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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · May 7

New comedy series, ‘Dig’, featuring fictional archaeologists being planned.

Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · May 7

So it's not enough that Mike Schur, Amy Poehler, and JJ Philbin are teaming up to do a new show, but it's called DIG and it's based on *archaeological excavation in Greece*?!?

If I ignore literally everything else in the world but this, I am now extremely happy.

Amy Poehler, Mike Schur Reunite for Peacock Comedy ‘Dig’

The ‘Parks and Recreation’ star and co-creator will both be writers and EPs on the series along with J.J. Philbin.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · May 3

Was giving a presentation on some of my recent and ongoing archaeological work at a conference today and unexpectedly came across this promotional poster for my forthcoming book ‘Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells’.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Apr 11

Earlier today I received word that I will be receiving emeritus status from Capilano University at the June convocation. I’m thrilled.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · Apr 2

Men walked on the Moon - but women made the guidance computers that got them there and back. At the landing sites and command module crash sites the computers are evidence of a unique women's lunar heritage. 🧪🏺

The Apollo core rope memory and women's heritage on the Moon

Between 1969 and 1972 there were six Apollo human spaceflight missions to the Moon, each leaving a complex site behind. A common joke now is...

zoharesque.blogspot.com

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Suspiciously Nice Prof @niceprof.bsky.social · Mar 28

Don't forget to human today.

Make stuff. Do stuff. Go see something interesting. Move around. Eat.

I sometimes get busy and forget to human.

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · Mar 3

the draft programme is available (and looks amazing!) and registration is open for the 2025 bc studies conference, which is being held at the university of british columbia from may 1-4.
#bchist #cdnhist #bcpoli #bced
blogs.ubc.ca/bcsconferenc...

BC Studies Conference 2025 – Diamond Point, Interconnected (2021). Used with permission of the artist.

Diamond Point, Interconnected (2021). Used with permission of the artist.

blogs.ubc.ca

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · Mar 3

I'm delighted to see archaeology accepting the jigsaw pieces we won't find. The ephemeral, the perishable....they've got their own story too, as you know I've written of....

Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · Mar 3

We never talk about the wood age, in contrast to the stone age or iron age. The truth is, we have always been in the wood age and still are, but wood leaves very few artifacts for us to see.

John Hawks @johnhawks.net · Mar 3

The word technology brings to mind silicon wafers or carbon fibers. But for most of human existence people relied on organic materials for most of their technology. In a handful of places natural conditions have preserved wooden artifacts from pre-human ancestors.

johnhawks.net/weblog/four-...

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Feb 27

The TAG 2025 website is up and running, which means we are open for session proposals! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk - Washington, DC

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Feb 25

My latest book: ‘Once upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells’ is available for pre-order. www.ubcpress.ca/once-upon-th...

Once upon This Land

Once upon This Land - Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells; Once upon This Land is a much-needed overview of archaeology in British Columbia that introduces readers to the fascinat...

www.ubcpress.ca

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Feb 18

Hello Archaeologists!
Welcome to the official BlueSky page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2025 conference!

Watch this space for our website and Call for Sessions!

Find us on:
Facebook at TAG 2025 at York
X at @TAG2025_York
Instagram @tag2025_york
#tag25 #tagyork #tag2025york

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Feb 9

Archaeology of contemporary times

Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · Feb 9

So we finally had a chance, with the help of a homeowner, to sample soils from two burned structures in Pacific Palisades. This will form the basis for our tracking of the effect of both the fire and the clean-up on soil toxicity. Depressing scenes, to be sure.

The author wearing a dad cap and a P100 respirator in front of a fully burned structure

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Feb 8

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Feb 7

It may be a bit "inside baseball," but I'm wildly excited about the promise of palaeoproteomics -- not quite as much info as DNA, but can give us info from millions of years ago. This new paper out today shows they were able to figure out biological sex of an A. africanus specimen (2-3.5myo). 🏺🧪

In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative from 3.5 million years ago

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

www.livescience.com

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Feb 4

I wrote an article for The Conversation about generative AI visualisation in #archaeology, will discuss it further in a thread tomorrow. 🏺

theconversation.com/how-ai-image...

How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology

Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with caution.

theconversation.com

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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · Feb 4

This week's blog post is a little different.

On:
Capturing the embodied experience of archaeology in games
Games as lists
Archaeological stratigraphy as a spatial list
Vocabulary lists and queer identity
Erasure
Perpetuity

florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/02/04/o...

On the pleasure of lists in: archaeology; video games

“Lara Croft is seen as the monstrous offspring of science: an idealized, eternally young female automaton, a malleable, well-trained techno-puppet created by and for the male gaze.” So says Anne-Ma…

florencesmithnicholls.com

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Feb 3

The juxtaposition of a mammoth reduced to the barest line, with the most human of symbols in blood-red ochre.
Yes, there is probably something to decode, but first it's important to share the awe that human art can persist for such spans of time.
That we can still encounter it.
Chauvet ~32,000
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The trunk, head and dorsal hump of a mammoth drawn in black outline. A silhouette of a hand, painted in red placed within and partially over it. On the beige, scratched wall of a limestone cave

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Chris Wolff @cbwolff.bsky.social · Jan 24

Cover reveal! Check out this beautiful cover for our edited volume coming out later this year from Berghahn Books. Very excited about this.

Cover of book entitled From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal, Metal tool production and use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America. Book cover has examples of metal projectile points across the cover and a colorful map in the background.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Jan 8

Today I registered for the 2025 Honolulu marathon. I started recreational running in 2022, and nobody is likely to be more surprised than me that I like it. I’m slow, but I get there.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Dec 24

It was somewhat formal, and it has been my plan to revisit it in 5 years (eg. Compare what we see in 2025/2026 with what we saw in 2020/2021).

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Dec 21

Not scrunchies but I recall @drspacejunk.bsky.social did some archaeology of cable ties

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Dec 4

Reviewing the copyeditor’s comments and suggestion on my latest book ms. I almost always find myself in awe of copyeditors, and this is no exception. The ms is for ‘Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells.’

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 24

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thank you for writing the alt text

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Nov 23

Yes, this is in British Columbia. On the margins of Metro Vancouver, in the Seymour Valley.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · Nov 23

Yes, Canada had internment camps for Japanese

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