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Christian Thomas

@christiandthomas.bsky.social
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If they hunt, I gather / Archaeologist into cultural landscapes, Ice Patches, Arrows and Atlatls, traditional economies / Father / appreciator of loud music / Yukon Territory, Canada. #gohabsgo

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wow, the world’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey! “A time capsule at the bottom of the sea” 🌊 A trade ship heading for Troy or Minoan Crete sank with a cargo of storage jars. Residue tests will show what they contained c. 4,700 years ago! #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in Turkey
Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🏺 🦬 Coudoulous is a v cool #Neanderthal site in SW France, a natural pitfall that they seem to have taken advantage of to hunt bison. New usewear on the quartz & quartzite lithics finds butchery, wood and dry hide working, but also suggests some pieces were spear tips. www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/...
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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The recent revelations of Tilton are drawing a lot of parallels to the 2018 incident in Haines where the abuse was an open public secret. Sexual Abuse is really hard to talk about, but especially when it is already widely known and no one does anything about it. apnews.com/general-news...
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Man's suicide unearths decades-old sex abuse revelations
The death of a man in the small town of Haines, Alaska, has forced into the open decades-old allegations of sexual abuse against a former school superintendent.
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 13/10/2026
INVESTIGATION: Victoria denies that its bylaw officers put unhoused people’s new, perfectly good tents in the trash. So we tracked them with AirTags. www.defactomedia.ca/bylaw-office...
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Victoria bylaw officers trashed newly donated tents within days — contrary to city claims
The city has disputed years of claims that it discards unhoused people's belongings. De Facto reporters tracked new tents and carts to see where they ended up.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026
First Indigenous Peoples Day where I can say: If you are not fully aware of how the US government has terrorized Indigenous people and our children from its inception, read my book.
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Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story by Ashley Fairbanks | Moon Palace Books
Created in collaboration with Race2Dinner, here's the harrowing true story of America's history with boarding schools, and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families.
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #yukon
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Haines Junction carver brings canoe-building knowledge home | CBC News
Haines Junction carver Jai Reid is bringing traditional dugout canoe-building knowledge back to his community after years learning from master carver Wayne Price. Reid says the work can honour people ...
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#ouch
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PIPSC_IPFPC @pipsc-ipfpc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’re speaking out against Bill C-39 – one phone call at a time. ☎️📱 Every phone call, every email counts. Add your voice – tell your MP that U.S.-style labour laws have no place in Canada. pipsc.ca/email-your-m...
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My part of NSF has been destroyed effectively. I don’t trust future congresses to understand and restore it given they misunderstand knowledge creation and reduce science to technology. And that’s across the ideological spectrum.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a blow. Those are good jobs lost to greedy scumbags.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of Canada’s largest newspapers published what read a whole lot like an incitement to violence against NDP Leader Avi Lewis, prompting widespread condemnation. Yet for some reason, there appears to be all but radio silence from mainstream Canadian media. Here's what I found:
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
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stephen cogbill @coggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social @joanavaldez.bsky.social Some of the brilliant World Heritage Site prehistoric rock-art in Alta from last month's Arctic Norway trip. Images of reindeer, hunting, boats, bears, bear-dens, fish, all in great profusion. The earliest panels are from around 5000 BCE.
wide shot showing a rock panel with inscribed prehistoric images painted red, overlooking Alta Fjord Hunting scene with reindeer, armed stick-like people, and bears mixed in towards the middle.Hunting scene with people on boats using bow and arrow, plus someone holding up what look a bit like snow-shoes, but may be large skin or cloth shapes to distract the animals.
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Steve Hudson @dustcircle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The #ancestors of today's #Indigenous people arrived in the #Americas during the coldest part of the last #iceage, study suggests www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests
The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please see my statement for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. www.leahgazan.ca/mp_gazan_sta...
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The act of hate and violence shown by white nationalist residential school denialists demonstrating on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation is abhorrent, dangerous and unacceptable. Read my full statement here:
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MP Leah Gazan Statement on the Denialist Attack at Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
archaeologymag.com/2026/09/5000... #Archeology
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5,000-year-old arrow emerges as Norway’s melting mountain ice reveals older archaeological finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A 5,000-year-old arrow is among 48 prehistoric finds recovered as melting ice reveals older archaeology in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains.
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jmstownrediscovery.bsky.social @jmstownrediscovery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only 3 more sleeps until Virginia Archaeology Month starts! Join us this Saturday to kick off the festivities: explore the digs, go on an engaging walking tour, and see artifacts brought to life through living history demonstrations. Get the full schedule at historicjamestowne.org/archaeologyday
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If they glaze I gaze?
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hard to imagine.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New paper on the first two intact human burials found at Göbekli Tepe. These burials have been known about for some time; information on them has been presented at conferences and lectures over the last several years, but it's nice to finally see them in print 🏺 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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First burials give insights into mortuary rites at Göbeklitepe, Early Neolithic Türkiye
Since the beginning of excavations at Göbeklitepe, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) site in southeastern Türkiye, fragmented human bones have been recovered from the fill of the special (monumental) buil...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23/09/2026
Does economic growth always lead to greater inequality? #WednesdayWisdom Research at the major Indus Civilisation city of Mohenjo-Daro found inequality declined as it expanded, indicating governance helped maintain a relatively egalitarian society. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Graph of Gini coefficients (a quantitative proxy of economic inequality) from 2500-2100 BC at Mohenjo-Daro, showing a decrease over time.
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nome musk-ox in action. #AlaskaSky
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They knew this 1,000-year-old archaeological site was here. It had been mapped, published, and reported to the agencies responsible for the land. Trump's border-wall contractors bulldozed right through it /1 Link: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/09/2026
Slipknot Travels To India To Begin Psychedelic, Free-Love Phase Of Career theonion.com/slipknot-travels-to-in…
Slipknot Travels To India To Begin Psychedelic, Free-Love Phase Of Career
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't know why there hasn't been an official announcement about this yet, but I'm sort of tired of sitting on the (unofficial?) news that I have a 4-volume children's series coming out with Swift Water beginning in the Spring of 2027. Pretty excited and hoping I can share more soon!
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Mark Walker @markkhw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Republican attack on historic preservation makes it on to The Majority Report, thanks to what was probably a very determined archaeologist caller.
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Archeologist Exposes Trump's Quiet Plan To Destroy American History
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
North American #Archaeology people who love Michigan [aka not me], there's a tenure track job opening. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor- Anthropology
Duties & Responsibilities
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How much do we hate formatting? A lot.
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Visible Cricket 🇨🇦🇮🇪🛶🥾🎿🥌 @visiblecricket.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
DNA analysis of bones found in a cave in northern Yukon are that of an extinct cheetah species, Yukon Miracinonyx. Apparently, Yukon cheetahs loved salmon. #Paleontology #Yukon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Bones found in Yukon ID'd as ice-age cheetah | CBC News
Researchers used DNA and isotope analysis to figure out how the large cats survived in the far north.
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Richard H Fay — Artist, Photographer, and Poet @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.sci.news/paleontology...
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Ancient DNA Rewrites Story of Enigmatic ‘American Cheetah’ | Sci.News
For several decades, paleontologists have described Miracinonyx trumani -- an extinct species of cheetah-like felid that roamed the North American prairies and steppe terrains more than 13,000 years a...
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Alert:
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ya. Definitely need the arctic view map to get any sense of northern geography in either case.
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hard to imagine being this ignorant.
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Todd Braje @tbraje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Archaeologists have spent a century trying to reconstruct what happened. Mammoths and Empires is the story of that reconstruction. 🏺🧪💙📚
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
MapQuest Jumps To Top Of App Store After Refusing To Rename ‘Lake Ontario’ theonion.com/mapquest-jumps-to-top-…
“Fuck yeah! My kids didn’t drown in ‘Lake America.’”

