Obscure Archaeologist
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This is one of many reasons that I love getting to work on salmon habitat restoration projects for a Tribe...rivers really make you appreciate the agency of the land ❤️🏞️
Working on archaeological landscape regional studies and looking at the evidence over millennia really makes you appreciate the significance of how rivers form and inform how we live in the world. It also makes you passionate about not passing them on to future generations as abused open sewers
December 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is one of many reasons that I love getting to work on salmon habitat restoration projects for a Tribe...rivers really make you appreciate the agency of the land ❤️🏞️
I've never written the word "dick" so many times in an official report.
IT'S IN THE NAME OF A MOUNTAIN OKAY
#archaeology #professional
IT'S IN THE NAME OF A MOUNTAIN OKAY
#archaeology #professional
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've never written the word "dick" so many times in an official report.
IT'S IN THE NAME OF A MOUNTAIN OKAY
#archaeology #professional
IT'S IN THE NAME OF A MOUNTAIN OKAY
#archaeology #professional
One of the things I love about Arendt is that through observation and insight, she managed to piss off just about everyone.
She remains a role model for observation and critical thinking, despite a world full of the very same foolishness she warned us about.
She remains a role model for observation and critical thinking, despite a world full of the very same foolishness she warned us about.
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
One of the things I love about Arendt is that through observation and insight, she managed to piss off just about everyone.
She remains a role model for observation and critical thinking, despite a world full of the very same foolishness she warned us about.
She remains a role model for observation and critical thinking, despite a world full of the very same foolishness she warned us about.
Randall must've seen me at work today
![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Randall must've seen me at work today
Someone might want to check my math, but I'm pretty sure we're in the realm of 2*10^2 greater than the threshold mass. The real question is how tenuous is the atmosphere inside the trailer the moment before it implodes into a singularity?
No matter how thin the sheet metal/trailer siding, my back-of-the-napkin math says even a tractor-trailer tall enough to span the few LY to the nearest star carrying no cargo would collapse under its own gravity into a black hole.
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Someone might want to check my math, but I'm pretty sure we're in the realm of 2*10^2 greater than the threshold mass. The real question is how tenuous is the atmosphere inside the trailer the moment before it implodes into a singularity?
Spacious houseboat with ample garage space for that off-grid living. Plenty of room for entertaining guests. Moorage not included.
Two of Washington state's older ferries have been mothballed and up for sale now for four years. Prospective buyers have come and gone. If you're thinking of buying one, now's your chance but beware. The are some cautionary tales.
For sale: Two retired Washington State ferries. Dreamers need not apply
The vessels are lingering on the market as Washington State Ferries scrutinizes potential buyers. Past purchases haven’t always ended well.
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Spacious houseboat with ample garage space for that off-grid living. Plenty of room for entertaining guests. Moorage not included.
Someone please school me on ways to detect wood-that-once-was. I do find that indirect evidence of woodworking can be underreported, but tbf checking margins of shell fragments for use wear (as an example) is not the most intuitive.
youtu.be/ftZuAzua5Ak?...
youtu.be/ftZuAzua5Ak?...
The Rarest Wooden Artefacts Ever Found
YouTube video by Stefan Milo
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Someone please school me on ways to detect wood-that-once-was. I do find that indirect evidence of woodworking can be underreported, but tbf checking margins of shell fragments for use wear (as an example) is not the most intuitive.
youtu.be/ftZuAzua5Ak?...
youtu.be/ftZuAzua5Ak?...
Construction work in Lisbjerg Denmark led to the accidental discovery of a Viking-era site, kicking off an archaeological excavation that would reveal 30 noble burials from the reign of King Harold Bluetooth.
Yes, THAT Bluetooth (as in the namesake for how your headset plays wirelessly)
f24.my/BFtd
Yes, THAT Bluetooth (as in the namesake for how your headset plays wirelessly)
f24.my/BFtd
🌟The Bright Side: Viking burial site discovered by accident in Denmark
Around 30 graves from the Viking Age were found by accident when pearls, coins, ceramics and a box containing gold thread were unearthed in a construction site near Lisbjerg near the city of Aarhus in...
f24.my
June 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Construction work in Lisbjerg Denmark led to the accidental discovery of a Viking-era site, kicking off an archaeological excavation that would reveal 30 noble burials from the reign of King Harold Bluetooth.
Yes, THAT Bluetooth (as in the namesake for how your headset plays wirelessly)
f24.my/BFtd
Yes, THAT Bluetooth (as in the namesake for how your headset plays wirelessly)
f24.my/BFtd
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Almost all archaeology happening in the US is done as part of the state/federal environmental review process (and is currently being defunded/undermined by the fed govt)
Almost all archaeology happening in the US is done as part of the state/federal environmental review process (and is currently being defunded/undermined by the fed govt)
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
June 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Almost all archaeology happening in the US is done as part of the state/federal environmental review process (and is currently being defunded/undermined by the fed govt)
Almost all archaeology happening in the US is done as part of the state/federal environmental review process (and is currently being defunded/undermined by the fed govt)
Rio Tinto, AKA international wrecking balls.
Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.
June 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Rio Tinto, AKA international wrecking balls.
