Adam Markham

Saving Hawaii’s History From the Ashes, One Object at a Time

#climateheritage #Hawaii 🏺

A kitchen garden being cleared up in the Spring. There are brown empt beds inside a white picket fence. Forsythia is in bud behind the fence. Various plant pots and garden tools are around and some beds have been dug a bit. March 2025.

A garden with flowers and vegetables. August 2025.

How it started & how it's going.

Finally getting some butterflies in the garden. Eastern tiger swallowtail. Maybe less this year because of the crazy cold then hot weather?

A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds

Decolonizing museums is complicated but progress is being made, as at @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social.

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The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.

📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

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Part of a fresco painted on a stone and plastered slab used as part of a grave, prepared and painted insitu below ground. At the bottom a deep border in faded red, and at the top three lines - thick, thin, thick - in deep red, serve as an upper border. The scene between, on a white background, shows a large gold coloured stag leaping away from a naked hunter with a light red shield and gold boots. He has long dark hair pulled to the nape of his neck. Some sort of red strapping fits around his neck and below waist, perhaps holding eg arrows/supporting the shield. A grey dog in front of the hunter is nipping at the rear of the deer. Two other deer, a stag and a doe are in the background, among a forest of stylised trees or shrubs.

#FrescoFriday 🏺
Such a delicate and animated deer hunt, painted in situ below ground on plastered stone slab of Lucanian tomb 370-360 BC.

One of the remarkable frescos from Andriuolo Necropolis north of Magna Graecia city of Poseidonia, later Roman Paestum.
In Paestum museum.

#archaeobirds

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

Good news for gannets!
🪶 #ornithology #WorldHeritage

French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September

Eight years after French president Emmanuel Macron pledged to return African heritage to the continent, his government has adopted a bill facilitating the deaccession of cultural items plundered from former colonies.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/30/f...

Severe turbulence forces Delta plane to make emergency landing after 25 passengers injured Salt Lake City-to-Amsterdam flight landed in Minneapolis and injured passengers were taken to the hospital

Here's a little something to look forward to courtesy of fossil fuels & climate change.

"We can expect a doubling or tripling in the amount of severe turbulence around the world in the next few decades,” says @profpaul.bsky.social.
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Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🇹🇷 VIDEO: Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change

The glaciers of Mount Cilo are the second largest in Turkey. But as global temperatures rise amid human-caused climate change, new sections of the mountains that were once capped in ice are melting fast year after year.

Increased drought drives avian community declines in the warm deserts of the United States The frequencies, intensities, and durations of extreme weather are increasing under climate change, furthering biodiversity loss. In the Southwestern …

New research from our lab documents important drought impacts on desert bird communities in the SW United States 🌎🐦

25 years of bird data across the Mojave & Sonoran deserts, show drought drives clear declines in bird abundance & species richness.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Depends where you are and whether urban or rural, etc.

Small carrots...

What have you got? We have mainly cukes, green beans, lettuce, peppers & carrots at the moment. Lots of basil too. Some tomatoes but it's hot as Hades so few are setting. Blackberries also coming in now.

A beauty indeed!

No more than 20 of 108 bird bones were chicken. Birds were very low at 0.3% of the faunal assemblage.
More details on the birds in this earlier paper:

French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects – The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September

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Figure 2 from the paper - The Introduction of Chickens Into Norway and Their Early Use: New Evidence From the Borgund Kaupang - caption as published: Spatial and temporal distribution of Gallus gallus domesticus bones recovered from Borgund. The distribution within grid squares is placed at random. Areas of the site: (1) Northern Site, (2) Southern site, (3) Katavågen, (4) Klokkersundet. Dates: EM = Early Medieval, HM = High Medieval, LM = Late Medieval, ND = Not dated, V = Viking Age. Basemap BKP, data G. Hansen.

Chickens were late to Norway, seemingly not established until the late Viking Age. Non-meat uses might have included guarding, fighting, social expression. Very nice paper by Sam Walker, Hanneke Meijer, Julia Best & Gitte Hansen.
🏺 #archaeobirds #archaeology
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Last call to submit an abstract for this exciting session at AGU 2025 on climate attribution science and its applications to real-world issues like climate litigation or loss and damage!

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Sprinkling Tarn : just about not raining

A close up of the rain gauge enclosure

Me in hiking gear just outside the enclosure (which is one of the Environment Agency ones according to the sign on the gate

@metoffice.gov.uk A pilgrimage to the wettest place in England today: Sprinkling Tarn and the nearby rain gauge at Seathwaite Farm, which took a bit of tracking down

"If greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, scientists predict that Joshua trees may lose up to 80% of their current habitat by century’s end."
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Government must work with communities to achieve net zero, says new report A new British Academy report says the government must work harder to understand the needs of people across the UK to hit its Net Zero targets, while also navigating strained public finances, rising in...

The British Academy says embedding the needs of people and addressing inequalities between communities is key to sustaining public support. Collaborative leadership will also be needed to achieve net zero in every city, town and neighbourhood in the country.