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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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Forest_Jungle_Collective, to cymru
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#SteepleSaturday with the beautiful (and incredibly long!) St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
[More from the interior tomorrow]

#Wales #churchcrawling

ArchaeoIain,
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@Forest_Jungle_Collective but that is not a steeple?

ArchaeoIain,
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@Forest_Jungle_Collective I apologize. I have always thought there were two categories of thing on English churches: towers like this one; spires like the towers that have pointy bits on top. I think I was brought up to think of steeples as things like tall chimneys, but now I realise that was just a matter of the way I looked at things when I was English. Forgive me.

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

mrundkvist, to random Swedish
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If you're going to write sequels to the Iliad, Ulysses and Aeneas seem like pretty random characters to place centre-stage.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist fair point. Now there is a project for someone. Write the story of what happened after Troy to some other actors in the Iliad. What happened to the losers?

mrundkvist, to random Swedish
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Who wants recorded lectures? I'd want to read the script instead.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist it might make some lecturers better at their job. I hate seminars where the speaker reads their already densely written published text. Just been to one of those. I have no idea what main points he wanted to get across.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist once I had something of my own to say, I started to read my lectures, but I made sure that I was quite good at it, and that it was not the publishable written text. But if I had been asked I could have said something coherent. If they can't say anything coherent, perhaps they should take the hint and stop. Become an accountant.

seachanger, to random
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never forget: we didn’t ask for robot cars. when polled US majorities have always wanted action on climate, good public transit & safe streets. but our leaders act without our consent.

last year, 78% polled wanted increased investment in US passenger rail, a number that went to 80% among women and 82% in cities and 91% among Black people. this year, 76% polled in the US said they are afraid of self-driving cars & just 9% say they trust them and that number is declining year to year

ArchaeoIain,
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@seachanger such a good point. So much of the awful situation we find ourselves in has been driven by the greed of "entrepreneurs" with little thought for the consumers. I always think that everyone should watch "Who killed Roger Rabbit?" to realise that LA had one of the world's finest public transport systems, but that did not suit the motor car manufacturers.

MeanwhileinCanada, to random
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ArchaeoIain,
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@MeanwhileinCanada Today's chuckle (<gr>)

Sheril, to science
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Born in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin perfected X-ray crystallography, a type of imaging using X-rays to determine a molecule’s three-dimensional structure.

She determined the structures of insulin, penicillin & vitamin B12, leading to tremendous advances in medicine.

Hodgkin was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. She also advocated for world peace, campaigning against both the Vietnam War & nuclear weapons. https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/dorothy-hodgkin #HistoryRemix #science #history

ArchaeoIain,
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@Sheril a remarkable family the Hodgkins. Our family doctor was one. Responsible for courses in General Practice in at least three countries.

Forest_Jungle_Collective, to cymru
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#FontsonFriday with this from St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Guidebook places it as early Norman

#Wales #ValeofGlamorgan

ArchaeoIain,
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@Forest_Jungle_Collective and we all remember the good deeds of St Illtud.

gratefulwolf, to Archaeology
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New study challenges Neanderthal “flower burial” theory in Shanidar Cave - Archaeology News https://archaeologymag.com/2023/09/new-study-challenges-neanderthal-flower-burial-theory-in-shanidar-cave/

ArchaeoIain,
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@gratefulwolf not that anyone believed it.

mrundkvist, to journalism
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Journalists and TV show hosts, please quit asking people how they feel. It's a worthless question.

#journalism

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist there was a wonderful occasion thirty years ago when a British researcher came to Australia to find out about the mental health of primary school children. He expressed astonishment that the commonest response to his question "How do you feel?" was "I feel like a Toohey's". He described us as a sick society where primary school children would almost unanimously express a desire to drink beer. Of course as a Brit he had not idea that that was a pair of phrases from a universal advert.

mrundkvist, to academia
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I can't believe I'm old and established enough to say during questions at an international specialist conference, "I'm going to say to you what I said 30 years ago to Dr. So-and-so". But today I did.

#academia

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist I remember those days quite well. Not as well as I used to, though

Strandjunker, to random
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BREAKING: Hunter Biden gained 41 trademarks in China, made $640 million while “working” in daddy’s administration, and received $2 billion from the people behind 9/11.

