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Catherine Frieman

@cjfrieman.bsky.social

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D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.

Catherine J. Frieman is an archaeologist and associate professor at the Australian National University. Her research investigates conservatism and innovation, and she is a specialist in material culture and technology. .. more

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 27d

A reminder we’re accepting abstracts and registrations for the first #AusTAG conference to be held 22-23 May in Adelaide.

Call for Papers: austag.org/2025/11/04/a...

Registration: events.humanitix.com/austag-confe...

Can’t wait to see a bunch of archaeology folks there!

Call for Papers: AusTAG 2026

Submit an abstract to the first ever Australian Theoretical Archaeology Group (AusTAG), to be held at Adelaide University!

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

Dairy road in fishwyck is sneakily great for food and drinks - canteen does the best vegan ramen I've ever eaten, capital brewery/brod burger is always excellent, lots of good coffee/cafe places down there too - also a really great queer friendly barbershop if you need a new look

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

If you're here over a weekend, fishwyck market has good food and a nice people watching vibe, plus a very decent lifeline secondhand book shop

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

There's a lot of good food at different prices scattered across town. Lonsdale st in braddon has lots of options (and good bars), dickson has a range of great asian places, don't trust anyone who tells you cartel taco in queanbeyan is good

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

The kangaroos are abundant they hang out on the school field by the war memorial most evenings, also usually a ton at Weston Park in yarralumla. If you have a car, drive down to Tidbinbilla national Park (ca 45 min from town)

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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 1h

This is interesting. Pre/protohistoric Māori storage pit site on limestone hilltop, but encircled by a thorn hedge with a few dead pines around the inside of the hedge. Visible in 1957 aerial, with established trees.

1927 geological survey annotated "Henry Coates' Pines" 1/2

A green hill overlooking a peninsula jutting into a river,with a diagonal line of european thorn bush hedging in the mid-ground

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Someone accused me of “don’t you know who I am” BS earlier when I said that if they wanted to know about my background, they were welcome to look into me. You are absolutely right, it’s either “you clearly don’t know shit” or “oh, so you think you’re a big deal.”

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2h

I think a lot of men genuinely don't understand that women HAVE to credential ourselves in these conversations ("I say that as an organizer with over 20 years of experience").

Most especially in discourse about male-coded fields, organizing being one of them. We get dismissed outright if we don't.

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 8h

My partner: yeah i'd book that airbnb for a weekend

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it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 9h

Who among us would not launch a thousand ships for the sake of Lupita Nyongo

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 12h

I've seen fossils in some remarkable places, but this takes the prize: the benthic foram Nummulites in the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive blocks were quarried from the Eocene Mokkatam Formation when a relictual population of woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.

Disc-shaped fossils with concentric grooves scattered through a limestone block.

Image of the apex of the Great Pyramid, taken from the base of the southeast corner. The layers of massive blocks of limestone composing the pyramid are clearly visible. The pyramid is set against a sunny blue sky.

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 20h

thetab.com/2026/01/31/t...

The University of Edinburgh admits there is no funding deficit

The release of the latest university accounts shows a surplus of £43 million for the past year despite previous concerns over a £140 million funding black hole

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 2d

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

My sole sports hot take is there isn't a ballsport that couldn't be improved, from a spectating perspective, by the introduction of an additional ball

Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Lesley A. Hall, Catherine J. Frieman

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

One of those slightly ‘get it in the neck from all sides’ positions but @artscouncilengland.bsky.social is looking for a new Chair. £60k / 2 days a week
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9064

Appointment details – Chair - Arts Council England – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK

apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

Oh this is absurdly cool

Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 3d

We sequenced #ancientRNA from an 18th-Century human lung and recovered a rhinovirus genome. Take a look at our preprint. Feedback welcome.

Daniel Blanco-Melo @dbm003.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 2d

“Misfeasance in public office claims are extraordinarily difficult to make out, because of the high legal standard required. That makes this a very significant decision and may provide guidance for plaintiffs in future misfeasance claims." satpa.pe/vLMFB6u

Exclusive: Misfeasance case paves way for robodebt action

A damning judgement of ‘highhandedness or cynical disregard’ by the Medicare watchdog has established a new front for civil litigation of public servants named in the robodebt royal commission.