Vivienne Croteau, Retired Cinephile
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck theonion.com/google-maps-introduces…
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck
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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My article "Black Heritage Sites & the NRHP" dropped today. I crunched the numbers to see if we had improved the number of listings since 2020 & evaluate claims of structural issues in the National Register. Spoiler, its not the #NRHP. 🏺#archaeology #preservation www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GRBHV...
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Black Heritage Sites and the National Register of Historic Places: A Snapshot in Time
This article explores the historical underrepresentation and recent revitalization of African American heritage sites within the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Historically, Black her...
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Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦 @biblioholic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ooh! Maybe we’ll break 900? Historical data at www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad... #Whitehorse #Yukon #salmon Whitehorse Fish Ladder
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Climate change is causing a weird one for archaeology. Amazing lost sites and ancient artifacts are appearing around the world, while countless sites are at risk of destruction Cropmarks, melting glaciers, submerged cities, wildfires, coastlines, and more Link to full video: youtu.be/j7zKtiEwFM8
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ya… a bit of a pipe dream, but it would be incredible to find something related to the big theories of human dispersal.
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Any 20,000-15,000 year old boats in the Bering straight or Gulf of Alaska.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
- What threatens archaeology's future? - What value does archaeology create? - How can archaeology support economic growth? - How can participation become more inclusive? - What change should archaeology deliver by 2036? - What investment and support does archaeology need? 🎟️ Link in Alt Text.
Promotional flyer for a series of 6 workshops being run by Archaeology Scotland @archscot.bsky.social. The text reads: 

Free Online Workshops!
Unearthing Better Futures: Shaping the Future of Archaeology in Scotland

Further details and bookings at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/archaeology-scotland-and-partners-10724554028
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero new archaeology grants this year. 🏺🧪🫠
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Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
First load off the island! 🏺
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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow! They just did a preview song of the Tlingit appear at the Summerfest and it’s going to be epic! If you’re not in Juneau, Alaska Air is offering a 5% discount code for flights www.ptalaska.org/kutulagaaw/
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Kutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles | Perseverance Theatre
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