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Mark Barrows

@mark-w-b.bsky.social

Canoe traveler, amateur experimental archaeologist, maker.

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Signed & sent. Aiden, thanks for sharing this.

13.08.2025 12:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My interpretation of an early medieval Irish awl excavated at Deer Park Farms.

12.08.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exploring Utah this week.

18.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Most of my hazel seedlings have survived their first Maine winter.

09.05.2025 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In the 12th century Life of Colmáin Maic Luachain, there’s a short paragraph explaining how to build a house (it’s a metaphor, “one thing at a time”), effectively it says how do you build a house? Well, you weave in a hazel rod, one rod at a time, and slowly the house gets built.

23.03.2025 11:58 — 👍 127    🔁 36    💬 8    📌 2
What do I have in my Map Case?
YouTube video by 3 Minutes with a Maine Guide What do I have in my Map Case?

This is the time of year that I start dreaming about the coming canoe season, and Lisa DeHart is here to give me some specifics to think about.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFu...

18.02.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
THE CANOE (full film)
YouTube video by PaddleToronto THE CANOE (full film)
11.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cree Hunters of Mistassini An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating agriculture, this First Nations people have gone to the bush of the …
10.02.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

06.02.2025 12:31 — 👍 30140    🔁 10935    💬 1172    📌 1816

Sigh………..

31.01.2025 20:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households
YouTube video by National Museum of Ireland Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYW1...

23.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our early medieval house reconstruction at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture - burned down in arson attack in May 2019.

01.08.2023 00:03 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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