I got the chance to chat with Jim over at the Droning On Podcast about bagpiping, The Grinning Barretts and my piping journey. Link here: youtu.be/c-rZb31VtNw?...

Iron Age divination spoon discovered on the Isle of Man

Mayburgh Henge, Eamont Bridge, Cumbria. The standing stone is 9 feet high. It is surrounded by a circular bank of cobble stones. The bank has a diameter of around 383 feet. It has been estimated that it consists of c20,000 tons of stones from the nearby river.
#standingstonesunday

I hadn't noticed the bomb damage in the walls of the #V&A, London, until it was pointed out to me today

It's a sobering reminder of the #blitz in the heart of the modern capital

Saw this video and had to share.

This was at the Bell Centre, never heard it so loud, this is Canadian unity 🇨🇦

#CanadianUnity

I've realized what would make #RogueOne even better. A rogue librarian in the Imperial archive on Scarif. Someone who does something to help the Resistance.

Today I have been mostly eating cheese!

Merry Christmas.
Cartoon by the wonderful Liz Climo

Fingolfin, "The High King of the Ñoldor"🧝‍♂️
-art by Forever Medhok

My author copy of the home of my recent chapter on far-right uses of pseudoarchaeology arrived today 🙌 Timely, given that a certain Netflix series with a season premiere date right around the corner makes an unfortunate appearance in here 👀
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I promise I didn't mean to make a second video in a row that subtextually comments on a current political reality via historical comparison, but I don't promise that I didn't wind up doing that.

The Unbelievable Story of the Carol of the Bells, live on YouTube and Nebula: https://buff.ly/3P5ujnW

New studies out yesterday show when modern humans last mated w/Neanderthals, but it's the details in this paper by @arevsumer.bsky.social @kaypruefer.bsky.social & co. that got me–like a mother and daughter found together after 45K years, or their close relative identified in a distant Czech cave.

You scumbag, you maggot...

Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪

Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Excited that I've been awarded another scholarship for my research 🎉 It's always great to know that folks see my vision for my Brother XII C.U.L.T.S. Project (archaeology of conspiritual utopian landscapes of truth-seekers) and beyond 🙏

Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests.

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:

A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday

Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...

Im gonna say it again: music is VITAL to games. Music guides players. Music enhances emotional moments. Music is so so so important. Funny enough video games are modern operas in the way music is needed to buoy the emotional stakes.