Kevin Leonard
@repusvek27.bsky.social
Retired | Anthropological Archaeology PhD, 1996, University of Toronto | husband to Sandra | father of two amazing daughters | one love
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Kevin Leonard
@repusvek27.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Before getting into archaeology, I spent 14 months north of 60° as a Meteorological Technician for Environment Canada. In May and June of ’85, I was at the High Arctic Weather Station in Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Island. King, the heroic station dog, was disabled from run-ins with polar bears.
Digging the drone footage at 130 kmph in men’s downhill qualifying at the Olympic Games in Italy
February 7, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Digging the drone footage at 130 kmph in men’s downhill qualifying at the Olympic Games in Italy
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Been a busy day adding colour to these mugs. Now for the glazing. #pottery #ceramics #madeinthemaritimes #handmade #madeincanada
February 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Been a busy day adding colour to these mugs. Now for the glazing. #pottery #ceramics #madeinthemaritimes #handmade #madeincanada
Looks like some kind of 🏺 game set to me. I wonder if there was a playing surface found with it: a bowl or a board for example.
LOOK AT THIS! Fish leather bag found in a cave in the mountains of western Mongolia. WHAT?! From Vávra 2020 (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...) #archaeology #ecology #history
February 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Looks like some kind of 🏺 game set to me. I wonder if there was a playing surface found with it: a bowl or a board for example.
I’ve probably saved a fair amount of money over the years by making my own potato chips. I slice them with a peeler and fry them in a small sauce pan with a cup of avocado oil, medium high heat. Drain on paper towel, fresh cracked French grey sea salt, and into a brown paper lunch bag. 🥔 🥑 🧂 💲
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I’ve probably saved a fair amount of money over the years by making my own potato chips. I slice them with a peeler and fry them in a small sauce pan with a cup of avocado oil, medium high heat. Drain on paper towel, fresh cracked French grey sea salt, and into a brown paper lunch bag. 🥔 🥑 🧂 💲
Having retired from field archaeology 🏺 after forty years (since fieldschool), I miss the stratigraphy. I miss the challenge of interpreting it in a test pit profile, or exposed by the claw of an excavator on a watching brief, when you really have seconds to make a call.
January 29, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Having retired from field archaeology 🏺 after forty years (since fieldschool), I miss the stratigraphy. I miss the challenge of interpreting it in a test pit profile, or exposed by the claw of an excavator on a watching brief, when you really have seconds to make a call.
Our first ☎️ was black, wall-mounted, and on a party line with two or three neighbors, depending on who moved up to the more expensive private line. You would have to wait your turn to use the phone 📞, and you could “listen in” lol. Kind of the same vibe as social media.
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Our first ☎️ was black, wall-mounted, and on a party line with two or three neighbors, depending on who moved up to the more expensive private line. You would have to wait your turn to use the phone 📞, and you could “listen in” lol. Kind of the same vibe as social media.
My namesake ❤️
Ralaghan Idol • Cavan
This striking figure was hewn from yew around 3,000 years ago. It was found deep in a Cavan bog on what was once an ancient boundary.
It is now on display in the Kingship and Sacrifice exhibition in the @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
This striking figure was hewn from yew around 3,000 years ago. It was found deep in a Cavan bog on what was once an ancient boundary.
It is now on display in the Kingship and Sacrifice exhibition in the @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
January 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
My namesake ❤️
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In April, the Treasure Trove Unit confirmed the discovery of an amulet with a history that spans millennia 🐴
Created around 300 years ago from an arrowhead made thousands of years earlier, the charm was believed to save horses from injuries caused by fairies: www.digitscotland.com/five-of-scot...
Created around 300 years ago from an arrowhead made thousands of years earlier, the charm was believed to save horses from injuries caused by fairies: www.digitscotland.com/five-of-scot...
January 7, 2026 at 3:07 PM
In April, the Treasure Trove Unit confirmed the discovery of an amulet with a history that spans millennia 🐴
Created around 300 years ago from an arrowhead made thousands of years earlier, the charm was believed to save horses from injuries caused by fairies: www.digitscotland.com/five-of-scot...
Created around 300 years ago from an arrowhead made thousands of years earlier, the charm was believed to save horses from injuries caused by fairies: www.digitscotland.com/five-of-scot...
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What’s new in the latest issue of American Archaeology? Detection dogs are becoming an increasingly important partner in archaeology to help locate probable graves and focus noninvasive survey work with greater precision.
Read more:
Read more:
Detection dogs help archaeologists locate graves, guide noninvasive surveys - The Archaeological Conservancy
Detection dogs help archaeologists locate unmarked graves and guide noninvasive surveys.
buff.ly
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What’s new in the latest issue of American Archaeology? Detection dogs are becoming an increasingly important partner in archaeology to help locate probable graves and focus noninvasive survey work with greater precision.
Read more:
Read more:
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Notes from Piers Accession Book: Reference collection of Economic Seeds (useful & noxious plants) of Canada. Prepared in Seed Laboratory of Branch of Seed Commissioner, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. 1906 Oct 16.
