Killackey Illustration

It looks like a sandhill but is supposed to be a common crane (Grus grus).

*crane, not stork.

Screenshot of part of the credit page for the most recent volume of Turkish Journal of Archaeological Sciences. I have circled in red the text “Kayak Fotoğrafı/ Cover Photo: Güneş Duru. Yapay zeka üretimi görsel/ AI-generated image”.

I had my suspicions from the modern construction elements and clothing on the villagers, as well as the inaccurate stork. The credits confirmed it, very disappointing. (I am excited by the bird article though!).

The cover is AI generated.

A black & white line drawing/engraving of a pig headed trumpet raised above a spear carrying army.

For #FindsFriday this gorgeous depiction of the Deskford carnyx by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s Scotland Before History, 1958.
Found c.1816 Near Deskford, just south of the Moray coast, it dates to the later 1stC AD, deposited in a bog c.2/3rdC. Now in the National Museum of Scotland.
#CarnyxCrazy

This sounds wonderful!

Giant snake on an info panel about to eat a screaming child

The Museum of Scotland using small children in size comparison info panels is absolutely sending me.

Slide that demonstrates that mental models suffer when an archaeologist just uses photogrammetry. The slide text says: Model of mental model creation during photogrammetry Relatively little interaction with complex mental processes that are key to interpretation in archaeology

Teaching Fieldwork & Digital Recording in our special topics module today. I'm still forever salty that one of the reviewers made us take this figure demonstrating the failings of photogrammetry for the creation of mental models out of our Aide Memoire paper. 🏺

Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.

Thoughtful writing on the often unrecognized work (both good and bad) of images in science communication.

A sequel to “Blueberries for Sal”, this time featuring a wolf pup/ human child swap.

The Bayeux Tapestry up in lights at Piccadilly Circus! Tickets on sale from 1 July for the exhibition at the British Museum, opening in September. First chance in 1,000 years to see this iconic object back on British soil.

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

"Between 1856 and 1859 a young girl named Emily Mary Madden filled a small sketchbook with drawings of her family's cat, Mouton. Emily was born in 1848 which means she was about 8-11 when she made these illustrations"

I love you, Emily. You're a wonderful artist. We draw our cats in the future too.

I am not a content creator, I am a wrangler of weird, a weaver of yarns, a bard of strange utterings and whisperer of phantoms.
😉

I was more excited by Affinity’s previous incarnation, 3 apps that subbed for PS, Illustrator, and InDesign for a one time purchase. They have been bought by Canva, condensed into one app, and are offered free. I worry there will be unfortunate changes eventually but works for now.

🐡 Currently Procreate and Affinity.

Only referring to LLMs as “Michael Crichton Machine[s]” from now on.

It’s probably been that long since I’ve read it too but I remember it being silly fun.

Perfect analogy. “Timeline” opened my eyes to this phenomenon (I’ve got a background in archaeology).

And the picture!!! If you ever needed a great example of how AI lazily reproduces sexual stereotypes (and other stereotypes) then this is IT!!! FFS

I need reference of a maple tree and I found a fifteen year old website that looks like it was made on Angelfire of a man who has lovingly collected photos of his favorite maple trees. I say it all time but honestly god bless the world's nerds.

Mobile artifacts with geometric signs of the Swabian Aurignacian. (A) Plaquette with hybrid creature (so-called “Adorant”), ivory, Geissenklösterle (gkl0025), © Landesmuseum Württemberg, Hendrik Zweitasch. (B) Mammoth figurine, ivory, Vogelherd (vhc0145), © University of Tübingen, Juraj Lipták. (C) Rod/bâton, ivory, Vogelherd (vhc0001), © University of Tübingen, Ewa Dutkiewicz. (D) Personal ornament, ivory, Geissenklösterle (gkl0006), © University of Tübingen, Ewa Dutkiewicz. (E) Spatula/lissoir, bone, Vogelherd (vhc0017), © University of Tübingen, Ewa Dutkiewicz. (F) Spatula/lissoir, bone, Vogelherd (vhc0162), © University of Tübingen, Juraj Lipták. (G) Undetermined, bone, Hohle Fels (hfc0006), © University of Tübingen, Ewa Dutkiewicz. Drawings by Ewa Dutkiewicz. Copyright: CC-BY-SA 4.0. For further details on sign coding and preprocessing see Materials and Methods.

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Suggests the first hunter-gatherers arriving in Europe already developed a system of intentional and conventional signs on mobile artifacts.

A small crop of a work-in-progress digital painting. The crop shows a puppy, maybe a wolf, maybe a dog, standing and facing the viewer. Their head is lowered to the ground, sniffing a dirt surface. They are a mix of light and dark browns with some cream on their legs and nose.

Current WIP. Wolf pup or dog pup? Stay tuned…
#SciArt #Archaeology

The background painting! The textiles, the reflected light on metal…all swoon worthy.

Wowza

Edward Gorey in the streets of NYC wearing a luxurious fur coat. It’s a b&w photo

My favorite image of Edward Gorey, an underrated fashion plate

The ghosts of Past, Present, and Future Hockey. Heed their warnings.

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Lots of zine recommendations by @artefactual.bsky.social to check out in this thread!