Zane Blunt

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This week's schedule!

Indiana Jones is my game of the year and it's not even close!

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I can’t believe Bethesda chose me to play the early access release of the new Indiana Jones game!

Indiana Jones is inspired me to become an archaeologist as a kid so this feels kind of surreal 😭

#indianajones #archaeology

Idk but the people designing the packaging at Apple are killing it.

Nooo that’s today and I’m only just finding out 😭

Full disclaimer: I’m not like a regular academic archaeologist. I swear, tell bad jokes, and generally act like a dumbass.

There’s too much ‘boring academia’ in science communication which has helped conspiracy creators gain more interest. I try to have fun and trick people into enjoying learning!

In between fieldwork I’m also a content creator and I have separate channels for archaeology content and gaming content. I also stream on Twitch pretty much every day, and take care of the cutest little girl ever.

You can check it out here: linktr.ee/liminalitytv

Unfortunately most of the research I have done is locked in grey literature. However, some of it was recently published in a monograph! You can check it out here: uwa.academia.edu/ZaneBlunt

I recently identified some extremely old hafting usewear, hopefully this will be punished soon!

This year I was lucky enough to go back to Murujuga, where I did my dissertation, and work as a consultant. There are over a million rock art panels here and the landscape is like nowhere else on Earth.

I recently spent time analysing glass artefacts on Rottnest Island made by Aboriginal prisoners in the early 20th century, including experimental work to document real vs natural breakage.

After a while I began working in the SW with Dr. Joe Dortch, where I remain today. We recently excavated the oldest sit in Perth (42kbp), and I have personally located over ~50 sites in the last 12 months.

After graduating I spent a lot of time in the Pilbara learning from two of WA’s best lithic analysts, Dr. Wendy Reynen and Dr. Kane Ditchfield. We excavated more than 20 rockshelters. Here’s me standing in an ice age trench! The oldest went back way further, but not published…yet…🤞

The year before I did my first dig at Kempton, Tasmania, where we excavated part of an old jail. Another part of the project found a whale bone staff!

As mentioned, my dissertation identified significant changes in the types of plants being processed by Aboriginal people at Murujuga between 12-6kya as sea level rise transformed the arid plains into an archipelago. I did this with usewear/residue analysis.

Read more here: shorturl.at/zc2KI

👋🏻 I’m Zane. Thanks for following!

I’m an Australian archaeologist with a dissertation that looked at responses to sea level rise 6kya in Australia’s NW through usewear/residues on stone artefacts.

Here’s some of the things I’ve worked on over the years 🧵👇🏻