Adam Markham
@adammarkham.bsky.social
Climate change, natural & cultural heritage, zooarchaeology & human-bird history. Part-time UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. #climateheritage #archaeobirds @preservinglegacies @ICOMOS. ArsenalFC.
www.climateheritageadvisors.com
www.climateheritageadvisors.com
There's something about a spoonbill...
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
There's something about a spoonbill...
Mockingbirds confuse my Merlin app. In two minutes it mis-identifed one just now as a wood duck, brown thrasher, kestrel and killdeer!
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Mockingbirds confuse my Merlin app. In two minutes it mis-identifed one just now as a wood duck, brown thrasher, kestrel and killdeer!
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Great post & images.
Certainly reminds you to look up & look down. In this case, look everywhere!
Certainly reminds you to look up & look down. In this case, look everywhere!
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Great post & images.
Certainly reminds you to look up & look down. In this case, look everywhere!
Certainly reminds you to look up & look down. In this case, look everywhere!
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Archaeologists reveal second-largest Roman olive oil mill in the Roman Empire.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Archaeologists reveal second-largest Roman olive oil mill in the Roman Empire
Ca' Foscari University of Venice is co-directing a major international archaeological mission in the Kasserine region of Tunisia. The excavations, focused on the area of ancient Roman Cillium, on the ...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Archaeologists reveal second-largest Roman olive oil mill in the Roman Empire.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
1835 Florida map showing the Everglades untouched & undeveloped.
Fernandina Historic Museum.
Fernandina Historic Museum.
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
1835 Florida map showing the Everglades untouched & undeveloped.
Fernandina Historic Museum.
Fernandina Historic Museum.
Industrial birding.
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Industrial birding.
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lots of amazing bird & nature art by @JamesRMcCallum1 today - exhibition also on next w/e. Great Walsingham, Norfolk. Plus a lot of winter woodcock and thrushes here now. @adammarkham.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
lots of amazing bird & nature art by @JamesRMcCallum1 today - exhibition also on next w/e. Great Walsingham, Norfolk. Plus a lot of winter woodcock and thrushes here now. @adammarkham.bsky.social
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“The treaties of the 1840s shared a common foundation. They were instruments of imperial domination, signed under pressure. The Treaty of Waitangi belongs in that company — yet where others withered, it lived on.” — Shane Te Pou.
The other treaties of 1840 | E-Tangata
“The treaties of the 1840s shared a common foundation. They were instruments of imperial domination, signed under pressure. The Treaty of Waitangi belongs in that company — yet where others withered, ...
e-tangata.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“The treaties of the 1840s shared a common foundation. They were instruments of imperial domination, signed under pressure. The Treaty of Waitangi belongs in that company — yet where others withered, it lived on.” — Shane Te Pou.
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Details of my annual exhibition www.jamesmccallum.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Details of my annual exhibition www.jamesmccallum.co.uk
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Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News
A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But th...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
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This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.
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Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
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I guess the true upper limit for RNA preservation isn’t known since we’ve only been doing it for ~15 years? Really cool tho Ancient RNA has a nice ring to it.
🧪🖥️🧬 #EvoSky #Genomics
www.sciencealert.com/yuka-the-woo...
🧪🖥️🧬 #EvoSky #Genomics
www.sciencealert.com/yuka-the-woo...
Yuka The Woolly Mammoth Just Gave Us The Oldest RNA Ever Sequenced
A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later.
www.sciencealert.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I guess the true upper limit for RNA preservation isn’t known since we’ve only been doing it for ~15 years? Really cool tho Ancient RNA has a nice ring to it.
🧪🖥️🧬 #EvoSky #Genomics
www.sciencealert.com/yuka-the-woo...
🧪🖥️🧬 #EvoSky #Genomics
www.sciencealert.com/yuka-the-woo...
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OUT NOW! 📚
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.
Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology (2025) - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
The Society is delighted to announce the publication of a new edited volume in honour of Dr Anna Ritchie.
www.ssns.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
OUT NOW! 📚
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.
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We are 2 for 2 with echinoderms for #fossilfriday!
Here is an absolutely beautiful regular sea urchin known as Desoricidaris pouyannei. This specimen comes from the Lower Cretaceous (Cenomanian) rocks of Taouz, Morocco. The preservation of the test (body) is absolutely stunning even after 100 mya!
Here is an absolutely beautiful regular sea urchin known as Desoricidaris pouyannei. This specimen comes from the Lower Cretaceous (Cenomanian) rocks of Taouz, Morocco. The preservation of the test (body) is absolutely stunning even after 100 mya!
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We are 2 for 2 with echinoderms for #fossilfriday!
