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Catherine Frieman
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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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Environmental science 16%
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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!
austag.org

YES
An important piece that looks not just at the Shirehall, Shrewsbury but at the wider problem of values of heritage and it's futute reuse. Well worth 5 minutes of your time
Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain?
Shropshire Council’s push to demolish its former HQ, the late-1960s Shirehall in Shrewsbury, encapsulates everything wrong with how we treat our existing buildings, argues Leanne Tritton
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I'm pretty sure gibralter falls is presently closed for safety works unfortunately because it's lovely there
The @ads-update.bsky.social Archeology Data service (ads) are looking to recruit a Digital Archives Assistant.

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#digipres #digipresnorth #archivejobs
Jobs - The University of York
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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

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

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

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)
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
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.”
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.

My partner: yeah i'd book that airbnb for a weekend
Who among us would not launch a thousand ships for the sake of Lupita Nyongo
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.
🌟 Looking to join our team? 🎉

We are looking for a new Digital Archives Assistant, with applications due 15.02.26!

For more information visit: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/digi...

#JobOpportunity #DigitalArchiving #HiringNow #ArchaeologyJobs
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/
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
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
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Oh this is absurdly cool
We sequenced #ancientRNA from an 18th-Century human lung and recovered a rhinovirus genome. Take a look at our preprint. Feedback welcome.
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🫁🦠
“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.
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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.....
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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"
We sequenced #ancientRNA from an 18th-Century human lung and recovered a rhinovirus genome. Take a look at our preprint. Feedback welcome.
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
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.
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 🧬
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/
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

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FirstView articles | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society | Cambridge Core
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society - Daniela Hofmann, Susan Greaney, Courtney Nimura
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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...

This is pretty comprehensive
The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record
By Martin McKenzie-Murray in The Monthly
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