Christian Thomas

YouTube video by Dr. Smiti Nathan The Sound of Living Heritage

🔔 What can the sounds of everyday life reveal about the past?

🎙️ In this episode of Curiosity Meets The Past, podcast producer & host of ReCurrent (@gettymuseum.bsky.social), Jaime Roque, discusses how he documents and shares stories of the past through sound 🏺

youtu.be/mSlAj0PgZQA

A pencil drawing of a fae sitting on a couch as both he and the couch begin to transform back into a forest.

Several views of the sculpture version of the pencil sketch. Made from multimedia materials.

I think I've been working on a sculpture version of "The Diminished" off and on for, I don't know, a few years now?

Well, I have a base version finally sculpted (multimedia) and now I just need to refine the details before painting.

I’m not jealous of all this feasting I’m seeing in the socials.

Thanks for the suggestions! The basic context is that at least one of my (historic) sites shell midden was used as an aggregate (maybe a spiritual element too 👀) in concrete, and I was just curious if there would be a way for me to determine which of the middens on the island it came from. Thanks!

Environmental DNA evidence of settlement in Iceland from c. 810 rather than the 870s - and much more besides. Summarised in the New Scientist but that's behind a paywall. Here's the original research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There's no vestige of beginning, no prospect of an end

When we all disintegrate, it will all happen again, yeah

If you came to conquer, you'll be king for a day
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away

And believe these words you hear when you think your path is clear
We have no control

Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey

Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖

Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!

We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.

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Interpretive Rorschach test going on here!

Boarding Schools and the Indigenous story cover

Finally!

My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.

You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...

Why the world's largest-known spider web surprised this scientist | CBC Radio Serban Sarbu, a cave scientist, thought he’d seen everything — until he entered a pitch-black cave along the Albania–Greece border. Inside, he found the world’s largest known spider web, and he explai...

#cave of horrors! 100k spiders in this cave!! Living with centipedes and scorpions! Nope!🤣

www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Scientists Find the First Ice Core From the European Alps That Dates Back to the Last Ice Age The new study, published in the June issue of PNAS Nexus, examines a 40-meter long ice core from Mont Blanc’s Dôme du Goûter. Using radiocarbon dating techniques, the research team found that the glac...

www.dri.edu/scientists-f...

🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?

Makes you wonder how they voted…

My "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" albatross pendant. Made from resin epoxy, the figure is of an albatross shot through the chest with an arrow. The contrast paint layers have been completed. (Other photos are the same pendant from multiple sides.)

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Albatross pendant now done with the contrast paints layer. All that's left is the fine details!

This photo is so hardcore!

A tatty laminated sign that says: "This site is respecting social distancing. Please adhere to all guidelines on site." There are icons warning people to stay 2 metres apart, wash their hands, etc.

A massive footprint on a pavement. Faded text warns people to keep 2 metres apart.

A poster advising people on where to get help for domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A sticker on a bench: "Safe seat. One person only at any time. Keep your distance even when seated."

I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?

Painting of Pilot Mountain, Yukon, Canada.

Pilot Mountain.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2090.

You will have to relearn cooking!

Ya, it looks grim but I imagine the final accounting is yet to come.

And this effect is felt across the entire Inuvialuit/Inuit north. In #Yukon we have witnessed accelerated erosion take the last intact pre colonial features from Qikiqtaruk and Sabine Point regions in the past three years.

Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty Quantitative analysis of canid skulls points to an earlier origin of dog diversity

Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology

Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1976, my wife’s parents leave Britain for Canada as economic migrants looking for a new beginning.

A cool wooden hunting structure found in Norway.

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

"What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness — or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair. Metal, one fan told me, is 'a strange road to joy.'" This is so lovely, @btoastie.bsky.social:

Carney unveils major projects he wants fast-tracked, including new mines, LNG and hydro development | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday seven more initiatives he's recommending for fast-tracked approval by the government's Major Projects Office — and it includes multibillion-dollar energy ...

#yukon project is weird.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Quaternary people, I need to source a high-resolution graphics file of an up-to-date Marine Isotope curve? One I can use at two different resolution, one 1,000,000 to present, the other 100,000 to present. Any idea where to look? Has anything definitively replaced Railsback? 🦣

Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Snow filled yards. 10-15 cm new snow.

It snowed! No a big surprise for #yukon in November, but after 4 or 5 weird warm weather months it’s a bit of a relief to see something normal. Hopefully the rest of the winter is normal but who knows with climate change.

They say #whitehorse will finally get #snow today. Here is a before. Fingers crossed the we are buried by tomorrow morning!!! #yukon

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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