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ArchaeoIain

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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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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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

#language #placenames #england

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"

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