I’m sure fascinating, but you have to pay to learn about it.

Amazing, and what do they know at 4.5kya that they didn’t know at 25+kya? Kitsissut in that environment is like a moon landing. Would you deny those people the right to migrate to Atlantic along different Arctic pathways?

LBV is so good.

Keep it up!

Parameters of Animal Mortuary Behavior

Naledi evidence is easier to absorb in a wider context of parameters of animal mortuary behavior, as Cherene de Bruyn did for Human Bridges:

observatory.wiki/Parameters_o...

Could be turned into a gorgeous watch face

I subscribe to your AI summaries. Gotta say thr script that tells me, X wasn’t just Y, it was an (adjective) Z…. are tiring.

Even the teaser, … not chance. It comes off formulaic once you read it in 150-200 summaries (which are great, the less florid they are).

Publishing science with one’s parent is v. cool.

I can’t read this article. Can it be shared with the public?

If we took the Sulawesi rock art paper’s logic to the geometrically-marked 500kya Trinil shell, wouldn’t the null hypothesis be that it was made by a H. sapiens population?

Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus - Nature With its attribution to Paranthropus, a 2.6-million-year-old partial mandible expands the range of the genus into the Afar region of Ethiopia and adds to our understanding of hominin evolution in east...

I am really excited to share news of this new jaw...until now Paranthropus had been conspicuously absent from the Afar.

Fieldwork at Mille-Logya is not easy, and this fossil is the result of years of very hard work (and a lot of days of dry screening by our team)!

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

We chose pencil and ink drawings by 10 visual creators of the 15th and 19th centuries. Future approaches and larger data sets will refine the confidence levels, and establish the limits of analysis. Our future test work goes from the 19th Century into the Upper Paleolithic, more results to come.

Bradford U. Prof. Hassan Ugail, myself and Irina Matuzava and other researchers are exploring how visual computing analysis can be useful for identifying a particular creator. With larger datasets, this tool could be used to find an image’s similar genres, periods, or regional styles.

Could computers help us distinguish whether a drawing was created by Raphael or Michelangelo? How about distinguishing if someone was trying to draw like Raphael, or draw in a 19th Century English Romantic style? Yes, according to our prelim analysis.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.11627

We chose pencil and ink drawings by 10 visual creators of the 15th and 19th centuries. Future approaches and larger data sets will refine the confidence levels, and establish the limits of analysis. Our future test work goes from the 19th Century into the Upper Paleolithic, more results to come.

Bradford U. Prof. Hassan Ugail, myself and Irina Matuzava and other researchers are exploring how visual computing analysis can be useful for identifying a particular creator. With larger datasets, this tool could be used to find an image’s similar genres, periods, or regional styles.

Handcrafted Feature-Assisted One-Class Learning for Artist Authentication in Historical Drawings Authentication and attribution of works on paper remain persistent challenges in cultural heritage, particularly when the available reference corpus is small and stylistic cues are primarily expressed...

Could computers help us distinguish whether a drawing was created by Raphael or Michelangelo? How about distinguishing if someone was trying to draw like Raphael, or draw in a 19th Century English Romantic style? Yes, according to our prelim analysis.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11627

A claw-shaped hand stencil discovered in a cave in Indonesia is the oldest work of art in the world An international scientific team has determined that a hand stencil discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is at least 67,800 years old, making it the oldest reliably dated manifest...

A claw-shaped hand stencil discovered in a cave in Indonesia is the oldest work of art in the world www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...

Playmobil Cacofonix the bard blowing a miniature reproduction of the Norfolk carnyx, on a green field with other Iron Age Playmobil figures in the distance.

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵
#DiggingForBritain
#DrawingDiggingForBritain
#PlaymobilInfestation
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
@pcaarchaeology.bsky.social

1: Life

I interpret this as a case where some older kids, bored with marble packets, put some in a hearth to see if they could melt the marbles. Their experiment was partly successful

Notice this is all done to install a nuclear power station on the beach.

Sure hope the meticulousness extends to the reactor design if for some reason waves breach the flood walls.

You’ll never see a happier Brit on their Isle when that “perfect” moment arrives and there’s: “No one to be seen.”

The gloved arms of an archaeologist cleaning the green copper alloy head of an Iron Age war trumpet

Good to wake up to a news headline that has the words #IronAge #WarTrumpet and #Boudicca in it

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

PreConstruct Archaeology reveals a complete carnyx plus other martial objects from #Norfolk

Wow 😲

We need a lie down

@theguardian.com @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

Woo hoo!

This is just fantastic. Did the illustrator make other images in your book?

One archaic experience that became much rarer is swarms of insects or birds changing the color of the sky and the amount of sunlight at different times of the day

Thank you for teaching me about them! Never heard of til now

Nobody would believe this!

Oddly modern

Staffordshire was mined in 18th Cent Uk for clay and coal, yielding
prehistoic fossils before they were understood geologically. Local potters
whimsically used the fossils as motifs for teapots. - NY Met

De Bruyn combines a survey of animal ethology, with a deep-time backdrop of evidence from across the human lineage. It allows us to form a general perspective on the mortuary behavior that we find on Earth, and situate what we know of the human story in that wider context.

Parameters of Animal Mortuary Behavior

We just published S. African archaeologist Cherene de Bruyn's Parameters of Animal Mortuary Behavior for Human Bridges - I think quite innovative in its approach. ...(1/2)