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An orange coloured graphic with two boxes of text. In the top box it reads, “Join us for the Society for Museum Archaeology Annual Conference in Liverpool, 13-14 November 2025! Help us celebrate our anniversary - find out what has changed, what has not, and explore the world of museum archaeology today...” In the box below this one it reads, “Meet our Speakers! Alex Fitzpatrick, COLLECTIONS INFORMATION & ACCESS DEVELOPER, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. Interdisciplinary museums researcher and archaeologist currently developing new ways of making distributed collections more visible and accessible to others through digital and hybrid means.” To the left of this text is a photo of me, an East Asian woman in her thirties with black shaggy hair and fringe, a white blouse on, and large square glasses.

🏺📜 Next month! I’ll be giving a talk about my recent work with @garstangmuseum.bsky.social at the Society for Museum Archaeology Conference in Liverpool. You can get tickets at the link below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...

Neandertal Cold Adaptation: Technological, Anatomical, and Physiological Responses to Cold Stress in One of Our Closest Fossil Relatives Neandertals occupied western Eurasia for over 100 000 years, repeatedly enduring climates that ranged from seasonally cold to glacial. This paper reexamines the question of Neandertal cold adaptation...

My new paper (open access) reviewing Neandertal cold adaptation is out in AJHB. Shoutout to my awesome coauthors Cara Ocobock, Libby Cowgill, & Scott Maddux. Great fun working with you all! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oh my gosh Karen, congrats on Oxford you brainiac! 🏛️. Sorry to hear the rude comments you’ve faced!

Living with the planet LATE Tackle big questions and explore bold ideas about the future of our planet in this season’s British Academy Late. Immerse yourself in the sounds and music of the rainforests of Papua New Guinea; discu...

What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? Book your free ticket to come hear from @edithmayhall.bsky.social on this topic at our Late on Thursday 9th Oct. Plus loads more panels, a zine making workshop and exhibits
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.

Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.

kevingdaly.github.io

Announcements | Open Quaternary We are looking to appoint an Editor-in-Chief starting in January 2026 for a period of three years. The new Editor-in-Chief will be working closely with the current Editors-in-Chief during a transition period.

Open Quaternary is looking for a new Editor in Chief!

openquaternary.com/announcements

If you have any questions about OQ, or the role, I am very happy to answer Qs >> v.herridge@sheffield.ac.uk

PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

BTC Call for Action - EAA

EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.

Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Early Middle Palaeolithic Occupations Dated to MIS 7 at the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, Southeast France) - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology New excavations at the Abri du Maras have yielded remains of hitherto unknown deposits (layer 6) from the base of the sequence, with a small lithic and faunal series dated to MIS 7. In this paper, we ...

Early Middle Palaeolithic Occupations Dated to MIS 7 at the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, Southeast France) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

ICYMI, we & friends in Gz launched a giving circle so they could get steady, DIRECT support for their survival needs.

I have hope we can escalate our help despite stagnating for 2 days.

🌹Every dollar helps them eat. Last check, 1502/1700 for the week. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

Hadn’t realised the department was on here @archsoton50.bsky.social

Shameless self promotion (I hadn’t realised it had been published). Here is my experience post graduation from archaeology …
www.southampton.ac.uk/study/subjec...

Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A sign of a museum store being sub-optimal (RH 23%): me having a nosebleed.

We’re deeply concerned about the disappearance of our colleague Pierre Noiret. Please share and help us spread the word.
For more information please check: www.police.be/avis-de-rech...

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/17) We are thrilled to see our new paper ‘Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands’ published in Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Life Scientific - Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites - BBC Sounds Jim Al-Khalili digs into the subterranean world of ancient bones with Jacqueline McKinley.

This is a brilliant listen. Jacqueline McKinley of Wessex Archaeology on today’s episode of The Life Scientific.

She explains things beautifully, in an all-too a rare piece of public exposure for the importance of work in the commercial archaeology sector ☺️

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper This consultation seeks views on the approaches government should consider around reform of the health and disability benefits system and employment support.

Consultation on the Benefits Green Paper.

If you do nothing else fill this in.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Shards of red and orange plastic 'glass' laid out on a black background.

Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

I admire whoever has decided to put what I can only assume is a copy of their thesis in the 2 book exchanges at [redacted museum].

Just in time for #FlintFriday, the first ICArEHB LEXA Experimental Archaeology seminar is now free to view on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=Bij2...
#experimentalarchaeology #prehistory

I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology
go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs

Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives

@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...

📣 🏺
A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!

Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)

go.bsky.app/6hXVX57

Justice for Anugrah Our family are fundraising to cover our legal costs at the inquest into our beloved son's death. Help us fight for #Justice4Anugrah

Please consider donating to support an inquest into my friend’s cousin’s death after enduring a hostile environment of bullying and systemic racism within the West Yorkshire Police.

I’ve donated £50 - can you match me, or meet me halfway with £25?

www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice...

Artist's reconstruction of Lucy

lucy Australopithecus afarensis 'Lucy' skeleton (AL 288-1) Australopithecus afarensis, cast from Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris Australopithecus afarensis 'Lucy' skeleton (AL 288-1) Australopithecus afarensis, cast from Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris Facsimile Photo: 120 Permission: GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

OTD in 1974 AL 288-1, 3.2 million years old Lucy was found in Hadar, Ethiopia by Dr Donald Johanson and team

This small-bodied, small-brained hominin proved that our early human relatives habitually walked on two legs

Australopithecus afarensis 🏺🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/aus...

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Be careful and smart out there.

I’m submitting (potentially) my first paper abstract for a conference and I’m so nervous due to a constant rejections in my life right now. 😂

2 Screenshots from the movie Mean Girls (2004) #1 Teenage boy sat infront of a teenage girl in school. He's leaning back to speak to her. She is looking at her books caption: "On October third, he asked me what day it was" #2 She is now looking up and smiling, while telling him the date caption: "It's October third"

It’s October 3rd. Happy Mean Girls Day 📽️