Ptolemaios Paxinos
@ppaxinos.bsky.social
Zooarchaeologist, SNSB Munich
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Graves of monkeys and calves in ancient animal cemetery in Egypt - www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/06...
Graves of monkeys and calves in ancient animal cemetery in Egypt
Polish archaeologists have discovered over 200 graves of monkeys, dogs and cats in an animal cemetery in Berenike, Egypt.
www.archaeology.wiki
June 7, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Graves of monkeys and calves in ancient animal cemetery in Egypt - www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/06...
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Y'know, if I were an unprincipled money-grubbing PM facing electoral defeat, I just might place a large bet through an intermediary short-selling the Tory vote, then set about losing votes hand over fist as stupidly as possible. A sort of hedge bet...
Imagine managing to engineer a BBC front page like, this when you're the incumbent government, during an election campaign.
How is it even possible? HOW?!
How is it even possible? HOW?!
June 7, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Y'know, if I were an unprincipled money-grubbing PM facing electoral defeat, I just might place a large bet through an intermediary short-selling the Tory vote, then set about losing votes hand over fist as stupidly as possible. A sort of hedge bet...
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Blood and milk #foodhistory #archaeology
Blood sausages and yak milk: Bronze Age cuisine of Mongolian nomads unveiled
Bronze cauldrons were used by the inhabitants of the Mongolian steppe around 2,700 years ago to process animal blood and milk. This is shown by a protein analysis of archaeological finds from this per...
www.unibas.ch
June 7, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Blood and milk #foodhistory #archaeology
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New from me for Live Science: horse domestication happened far more recently than previously thought, according to ancient horse genomes. 🧪🏺
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Humans didn't domesticate horses until 4,200 years ago — a millennium later than thought
Ancient DNA of nearly 500 horses reveals that humans didn't domesticate them until 2200 B.C., 1,000 years later than we previously thought.
www.livescience.com
June 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM
New from me for Live Science: horse domestication happened far more recently than previously thought, according to ancient horse genomes. 🧪🏺
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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January 24, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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🏺do any zooarchaeologists or archaeologists have a GIS template for reindeer/caribou skeletal profile by any chance and are willing to share with me please? Please repost and share, thanks. #zooarchaeology #archaeology #reindeer #caribou
January 24, 2024 at 4:52 PM
🏺do any zooarchaeologists or archaeologists have a GIS template for reindeer/caribou skeletal profile by any chance and are willing to share with me please? Please repost and share, thanks. #zooarchaeology #archaeology #reindeer #caribou
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Great piece on pre-colonial Indigenous wooly dogs. 🧪🦊🏺#zooarchaeology @theconversationus.bsky.social
Mutton, an Indigenous woolly dog, died in 1859 − new analysis confirms precolonial lineage of this...
Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis reveals the lineage of one 1800s ‘woolly dog’ from the Pacific Northwest...
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December 18, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Great piece on pre-colonial Indigenous wooly dogs. 🧪🦊🏺#zooarchaeology @theconversationus.bsky.social
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To celebrate the lifelong contribution and dedication of Mihriban Özbaşaran to Neolithic research in Anatolia. 13/02/2024 ANAMED Speakers: Trevor Watkins, Ian Hodder, Anna Belfer Cohen & Nigel Goring-Morris, Natalie Munro & Mary Stiner, Marion Benz and more... 🏺 #archaeology
December 21, 2023 at 10:03 AM
To celebrate the lifelong contribution and dedication of Mihriban Özbaşaran to Neolithic research in Anatolia. 13/02/2024 ANAMED Speakers: Trevor Watkins, Ian Hodder, Anna Belfer Cohen & Nigel Goring-Morris, Natalie Munro & Mary Stiner, Marion Benz and more... 🏺 #archaeology
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@globaltimesnews: Yaks and cattle were widely raised in the high-altitude region of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau 2,500 years ago, according to a new archaeological study conducted by reseachers from China and the US. #Archaeology #Xizang https://t.co/cq6pWRfwNm
December 17, 2023 at 7:33 AM
@globaltimesnews: Yaks and cattle were widely raised in the high-altitude region of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau 2,500 years ago, according to a new archaeological study conducted by reseachers from China and the US. #Archaeology #Xizang https://t.co/cq6pWRfwNm
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If you know a scientist, doctor, or scholar who wants to get on Blue Sky, please send them to the Invite Pool run by @pkpd-babe.bsky.social - we have so many invites we’ve had to stop accepting invite donations! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪 🧠🟦
November 20, 2023 at 7:00 AM
If you know a scientist, doctor, or scholar who wants to get on Blue Sky, please send them to the Invite Pool run by @pkpd-babe.bsky.social - we have so many invites we’ve had to stop accepting invite donations! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪 🧠🟦