Julien Riel-Salvatore

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

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I could write a book about this. A lot of otherwise open-minded folks drop the ball so hard by enabling their children's worst impulses towards kids with Tourette's.

There's a lot of debate over whether some sets of remains really represent burials, which Paleolithic archaeologists just loooooove to argue over, with attendant complications for such a database 😉

Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record Abstract. A critical review of the corpus of Upper Palaeolithic (UP) burials shows clearly that there is no such thing as a ‘typical’ UP burial. While chil

Claudine Gravel-Miguel and I started doing this ca. 15 years ago for UP burials, with dates, basic components and key refs, but to create a catalog like that would be an immense undertaking (also complicated re: rights for images, etc.)
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

My brain hurts, these damn people....

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

An irregularly shaped stone with a off-white surface featuring two vertical rows of reddish-brown dots. The stone is displayed in a museum setting.

A 15,000-year-old painted limestone, from the Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura. The shapes of the dots are symmetrical and executed precisely. The accuracy indicates that the dot rows were painted using a tool or stamp.
On display at our branch museum urmu, Blaubeuren.

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

I think about them Veirana days all the time!!

... now with pictures instead of random black squares!

It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon worn as an ornament. My team recovered it from the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed Neve at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪 #superbowl

It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon, incised to be used an ornament. My team recovered it in a pit next to the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed 'Neve' at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02804-z

It has arrived, the day of the superb owl! Here's a 10,000 year-old eagle-owl talon, incised to be used an ornament. My team recovered it in a pit next to the burial of a newborn girl nicknamed 'Neve' at Arma Veirana, a cave in the Italian Maritime Alps. #superbowl 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Poster advertising the call for paper and poster abstracts for the upcoming CAA conference. Abstracts are due on march 31st, 2026.

Don't forget, our call for paper and poster abstracts is open for submissions! Head over to the conference page on the CAA website to submit your abstracts before March 31st! 🎉
#archaeology #conference

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I’m gonna name it. This isn’t a case of “legitimately differing opinions.” It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only “ethical use” or reasonable stance is to keep it out

a man wearing glasses holds up a card that says boring Alt: A man wearing glasses and a colourful orange floral shirt holds up a handwritten card that says boring

Tucker Carlson has a new pseudoarchaeology interview with AJ Gentile that, within the first 10 mins alone, brings up many of pseudoarch's Greatest Hits (archaeologists taking money to protect our reputations, pyramids weren't built by Egyptians, Smithsonian is hiding evidence of giants).

Call for Papers #UISPP 2026 Poznań

Join our session - Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene (Thematic Session 4D)

Abstract Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
uispp2026.syskonf.pl
@timocanessa.bsky.social @palomadelalasca.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social

"Noting", ugh... though I suppose "nothing" works on an emotional and philosophical level!

Also worth nothing that there is not one original idea or "solution" in this document... a real solid investment of the thousands of dollars that it probably cost to commission.

Another typical higher ed planification document, unsurprisingly based largely on vibes as opposed to data. The kind of stuff to feed the white hot rage of anyone busting their ass to sustain a social science unit in the age of AI and focused disinvestment in the arts, humanities & social sciences.

Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).

Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access:

Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale).

doi.org/10.11588/pro...

Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi - Nature A hand stencil painted on a cave wall on a small island off the coast of Sulawesi more than 67,800 years ago suggests a very early occupation of Wallacea.

The absolute eye rolls I got from my kids at dinner yesterday when I told them that the oldest rock art in the world was now dated to... 6-7 thousand years ago 😂

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is going to be a really fun and stimulating session on pseudoarchaeology and communicating archaeology at the upcoming meeting of the @can-arch.bsky.social in beautiful Canmore, AB, May 6-10!

Yes, it looks like it'll be a really great conference! A great option if people are looking for alternatives to the SAAs, for whatever reason...

Do it, do it!

That would be great!

This is going to be a really fun and stimulating session on pseudoarchaeology and communicating archaeology at the upcoming meeting of the @can-arch.bsky.social in beautiful Canmore, AB, May 6-10!

La patinoire du parc de mon quartier joliment décorée par les anciens sapins de Noël du voisinage / My neighborhood park's skating rink decorated by discarded Christmas trees #ahuntsic #montreal