David
@archaeomather.bsky.social
Minnesota environmental archaeologist, writer & terrible gardener - always researching the archaeology of bear ceremonialism, obsessed with museums, historical designations & monuments
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My daughter & her pals are making their own version of the Sabotage video ⭐️
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Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me
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On this day in 1883, Sojourner Truth died. Born into slavery in New York, she became a suffragist and abolitionist. Truth probably never used the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman,” but she did mock white men who opposed women’s rights. #WeTheMen
blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
On this day in 1883, Sojourner Truth died. Born into slavery in New York, she became a suffragist and abolitionist. Truth probably never used the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman,” but she did mock white men who opposed women’s rights. #WeTheMen
blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
Maggie’s like a derpy ewok
I can’t believe I had to leave this guy at home this morning. He would be very popular here in at the office.
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Maggie’s like a derpy ewok
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November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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“Seventy years ago, Mamie Till said, ‘Let them see.’ And today, with the preservation of the barn by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the world will see,” Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center given to the Mississippi Free Press on Nov. 24.
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Barn Where White Men Murdered Emmett Till to Be Preserved as a ‘Reverent, Sacred Site’
The barn in Drew, Miss., where two white men murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 will be preserved as a “sacred site.”
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Seventy years ago, Mamie Till said, ‘Let them see.’ And today, with the preservation of the barn by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, the world will see,” Shonda Rhimes said in a statement that the Emmett Till Interpretive Center given to the Mississippi Free Press on Nov. 24.
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I can’t believe I had to leave this guy at home this morning. He would be very popular here in at the office.
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I can’t believe I had to leave this guy at home this morning. He would be very popular here in at the office.
Enjoyed seeing this cluster of paper birch trees while hiking the Landmark Trail yesterday in Mille Lacs Kathio State Park. They have grown from the roots of an older birch tree that has died.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Enjoyed seeing this cluster of paper birch trees while hiking the Landmark Trail yesterday in Mille Lacs Kathio State Park. They have grown from the roots of an older birch tree that has died.
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If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
eLibrary Minnesota
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November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
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It is with sadness that we learned that Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa racist massacre, has died at the age of 111. Learn more about this event here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It is with sadness that we learned that Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa racist massacre, has died at the age of 111. Learn more about this event here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...
Looking across Vineland Bay of Mille Lacs earlier today
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Looking across Vineland Bay of Mille Lacs earlier today
Got a portable light box to take photos of artifacts, tested it with this banana.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Got a portable light box to take photos of artifacts, tested it with this banana.
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Orangutan youngsters reach the broad diet they need to survive only if they culturally learn what to eat & where to find it
-> This is the first clear evidence for cultural dependency of any kind in apes <-
More info, and link to the paper in this thread by Elliot [the master-modeller behind this]
-> This is the first clear evidence for cultural dependency of any kind in apes <-
More info, and link to the paper in this thread by Elliot [the master-modeller behind this]
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Orangutan youngsters reach the broad diet they need to survive only if they culturally learn what to eat & where to find it
-> This is the first clear evidence for cultural dependency of any kind in apes <-
More info, and link to the paper in this thread by Elliot [the master-modeller behind this]
-> This is the first clear evidence for cultural dependency of any kind in apes <-
More info, and link to the paper in this thread by Elliot [the master-modeller behind this]
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
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We have been to lots of places.
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
We have been to lots of places.
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
Take me down to the Paradise City
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home (I want you, please, take me home)
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home (I want you, please, take me home)
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Take me down to the Paradise City
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home (I want you, please, take me home)
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home (I want you, please, take me home)
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How can a creature like this recommend anything other than “Everything is Awesome” from the 2014 Lego Movie? I love dogs, but Tom is right. We simply cannot rely on them for album recommendations
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
How can a creature like this recommend anything other than “Everything is Awesome” from the 2014 Lego Movie? I love dogs, but Tom is right. We simply cannot rely on them for album recommendations
My daughter in New York is seeing Geese perform tonight for the second time in about a month. I’m so happy for her but also jealous.
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
My daughter in New York is seeing Geese perform tonight for the second time in about a month. I’m so happy for her but also jealous.
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#OTD in 1953 the scientific community exposed the (retrospectively) dreadful fake of Piltdown Man; what science has yet to adequately explain is the haunting, complex enigma of Piltdown Boy.
(Held in a private collection)
(Held in a private collection)
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#OTD in 1953 the scientific community exposed the (retrospectively) dreadful fake of Piltdown Man; what science has yet to adequately explain is the haunting, complex enigma of Piltdown Boy.
(Held in a private collection)
(Held in a private collection)
Maggie is waiting at the end of the hallway to get me.
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Maggie is waiting at the end of the hallway to get me.
I don’t mean to brag, but I have a cup of coffee.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I don’t mean to brag, but I have a cup of coffee.
If it feels like midnight when it’s really 6:29, you may have had a couple of cocktails with early dinner in November.
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If it feels like midnight when it’s really 6:29, you may have had a couple of cocktails with early dinner in November.
Overheard out for dinner: “Robert’s Rules of Order? Wait, did I come up with that?”
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Overheard out for dinner: “Robert’s Rules of Order? Wait, did I come up with that?”