Now that I got Republicans’ attention. That was actually Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

ArchaeoIain,
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@Strandjunker I think you would have cast less aspersion on the Bidens if you had just said "The President's offspring" instead of Hunter Biden, and you would still have got the Republicans' attention. Perhaps not as much but still. They are the sort of people who would read the first part and ignore the second (deliberately) and state you falsity as fact.

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

georgetakei, to random

Wait a sec. Let me get this straight. Politico and WaPo reported that Leonard Leo’s group instructed Kellyanne Conway’s Polling Company to “give” Ginni Thomas’s “consulting” company “another $25K” with “No mention of Ginni, of course.” Then Conway billed Leo for that $25K the same day? So, Leo was funneling cash to a Supreme Court justice’s wife through Conway’s company?!

ArchaeoIain,
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@georgetakei This is the country of checks and balances, except that there are none on the Supreme Court. It seems to be dominated by bad apples at the moment.

mrundkvist, to cooking Swedish
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Pide is a Turkish dish, an intermediate form between a minced-meat pirogue and a pizza. It's really good. They should organise a super flamboyant Pide Parade in Ankara.

#cooking #food #pride #lgbt #turkey

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist Love the pun. I have been contemplating the relationship between such parades and the Pide Boys who wanted to get into Congress.

mrundkvist, to random Swedish
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We should move to Australia and sell drug paraphernalia over the net. Just to be able to bill a bong.

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist nice pun.

Archasa, to Archaeology

The Swedish Rock Art Research Archive (SHFA) has launched a new digital platform for their collection. The database includes more than 24,000 digitized images. Apart from the digitalised archival materials, there are high resolution images (#IIIF), laser scans, 3D etc available as CC-BY-ND.

At the moment only the Swedish sites have been imported, more content to follow.
@archaeodons #archaeology #RockArt
https://shfa.dh.gu.se/

ArchaeoIain,
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@Archasa @archaeodons
This is wonderful. For those of us who have been, for example, to Tannum and taken inadequate photos of our own it is marvellous to see the range and extent of the petroglyphs and the quality of the images here. Thank you.
@ArchaeoIain

w7voa, to california
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A business owner was fatally shot after someone allegedly took issue with a she had displayed at her clothing store in Lake Arrowhead, .
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/california-store-owner-mother-nine-shot-killed-pride-flag-displayed-sh-rcna100849

ArchaeoIain,
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@w7voa and people seem to be saying it is about pride and prejudice. Really, it is about guns.

mrundkvist, (edited ) to gardening Swedish
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This rose cultivar is named Yellow Submarine.

#roses #gardening #stockholm #beatles

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist that would have to be a Starr

mrundkvist, to Archaeology Swedish
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You know when archaeologists find a human figurine and can't tell who it represents? This can mean either that we don't recognise the figurine's iconographic attributes or that there are no particular attributes. And here's the relief for us: in the second case, ancient people couldn't identify the figurine either. They would rely on the maker or owner to tell them "This is supposed to be Ullr".

#archaeology

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist that is true of all of art.

mrundkvist, to languagelearning Swedish
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Anglophones! What do you think the Swedish slang term that translates as Tie-Dye Druid refers to?

#language

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist hippies? Sorry. It is singular. One of them.

mrundkvist, (edited ) to Archaeology Swedish
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Göran Burenhult was a giant of undergrad teaching in Swedish archaeology, having written a string of comprehensive and massively successful textbooks from 1982 to 2000. He was no less productive as an excavation director and writer of other books, academic and popular. Göran died aged 81 on 7 August.

#archaeology

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist there you go. RIP. I wrote a couple of entries in an series of encyclopedias he edited in 1993. Massive undertaking. I had no idea whether they were successful or not. Nor indeed, anything about him. Sad that the first thing I find out about is his death.

mrundkvist, to random Swedish
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When somebody says foreigners are crap I often think "Really? Then what's so great about you?" And then I think "Aha, yeah, no, I see".

#immigration

ArchaeoIain,
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@mrundkvist I once wrote a paper called "we are all from somewhere else". Starting from "The Past is a foreign country" my title is inevitable. And the statement is about an atttitude to identity formation and hence of little value.

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