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ArchaeoIain

@ArchaeoIain@archaeo.social

Australian retired archaeologist, Emeritus Professor at University of New England, Armidale. Writing book on (mostly the evolution of) art. Published on bones, stones, language origins, art etc. Worked with Gamilaraay, Wangkamadla, Yulluna, Kalkadoon and Mitakoodi people.
We must have a politics which encourages equality and fights climate change. Poverty and environmental destruction are caused by human greed.

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ArchaeoIain, to random
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I once applied for a job in a Nuclear Physics department. About half way through being shown around the department it was obvious that the Head had given up on physics and thought that having a tame archaeologist would be a way to justify using their equipment to do archaeological science. I decided I did not want a job on those terms, so I told them than next day at the interview.

I got a job here.

mrundkvist, to books
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This is why I drop books after 50 pages of not being good. From “Big Ideas, Little Pictures” by Jono Hey.

#books #reading

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist very scary if you are writing a book (nearly finished)

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist I am always mindful of the English blockbuster book about another country which reached some milestone of sales in that country at the same time as it was remaindered in England. So they invited the author to the country and made a cake to celebrate, in which they lovingly copied the remainder notice.

mathowie, to random
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it’s so weird how some kids peacefully sitting with signs suddenly turned into a warzone after we called in overly funded militarized cops, gosh it’s so mysterious how that always happens

ArchaeoIain,
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@mathowie what I do not understand is how all police forces in so many places have reacted in the same way to peaceful protests. I get that the protesters have something to get the world to witness, but I do not get why militarized police react the same way in so many places.

mrundkvist, to academia
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Apparently one of the most common uses of LLMs in is copy editing: cleaning up your on points of spelling, grammar and style. This is wildly unattractive to me. I love writing. My personal style, my personal voice, are extremely high priorities to me. It annoys me no end when a journal editor replaces one of my unconventional style choices with something bland. If an editor ran a paper of mine through an I would scream bloody murder.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist I agree, but every spell-scheck, every grammar-check etc in Microsoft Word is a result of AI. I would like to find a word-processor that does NOT use AI at all.

ClintBarton, to random
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Louisiana Lawmakers Move to Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills ...

Louisiana legislators are proposing an amendment to criminalize the possession of mifepristone and misoprostol, commonly used abortion pills. This unexpected addition to a bill initially focused on criminalizing "coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud" has surprised abortion advocates and OB-GYNs in the state.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/louisiana-criminalize-possession-abortion-pills-1235013039/#?utm_source=onesignal

ArchaeoIain,
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@ClintBarton what proportion of those law makers are younger women?

ArchaeoIain, to random
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Is anyone else confused by the process of following people on here? What does the little icon with an x next to it mean. If you click on it, it changes to a little icon with a + on it. That is clear as mud to me.

mrundkvist, to Archaeology
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When I was young I had a lot of disagreements with slightly older colleagues about what archaeological research should be like. I don't know who was right, but I do know that almost all of them have long since stopped publishing any research. 😁

#archaeology #humanities #academia

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist garden work and reading novels.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist I am nearly finished writing my last piece of solo research

joeroe, (edited ) to Archaeology
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Does anyone know of a paper or dataset that compiles the earliest known dates of agriculture in a given region? Globally, ideally, but I'd settle for a continent or two...

(I know there are several options for the European Neolithic, but beyond that?)

#archaeology #opendata

ArchaeoIain,
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@joeroe don't know if this helps
https://www.academia.edu/38947770/CalPal_HELP_Archaeological_Site_Mapping_Edition_2019_3_

gratefulwolf, to random
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Finger Fluting in Prehistoric Caves: A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Children, Sexing and Tracing of Individuals [pdf 21pp] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-024-09646-9

ArchaeoIain,
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@gratefulwolf this is a devastating critique of previous analyses of "finger flutings" in caves. Not surprised.

ArchaeoIain,
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@gratefulwolf it is the process of science to make a suggestion on available evidence, and then query the basis of the evidence.

mrundkvist, to linguistics
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Sweetie, in which English village would you prefer to join your bumpstead to my steeple?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeple_Bumpstead

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist I had an acquaintance once who lived in Helions Bumpstead, nearby. So what is a "Helions"?

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist of course. I must have overlooked its twin town "Shelionesses Bumpstead"

mrundkvist, to academia
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I once peer-reviewed a journal paper and asked for minor revisions, only to find that they had printed the manuscript completely unchanged except for the title. When I told the editors that they had wasted my time, they explained that this author, a woman of about 40, was extremely scary and would get super angry if they made any demands on her.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist so presumably it was not even peer review. You are not a woman and do not strike me as particularly scary. Ah well.

ArchaeoIain, to random
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I have been warned by the Mastodon moderators that some of my posts will be marked sensitive. This was a direct result of a post which sought to show the direct consequences of book burning as has been reported in Gaza on this platform.

ArchaeoIain,
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@joeroe thank you. It worries me that I might have done something inappropriate. But then it worries me that anyone anywhere can post pictures of the IDF committing what would be called atrocities if comitted by anyone else.

mrundkvist, to Archaeology
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Does my paper about Viking skull manipulation include the section header "Talking Heads"? Of course it does.

#archaeology #vikings #rock

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist but have you got that in the headline?

mrundkvist, (edited ) to love
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On this date in 1999, I went to a party and met a charming and pretty journalist of Chinese extraction. Since that day we've never been apart for more than a few weeks. Raised two kids and lived at three addresses together. 25 years with my YuSie! <3

#love #marriage #anniversary

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist congratulations

mrundkvist, to languagelearning
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It's 2004. Someone gives you a non-OCR:ed scan of an article in Polish that is highly relevant to your work. It's effectively a set of photocopies. You don't know any Polish. What do you do?

It's 2024. Someone gave me a non-OCR:ed scan of an article in Polish that is highly relevant to my work. It's effectively a set of photocopies. I just screenshotted it one column at a time and pasted it into Google Translate, and now I'm reading it in my native #language.

#translation

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist in a version of your native language.

mrundkvist, to random
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Anybody feel like gyring and gimbling? In the wabe?

ArchaeoIain, (edited )
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@mrundkvist was brillig, and the slithy tove was over there near the blow hole.

Forest_Jungle_Collective, to random
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#MosaicMonday & its always a treat to tick off a famous Romano-British Mosaic
In this case the instantly recognisable, if a little bizarre - cockerel headed man, Brading Roman Villa, IOW

#RomanArchaeology

ArchaeoIain,
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@Forest_Jungle_Collective is there a book that collects significant numbers of Roman mosaics. I have grown to love them over the last 5 years.

mrundkvist, to Archaeology
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We think it's hard to understand Neolithic ceremonial sites. Well, good luck future colleagues in understanding the remains of 2020s installation art!

#archaeology #art

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist you are assuming that the city fathers will not have succeeded in eliminating all traces of it. (gender terms used advisedly)

gratefulwolf, to random
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Historical Dimensions of Rock Art: Perspectives from ‘Peripheries’ [pdf 14pp] #RockArt #palaeolithic https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4FBB3AB56CE689607641EDF6895F69AA/S0959774324000179a.pdf/historical_dimensions_of_rock_art_perspectives_from_peripheries.pdf

ArchaeoIain, (edited )
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@gratefulwolf This looks very interesting.

mrundkvist, to random
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Having listened to a documentary about Salman Rushdie, I feel moved to express what I believe is the majority position in Scandinavia. To whit, that all gods and devils are fictional characters, there is no afterlife, and you might as well pray to Bilbo Baggins.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist I think I heard the same interview on NPR. "My books are full of magical things, but I do not believe in them"

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