Reposted by Matthew J. Collins, Allan D. McDevitt, Catherine J. Frieman

Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 2d

We have a new paper out in Rapid Comms in Mass Spectrometry about 14C dating bone using a minimally destructive approach.
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Bone

Rationale Bone is commonly used in radiocarbon dating in archaeology and other disciplines. Despite advances in collagen extraction protocols, the process remains destructive, requiring sawing, dril.....

analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Moban @mcmathketball.bsky.social · 3d

Glass Onion knew what they were doing when they were like "we have to make this billionaire use the wrong words trying to sound smart"

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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 3d

We sequenced #ancientRNA from an 18th-Century human lung and recovered a rhinovirus genome. Take a look at our preprint. Feedback welcome.

Daniel Blanco-Melo @dbm003.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠

www.biorxiv.org

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 3d

Jet Necklace • Derry

This is part of a c.4000 year old necklace made of jet found at Cumber, County Derry.

The jet is likely to have come from Northern England, showing trade links across the Irish Sea in the Bronze Age.

You can see this wonderful artefact in the National Museum of Ireland.

Part of a Bronze Age necklace made of a black hard material known as whitby jet, the necklace is formed of lozenge shaped plates with punch decoration, connected by elongated beads. It is on display in the national museum of ireland.

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share the new Steering Committee of PAASTA 🎉
An ECR-driven community working to foster an open, inclusive, and collaborative space for palaeoproteomics researchers worldwide.
Looking forward to building and growing this community together 🧬

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman, David Stott

Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 3d

New archaeological analysis of the bronzetti figurines of Sardinia has changed the picture of copper in the Bronze Age: The Nuragic people who lived on the island may have traded the metal as far as Scandinavia.

archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2026/artifacts/sardinian-bronze-figurines/

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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 3d

Nice bit of weekend reading!

FOUR (3 are open access) papers have been released in PPS this week!

Including - hillforts, axeheads, the Bronze Age fens and human remains from Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria.

#Archaeology #Prehistory

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

FirstView articles | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society | Cambridge Core

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society - Daniela Hofmann, Susan Greaney, Courtney Nimura

www.cambridge.org

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Moonflower Books @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Pagans is coming to a @waterstones.bsky.social near you! Yes, @jamesbluecat.bsky.social is off on a tour of the country (from Truro to Glasgow, no less, and with more dates to be confirmed!). Events are limited capacity, so get your tickets asap: www.waterstones.com/events/searc...

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3d

This is pretty comprehensive

The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record

By Martin McKenzie-Murray in The Monthly

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Catherine J. Frieman

qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 4d

The darker side of LiDAR: overlooking or erasing Indigenous people theconversation.com/aerial-lidar... #archaeology #lidar 🏺

Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

Aerial lidar raises ethical questions because it can collect data remotely without the knowledge or consent of Indigenous and descendant populations that are on the ground.

theconversation.com

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 4d

Does anybody know anybody who might be able to link me into resources on loanwords or comparative phonology and phonotactics of sign languages? Disabled Sailing is looking at building a standard sailing-related vocab for Deaf sailors.

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4d

There's that Cretaceous chalk again... hard not to look at these maps of vaccination uptake and measels risk without seeing more traces of the long impact of slavery and the deeply entrenched social and economic inequality we've not yet fixed

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4d

Australians! Send us your abstracts!

Emily @emjmiller.bsky.social · 4d

Austag Call for papers extended to 15 Feb!

Call for Papers: austag.org/2025/11/04/a...

Please also register – right now we don’t have enough registrations to cover costs and we’ll have to cancel if that stays true, so please register now!

Registration: austag.org/conference-r...

Call for Papers: AusTAG 2026

Submit an abstract to the first ever Australian Theoretical Archaeology Group (AusTAG), to be held at Adelaide University!

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Sofia Samper Carro @txufa.bsky.social · 4d

Hot off the press!!
Link to our new paper on the rodents from a 40,000-2,000 years old site in Timor-Leste. Open Access 👇🏽🐀🐹

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Biometric Analysis of Giant and Large Murid Remains From Matja Kuru 2, Timor‐Leste

Published research on Matja Kuru 2 (MK2) demonstrates its significance for understanding human lifestyle during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Murids represent the most commonly identified ta....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com