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Good article laying out how the administration is stripping cultural resource protections 🧪🏺
Trump administration attacks the preservation of archaeological resources
Funding and staff cuts will gut the protection of archaeological sites under the National Historic Preservation Act.
www.wsws.org
June 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Good article laying out how the administration is stripping cultural resource protections 🧪🏺
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Empty lands: How 🏺 #archaeological tropes, from "social collapse" to "abandonment" perpetuate (settler) #colonialism.
A view from the U.S. Southwest - and beyond, by N. C. Laluk and J. Aguilar:
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... via sapiens.org
A view from the U.S. Southwest - and beyond, by N. C. Laluk and J. Aguilar:
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... via sapiens.org
Archaeological Tropes That Perpetuate Colonialism
Two Indigenous archaeologists in the U.S. Southwest shed light on how “abandonment” and similar terms continue to cause harm.
www.sapiens.org
September 10, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Empty lands: How 🏺 #archaeological tropes, from "social collapse" to "abandonment" perpetuate (settler) #colonialism.
A view from the U.S. Southwest - and beyond, by N. C. Laluk and J. Aguilar:
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... via sapiens.org
A view from the U.S. Southwest - and beyond, by N. C. Laluk and J. Aguilar:
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... via sapiens.org
Maritime archaeology is fundamental to cultural revival and a sustainable future #fundmyresearch #gimmegrantsplz
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Faced with rising sea levels, the Marshall Islands are decarbonising ocean transport
As the world's shipping industry decarbonises at a glacial pace, the Marshall Islands has a plan to wean its fleets off fossil fuels completely by 2050.
www.abc.net.au
September 11, 2023 at 10:45 PM
Maritime archaeology is fundamental to cultural revival and a sustainable future #fundmyresearch #gimmegrantsplz
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
San Pedro, CA's future in a few short centuries arkeonews.net/city-swallow...
City swallowed by sea now center of boat tours
The Kekova region, or Sunken City, which has remained under the sea after two major earthquakes in the sixth century...
arkeonews.net
September 11, 2023 at 10:42 PM
San Pedro, CA's future in a few short centuries arkeonews.net/city-swallow...
A boat is a hole in the water into which you funnel grants and grad students www.newsweek.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists discover 2,500-year-old canoe in remarkable condition
It is the largest and most intact canoe of its time discovered in Switzerland.
www.newsweek.com
September 11, 2023 at 10:40 PM
A boat is a hole in the water into which you funnel grants and grad students www.newsweek.com/archaeologis...
And rock art. YOU'RE obsessed with rock art, too. phys.org/news/2023-07...
Research group deciphers enigmatic ancient 'unknown Kushan script'
The Kushan Empire in Central Asia was one of the most influential states of the ancient world. A research team at the University of Cologne's Department of Linguistics has now deciphered a writing sys...
phys.org
September 11, 2023 at 10:38 PM
And rock art. YOU'RE obsessed with rock art, too. phys.org/news/2023-07...
Pfft I'm not obsessed with boats, YOU'RE obsessed with boats 😤 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Maya canoe surrounded by animal and human bones found in 'portal to the underworld' in Mexico
A wooden canoe found in an underwater cave in Mexico was likely used as part of a Maya ritual.
www.livescience.com
September 11, 2023 at 10:36 PM
Pfft I'm not obsessed with boats, YOU'RE obsessed with boats 😤 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
More maritime rock art, this time in Indonesia phys.org/news/2023-05...
Archaeologists identify Moluccan boats that may have visited Australia from Indonesia in rock art dr...
Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia's eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the first archaeological evidence of visit...
phys.org
September 11, 2023 at 10:34 PM
More maritime rock art, this time in Indonesia phys.org/news/2023-05...
Early Holocene human remains in Poland provide clues about Neolithic "Linear Pottery" culture #potsarentpeople www.archaeology.org/news/11463-2...
7,000-Year-Old Skeleton Uncovered in Poland - Archaeology Magazine
www.archaeology.org
September 11, 2023 at 10:32 PM
Early Holocene human remains in Poland provide clues about Neolithic "Linear Pottery" culture #potsarentpeople www.archaeology.org/news/11463-2...
More maritime archaeology: Norse use of North American timber the-past.com/news/researc...
Research reveals American wood imported by Norse Greenlanders | The Past
The study confirms that the Norse had the ability, knowledge, and vessels necessary to bring timber from North America until well into the 14th century, if ...
the-past.com
September 11, 2023 at 10:30 PM
More maritime archaeology: Norse use of North American timber the-past.com/news/researc...
Maritime archaeology and rock art meet in Egypt arkeonews.net/staging-of-r...
arkeonews.net
September 11, 2023 at 10:28 PM
Maritime archaeology and rock art meet in Egypt arkeonews.net/staging-of-r...
Landscape scale photogrammetry for archaeology sketchfab.com/3d-models/mt...
Mt Irish Archaeological District - 3D model by Ancient Art Archive (@ancientartarchive)
Shaman’s Knob in the Mr Irish Archaeological District Basin and Range National Monument Lincoln County Nevada
The Mt Irish Archaeological District contains a number of Pahranagat anthropomorphi...
sketchfab.com
September 11, 2023 at 10:27 PM
Landscape scale photogrammetry for archaeology sketchfab.com/3d-models/mt...