Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodVancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Beer, friendship, women-led businesses: Babylon had it thousands of years ago. VIU Professor Dr. Marie Hopwood's free Sept. 24 is on women brewers, tavern owners and the goddess Ninkasi, with a tasting from White Sails and Wolf Brewing. 2:30 to 4 pm at Malaspina Theatre. More info: bit.ly/3MkAYwE 031
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Last day of classes for the Spring semester at VIU, and what a beautiful day to end on @viuniversity.bsky.social 051
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Last day of teaching for the Spring semester, now all the grading I am behind on becomes very real 120
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 09/11/2025That's a wrap on #CABA_ACAB in Victoria. It was an awesome conference filled with excellent talks, posters and conversation. Not least of all from all the incredible students here. 040
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket 8977642310
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Please don't disturb her, she is hard at work 030
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Very sad news. She was a tremendous influence on my perspective of human evolution 041
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Anthropology has a serious image problem, apparently even in Academia. You can pretty much name any other discipline and people have an idea what it's about, but bring up Anthro and the most common refrain is "What's that" 471
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodJustine Warren @adancingferret.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Kindle edition on sale today Limited-time deal: Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age a.co/d/3beg9Yna.coWomen in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded AgeWomen in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age - Kindle edition by Sheppard, Kathleen. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age. 1114
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodBarbiewithatude @barbiewithatude.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Again, not #Caturday, but 'tis the season, so... #EmiBoz 121828483
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodChris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Best of SAPIENS 2024. Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine www.sapiens.org/culture/best...sapiens.orgBest of SAPIENS 2024Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights into everything human to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. 0147
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodSofia Samper Carro @txufa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Proud supervisor post. A wonderful paper led by Eboni Westbury on new methods to record bone surface modifications. Years on the making but finally out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comA New Open‐Access Method Applying GIS Techniques to the Study of Slicing, Scraping, and Tooth MarksThe study of bone surface modifications (BSMs) offers a window into behaviors and subsistence strategies adopted by ancient hominins. Geospatial software have become valuable tools for BSM analysis, .... 04011
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodDr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The first Biological Anthropologists Starter Pack has reached its limit! I've created a second starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be added! 🧬📚 #BioAnthro #Anthro go.bsky.app/DMNUzHV 135819
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I am sure I will not spend an unreasonable amount of time playing with this rather than grading all my final exams and papers... 030
Reposted by Dr. David Hopwoodsarah duignan @anthrodish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024have a super cool AnthroDish episode today with paleobotanist & archaeologist Dr Shalen Prado on using phytoliths and pottery to uncover plant based eating in medieval Scotland! #archaeology #foodpodcast www.anthrodish.com/episodes/sha...anthrodish.com141: Uncovering Medieval Pictish Foodways through Paleobotany with Dr. Shalen Prado — AnthroDishOftentimes, when we think about plant-human relationships, we’re thinking about our contemporary lives and how plants factor into it – be it North American plant-based diets or what we’re growing in o... 162
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodSiân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Read about our recent research just published. Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collections theconversation.com/forgotten-hi... via @ConversationEDUtheconversation.comForgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collectionsOur new analysis of the skeletal remains and records of babies in a NZ museum collection shows they were largely born to unmarried mothers or lower-class families. 23617
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodJohn Hawks @johnhawks.net · 07/12/2024Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at “Dragon Bone Hill”, or Zhoukoudian, in November, 1936. The locus L hominins including this one, skull XII, lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago. 2287
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodZach Cofran @dizachster.bsky.social · 06/12/2024What the human-like hand of Homo naledi suggests about human evolution, development, behavior #FossilFriday lawnchairanthropology.com/2024/12/05/t...lawnchairanthropology.comThe hand of Homo naledi points to life before birthHomo naledi is one of my favorite extinct humans, in part because its impressive fossil record provides rare insights into patterns and process of growth and development. When researchers began rec… 0178
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodChris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Trent University (Canada) invites applications for a tenure track appointment in Forensic Anthropology at the rank of Assistant Professor, cross-appointed between the Department of Forensic Science and the Department of Anthropology www.trentu.ca/humanresourc...trentu.caAssistant Professor (Forensic Anthropology) – Tenure Track - Human Resources - Trent UniversityThe Campaign ForMomentousActionResearchLeadershipDebatePerformanceConnectionDiscoveryIdeasPlacesStewardsh... 05233
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Earlier it was Lucy and friends, now this. It is fascinating to imagine an ecological landscape where multiple hominins would have interacted. #Evolution is so very cool 030
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodThe Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caStudy finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions | CBC NewsA new study indicates Indigenous peoples in what is now British Columbia have been cultivating the beaked hazelnut for thousands of years, challenging assumptions that pre-colonial Indigenous people were only hunter-gatherers. 551765248
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Great end to last night at #ASOR2024, with the #Bioarchaeology session. Lots of really interesting papers and Q&A. My paper is now done, I managed to work in a Batman reference and all is good 050
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Made it to #ASOR2024 went to a couple papers, walked the book line (to much to stick in luggage) and now having a beer, love #conferencelife 110
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I love this about human evolution. Multiple species coexisting, basically until what 40-50kya. I am sure my students just smile and shake their head as I wax poetic about a time when Neandertals, Denisovans, Humans, Hobbits etc roamed the earth together www.livescience.com/archaeology/...livescience.comAncient human ancestor Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggestsLucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there. 020
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodMU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Humans’ uniquely high metabolic rates helped fuel the evolution of our species’ large brains, high reproductive rates, and extended longevity. Metabolic scaling, energy allocation tradeoffs, and the evolution of humans’ unique metabolism 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1275
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Heading to #ASOR2024 in Boston. If you are interested in Late Chalcolithic burial practice at a small site in south eastern Turkey have I got a paper for you...well maybe, not sure exactly what I am trying to say but hey my ppt was submitted 2 weeks ago and I am sure they will be perfectly matched 😂 060
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024media.tenor.coma ground squirrel standing on its hind legs with the name david on the bottomALT: a ground squirrel standing on its hind legs with the name david on the bottom 010
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodMarie Hopwood @drmariehopwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024It's that time of the semester, and this made me smile. 021
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Curious what others think about this claim. I find it highly speculative to push these conclusions back to early Homo. Not that hominins were eating meat, sure, but as a primary food source? 1/2 210
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Flat earthers just need a cat and then they would get it 060
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodFlint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 12/11/2024This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack... 1271267492
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodJohn Hawks @johnhawks.net · 18/09/2023Really outstanding review of the DNA science of Denisovans out now in Nature Reviews Genetics, by Stéphane Peyrégne, Viviane Slon and Janet Kelso. Highly recommended if you follow this field. t.co/7BtjeUAkrg 13923
Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2023Looking forward to when Paleo bsky and X is back to being about all the great work being done in the field and not ridiculous, unethical publicity stunts 150
Reposted by Dr. David HopwoodW. Andrew Barr @wabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2023Statement from the Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology on the launch of hominin fossils into sub-orbit 052