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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This weaving shuttle is a late-1800s tuberculosis vector, kept in the Textile Museum of Borås. Many textile workers caught the disease, and English employers found a correlation with a certain type of loom. You were supposed to get the yarn out of that […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

So, a week ago we (our best Polish-Bulgarian team) started re-digging this big yamnaya culture barrow in Plachi Dol in NE Bulgaria. The profile is now over 4 meters high and growing. In 70s/80s excavations five graves were recorded, including one with cart […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

a grayscale landscape picture with a burial mound of Plachi Dol in the center. People on the top look tiny in comparison with this 'golyama mogila'.

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Beautiful exhibition. What I love about Manggha Museum is that they always try to establish a dialog between the East and the West. So this time you will find dragonflies emblems and pictures from Japan art juxtaposed by the western entomological plates with […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Joe Roe @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

We've reached the point where we're having to actively degrade the UI and remove features of the small scientific database I co-maintain (xronos.ch) to try and reduce the extreme load imposed by (unwanted and politely-asked-to-go-away) AI crawler bots. Conversations about new features […]

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Może ktoś zechce podpisać się pod petycją polskiego środowiska archeologicznego w sprawie zatrzymania zmian prawnych w ochronie zabytków? W skrócie, planowane zmiany prawne postrzegam jako przejaw **nieprzemyślanej** i **głupiej** deregulacji, która nie ma pokrycia z systemowymi zmianami i […]

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Polecam petycję o podniesienie poziomu finansowania nauki w Polsce do poz. 3% PKB. To się wydaje nie tak dużo, ale może mieć ogromny wpływ na przyszłość (i przeszłość) 3% dla nauki, 100% dla Polski www.petycjeonline.com/3_procent_na_… #petycja #nauka #Polska

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne seminarium OMAS! We cordially invite you to the next OMAS seminar! #mountain #archaeology #archaeolgia #góry #salt #sól #PovertyPoint

Poster of upcoming event:
Open Mountain Archaeology Seminars IAE PAS
North America/Ameryka Północna, vol. 1
Gueat/Gościni: Professor Ashley A. Dumas, PhD
University of West Alabama, Livingston, US, Program Erasmus+
Instytut Archeologii, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
14:00 Salt and Society in Eastern North America
14:30 Poverty Point: A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Louisiana, USA
15:00 Discussion/Dyskusja
qrcode of MS Teams meeting (ID: 932 112 904 095 9; Passcode: E7Kx7u)
qrcode for google maps localisation of Archaeological Laboratory IAE PAS in Igołomia/ n. Kraków PL.

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

goofing around with #QGIS and #Inkscape over changing range of occupation of the archaeological site. Do you like this kind of viz, or prefer simple 2d plans, with clear north and dimensions? #archeology #visualization #maps #plans #illustration

7-panel illustration presenting estimated range of occupation of the plateau in subsequent phases. The 3d view on the site is from the angle, with white vignetting.

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

A quantitative account of how limited information sharing undermines comprehensive literature syntheses - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Our new geomagnetic study of the early Eneolithic fortified site in Bronocice, S PL is available. The whole vol. 53 of Documenta Prahistorica journal seems to be interesting! doi.org/10.4312/dp.53.8 #archaeology #enclosure #neolithic #eneolithic

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Should be good: the evolution of human infants' helplessness academic.oup.com/cdpers/article/20/…

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

This seminar at Liverpool University on 'The role of the home in human evolution' with Amy Clark, another highlight, Thurs April 16 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7a…

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

My favourite piece of uncanny deconstructing archeopotery

a screenshot of a text cropped around the sequence:
figurines.
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CAA International @caa-int.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in…

Cover of the CAA2023 Proceedings. A blue cover with a 3D digital model of stone structure superimposed on a background showing a stylised blue network map. The text reads "Advances in Digital Archaeology. Proceedings of rhe 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology - 50 years of synergy. Edited by J.W.H.P. Verhagen, J. Waagen, A. Brandsen, A. Queffelec, R.M. Visser & D. Taelman."

