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Dr. David Hopwood

@drdavidhopwood.bsky.social
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Paleoanthropologist and Bioarchaeologist fascinated by the evolution of early hominin behaviour, and burial practice in the more recent archaeological past. Dad of a teen, soccer fanatic and long suffering Canucks fan

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Vancouver Island University @viuniversity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Beer, 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
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Last day of classes for the Spring semester at VIU, and what a beautiful day to end on @viuniversity.bsky.social
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Last day of teaching for the Spring semester, now all the grading I am behind on becomes very real
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
That'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.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly 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
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please don't disturb her, she is hard at work
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
True!
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Very sad news. She was a tremendous influence on my perspective of human evolution
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Ha this is awesome
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Anthropology 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"
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Justine Warren @adancingferret.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Kindle 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/3beg9Yn
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
My current state grading
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Barbiewithatude @barbiewithatude.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Again, not #Caturday, but 'tis the season, so... #EmiBoz
Pic of large black cat looming over quaint village valley, with text "Your chances of getting eaten by Yule Cat are low, but not zero".
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Best 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...
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Best of SAPIENS 2024
Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights into everything human to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine.
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Sofia Samper Carro @txufa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Proud 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/...
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A New Open‐Access Method Applying GIS Techniques to the Study of Slicing, Scraping, and Tooth Marks
The 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, ....
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The 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
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I am sure I will not spend an unreasonable amount of time playing with this rather than grading all my final exams and papers...
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sarah duignan @anthrodish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
have 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...
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141: Uncovering Medieval Pictish Foodways through Paleobotany with Dr. Shalen Prado — AnthroDish
Oftentimes, 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...
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Siân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Read 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 @ConversationEDU
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Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collections
Our 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.
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is everything
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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 07/12/2024
Jia 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.
Illustration of Zhoukodian skull XII. Text: Jia Lanpo directed the excavation of three partial skulls from locus L at Zhoukoudian in November, 1936. The locus L hominins lived sometime between 780,000 and 680,000 years ago. The series of hominin remains from Zhoukoudian were named by Davidson Black as Sinanthropus pekinensis, but anthropologists today regard them as one of the best-known fossil samples of Homo erectus. Like other cranial remains from Zhoukoudian, the cranial base of skull XII was broken away, nearly all the facial bones are missing, and some extensive damage exists along the outside of the cranial vault. This evidence is consistent with the kind of damage left by large carnivores. A concordance of evidence from the site suggests that cave hyenas were responsible for accumulating many of the hominin remains at Zhoukoudian.
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Zach Cofran @dizachster.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What the human-like hand of Homo naledi suggests about human evolution, development, behavior #FossilFriday lawnchairanthropology.com/2024/12/05/t...
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The hand of Homo naledi points to life before birth
Homo 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…
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Trent 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...
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Assistant Professor (Forensic Anthropology) – Tenure Track - Human Resources - Trent UniversityThe Campaign ForMomentousActionResearchLeadershipDebatePerformanceConnectionDiscoveryIdeasPlacesStewardsh...
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Earlier 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
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The 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/...
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Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions | CBC News
A 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.
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Great 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
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Made 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
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I 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/...
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Ancient human ancestor Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggests
Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Humans’ 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/...
Metabolic scaling, energy allocation tradeoffs, and the evolution of humans’ unique metabolism
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Heading 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 😂
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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a ground squirrel standing on its hind legs with the name david on the bottom
ALT: a ground squirrel standing on its hind legs with the name david on the bottom
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Marie Hopwood @drmariehopwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's that time of the semester, and this made me smile.
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Curious 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
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Flat earthers just need a cat and then they would get it
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Sabre-tooth's had toe beans!
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This 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...
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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 18/09/2023
Really 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
Population models of Neandertal and Denisovan relationships, showing episodes of gene flow. Image from Peyregne, Slon, and Kelso 2023
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Dr. David Hopwood @drdavidhopwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
Looking 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
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W. Andrew Barr @wabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Statement from the Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology on the launch of hominin fossils into sub-orbit
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