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Abbey Sinclair

@abbeyssinia.bsky.social

Archaeologist in lutruwita/Tasmania 🌿 Primary focus on Indigenous archaeology (but I love everything!) Bass player | Printmaker | Jazz | Ethnomusicology | Climate justice | Ancient history |

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Libraries feel like something about which we could very easily be saying, “Remember that place where you could borrow books, for FREE, and return them when you were finished?” And kids would say “What?? No way!” And yet there they still are, despite everything we’ve become, existing. Remarkable.

22.11.2024 12:16 — 👍 5830    🔁 600    💬 148    📌 34

This is so beautiful - you’ve got the light and shadows just right!

22.11.2024 22:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's a Genesee point from the transitional archaic (c. 2700-4900BP) made of Onandaga chert from New York. Big, beautiful Laurentian tradition blades.

This is one of my favorites, as far as these paintings go.
🧪🏺🐡

22.11.2024 20:01 — 👍 105    🔁 12    💬 7    📌 0
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They'll hire any ol ingot for the job, the lower the quality the better

17.11.2024 00:03 — 👍 69    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 1
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Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago Paleoecological records show that Aboriginal people burned wet forest to first settle in Tasmania 41,600 years ago.

Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests.

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

17.11.2024 02:04 — 👍 303    🔁 95    💬 2    📌 1

Wow, that is simply fantastic!

18.11.2024 23:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
British Museum image of decorated mead-horn, 15th C. Description: Drinking horn, mounted in copper gilt. The expanding mouth bears an inscription with leaves between the words. A band engraved with foliage passes round the middle of the horn, and from it proceed two bird's claws forming the feet of the vessel, the third being a quatrefoil-shaped projection. The end of the mount is curved inwards and terminates in a hexagonal rosette.

British Museum image of decorated mead-horn, 15th C. Description: Drinking horn, mounted in copper gilt. The expanding mouth bears an inscription with leaves between the words. A band engraved with foliage passes round the middle of the horn, and from it proceed two bird's claws forming the feet of the vessel, the third being a quatrefoil-shaped projection. The end of the mount is curved inwards and terminates in a hexagonal rosette.

Just thought you should know.

Norse and Danish mead-horns sometimes had feet.

18.11.2024 20:39 — 👍 465    🔁 110    💬 26    📌 31
A black greyhound lies in a pool of sunlight beside a door, one ear flopped over his head. He has a very long snout and big brown eyes. He suspiciously resembles a non-Newtonian fluid…

A black greyhound lies in a pool of sunlight beside a door, one ear flopped over his head. He has a very long snout and big brown eyes. He suspiciously resembles a non-Newtonian fluid…

Gilgamesh, our rescue greyhound: generally resembles a large puddle of fur.

15.11.2024 03:51 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

12.11.2024 17:45 — 👍 1266    🔁 491    💬 125    📌 78

Once again: DST doesn’t solve the problem of going to/from work in the dark.

Instead, when days get shorter in the fall, we should just shorten the workday by an hour.

Then in spring, when we start getting more daylight again, we can shorten the workday by another hour.

03.11.2024 12:50 — 👍 4289    🔁 1209    💬 51    📌 41

I was going to do a starter pack of comforting accounts in these grim times, but then I decided to do a thread instead. These are likely a fair bit idiosyncratic, but, lads, it's my account on a free social media platform.

03.11.2024 16:28 — 👍 154    🔁 48    💬 9    📌 7

Lovely to meet you too, thank you for this great starter pack! Appreciate the community-building 😄

01.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d be interested in being in the next iteration! I’m an archaeologist who loves printmaking (& currently on mat leave!)

01.11.2024 21:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Dan!

08.08.2024 08:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A computer on a desk displaying a photograph of an aurochs from Lascaux Caves, with a paper and pencil sketch of the same beneath.

A computer on a desk displaying a photograph of an aurochs from Lascaux Caves, with a paper and pencil sketch of the same beneath.

A piece of lino with an aurochs drawn onto it, and a lino-cutting tool sitting above it.

A piece of lino with an aurochs drawn onto it, and a lino-cutting tool sitting above it.

Current work in progress - a lino print version of one of the Lascaux cave paintings. I think this is ultimately destined to grace one of my shirts 🌿

28.09.2023 22:36 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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