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

I notice that the "photoblog of all kinds of female beauty" is not interested in fat beauty, old beauty, scarred beauty, disabled beauty,

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

RE: glammr.us/@overholt/116374811206949… “Without librarians and archivists to care for that material, there’s no book! There's no story!”

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

Zapraszamy na drugie spotkanie z serii Open Mountain Archaeology Seminars (OMAS) w Pracowni Archeologicznej PAN w Igołomi. 13.04 (poniedziałek), godz 14 w Igołomi lub przez Teamsy Tym razem Bałkany #mountain #archaeology #archeologia #góry #balkan #bałkany

Ośrodek Archeologii Gór i Wyżyn w Krakowie
Serdecznie zaprasza do Igołomi na II serminarium z cyklu
OPEN MOUNTAIN ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINARS (OMAS)
13 kwietnia 2026 r. (poniedziałek) o godz. 14:00
Pracownia Archeologiczna IAE PAN w Igołomi oraz online za pośrednictwem platformy MS Teams.
W programie seminarium przewidziane są dwa referaty:
prof. dr hab. Piotr Włodarczak (IAE PAN, Kraków ): "Zastosowanie pigmentów w rytuałach pogrzebowych społeczności kurhanowych z IV i III tysiąclecia p.n.e. w strefie bałkańskiej"
oraz dr Julia Kościuk-Załupka (IAUJ, Kraków): "Mezolityczne i wczesnoneolityczne użytkowanie ochry na obszarach bałkańskich - podróże i przemyślenia", która poprowadzi także część warsztatową.
ZAPRASZAMY!
LINK DO SPOTKANIA:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/359011276392584...
Identyfikator spotkania: 359 011 276 392 584
Kod dostępu: z3kN9f2k

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

RE: archaeo.social/@CAAPoland/116041703… Ktoś jeszcze chciał wysłać zgłoszenie, ale tak odkładał, że aż prawie przegapił termin?

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Yup. #Chimpanzees not more aggressive than #bonobos "aggression patterns diverge by sex: Bonobos exhibit higher female-to-male aggression, while chimpanzees show the reverse." #greatapes #violence […]

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Cluster ROOTS @clusterroots.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

At what age did a prehistoric human die? Are the pathological alterations to the skeleton due to old age or to disease? An international study discusses solutions to fundamental challenges in the field of paleopathology […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Katharina Fuchs is standing at a laboratory bench covered with bones. She is holding two bones in her hands and examining them closely. Behind her stands a plastic skeleton.

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Working on a side project on #stone #axe s from old excavations, I have found this specimen of partially destroyed (and I think reworked) axe head. I have never seen these kinds of markings: grooved line approx. on the axis, diagonal lines and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

view on the butt part of a neolithic stone axe-head with grooved line approx. on the axis, diagonal lines and rubbing/roughening in the area where shaft-hole was drilled

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Interesting article, in a way that seems to me simultaneously kind of obvious, and perspective changing. Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111749

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Internet Archaeology @internetarchaeology.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

New in IA71: Fadioui, A. 2026 Building Data Models for Archaeology: The case of the TETRARCHs Storytelling Data Model, Internet Archaeology 71. doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.1 This article presents a methodology rooted in grounded theory which was developed through the crafting of a […]

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Opened in the 1950s, this sprawling facility was once the primary training hub for #BritishAirways, schooling tens of thousands of crew over six decades. In these decaying 1950s office blocks, theory classes and pre-flight lectures were once held. There is also […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An abandoned classroom at the British Airways Training Facility. Moss covers the floor and long conference table, surrounded by chairs

An abandoned British Airways 737-400 flight simulator facility. A walkway leads to the simulator

An abandoned Boeing 737 flight simulator cockpit appears stripped, with exposed wiring and missing panels.

An abandoned, overgrown corridor with a staircase, showcasing extreme decay. Moss and plants cover the floor, with an "EXIT" sign above a distant doorway.

