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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🚨Tenure-track job posting!!🚨 My department at Uni of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is seeking applicants for our Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology position! Please share and distribute widely! 🏺 cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Landscape photo showing UCCS in the foreground and the Rocky Mountains in the background

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

New #openaccess paper on Petralona (Greece) hominin skull puts the min age at 286 k years with estimates to the maximum at 410 k or 539 k depending on its original context. This puts it in range of the morphologically similar Kabwe (Zambia) fossil #fossilfriday (almost) doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Petralona skull in an oblique view showing front and side

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Went from Eland's Bay Cave on the west coast through the Franschheok pass and then down to De Hoop today. Exploring fynbos vegetation and geology all the way along.

View out towards the Atlantic from Eland's Bay Cave

Rock art on the wall of Eland's Bay Cave showing an equid, hand prints, and some geometric stamps in red ochre

Close up of fynbos vegetation with pink flowers

View out from Franschheok pass of landscape and odd looking fynbos vegetation (protea I'm told)

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Good morning from South Africa!

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Another game of guess that artefact! This time from one of my own sites, a small trash pile near Colorado Springs. The team has a bunch of info already but they want the final details on this glass bottle! 🏺 #Historical #archaeology

Glass bottle bottom and piece of side, clear glass, with a raised 8 just above the bottom edge

Glass bottle bottom with a bow-tie kind of shape and the letters AMS inside stamped into the bottom of the bottle. Can just see an "H" on the edge of the bottom rim

Glass bottle bottom with a bow-tie kind of shape and the letters AMS inside stamped into the bottom of the bottle.

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We have a winner, thank you @archaeocore.bsky.social! My student just found an image of an old school desk leg that looks just like this. The triangle piece fits to the bottom of the seat I'm assuming to let the seat flip up given the back view of the part and the longer part connects to the back.

back view of the artefact showing the triangular hinge mechanism better

Close up of a desk with the same leg showing the hinge and connection of the shorter part to the floor.

Side view of the whole example desk with the leg visible

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Who's ready for another round of identify the artefact? This time it's a curved metal bar of some kind found in an #archaeology site in southern Colorado. 🏺 Tagging a couple people below but feel free to reply-tag some more! @hknorton.bsky.social @folsom8k.bsky.social

Rusty curved metal bar perhaps attached with a hinge to another piece sitting on the ground. Scale bar in the photo suggests its about 30-40cm long not including the curves

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#whatsthisartefact! Happy Friday, anyone have any idea what this weird spiral aluminium lid goes to? Somewhere between 1920s to 1960s is best guess based on other artefacts.

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

New paper in JAS analyses the encised bear bone found in a 130 ka Neandertals site in Poland. They conclude the marks were symbolic, intentional, single-session & made by a right-handed person cutting towards themselves (inconsistent with butchery, etc.) 🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Analysis image of the bone's cutmarks showing high-pass filter results and numbering of the 17 marks

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

No this is great! I use Cura as a slicer too and have been using Meshlab occasionally but I can't figure out how to "fill" the teeth. Meshlab's "fill holes" didn't work and I'm not sure how to set Cura's settings to fill up this void inside the tooth. Like support but at 100% density or something?

Screenshot showing the hollow inside of the tooth in 3d

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Gotta love book mail! New book co-edited by two PhD students at U de Montreal, there are lots of great chapters in here divided into "top down" and "bottom up" approaches: "Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe" 🏺🧪 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

View of the solar eclipse through my daughter's eclipse glasses

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I need bsky to get GIFs so I can insert one of a stack of papers falling on me or something

Office worker drowning in a sea of paperwork

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Tomorrow in Archaeology & Genetics of the Stone Age we're tackling the Middle Stone Age. Some great new stuff to update the slides and readings with including this recent paper by @elliescerri.bsky.social & Will www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Map of Africa with multiple floating bar plots showing timing, location, and type of innovations

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Interesting new study attributes the slightly robust and chinned Homo sapiens mandible found in Klasies River Mouth Cave 1B, South Africa in the 1980s to pre-110 ka, maybe as old as MIS 6 or pre-125 ka #openaccess 🏺💀🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

The full size shell midden at Aarhus's Moesgaard Museum was really impressive as was their evolution staircase

Lifelike reconstruction of Lucy the Au. afarensis

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

I'm far from an expert here but looks like it's there to me. Sometimes it just takes a little time to show up? I'm not really sure how it works. I think on the science feed it has to be approved, not sure about arch/Anth

Screenshot showing the post on the arch feed

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