Dr Louise Zarmati
@lzarmati.bsky.social
archaeologist, historian, teacher educator, museums & heritage educator, Snr Lecturer in Humanities Education, feminist, lives in the past in lutruwita/trowunna/Tasmania, mother of a young Philosopher
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I studied and 3D scanned a bunch of Vesuvius skeletons! (NEH funded) Previous work on Roman skeletons was also federally funded (NSF).
March 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I studied and 3D scanned a bunch of Vesuvius skeletons! (NEH funded) Previous work on Roman skeletons was also federally funded (NSF).
Read my article in The Conversation today about Italian research on the vitrified brain of a young male killed in Herculaneum during the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79CE
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‘Brain vitrification’: new research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to glass
A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.
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February 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read my article in The Conversation today about Italian research on the vitrified brain of a young male killed in Herculaneum during the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79CE
theconversation.com/brain-vitrif...
theconversation.com/brain-vitrif...
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New discovery: First discovery of a royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's was found over a century ago. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team has uncovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty.
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February 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New discovery: First discovery of a royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's was found over a century ago. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team has uncovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty.
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And it’s amazing how many people, especially politicians, misunderstand that DH was being critical and sarcastic when he gave the book this title.
Street library find today - 1964 Penguin edition of Donald Horne’s ‘The Lucky Country’ with the Albert Tucker cover.
Despite the profound changes in Australian society over the 60 years it’s depressing how many of Horne’s scathing criticisms are still valid.
Despite the profound changes in Australian society over the 60 years it’s depressing how many of Horne’s scathing criticisms are still valid.
January 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
And it’s amazing how many people, especially politicians, misunderstand that DH was being critical and sarcastic when he gave the book this title.
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Lyndall Ryan's work was and is excellent, and she more than deserves the appointment. Her work inspired two great professors I know, Robert Foster and Skye Krichaff, to create a similar map-based resource focusing on South Australia's frontier wars.
#history 🗃️
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#history 🗃️
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January 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Lyndall Ryan's work was and is excellent, and she more than deserves the appointment. Her work inspired two great professors I know, Robert Foster and Skye Krichaff, to create a similar map-based resource focusing on South Australia's frontier wars.
#history 🗃️
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#history 🗃️
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Re. Australia Day, the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party continues the tradition of writing Aboriginal people out of history, arguing that the establishment of the British colony in the late 18th century was just the acquisition of a depopulated, natural landscape. Terra nullius all over again...
January 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Re. Australia Day, the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party continues the tradition of writing Aboriginal people out of history, arguing that the establishment of the British colony in the late 18th century was just the acquisition of a depopulated, natural landscape. Terra nullius all over again...
Surely @auspol.info you can do better than using NotebookLM with “like, really bad” American accents to present an oral summary of your AI search on #auspol25 #auspol #notcool
January 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Surely @auspol.info you can do better than using NotebookLM with “like, really bad” American accents to present an oral summary of your AI search on #auspol25 #auspol #notcool
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A pair of sticks unearthed at Australia’s Cloggs Cave, a site inhabited intermittently by GunaiKurnai people 23,000 years ago, provide evidence of a ritual practiced 12,000 years ago.
archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2025/collection/enduring-ice-age-ritual/top-10-discoveries-of-2024/
archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2025/collection/enduring-ice-age-ritual/top-10-discoveries-of-2024/
December 27, 2024 at 5:00 PM
A pair of sticks unearthed at Australia’s Cloggs Cave, a site inhabited intermittently by GunaiKurnai people 23,000 years ago, provide evidence of a ritual practiced 12,000 years ago.
archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2025/collection/enduring-ice-age-ritual/top-10-discoveries-of-2024/
archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2025/collection/enduring-ice-age-ritual/top-10-discoveries-of-2024/
Congratulations on this outstanding video. Explanations of research & traditional knowledge made it easy to understand & visualise the landscape, abundant animal & birdlife and people who lived on the Landbridge.
Great privilege to be a part of launch of “The Landbridge” project held at the State Theatre in Hobart last night.
The short film is beautifully produced by Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks of Wind and Sky Productions and enabled by the generous support of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.
The short film is beautifully produced by Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks of Wind and Sky Productions and enabled by the generous support of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.
December 4, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Congratulations on this outstanding video. Explanations of research & traditional knowledge made it easy to understand & visualise the landscape, abundant animal & birdlife and people who lived on the Landbridge.
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My obituary for Colin Renfrew. He will be missed by many people in all their different ways
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn obituary
Archaeologist who embraced new ideas and technologies and challenged long-held assumptions about the rise of early civilisation
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December 3, 2024 at 9:31 AM
My obituary for Colin Renfrew. He will be missed by many people in all their different ways
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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About time too!
in 2021 I predicted the Parthenon Marbles would be back in Athens by the end of the 2020s, this “decade of returns” — as we approach the half-way mark of the decade it’s great to see things are on track for that timeline, with sensible leadership and positive thinking in the right places
December 3, 2024 at 1:08 PM
About time too!
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“These aren’t people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related,” said author Suyi Davies Okungbowa, whose most recent book is Lost Ark Dreaming, in a post on Bluesky. “These are opportunists and extractive capitalists.”
“These aren’t people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related,” said author Suyi Davies Okungbowa, whose most recent book is Lost Ark Dreaming, in a post on Bluesky. “These are opportunists and extractive capitalists.”
Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI
Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books proofread, designed and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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“These aren’t people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related,” said author Suyi Davies Okungbowa, whose most recent book is Lost Ark Dreaming, in a post on Bluesky. “These are opportunists and extractive capitalists.”
“These aren’t people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related,” said author Suyi Davies Okungbowa, whose most recent book is Lost Ark Dreaming, in a post on Bluesky. “These are opportunists and extractive capitalists.”
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Researchers have identified evidence of human activity in Tasmania 41,600 years ago, pushing the earliest known date back 2,000 years and suggesting that the Palawa/Pakana were then the world’s southernmost people.
archaeology.org/news/2024/11/21/first-people-arrived-in-tasmania-41000-years-ago/
archaeology.org/news/2024/11/21/first-people-arrived-in-tasmania-41000-years-ago/
News - First People Arrived in Tasmania 41,000 Years Ago - Archaeology Magazine
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—Researchers have identified evidence of human activity in Tasmania 41,600 years ago, according to […]
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November 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Researchers have identified evidence of human activity in Tasmania 41,600 years ago, pushing the earliest known date back 2,000 years and suggesting that the Palawa/Pakana were then the world’s southernmost people.
archaeology.org/news/2024/11/21/first-people-arrived-in-tasmania-41000-years-ago/
archaeology.org/news/2024/11/21/first-people-arrived-in-tasmania-41000-years-ago/
Sad to hear of the passing of Colin Renfrew. Fond memories of my first day as a Graduate student at his lecture on V.G. Childe and cocktail parties at his residence at Jesus College. A kind & generous Master & formidable and inspiring scholar. Vale Professor Renfrew #archaeology
November 25, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Sad to hear of the passing of Colin Renfrew. Fond memories of my first day as a Graduate student at his lecture on V.G. Childe and cocktail parties at his residence at Jesus College. A kind & generous Master & formidable and inspiring scholar. Vale Professor Renfrew #archaeology
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The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land.
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The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land
Study of charcoal and pollen could give Aboriginal advocates of traditional burns “more voice at the table”
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November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land.
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Evidence of psychotropic drugs on ancient Egyptian Bes mug
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Evidence of psychotropic drugs on ancient Egyptian Bes mug
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