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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New comedy series, ‘Dig’, featuring fictional archaeologists being planned.

Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Was giving a presentation on some of my recent and ongoing archaeological work at a conference today and unexpectedly came across this promotional poster for my forthcoming book ‘Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells’.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Earlier today I received word that I will be receiving emeritus status from Capilano University at the June convocation. I’m thrilled.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Men walked on the Moon - but women made the guidance computers that got them there and back. At the landing sites and command module crash sites the computers are evidence of a unique women's lunar heritage. 🧪🏺

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The Apollo core rope memory and women's heritage on the Moon

Between 1969 and 1972 there were six Apollo human spaceflight missions to the Moon, each leaving a complex site behind. A common joke now is...

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Suspiciously Nice Prof @niceprof.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Don't forget to human today. Make stuff. Do stuff. Go see something interesting. Move around. Eat. I sometimes get busy and forget to human.

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

the draft programme is available (and looks amazing!) and registration is open for the 2025 bc studies conference, which is being held at the university of british columbia from may 1-4. #bchist #cdnhist #bcpoli #bced blogs.ubc.ca/bcsconferenc...

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BC Studies Conference 2025 – Diamond Point, Interconnected (2021). Used with permission of the artist.

Diamond Point, Interconnected (2021). Used with permission of the artist.

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'm delighted to see archaeology accepting the jigsaw pieces we won't find. The ephemeral, the perishable....they've got their own story too, as you know I've written of....

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The TAG 2025 website is up and running, which means we are open for session proposals! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

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tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk - Washington, DC

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Hello Archaeologists! Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference! Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions! Find us on: Facebook at TAG 2025 at York X at @TAG2025_York Instagram @tag2025_york #tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Archaeology of contemporary times

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It may be a bit "inside baseball," but I'm wildly excited about the promise of palaeoproteomics -- not quite as much info as DNA, but can give us info from millions of years ago. This new paper out today shows they were able to figure out biological sex of an A. africanus specimen (2-3.5myo). 🏺🧪

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In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative from 3.5 million years ago

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This week's blog post is a little different. On: Capturing the embodied experience of archaeology in games Games as lists Archaeological stratigraphy as a spatial list Vocabulary lists and queer identity Erasure Perpetuity florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/02/04/o...

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On the pleasure of lists in: archaeology; video games

“Lara Croft is seen as the monstrous offspring of science: an idealized, eternally young female automaton, a malleable, well-trained techno-puppet created by and for the male gaze.” So says Anne-Ma…

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The juxtaposition of a mammoth reduced to the barest line, with the most human of symbols in blood-red ochre. Yes, there is probably something to decode, but first it's important to share the awe that human art can persist for such spans of time. That we can still encounter it. Chauvet ~32,000 🏺🦣

The trunk, head and dorsal hump of a mammoth drawn in black outline. A silhouette of a hand, painted in red placed within and partially over it. On the beige, scratched wall of a limestone cave

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Chris Wolff @cbwolff.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Cover reveal! Check out this beautiful cover for our edited volume coming out later this year from Berghahn Books. Very excited about this.

Cover of book entitled From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal, Metal tool production and use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America. Book cover has examples of metal projectile points across the cover and a colorful map in the background.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today I registered for the 2025 Honolulu marathon. I started recreational running in 2022, and nobody is likely to be more surprised than me that I like it. I’m slow, but I get there.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Reviewing the copyeditor’s comments and suggestion on my latest book ms. I almost always find myself in awe of copyeditors, and this is no exception. The ms is for ‘Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells.’

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Foundation of an oforu (Japanese bathhouse) from early 20th c Japanese settlement in Canada. Very cool site. No historical documents mention it. Very little arch visibility on surface. Excavations revealed evidence of about a 14 small houses, a garden, and a shrine. Sudden abandonment.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Tools of my trade. My personal trowels.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Taphonomy of a face mask, part of my arch of Covid project

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

an archaeologist’s journey from Ancient Greece to outer space

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Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What will happen to New York City in the next 10,000 years? New video on Archaeology Tube that uses the study of preservation and site formation processes to explore a common pseudoarchaeological claim. Please share and subscribe! 🧪🏺🐡 #RealArchaeology #Archaeology youtu.be/PtVQW50oC28

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Will New York still be there in 10,000 years?

YouTube video by Archaeology Tube

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Except for now looking older, I don’t think I’ve changed much at all. This photo of me is from a long time ago, on my first paid arch project. My fashion sense hasn’t changed at all and I still enjoy a beer once the day’s work is done.

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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Some artifacts from my long-term archaeological project excavating largely unknown/forgotten early 20th century small settlements of Japanese Japanese Canadians in the forests of western Canada

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Please feed the archaeologists. I put this sign up on most of my field projects.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Boat taphonomy. On my local walks and hikes I see lots of boats entering the archaeological record. I wish I started recording the year-to-year changes earlier

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just submitted a proposal to regional conference - on three of my archaeology of contemporary times projects: arch of Covid; campus trash; and arch of what is probably the world’s oldest intact (but now buried) skateboard park.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Today is the day. Moving over here from after a long run at X/Twitter. I’m mostly interested in archaeology, and peripherally anthropology and history. I recently retired from a career as a university prof but remain active in research and writing.

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