Christian Thomas

Christian Thomas

@christiandthomas.bsky.social

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

505 Followers 667 Following 210 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

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I will say this, in the deepest dark of winter I at least get to go home in light as opposed to dark before work and dark after. I get that morning people hate it. But that’s what they get for being morning people.

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You wonder why this innovation would spread clear across Asia and then be utterly abandoned as the dispersal continued north and south east. I can’t help seeing a massive interpretive leap here. There seems to be a growing list of small sharp things that are being over interpreted.

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Anyone get video of the meteor over Vancouver? Everyone’s talking about the boom.

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We came oh so close to having this limerick slinging light weight for a prime minister. Absolute mindless drivel. #canada

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Scientists Discovered an Ancient Egyptian Tool 2,000 Years Ahead of Its Time The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

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North America, Europe, and Israel also share responsibility for generations of instability in the Middle East. We also have seen that warring will not solve instability or improve human rights.

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Hire and artist and talk to them. Lots wrong with this but the most evil being the “humans are white and other phenotypes are not” bit. I guess AI just mines this shit out out of our garbage… but still.

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🏺 Since it’s Pokemon Day, it’s probably a good time to repost links to the various times I’ve decided that actually what the world needs most is an archaeologist talking about those dang pocket monsters. ⬇️

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From my chat….
#hockey #canada

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I was impressed by these. Available at the Superstore (I don’t normally go there but they have Canadian broccoli)

#Whitehorse #Yukon

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I do question the seemingly growing archaeological bias of trying to answer this question by size alone as the deciding design variable. Not knowing the cultural knowledge system for why a bone point was designed makes using a non-cultural metric to interpret it fraught.

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Spend a little time learning how monumentally broken our heritage protection frameworks are. Thank you @tessmachling.bsky.social for doing the hard work our sector organisations should be leading on. 🏺

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This piece is a lot, but it's vital.
And it resonates with Carole's own article underlining foundational role of patriarchy & misogyny:

"A culture which reveres female youth and innocence despises female age and experience. It disgusts them, scares them..."
broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-all-liv...

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Literally. When I went to the University clinic suspecting I was in perimenopause, the doctor got angry at me because she decided I must have a mood disorder instead. Turns out I was in perimenopause.

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NEW Evidence for 4,500-year-old Paleo-Inuit settlement on the remote Kitsissut Islands, north of Greenland indicates the Arctic's first inhabitants were skilled seafarers who shaped High Arctic ecosystems from the beginning of glacial retreat.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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The archaeology of glaciers and ice patches: The intersection of climate change, glacier retreat and cultural heritage | Annals of Glaciology | Cambridge Core The archaeology of glaciers and ice patches: The intersection of climate change, glacier retreat and cultural heritage - Volume 67

New open access paper on the state of glacial #archaeology. 🏺

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Search | Heritage GuideHeritage Guide Search thousands of Canadian heritage sites.

Fantastic news! It appears that an individual has used a program to download the data from the historic places register and created a new site with it! If all the data is accurate, this will become a valuable site for researchers across the country.
🏺 #heritage
heritageguide.ca/search?q=New...

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Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers...
Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland
trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...

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Whitehorse

Bessa L
25mm f3.5
Fuji C200

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Indigenous Writes “Reading Indigenous Writes, you feel that you are having a conversation over coffee with a super-smart friend, someone who refuses to simplify, who chooses to amplify, who is unafraid to kick against ...

2026 marks the ten-year anniversary of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada!

Have you seen the gorgeous cover of the second edition coming to mark the occasion? You can preorder now!

www.portageandmainpress.com/Books/I/Indi...

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Archaeology field school planned this spring for ancient cave near Fort St. John, B.C. | CBC News One of over 57,000 known archaeological sites in the province, Tse'k'wa is a record of 12,500 years of human settlement and environmental change dating back to the last ice age. It's a sacred space to...

Another year of archaeological field school planned at Tse'k'wa (“Rock House” in Dane-zaa Záágéʔ), also known as Charlie Lake Cave, in NE BC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 🏺

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Can you spot the #archaeology 🏺

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Conspiracy Theory Wastes No Time Getting Racist

Conspiracy Theory Wastes No Time Getting Racist https://theonion.com/conspiracy-theory-wastes-no-time-getting-racist-1839031580/

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Lithic technological change, hominin history and climatic background from the late Middle Pleistocene to middle Late Pleistocene (ca. 300–50 ka) in China.
Source: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #FossilFriday

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AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

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The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1.
Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩

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Narratives & Temporality of Infrastructures - The Canadian Experience articles:

What does Permafrost mean to you? Inuvialuit and Gwich’in Knowledge Holders’ Perceptions of a Thawing Relation

Susanna Gartler
Susan A. Crate

cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...

@gamatulli.bsky.social

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