intuition in epidemiology - some key takeaways were that intuition can be helpful, but also detrimental. Quantifying uncertainty can be a good strategy to avoid making readers (and yourself) not have to use intuition!
#AEA2025
#AEA2025
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A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺
Cultivaria
Bringing Archaeology to the table.
www.kickstarter.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺
Hey, a first gen scholar here reaching out to more senior #bioarchaeology colleagues! If I’m reaching out to a potential PhD supervisor, do I need to have a concrete research idea in mind? Or is it acceptable to be like “hey, my research interests run parallel to yours, can we discuss?”
June 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Hey, a first gen scholar here reaching out to more senior #bioarchaeology colleagues! If I’m reaching out to a potential PhD supervisor, do I need to have a concrete research idea in mind? Or is it acceptable to be like “hey, my research interests run parallel to yours, can we discuss?”
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Interesting joint statement/response on human remains in museums in Britain making the case for keeping (for research) and sometimes displaying (sensitively) human remains excavated ethically from archaeological sites in Britain.
Interesting joint statement/response on human remains in museums in Britain making the case for keeping (for research) and sometimes displaying (sensitively) human remains excavated ethically from archaeological sites in Britain.
SMA has responded to calls for changes to legislation and practice regarding human remains, by collaborating with several organisations to agree a joint statement on on the retention, display, and provision of access to human remains from British archaeological contexts. socmusarch.org.uk/news/
News | Society for Museum Archaeology
socmusarch.org.uk
May 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Interesting joint statement/response on human remains in museums in Britain making the case for keeping (for research) and sometimes displaying (sensitively) human remains excavated ethically from archaeological sites in Britain.
Interesting joint statement/response on human remains in museums in Britain making the case for keeping (for research) and sometimes displaying (sensitively) human remains excavated ethically from archaeological sites in Britain.
Look what just arrived 😍 My copy of @maxhuibai.bsky.social game Publish or Perish!
Any of my academic pals up for a game night?
Any of my academic pals up for a game night?
May 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Look what just arrived 😍 My copy of @maxhuibai.bsky.social game Publish or Perish!
Any of my academic pals up for a game night?
Any of my academic pals up for a game night?
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Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Lion mauled gladiator to death in Roman Britain
A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.
www.livescience.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Super exciting to see our article "Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" in this awesome special issue!
Part 2 of the special issue on the secret lives of forager children is here, examining the implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood, articles by @izzywisher.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social @mathildevm.bsky.social @rwmp.bsky.social 🔗bit.ly/HGR11-1 @anthropology.net
March 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Super exciting to see our article "Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" in this awesome special issue!
Calling out to all my #archaeology and #bioarchaeology peeps: does anyone have any resources (or even examples) on how to write a cover letter for an academic article? I'm First Gen and a little clueless on this front!
March 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Calling out to all my #archaeology and #bioarchaeology peeps: does anyone have any resources (or even examples) on how to write a cover letter for an academic article? I'm First Gen and a little clueless on this front!
Fantastic article from @theconversation.com on being trans 🏳️⚧️ in Medieval Europe!
theconversation.com/trans-people...
theconversation.com/trans-people...
Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law
Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take transitioning into their own hands.
theconversation.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Fantastic article from @theconversation.com on being trans 🏳️⚧️ in Medieval Europe!
theconversation.com/trans-people...
theconversation.com/trans-people...
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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
www.teenvogue.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
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⚠️ Iron Age OPEN ACCESS research klaxon alert⚠️
Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article
*Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain*
published in @nature.com today can be found here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article
*Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain*
published in @nature.com today can be found here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature
An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
⚠️ Iron Age OPEN ACCESS research klaxon alert⚠️
Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article
*Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain*
published in @nature.com today can be found here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social article
*Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain*
published in @nature.com today can be found here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Brianna Muir
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #bioarchaeology #archaeology #southeastasia #SEAsia #prehistory #SEAsiaprehistory
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Call for Papers Advances in the Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology covers the study of human & animal bones, from archaeological contexts, for archaeologists, anthropologists & bone specialists.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Created a whole bunch of stencils for some cyanotype test prints tomorrow - hope they work! 😍
January 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Created a whole bunch of stencils for some cyanotype test prints tomorrow - hope they work! 😍
Used my Christmas book voucher to get a copy of The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 - super excited to give it a read!
January 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Used my Christmas book voucher to get a copy of The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 - super excited to give it a read!
In slightly belated (although no less exciting news) I have a new #bioarchaeology publication with Hunter Gatherer Research!
"Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" - doi.org/10.3828/hgr....
"Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" - doi.org/10.3828/hgr....
Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery: Hunter Gatherer Research: Vol 0, No 0
Bioarchaeological analyses of preadults provide a wealth of information about past
lifeways and social structures, including aspects of personhood. However, studies
of personhood and childhood in arch...
doi.org
December 31, 2024 at 12:54 AM
In slightly belated (although no less exciting news) I have a new #bioarchaeology publication with Hunter Gatherer Research!
"Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" - doi.org/10.3828/hgr....
"Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery" - doi.org/10.3828/hgr....
Reposted by Brianna Muir
NEW Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, indicates they were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a means to dehumanise them, questioning the idea that Early Bronze Age Britain was peaceful.
#AntiquityThread 1/18 🧵
#AntiquityThread 1/18 🧵
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 AM
NEW Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, indicates they were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a means to dehumanise them, questioning the idea that Early Bronze Age Britain was peaceful.
#AntiquityThread 1/18 🧵
#AntiquityThread 1/18 🧵
Okay, I'm going to try to be more active over here, since there seems to be a vibrant academic community on the rise! Follow me for #bioarchaeology content!
December 31, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Okay, I'm going to try to be more active over here, since there seems to be a vibrant academic community on the rise! Follow me for #bioarchaeology content!
With abortion bans back in the news, here’s a reminder that abortion has a deep history, and that abortion bans have historically been about controlling women’s bodies.
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
An Archaeology of Personhood and Abortion
Opinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures.
www.sapiens.org
May 6, 2024 at 1:24 AM
With abortion bans back in the news, here’s a reminder that abortion has a deep history, and that abortion bans have historically been about controlling women’s bodies.
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Excited to have finally gotten an invite code for this app! Now to find the archaeology / bioarchaeology / biological anthropology communities here.
February 2, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Excited to have finally gotten an invite code for this app! Now to find the archaeology / bioarchaeology / biological anthropology communities here.