EU politicians should follow SA's example and stop brownnosing Trump.
โI do think the Afrikaner policy is racist,โ Ramaphosa told the Times. โIt is that racist sort of demeanor that we want to be able to whittle down so that he can see the truth of the situation.โ
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"It was an honour to see expert collectors taking these coins into their care,"
Really?? REALLY? and there was me thinking you just enjoyed making a fast buck, with at least two of the most important coins now off to the USA...
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure ๐บ
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New #jobs at @uni-kiel.de within the @clusterroots.bsky.social advertised: one doctoral & two postdoctoral positions. The postdoc positions are for any projects relating to archaeological science and are explicitely looking for for applicants from Africa and Asia: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Hereโs the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Where do I start?! 1/4
๐งช๐บ Seen a few cases of gen- #AI art creeping into #archaeology & #HumanOrigins publications recently, this is not a trend we should engage in or simply accept...
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/defaul...
Archaeologists seek better pay after many โbled out of the professionโ due to low wages
Airport bookshop at Johannesburg: perceptive categorisation
If you are in KZN, you can attend the talk here:
Tomorrow afternoon I will present the results of our work on Middle and Later Stone Age archaeology at Umhlatuzana ๐บ I promise an AI-free ppt!
You can watch it live online here: www.youtube.com/live/Zo-mLI9... (Provided the spare tyre I just put on the car holds for about 370 km)
I liked this paper, exploring what we can say about non-yet-proficient-knappers.
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Congratulations! Great work!
Proud that after five years of careful analysis and discussion our paper "Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion" has now been published.
The Association of Archaeologists in Greece, representing all the archaeologists with permanent contracts in the state sector, is withdrawing its participation in the organizing of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social conference in Athens..Open letter, in English, below.
archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...
I am trying to adapt by giving more pass/fail assignments: any serious try is a pass. No need for perfection, no need to pull an all-nighter just to get an incrementally higher grade for an assignment etc.
I am really hoping this helps relieve the pressure a bit.
And sometimes back again. There is much greater flexibility in tech organisation than we expected.
The main driver of the work is Viola Schmid @heasvienna.bsky.social, also many thanks to Irini Sifogeorgaki, Tullio Abruzzese, @sofieblik.bsky.social and Lijia Huang.
@leidenarchaeo.bsky.social
Instead, we show that tool changes went hand in hand with shifts in how people organised land use provisioned themselves.
We also find that the initial transition wasnโt linear: Middle Stone Ageโlike elements briefly reappear after the shift.
In South Africa, it is Homo sapiens all the way down. So what drives the change? The start of the Later Stone Age used to be seen as the final development of modern human behaviour, we now know better.
Homo sapiens already developed sophisticated societies and technology in the Middle Stone Age.
The change in technology is so great, archaeologists use it to mark the start of a new era. The Middle Stone Age gives way to the Later Stone Age.
In Europe, similar changes are associated with the disappearance of Neanderthals and the arrival of modern humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago, South African societies radically reorganised their stone tool technology.
Does this reflect cognitive evolution, or something else? Our analysis at Umhlatuzana suggests the latter.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With the extension of the EAA 2026 deadline, it may be good to reiterate the need for a boycott of the event until the EAA executive steps down.
Figure summarizing the Table 2 of the article: Overview of the four relatively adequate world hypotheses and their onto-epistemological commitments and imports as well as their broader implications for archaeological typo-praxis.
1/3 New recommendation: Shumon T. Hussain (2025). The Loss of Typological Innocence: Pluralism in the Epistemology and Ontology of Archaeological Typo-Praxis. v3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @shumon.bsky.social ๐งช๐บ
Het feit dat een gekwalificeerd land af zou zeggen is hoe dan ook een belangrijk signaal, ook al haalt Trump/Infantino gewoon iemand anders.
(Ik heb dan weer weinig fiducie in de "moral fibre" van KNVB en de voetballers).
Ook al is dat het geval. Maakt dat wat uit?
Op het WK cricket in India/Sri Lanka wordt Bangladesh vervangen door Schotland omdat Bangladesh niet in India wil spelen. Dat devalueert sowieso het toernooi.
(Interessant genoeg krijgt Pakistan wel de garantie dat al hun wedstrijden in Sri Lanka zijn).
๐๏ธ Handmotieven in een grot op Sulawesi mogelijk de oudste grotkunst ooit gevonden ๐
De datering is 'absoluut spectaculair', vertelt @dussel.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social) in @trouw.nl, maar wie de kunst maakte blijft zeer onzeker.
@dearcheoloog.bsky.social @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social
I assume for most people doing tests the purpose is more spiritual, and provides ideas about ancestry (which in these commercial tests may not be very representative)
@avrotros.bsky.social asked me what the use of commercial DNA testing for Neanderthal ancestry is? Does it tell you anything about the state of your health?
Functionally, knowing your percentage seems meaningless.
radar.avrotros.nl/artikel/test...
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