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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2025-01-18 at 23:51

Can anyone tell me how to get connectivity between @Mastodon and @bluesky

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-12-28 at 22:09

I wonder how many people have been so instantly identifiable from a photo of when they were 15, and how many people have been so well-known for a single role. Vale Olivia Hussey.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/28/olivia-hussey-star-of-1968-romeo-and-juliet-film-dies-aged-73

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-12-10 at 02:45

I think this is very important and Netanyahoo needs to internalise it before he continues to weaponise the accusation of "anti-Semitism"

https://www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in/2024/12/10/critique-of-israeli-government-not-anti-semitism?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=InDaily%20QLD%20News%20%2010%20December&utm_content=InDaily%20QLD%20News%20%2010%20December+CID_c37c73f738502577350e962bca579f83&utm_source=EDM&utm_term=Critique%20of%20Israeli%20government%20not%20anti-Semitism

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-12-08 at 19:56

Read this.

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-a-future-of-dust-jeff-sparrow-on-gaza-and-why-in-evil-times-writers-have-a-responsibility-to-take-sides-244285?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%209%202024%20-%203193032561&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%209%202024%20-%203193032561+CID_1d40188f123fa90b7cfad2db80dbc177&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Friday%20essay%20A%20future%20of%20dust%20%20Jeff%20Sparrow%20on%20Gaza%20and%20why%20in%20evil%20times%20writers%20have%20a%20responsibility%20to%20take%20sides

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-11-16 at 19:26

This looks fantastically important showing Aboriginal burning when people first entered Tasmania/Lutruwita 41.6 thousand years ago.

Adeleye MA, Hopf F, Haberle SG, Stannard GL, Mcwethy DB, Harris S, Bowman DMJS (2024) Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago. Science Advances 10 (46):eadp6579. doi:doi:10.1126/sciadv.adp6579

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-11-14 at 21:48

This is wonderful news. The more recognition Palestine gets, the more likely Israel will have to stop the brutal destruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/14/australia-backs-un-resolution-recognising-permanent-sovereignty-of-palestinians-in-major-departure?cid=0285f8d2cf043165f8385372ac1d0160

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-09-30 at 21:06

That looks like "defend itself" to me. Or maybe not.

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-08-01 at 23:21

I knew I had come across it before. WEIRD means "Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic". What is WEIRU?

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-07-31 at 07:25

With the assassination of the leaders of Hamas and of Hezbollah can we now say that Netanyahoo's objectives have been achieved and that the time has come to stop their slaughter of innocents?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-31/hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-killed-in-iran/104164948?utm_id=2394913&sfmc_id=220976447

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-07-28 at 09:18

Here is another example of terraced housing from Halifax, seen from the Bankfield Museum. With 'tMill at 'tbottom

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23766603@N07/25848201815/

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-07-04 at 05:34

For those excited, as you should be, by the new publication about the earliest art in the world, from Sulawesi, here is a further dramatic visualisation of the sites and the art.

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/4gVhTAZXKu9LwQ?

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-07-03 at 20:57

This is incredibly important for people interested in art and in the role of art in the evolution of our species.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07541-7

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-06-01 at 06:43

I have to say it somewhere. I have just finished the last chapter of my book "Art or Scribbles? In the eye of the beholder" More to come.

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-05-24 at 20:25

I have been warned by the Mastodon moderators that some of my posts will be marked sensitive. This was a direct result of a post which sought to show the direct consequences of book burning as has been reported in Gaza on this platform.

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-05-14 at 01:02

Is anyone else disturbed by the penetration of overt AI into Word and Acrobat? Has anyone found a way to turn them off?

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-04-24 at 07:22

This looks like a major contribution to the literature on the first colonization of Sahul

Salles, T., Joannes-Boyau, R., Moffat, I., Husson, L., & Lorcery, M. (2024). Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3430. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47662-1

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-04-12 at 21:10

I wonder whether what we are seeing is a version of capitalism where the successful competition leads to the usuccessful ones putting up their prices to increase their profits rather than outcompeting on price?

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2024/04/12/supermarket-australians-satisfaction?ahe=6c2bac60828d4fb296f2a30b83ca25e7b48e466fd19a056f1597aa08b4f8cc09&acid=330753&lr_hash=eeca7140067c02dd5bbac29871cfe69b

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-02-14 at 19:37

This needs spreading as widely as possible. From @RadicalGraffiti

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2024-01-22 at 18:52

Early humans in East Asia by 45ka

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/01/19/shiyu-discovery-reveals-eastern-asias-early-human-migrations/

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Written by ArchaeoIain on 2023-12-18 at 19:33

I do not understand how a) starving ordinary Palestinians is a destruction of Hamas, unless that is to be achieved by killing all Palestinians and b) how objecting to starvation as a consequence of the actions of Israel can possibly be construed as anti-semitic.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/18/hrw-israel-committing-war-crime-by-intentionally-starving-gaza?traffic_source=rss

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