Dr Gillian Wong
@gillianwzooarch.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Mom. Anthropology faculty at University of Texas at El Paso. Zooarchaeology, Paleoecology, Women in science. She/Her/Hers
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Hello! I’m new to this place, so let’s do an intro! I’m an anthropological trained #archaeologist who focuses on #zooarchaeology - animal remains in the archaeological record (1/3).
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Kick off the school year with the Archaeological Ethics Online Resource Database! Explore articles, syllabi, podcasts & case studies that dive into ethical practices in archaeology. Perfect for students, educators & researchers!
https://archaeologicalethics.org/online-resource/
https://archaeologicalethics.org/online-resource/
August 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Kick off the school year with the Archaeological Ethics Online Resource Database! Explore articles, syllabi, podcasts & case studies that dive into ethical practices in archaeology. Perfect for students, educators & researchers!
https://archaeologicalethics.org/online-resource/
https://archaeologicalethics.org/online-resource/
I’m also behind on fighting the decisions this administration is making about academia, LGBTQIA+ rights, healthcare access, museums, public lands…the list goes on. But let’s go send some letters, sign petitions, donate to orgs that make change, and march. This is a disaster!
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I’m also behind on fighting the decisions this administration is making about academia, LGBTQIA+ rights, healthcare access, museums, public lands…the list goes on. But let’s go send some letters, sign petitions, donate to orgs that make change, and march. This is a disaster!
Everyone is just going to have to receive emails from me late at night American continents time. Childcare is in flux right now so this is me every night working from my home office in my PJs to catch up. I’m too tired to schedule send all this. #AcademicMom
August 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Everyone is just going to have to receive emails from me late at night American continents time. Childcare is in flux right now so this is me every night working from my home office in my PJs to catch up. I’m too tired to schedule send all this. #AcademicMom
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Do you need resources for an ethical framework for your research? The Archaeological Ethics Database has over 1,200 books, articles, and online resources ranging from archaeology in the time of war, safety in the field, and many more.
Find out at: https://archaeologicalethics.org/
Find out at: https://archaeologicalethics.org/
August 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Do you need resources for an ethical framework for your research? The Archaeological Ethics Database has over 1,200 books, articles, and online resources ranging from archaeology in the time of war, safety in the field, and many more.
Find out at: https://archaeologicalethics.org/
Find out at: https://archaeologicalethics.org/
One more week until classes start at University of Texas at El Paso! Gearing up for our online #archaeology classes this semester: Human Origins and Popular Archaeology. Offered through the Sociology and #Anthropology Department.
August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
One more week until classes start at University of Texas at El Paso! Gearing up for our online #archaeology classes this semester: Human Origins and Popular Archaeology. Offered through the Sociology and #Anthropology Department.
Attempting a return to social media. Stay tuned for updates about the field, teaching, and microfauna. Enjoy this photo of me and the little kiddo in South Africa this summer! #archaeology
August 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Attempting a return to social media. Stay tuned for updates about the field, teaching, and microfauna. Enjoy this photo of me and the little kiddo in South Africa this summer! #archaeology
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Already second week at Boomplaas Cave with @justinpargeter.bsky.social.
First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students.
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First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students.
@leakeyfoundation.org @umr5608traces.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Already second week at Boomplaas Cave with @justinpargeter.bsky.social.
First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students.
@leakeyfoundation.org @umr5608traces.bsky.social
First week launched the season with introduction to the dig and a rock art tour for the students.
@leakeyfoundation.org @umr5608traces.bsky.social
Is this my favorite student definition of #archaeology? “the study is old stuff people left behind” …probably 😄😍
May 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Is this my favorite student definition of #archaeology? “the study is old stuff people left behind” …probably 😄😍
This is the last week of our semester. This semester has been so special and so hard. My #zooarchaeology students are truly spectacular. I’m going to miss working with them every week. 🥹🥹
May 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is the last week of our semester. This semester has been so special and so hard. My #zooarchaeology students are truly spectacular. I’m going to miss working with them every week. 🥹🥹
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“When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus” by Petra M. Creamer
Read the full article: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
📸 During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, looters ransacked the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad to sell objects on the international antiquities market. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Getty
Read the full article: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
📸 During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, looters ransacked the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad to sell objects on the international antiquities market. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Getty
May 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus” by Petra M. Creamer
Read the full article: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
📸 During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, looters ransacked the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad to sell objects on the international antiquities market. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Getty
Read the full article: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
📸 During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, looters ransacked the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad to sell objects on the international antiquities market. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Getty
Omg this is one of the best things I’ve seen!!! So cool!!!! You can see these pieces at a number of places in Baden-Württemberg: Ulm, Blaubeuren, Tübingen, Stuttgart…
Released today: The special issue stamp on #IceAge art from the caves in the Swabian Jura. The caves became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. Many of the approximately 40,000-year-old objects are on display at urmu Blaubeuren – one of our seven branch museums.