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Academia: There's no job for you in eight countries. Also Academia: Here's a new book chapter that cites one of your books and two of your journal papers! #academia #archaeology

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Tracking back such a big population (1 in 200 of all men) to one relatively recent lineage always was sus to me. my confirmation bias is very happy about the results this study. Far fewer people are related to Genghis Khan than previously assumed, new genomic study suggests | Live Science […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

I often leave enjoyable gigs after 90 mins. That's long enough to be listening to one band. #music

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Tues Feb 24, 18:30 (UTC London) Ian Watts How women drove the evolution of symbolic culture -- the last half million years All welcome LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

Maps showing the phases and spread of red ochre use in the African Pleistocene. By 160,000 years it has gone to the top and toe of the whole continent, with 'habitual' use. Central West African shows little, but would likjely have been using plant pigments/redwood processing

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

A brand new study of the solitary (for nor now) magdalenian hunting camp in Tatra Mountains from my friends in Kraków! See more: doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110151

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

One year ago during 🦣 excavations in Lower Austria I went to Willendorf. It is located in a lovely Danube valley. An open section of loess sediments is maintained there (that must be fun), showing major levels of occupation, and - of course - the level, where statuette was found […]

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

"Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for over 10,000 years at room temperature." Now, "room temperature" is oddly specific in this time scale. arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/mic…

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

for today's #DarwinDay let us remember a famous quote *not from Charles Darwin* [1] And a second one, from the Origins: "As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by […]

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Panoptykon @panoptykon.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Fedisiów to nie dotyczy, ale masa ludzi codziennie spotyka się z blokadą na platformach (anty)społecznościowych i nie wie, co robić. Portale profilują reklamy w oparciu o wrażliwe dane, a ich algorytmy seryjnie wyświetlają treści o tym samym, wpędzając ludzi w lęki i poczucie winy. Odpowiedzią […]

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Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: @mehrad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

There are few practices that deeply hurt me as a Bioinformatician. On top of the list is getting gene expression data in Excel file and figures in PowerPoint file. I don't know what can it be done and how can it be communicated that not only this is not "okay", but it is a terrible practice […]

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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

Tues Feb 3, 18:30 (UTC London) Morna Finnegan with Ingrid Lewis Corporeal morality is the antidote to war All welcome LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

BaYaka Mbendjele women celebrating Ngoku spirit

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CAA SSLA @caa-ssla.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

👾 We are very happy to have done this #DigiArchMaintainathon 👾🏺! It was a great way to connect with people and showcase the work that needs to be done in #DigitalArchaeology and #ComputationalArchaeology. Software does need constant work and so many people are doing it. If you wish to connect […]

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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

🗺️ fastfocal: fast moving-window and point extraction for rasters in R, optimized for large windows and common focal stats via FFT. Built on terra. cran.r-project.org/package=fastfocal #RStats #GIScience #RSpatial

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smiergahttu @smiergahttu.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

Today I finally visited an exhibition about the Early Bronze Age fortified settlement in Maszkowice, S Poland, which is supposedly the northernmost example of (proto)cyplopean type defence structure. It is amazing site, and I love how it was researched through the last 15 or so years […]

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

I gave a talk on campus this week on Franz Boas. (I'll share it here when the recording's ready.) It was moving to see how people resonated. In a time of Nazis, eugenics and lynchings, Boas was vocally antiracist, worked with POC, got pushed out of his job for his views (nice going Columbia U!) […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

People generally don't realise that a #museum is a major storage and archive that offers to find and show the public and scholars any given object in its care, with provenance, century after century. 70 years ago, Evert Baudou looked at 90 stone axes in the […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Argh. Just realised that I get better results passing pytesseract the path to images rather than a PIL image, because in the latter case it applies it's own optimisations. After a couple of days of processing, I'm gonna restart it all... (in most cases the difference is small, but it does seem […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

@Yolande Here's some reporting. "the European Association of Archaeologists [EAA] , faces ... an omnishambles as it is caught in the grip of an ethical and communications crisis over the participation of delegates affiliated to Israeli universities and bodies, at its flagship European […]

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

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