Date Accessioned: 16 October 1906
Reference: Harry Piers number 3058 Botany Collection
Date Accessioned: 16 October 1906
Reference: Harry Piers number 3058 Botany Collection
December 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Things are really not good around the North Pole. Anomalous warmth continues, alongside record low #Arctic sea ice conditions. Nearly every time I check the data, there seems to be yet another new record this fall.
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Things are really not good around the North Pole. Anomalous warmth continues, alongside record low #Arctic sea ice conditions. Nearly every time I check the data, there seems to be yet another new record this fall.
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
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Dresden, Ontario. A woman emerged from a salon, which is partly visible on the right of the frame, to assure me that the phone works. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak TriX)
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Dresden, Ontario. A woman emerged from a salon, which is partly visible on the right of the frame, to assure me that the phone works. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak TriX)
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Houses on Gerrard Street, Toronto, circa 1918
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Houses on Gerrard Street, Toronto, circa 1918
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970)
Medium: Oil painting, on board
#lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
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The pyrite from the chunks hasn't survived, there's no evidence either sparked this particular fire, and there's no flint with sparking traces. The evidence of firestarting is only indirect. And that's no surprise: Evidence for sparking fires is hard to find!
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
Sparking ancient fires
New research helps to show the challenges of documenting ancient firemaking
www.johnhawks.net
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The pyrite from the chunks hasn't survived, there's no evidence either sparked this particular fire, and there's no flint with sparking traces. The evidence of firestarting is only indirect. And that's no surprise: Evidence for sparking fires is hard to find!
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-a...
Frequent reports of museum CEOs bullying employees in Canada over the past decade suggest that bad behaviour is not only tolerated but rewarded in these environments. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Report alleges national museum CEO mistreated staff, called leadership team 'sluts' | CBC News
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Harriet Solloway found that Marie Chapman, who holds the most senior job at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, engaged in a pattern of behav...
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Frequent reports of museum CEOs bullying employees in Canada over the past decade suggest that bad behaviour is not only tolerated but rewarded in these environments. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Odd to say but I miss ❄️ storm closures since I moved from NB to TO. #nostalgia
Storm Closure
The Fundy Geological Museum will be closed today, Wednesday December 3, 2025, due to poor weather and road conditions.
The Fundy Geological Museum will be closed today, Wednesday December 3, 2025, due to poor weather and road conditions.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Odd to say but I miss ❄️ storm closures since I moved from NB to TO. #nostalgia
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Big Ben Hawaiian Band - Hey Jude [UK, Easy/Hawaiian/Club](1970) Beatles cover
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
Big Ben Hawaiian Band - Hey Jude [UK, Easy/Hawaiian/Club](1970) Beatles cover
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December 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Big Ben Hawaiian Band - Hey Jude [UK, Easy/Hawaiian/Club](1970) Beatles cover
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
https://redd.it/10bopp0
https://youtu.be/PBrdnAhthDk
This is also true for Canada‘s western high arctic: Prince Patrick Island for example. More accessible than Antarctica too.
What makes Antarctica so useful to archaeologists? #AntarcticaDay
It was never occupied by primates, so may be the perfect 'natural laboratory' for comparing human (or other primate)-made #lithic tools with naturally fractured stones.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
It was never occupied by primates, so may be the perfect 'natural laboratory' for comparing human (or other primate)-made #lithic tools with naturally fractured stones.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is also true for Canada‘s western high arctic: Prince Patrick Island for example. More accessible than Antarctica too.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen 🎸
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen 🎸
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
BTO, Not Fragile, (backed by Rush), Moncton, 1975
Supertramp, Breakfast in America, Moncton, 1979
David Bowie, Serious Moonlight, Edmonton, 1983
Tina Turner, Private Dancer, Calgary, 1985
The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang, Magnetic Hill, 2005
With so many delays and off-route streetcars, TTC in Toronto should extend the fare period from 2 to 3 hours for the winter 🙏#MayorOliviaChow
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
With so many delays and off-route streetcars, TTC in Toronto should extend the fare period from 2 to 3 hours for the winter 🙏#MayorOliviaChow
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Using thousands of laser blasts, we measure how the ratio of Mg to Ca changes. This ratio tracks with temperature. So, by looking at what this ratio was when the oyster died, we can determine what seasons these oysters were collected by enslaved and Free Black communities on the Georgia coast 2/3
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Using thousands of laser blasts, we measure how the ratio of Mg to Ca changes. This ratio tracks with temperature. So, by looking at what this ratio was when the oyster died, we can determine what seasons these oysters were collected by enslaved and Free Black communities on the Georgia coast 2/3
Many rivers to cross ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Many rivers to cross ❤️
Major dip in U.S. sales has Christmas tree growers bracing for down year
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Major dip in U.S. sales has Christmas tree growers bracing for down year
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes
Mos def gonna pick up a real tree this year to support the 🎄 growers in the Maritimes