Fabiola Sánchez

Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training

With all the news coming in, it's clear that it's a dire time for science. It's a very dire time for higher education. It's an especially dire time for archaeology

Archaeology has been facing funding cuts for years, and now it is being decimated

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Tinshemet Cave and modern-Neandertal cultural interactions New work at a site of similar age to Skhūl and Qafzeh suggests cultural sharing among groups of different biological ancestry.

Recent work on Tinshemet Cave suggests that modern humans and Neandertals shared much of their material cultures across the key time period before modern people dispersed throughout the world. For me, cultural and biological identities of these hominins blend together.
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I Was Born To Work Retail #17 (1/3)

On 'academic freedom' in a time of genocide 'Freedom for whom?'

Grateful to @azadessa.bsky.social for publishing my comments on how there’s no such thing as academic freedom in this time of genocide

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Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Exploring Neolithic resilience and mobility in the Omani interior at Al-Khashbah KHS-A

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A look at the Sima del Elefante face When the global timeline passed one million years ago, more than half the span of hominin presence in Eurasia had already passed by. The earliest archaeological evidence in Eurasia is more than two mi...

Great to see this new fossil hominin from Sima del Elefante! This adds a bit more understanding to the earliest occupation of Europe more than 1 million years ago, with a population not very much like the Homo antecessor sample or later European groups.

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Canadians are so thoughtful and polite :)

Landscape Archaeology of the Chuchuwayha Sacred Site (British Colombia, Canada) New research is being conducted at the Chuchuwayha sacred site (British Columbia, Canada) at the request of the Upper Similkameen Indian Band, who want to pass on the site's history to future generat....

incredible new paper documenting 5500 years of human occupation and rock art along a Syilx trail in Upper Similkameen territory (interior British Columbia) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An Illustration by Pierre Brignaud of the Titanic sinking at night, surrounded by half submerged people in foreground, capturing the scene on their cellphones. The illustration won third place out of 200 submissions to the visual arts contest for the Montreal-based Just for Laughs comedy festival.

"If the Titanic Sunk Today" by illustrator Pierre Brignaud.
h/t @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social

Salish Sea herring population focus of upcoming Vancouver Island forum HELIT TTE SLON,ET (Let the Herring Live) forum to discuss restoration and stewardship

big Pacific herring forum tomorrow hosted by W̱SÁNEĆ leadership council www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/salish-...

The Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps, correctly identified as The Gulf of Mexico and absolutely nothing else

My VPN works

‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.

Breaking News: Scientists confirmed the detection of the most energetic neutrino recorded on Earth, offering a peek into the universe at its most extreme. It's the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered.

Untwisting Beycesultan Höyük: the earliest evidence for nålbinding and indigo-dyed textiles in Anatolia | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Untwisting Beycesultan Höyük: the earliest evidence for nålbinding and indigo-dyed textiles in Anatolia

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finally-satellites can monitor & map global carbon dioxide emissions - here massive amounts detected at one of the world's largest LNG plants on an island off northwestern Australia, also home to a 50,000 year old archaeological site, one of oldest on this continent

the words used can be perceived as threatening to others

Here's a fuller version of that Bertrand Russell quote that's been going around:

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity..."

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I have a book coming out soon, a printed version of the lecture I gave at the University of Alberta last year. It is called Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour, it's about art and class. It's out on Feb 4, and here is an excerpt at Quill and Quire. quillandquire.com/omni/excerpt...

Entirely predictable. US citizens will be targeted for their appearance and language use. We need to publicize every single instance.

'Unique' history found under floorboards of former women's asylum An unusual spot within this historic Sydney site has a treasure trove of archaeological evidence, which provides insight into the women who were once institutionalised there.

📰 Archaeological research at a 19th century AD women's immigration depot and asylum in Sydney 🇦🇺 sheds light on what life was like for women in colonial Australia.

#AntiquityResearch in the news via ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/women-diets-life-at-hyde-park-barracks-asylum-19th…

Pakal with his hiking pack 🐾

Cover of This Beautiful, Ridiculous City. A debut graphic memoir by Kay Sohini.

Still cannot fully believe that I got to write and draw this book. Or that it will be out in the world in 3.5 months now.

Dederiyeh Cave, Syria, has abundant evidence of Natufian hunter-gatherers who used the cave around 14,000 years ago. Beneath these, Mousterian layers document the activity of Neandertals, who buried two of their infant children, more than 50,000 years ago.

Photo: Takeru Akazawa

I received a copy of this some time ago, and I deeply regret I never found the time to write about it at length as I'd hoped to amidst all the chaos of recent months...

A fascinating, complex, and ambitious book that's very much worth your time. 🤍

We’re reading this article for the seminar 🙂

Some panels from a comic on climate change dealing with fires

Some panels from a comic on climate change dealing with fires

Some panels from a comic on climate change dealing with fires

Watching news of the LA fires & wanting to share my 2015 comic for Nature on climate change. As dire as it seemed then it still seemed like something that could be pushed off into the future. As it’s more regularly on our doorstep clear we need far more drastic action
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Really exciting to see Antiquity research as one of the BBC's scientific wins of 2024! Check out the article 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...