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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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Jyoti, to history
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ArchaeoIain,
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@Jyoti brilliant

StillIRise1963, to random
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The colleges that ditch liberal arts are the colleges that will produce ignorant students incapable of recognizing threats to their freedom and autonomy.

ArchaeoIain,
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@StillIRise1963 if anyone (who? oil CEOs, climate deniers?? accountants?) wants to diminish liberal arts then it shows more than ever the need for people such as them to have a liberal arts education.

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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This needs spreading as widely as possible. From @RadicalGraffiti

ArchaeoIain, to random
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I do not understand how a) starving ordinary Palestinians is a destruction of Hamas, unless that is to be achieved by killing all Palestinians and b) how objecting to starvation as a consequence of the actions of Israel can possibly be construed as anti-semitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/18/hrw-israel-committing-war-crime-by-intentionally-starving-gaza?traffic_source=rss

ArchaeoIain, to random
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This is the publication from the highly authoritative online journal SAPIENS about the brutality in Gaza.

Please treat it seriously.

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/palestine-crisis-scholarship-activism/

faustosterling, to random
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This is totally horrifying to me. What is wrong with us as a culture?

Stop sending human remains to the Moon

The Peregrine lander was due to deposit several people’s ashes on the Moon. The Navajo Nation is calling for broader discussion.

#moon #humanremains

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00106-8

ArchaeoIain,
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@faustosterling Just as a suggestion, but how about we stop all missions to the moon. It would be obscene to mine it. It is absurd to keep sending things to it. Space tourism would be a way to kill a few billionaires, but I cannot think of any other good reason to continue it.

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.

ArchaeoIain, to random
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Early humans in East Asia by 45ka

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/01/19/shiyu-discovery-reveals-eastern-asias-early-human-migrations/

ArchaeoIain, to random
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What an amazing issue. If you want to know about First Nations people in Australia you can read them or read about them here. Amazing issue.
https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue

ArchaeoIain, to random
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Great set of videos about the Aboriginal people at Narran Lake in Western NSW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX9mG8L-4zs

ArchaeoIain, to random
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This is a very important article in Nature about the threats to the earliest rock art in the world in Sulawesi
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-03818-5/index.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20231207&sap-outbound-id=DAA2108DD4082A6218D7845CE9DE8AF21695F437

ArchaeoIain, to random
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An important corrective to some of the other news outlets.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/israel-gaza-media-watching-a-sanitised-war/103206528

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.

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)

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"

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.

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 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.

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, (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 random Swedish
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ArchaeoIain,
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