Michael Haslam
@twigtechnology.bsky.social
Australian archaeologist, PhD, obsessed with tool-using animals. Steward at Skara Brae, Orkney | http://twig.technology | writing Intelligence Hallucinated with @abigaildesmond.bsky.social for Harvard Uni Press (2027)
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20 years ago today I was teaching a tutorial at UQ when I heard my friend and mentor Dr Tom Loy had died. He was 63.
Tom was a pioneer in biomolecular archaeology, finding blood and other organic materials on ancient tools. But he never rebuilt an entire DNA strand, as #JurassicPark noted
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Tom was a pioneer in biomolecular archaeology, finding blood and other organic materials on ancient tools. But he never rebuilt an entire DNA strand, as #JurassicPark noted
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October 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
20 years ago today I was teaching a tutorial at UQ when I heard my friend and mentor Dr Tom Loy had died. He was 63.
Tom was a pioneer in biomolecular archaeology, finding blood and other organic materials on ancient tools. But he never rebuilt an entire DNA strand, as #JurassicPark noted
🏺🧪🧬🦖🦕
Tom was a pioneer in biomolecular archaeology, finding blood and other organic materials on ancient tools. But he never rebuilt an entire DNA strand, as #JurassicPark noted
🏺🧪🧬🦖🦕