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Iain Davidson AU

@archaeoiain.bsky.social

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Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578 .. more

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · Oct 21

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Art or Scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication

This book descibes the origin and evolution of art and that art consists of relationships between people. It challenges the standard definitions of art

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 9h

"Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians" by Matt Saunders #ThePoint
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Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians

Ed Husic’s ‘breaking ranks with Labor’ speech in parliament yesterday which claimed gas exporters are profiteering from Australians and driving up domestic energy prices, is right on the money and wel...

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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 11h

Albo's unending cruelty - stuck on Nauru since 2013.
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Thirteen Seconds vs. Thirteen Years: A Reflection on Compassion and Injustice

By Ali Mahmoodi Gharaei Recently, a video went viral on social media showing a young American tourist in Australia picking up a baby wombat from the side of the road and holding it briefly in front [....

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 12h

Just follow up that story about prostate cancer. Just listed my urologist, Dr Peter Chong, in Lake Macquarie. Delighted to say that a year after the operation my PSA is negligible. Cancer free. Every malle over 60 should have regular tests. Thanks Dr Chong

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 13h

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

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CNN @cnn.com · 14h

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 14h

The Knight of the Dismal Countenance

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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 17h

Well, if you’re going to be delayed you might as well be delayed in Prosser and Peachey’s magnificent 1877 train shed

#York

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is. And we know what causes it, too."

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Mitchie's [email protected] @marianherra.bsky.social · 17h

We need a new, strong Senate Minority Leader. My choice👇

a woman is sitting at a podium giving a speech and saying do your job .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a podium giving a speech and saying do your job .

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 21h

The middle-aged man had craniosynostosis -- premature fusion of three skull sutures -- which was typically fatal in childhood in the Medieval period. 🏺🧪

'I had never seen a skull like this before': Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic condition, study finds

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

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❤️Kai in Kanada🇨🇦 @kleinekin.bsky.social · 1d

This is not just a current political issue. Charging & punishing these particular perpetrators is vital to keeping the fight against the ongoing abuse & killing of women & children by men in the spotlight. "Me Too" was only a start.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 1d

For #MosaicMonday we are on the #Lateran estate of the #domusAnniorum in #Rome. The enterprising noblewoman Domitia Lucilla, mother of #MarcusAurelius, built a #fullonica or washhouse on the edge of the property, and had it paved with this huge black and white geometric #mosaic. #AncientBluesky 🏺

GEOMETRIC MOSAIC, C. 140-150 CE. EXCAVATIONS UNDER THE OSPEDALE DI S. GIOVANNI

Domitia Lucilla, as a widow, took a keen interest in the economic life of her estate, making it not just comfortable but profitable. Far from the gardens and the residential buildings, she ordered the construction of a moderately-sized, but not small, fullonica or washhouse. This took advantage of the large amounts of aqueduct water available in the area for rinsing, but the whole process involved vast amounts of urine collected from the public latrines, in order to break down the cloth fibres to full it, that is, to make it hold together better. It was stinky work and slaves had to spend their days treading the dirt (ammonia in urine is also a cleaning agent) out of white clothes, up to their knees in pee. When they stepped out, at least they had this lovely mosaic of black half-circles and white incurved hexagons to walk on.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Shell Mosaic’ from Verulamium - the third largest town in Roman Britain which is situated close to modern St. Albans. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations of the site and dates to around 150 AD. The mosaic is on display at Verulamium Museum. #MosaicMonday

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

We have insomnia too.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 2d

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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Classy&SmartAssy @classyandsmartassy.bsky.social · 2d

Abso-freaking-lutely!!

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 2d

If that's not an impeachable offense, then what the hell is?

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

I thought this when we visited the collection. Why on earth is a thing like this in Boston? Looks like straightforward theft by someone. So did much of the rest of the collection. Ironic, then that is best known for the theft of the best pieces FROM the collection.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

It occurred to me that if a Test match goes for only 2 days, the public might have a right to demand a 3 day match to follow. That would allow recovery of some money. So we could end up with a 10-Test match series.

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Greg Tuck @tuckyswans.bsky.social · 3d

That sounds like baseball which is similar to Bazball and Travball. They have nine innings each and players go out regularly trying to do big hits so they don't have to run much.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

Love it

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🌻🐝💛N𝔦cøℓe ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ 💛🐝🌻 @nicoleyc17.bsky.social · 3d

🌻agree 💯 with you-for all his talk about his working class background & constantly flashing his Medicare card, @albomp.bsky.social has totally lost the hope so many of us placed in him & his govt to do better than that🤬Morrison & co but he’s thrown it all away.I certainly won’t forget next election😊

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terry1956.bsky.social @terry1956.bsky.social · 3d

When test matches finish in 2 days then they should be forced to play one dayers on the remaining days, they robbed us of three days of cricket 🤬

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

Those two days of cricket on Friday and Saturday were so good. I reckon someone should invent a format that goes for something like 4 or 5 days. That’d be ace. #Ashes

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

What is it about the animal insults that dog him? Cats, Pigs?

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MatildaOzturk @matildaozturk.bsky.social · 3d

I'm furious with Labor. The election results should have told them that we want them to work with the Greens AND NOT the backward looking LNP. They are not listening.

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Janet @xhali.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for this article. I'm having this same conversation with so many friends at the moment. We share a profound disappointment in the apparent lack of will for absolutely necessary structural reform. And the tiresome focus on the coalition imploding and dragging us all down into the coal dust

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Tim Hunter @heterarchist.bsky.social · 3d

The most successful party is the one that changes society to fit its own vision. Not the one that holds on to power the longest, gets elected the most often, or gains the seat of political leadership in a given country.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

We are in a world where the most criminally vicious are either in such law enforcement or in politics. Because their viciousness is so extreme (ICE, Netanyahoo) no one dare try to arrest them and charge them for fear of being exterminated.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

She really has a knack of hitting the nail on the head.

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