Here is an absolutely beautiful regular sea urchin known as Desoricidaris pouyannei. This specimen comes from the Lower Cretaceous (Cenomanian) rocks of Taouz, Morocco. The preservation of the test (body) is absolutely stunning even after 100 mya!
Here is an absolutely beautiful regular sea urchin known as Desoricidaris pouyannei. This specimen comes from the Lower Cretaceous (Cenomanian) rocks of Taouz, Morocco. The preservation of the test (body) is absolutely stunning even after 100 mya!
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Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty
Quantitative analysis of canid skulls points to an earlier origin of dog diversity
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Another thing that's happened overnight is we've become fully aware of the number of fossil fuel lobbyists at these talks.
More than 1600 - 1 in every 25 participants, the highest concentration on record.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 1600 - 1 in every 25 participants, the highest concentration on record.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Another thing that's happened overnight is we've become fully aware of the number of fossil fuel lobbyists at these talks.
More than 1600 - 1 in every 25 participants, the highest concentration on record.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 1600 - 1 in every 25 participants, the highest concentration on record.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology.
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
How climate change is threatening Indigenous Yup’ik heritage « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog
On 12 October, 2025, Typhoon Halong reached the shores of Southwestern Alaska, with devastating consequences for many of the Indigenous communities living here. Whole villages were destroyed and…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology.
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
"...one of 1,700 “remnant” grasslands identified in Virginia over the past few years. Using carbon dating & other forensic techniques, scientists have found that plant communities in similar plots have existed continuously for at least 2,000 years..." 🌎 🌐 🌱
These ancient time travelers have answers to our 21st century problems
Newly discovered patches of ancient landscape have somehow managed to survive without being turned into a farm, forest or subdivision.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"...one of 1,700 “remnant” grasslands identified in Virginia over the past few years. Using carbon dating & other forensic techniques, scientists have found that plant communities in similar plots have existed continuously for at least 2,000 years..." 🌎 🌐 🌱
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Big news! 📢 MAHSA team members have just published their research on South Asian social media and heritage in the collection, Reporting Heritage Destruction.
doi.org/10.32028/978...
doi.org/10.32028/978...
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Big news! 📢 MAHSA team members have just published their research on South Asian social media and heritage in the collection, Reporting Heritage Destruction.
doi.org/10.32028/978...
doi.org/10.32028/978...
Arsenal 2 - Serbia 0
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Arsenal 2 - Serbia 0
Tomorrow in Kirkwall! Including the official launch of Prof. Jane Downes & Colin Richards' book on Bronze Age burials. Looks like fun & bones. Happy birthday @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social ! 🎂
@thinkuhi.bsky.social 🏺
@thinkuhi.bsky.social 🏺
All welcome to our tenth anniversary celebrations this Friday - Archaeology Orkney
We’re celebrating the tenth anniversary of the UHI Archaeology Institute in November and would be delighted if you could come along and join us.
archaeologyorkney.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Tomorrow in Kirkwall! Including the official launch of Prof. Jane Downes & Colin Richards' book on Bronze Age burials. Looks like fun & bones. Happy birthday @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social ! 🎂
@thinkuhi.bsky.social 🏺
@thinkuhi.bsky.social 🏺
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Great article by @jonhenley.bsky.social and Alessandro Gandolfi. A clear look at how the Netherlands is not only defending against rising seas, but also learning to live with the water — from floating homes to adaptive design.
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Living with the water: the Netherlands’ floating futures – photo essay
Photographer Alessandro Gandolfi’s latest project looks at how sustainable floating neighbourhoods offer a way forward as the sea rises
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Great article by @jonhenley.bsky.social and Alessandro Gandolfi. A clear look at how the Netherlands is not only defending against rising seas, but also learning to live with the water — from floating homes to adaptive design.
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#climatechange #adaptation
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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🧭⚙️Climate attribution science plays a central role in climate litigation and policy-making. The science is central to legal debates on the causal links between human activities, global climate change, and impacts on human and natural systems.📚🌡️🌪️
🔗Climate Attribution Database:
🔗Climate Attribution Database:
Home - Climate Attribution
Climate attribution science plays a central role in climate litigation and policy-making. The science is central to legal debates on the causal links between human activities, global climate change,…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🧭⚙️Climate attribution science plays a central role in climate litigation and policy-making. The science is central to legal debates on the causal links between human activities, global climate change, and impacts on human and natural systems.📚🌡️🌪️
🔗Climate Attribution Database:
🔗Climate Attribution Database:
Not the passenger pigeon at the dawn of the 20thC, but now, in 2025.
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢
New blog post.
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Not the passenger pigeon at the dawn of the 20thC, but now, in 2025.
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