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#archaeology
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#archaeology
May 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Omg this is one of the best things I’ve seen!!! So cool!!!! You can see these pieces at a number of places in Baden-Württemberg: Ulm, Blaubeuren, Tübingen, Stuttgart…
Students working on modern owl pellets collected by Dr. Tyler Faith (University of Utah) in the Western Cape, South Africa last summer. They are doing taxonomic and element IDs for one pellet each then working together to combine and analyze their data as a whole. #zooarchaeology
April 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Students working on modern owl pellets collected by Dr. Tyler Faith (University of Utah) in the Western Cape, South Africa last summer. They are doing taxonomic and element IDs for one pellet each then working together to combine and analyze their data as a whole. #zooarchaeology
Me to our field director: hey! Let’s maybe turn that workshop we’re doing in the field into a publication with the students!
Also me: hasn’t even written up that manuscript on modern owl pellet #taphonomy I promised him by the end of the year 😬😬😬
Also me: hasn’t even written up that manuscript on modern owl pellet #taphonomy I promised him by the end of the year 😬😬😬
April 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Me to our field director: hey! Let’s maybe turn that workshop we’re doing in the field into a publication with the students!
Also me: hasn’t even written up that manuscript on modern owl pellet #taphonomy I promised him by the end of the year 😬😬😬
Also me: hasn’t even written up that manuscript on modern owl pellet #taphonomy I promised him by the end of the year 😬😬😬
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
Not me changing my entire lecture plan for #Zooarchaeology class this morning so we can talk about “dire wolves” 😂🐺
April 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not me changing my entire lecture plan for #Zooarchaeology class this morning so we can talk about “dire wolves” 😂🐺
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Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
www.scientificamerican.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
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Yes! This! These are not actually dire wolves. This is not actually helping conservation. How do I know? I’m an expert in extinct animals and past ecological systems.
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
www.scientificamerican.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Yes! This! These are not actually dire wolves. This is not actually helping conservation. How do I know? I’m an expert in extinct animals and past ecological systems.
How many months of the new administration? < 3
How many letters on different topics have I sent to my representatives, senators, etc? ALREADY 3. If this is gonna be a more than once a month thing for the rest of these four years this is gonna even more annoying than last time.
How many letters on different topics have I sent to my representatives, senators, etc? ALREADY 3. If this is gonna be a more than once a month thing for the rest of these four years this is gonna even more annoying than last time.
April 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How many months of the new administration? < 3
How many letters on different topics have I sent to my representatives, senators, etc? ALREADY 3. If this is gonna be a more than once a month thing for the rest of these four years this is gonna even more annoying than last time.
How many letters on different topics have I sent to my representatives, senators, etc? ALREADY 3. If this is gonna be a more than once a month thing for the rest of these four years this is gonna even more annoying than last time.
Page proofs!!! 🤩🤩
March 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Page proofs!!! 🤩🤩
It’s #zooarchaeology lab day! First day of birds after 3 weeks of mammals. (Articulated cat assisting me in discussing differences between bird and mammal skeletons.) Always have my wagon of bones on lab day! 😂🦆🦅🦉🐦⬛🦃🦢🐓
March 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It’s #zooarchaeology lab day! First day of birds after 3 weeks of mammals. (Articulated cat assisting me in discussing differences between bird and mammal skeletons.) Always have my wagon of bones on lab day! 😂🦆🦅🦉🐦⬛🦃🦢🐓
Awesome!!
Check out this impressively detailed and user-friendly documentation by @saa-aap.bsky.social on how to make computational archaeological results reproducible, thanks to Alan Faharani (contributing from American Antiquity, which has an identical policy):
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪
March 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Awesome!!
Important! Comments needed on proposal to remove the National Environmental Policy Act. This act protects air, water, environments in the US (including impacts to your drinking water). It is an essential piece of US policy. Comments due 27 March 2025. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations
This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Important! Comments needed on proposal to remove the National Environmental Policy Act. This act protects air, water, environments in the US (including impacts to your drinking water). It is an essential piece of US policy. Comments due 27 March 2025. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Currently in this webinar from Society for American #Archaeology: “Cultural Resources Preservation in the Age of Trump 2.0 and a Republican Congress” Listening to info right now on impacts to Department of Edu with student loans and FAFSA.
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saa.org/career-pract...
Cultural Resources Preservation in the Age of Trump 2.0 and a Republican Congress [Career Pathways]
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March 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Currently in this webinar from Society for American #Archaeology: “Cultural Resources Preservation in the Age of Trump 2.0 and a Republican Congress” Listening to info right now on impacts to Department of Edu with student loans and FAFSA.
saa.org/career-pract...
saa.org/career-pract...