iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It is indeed :) PhD done; all chapters published bar one and I’ve got a lab full of new scaphopod beads and fragments of Melo to investigate :) Hope you are well too

000

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I’ll be there. I arrive in Darwin last night. I’m presenting in the T1/8. Palaeolandscapes and People in Australian Deserts on the consumption and use (as tools and ornaments) of marine invertebrates for 51,000 years in north Western Australia.

020

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

One day I’ll come visit - it looks amazing !

110

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

They are an amazing species indeed! I have more research to come on their manufacture into large bowls using fire and percussion.

120

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ooh I can’t wait to read this!

000

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is what I was doing in the lab this week — working through the MNI counts for chitons as part of my reanalysis of the marine invertebrate assemblage from Haynes Cave. Applying a method that is more accurate. #archaeomalacology #zooarchaeology #chiton #australianarchaeology #MontebelloIslands

050

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Using archaeological, ethnographic & experimental datasets, we establish a full chaîne opératoire for Melo shell knives—proving manufacture began 46,000 years ago in northern Australia. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #zooarchaeology #archaeomalacology #australianarchaeology #experimentalarchaeology

070

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

There is also no evidence of resin on any of the knive and Boodie Cave. Ethnographically in the Wellesley Islands they had wrapped bark handles.

100

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The shoulder spines are a natural part of Melo amphora. The shell was broken using a hammer stone detaching the lip of the shell which is the knife blade and retaining part of the shell with the spines still attached. Flaking Melo doesn’t work very well owing to its micro structure

000

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The reduction sequence of a juvenile Melo into a knife followed a set process. The same as technique observed by Tindale in the 1960s in the gulf of Carpentaria. Which is 2,452 km away from Boodie Cave! #archaeomalacology #experimentalarchaeology #australianarchaeology #shelltools

081

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The spikes are known as spines and yes they were kept by the makers to allow for a handle wrap of some sort. Perhaps melaleuca.

100

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Part of my PhD research looked at shell knives from Boodie Cave, Barrow Island (Hook et al. 2024). We found a 46,000-year tradition of Melo shell knife production—some of the earliest known shell tools made by Homo sapiens. #archaeomalacology #australianarchaeology #experimentalarchaeology

26014

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Been a bit quiet—waiting on TO approval for my final PhD paper. I’ve moved into my own lab in the Peter Veth Arch Lab + kicked off archaeomalacological reanalysis of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene Haynes + Noala Caves, Montebello Islands, 1980s digs #shellfish #uwa #australianarchaeology

0212

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Can you add me please :) my two latest papers are on Australian Aboriginal shell beads and shell knives using experimental archaeology to investigate manufacture characteristics, debitage patterns and usewear.

110

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I get to research scaphopod shells used as ornaments 13,000 years ago in Australia :)

010

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Who needs a cure from archaeomalacology awesomeness ! Plus a dose of experimental archaeology too

000

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Whhohoo ! I put together a feed for archaeomalacologists last year - if you want to see what fellow researchers are posting

200

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Rethinking Australian archaeology narratives: WA’s Aboriginal Heritage Act once centred Aboriginal perspectives, but science now dominates. Using Ingold’s taskscape, we reconnect sites, stories & significance in Nyiyaparli Country. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #taskscape #Aboriginalsites

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Tracing pathways: writing archaeology in Nyiyaparli country

The Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) uniquely placed Aboriginal perspectives at the heart of assessing significance and protecting Aboriginal places, alongside “historical, anthropological, archaeol...

071

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Try refreshing it. The feeds a bit clunky sometimes. Plus they only show the last 7 days with of posts so often they are blank if no one has posted using the words Australian archaeology

120

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s the way you tell the story - 2 perspectives on rockshelter CB08-500: one sees a typical Pilbara site, the other brings it to life with Nyiyaparli heritage and imagined past events. A fresh take on how we value and interpret Australian archaeological sites. www.archae-aus.com.au/perch/resour...

archae-aus.com.au

031

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Island archaeology through the lens of archaeological science - EAA session this year

041

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Great new paper on Western Australian archaeology and maritime archaeology.

1191

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Want all your Australian archaeology posts in one place? Here is a feed - like it and add it to your Bluesky Feeds. It captures any post in the last 7 days with the words ‘Australian archaeology’ and archaeology in Australia’. bsky.app/profile/did:...

291

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Fabulous new paper in Australian Archaeology: Australia’s Overland Telegraph Line, built 50 years pre-Federation, linked the continent to the world. A cybernetic lens shows its interdependent technical, social, and ecological systems. #IndustrialArchaeology #Cybernetics doi.org/10.1080/0312...

doi.org

One complete system? Telegraphy, cybernetics and industrial archaeology

Telegraph systems laid the groundwork for the first global digital systems. In Australia, 50 years before Federation, the continental-scale telegraph system linked to the wider world using submarin...

171

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Latest archaeomalacology newsletter now out

071

Reposted by Fiona Hook

Sean Ulm @seanulm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Already 460 respondents to our Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists! 1/3 indicate that they worked for more than 1 employer in 2024. QLD, SA & ACT are still poorly represented. Please complete the survey at: surveymonkey.com/r/profiling2...

0106

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The use wear experiments showed that the Boodie Cave beads were strung with their narrower apical ends and wide ends alternating against each other, rather than nested in concatenated style as seen in historical examples. #experimentalarchaeology #archaeomalacology #ancientbeads

250

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My latest paper details how tusk shell beads were strung and tested on a wear machine simulating 10 hours of vigorous wear: 300 RPM, 1.5 agitations/sec, totaling 54,000 agitations—like wearing a necklace during intense activity. #experimentalarchaeology #archaeomalacology #australianarchaeology

1112

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I keep wanting different lists of everyone’s archaeology posts. So I’ve created a Coastal archaeology feed. Come and add it to your feeds. bsky.app/profile/did:... #coastalarchaeology #islandarchaeology #maritimearchaeology #submergedlandscapes #marinezooarchaeology #archaeomalacology

1133

Reposted by Fiona Hook

Jon Erlandson @viking1000.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In 2005, Scott Fitzpatrick and I started as founding coeditors of the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology. In 2025, under Scott’s continued leadership, JICA will publish its 20th volume! Still going strong, with more than 8,000 pages on our deep entanglement with island & coastal ecosystems.

Original cover of JICA, showing an island arc from space, embedded in a deep blue sea.

0287

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

One of the other reasons I want to do my PhD !

110

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Based on experimental archaeology, we’ve shown that 11,000-year-old scaphopod shell bead production from Boodie Cave (NW Australia) matches how Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley make them today! This the first study of its kind in Australian archaeology. #archaeomalacology #iceage

Bead percussion characteristics: (a) experimental bead (EXP-B021) concave break; and, (b) Boodie Cave bead (J08-100_B011) concave break (image by Fiona Hook).

2387

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Ahh yes Dr Hook - they are pretty legendary from the 70s when I first heard them

110

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It’s now officially officially Dr Hook! Graduated my PhD last night at UWA in Australian archaeology. Thesis is titled Early archaeology of the mangrove highway: 50,000 years of Aboriginal marine adaptations from Barrow Island, northwest Australia. #archaeomalacology #experimentalarchaeology

5424

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Added Archéomalacologie|archéologique des mollusques|archéologique des coquilles

010

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Just add any of those words in your posts and it will add you to the feed :)

110

Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

New feed for archaeomalacologists on BlueSky. 🐚 The feed is searching for any posts with the following words: archaeomalacology, sclerochronology, shellfish archaeology, shell archaeology, shell midden, shell bead, shell tool. Let me know what else I can add :) 🐚

292