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Iain Davidson AU
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Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578 .. more

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · May 2
It seems to be the case that my publisher has removed the restriction on the individual chapters of my(our) book on ResearchGate. You can now download them free, so long as you know the names of the files. Here they are:
Names of chapters of my book Art or Scribbles which can be downloaded from ResearchGate

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 11h
Paywall

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h
I do not object to the map. What I do object to is that they do not centre it on the Pacific.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h
Certainly there has been no US victory since then

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h
I hear that 4547 wants to build a triumphal arch in Washington. Have I got this wrong? Triumphal arches are about triumphs, aren't they? The US has not won a war since WWII. Why would they want an arch now?

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h
So get out of Wordle and the NYT

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 18h
For those who play Wordle today's word is PAGER. It is also the 2nd anniversary of Israel using pagers as instruments of war to kill innocent civilians. I am stopping playing wordle now. Disgusting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Le...
2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
I see his point about CNN not being very good at news. What is new about this. Everyone has known this since 2000.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
And as of this moment there are 40 or so likes. This will pass under the radar, but was obvious almost from the get go.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Not monocultural then?

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
There are now even more reasons for opposing the right wing parties. Just wish that the ALP was not one of them.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Trump With Intelligence, Truly. Henceforward both he and it will be known as TWIT

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Fake Intelligence. or More Intelligent than the Felon.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
They would argue that the lowest common denominator policies of the rump education policy are a way of reducing inequality. Make everyone Christian, call it Judeo-Christian (to avoid history), make Aboriginal peoples adopt white settler-terrorist practices, and allow people to pollute and rape land

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Funny. This seems almost out of the Abbott playbook, but he would say that the great contribution of the colonisation of Australia was the introduction of Christianity. Leeser carefully avoids that. The proposed curriculum is regressive in almost every possible way. Not a path to the future.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 1d
Archaeology of tattooing in Kamchatka and surrounding regions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #archaeology #tattoos 🏺🪡 (open access)
Images of archaeological small human effigies in ivory, wood and other materials showiung atterns of facial tattoos dating up to 1500 years ago. Figure 3 from the article, reading: Fig. 3. Images with a face-tattoo from the archaeological cultures of Northern Pacific: 1 – mask from the jaundice of the ancient barbary plant Dorset (3500 years ago), to: (Miniature ivory mask, 2023); 2, 3 – masks from the wood of the Dorset plant (1500–1000 years ago), to: (Maskette, 2026, Masques dorsétiens, 2026); 4 – stone representation (Aleutian Islands, 1200–100 years ago), to: (Turner, 2002), 5 – head from the claw of the ancient marine culture Punuk (700–500 years ago), to: (Head. Old Bering Sea, 2026); 6 - a figurine made from the claw of an ancient Siberian marine culture (Figure. Punuk, 2026) Figure 2 from article showing stone tools and needle-like pins used in tattooing. Caption reads: Fig. 2. Tattoo tools: А – artifacts of the Ushki V site (cultural horizon VII) (Kamchatka, Russia) (1, 2 – cutters, 3, 4 – arrowheads) (Ponkratova, Volkov, Lbova, 2022, p. 255, Fig. 2); В – Tattoo tool collection, Atka Island (Alaska, USA) (1, 3 – needles with handles, 2, 4–7 – needle handles) (photo by I.Yu. Ponkratova) (collection no. 2868 of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (St. Petersburg, Russia).

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God @thegodshow.com · 2d
Bless these folks!
Bless The Americans Who Formed A Human Chain Around The Kennedy Center
Dear Humans,
www.thegodshow.com

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 2d
The biggest mistake in American history was not dragging Trump off to prison within 24 hours of Jan 6th.

We’ll all pay for that for the rest of our lives, if the MIDTERMS go south…

Now, go VOTE! 😎✨

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d
I would argue that her immorality means that she believes what she is told when it suits her story. She has no capacity to identify whether there is a moral position to adopt. As a result I believe she is gullible about any positive thing about Zionism and any negative thing about Palestine.

Reposted by Iain Davidson, Evelyne de Leeuw

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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 2d
This is a good one.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d
As far as I can tell, she is a very gullible person of very limited intellect. She seems to do what she is told and has no moral sensitivity whatsoever. And yet our Prime Minister gave her astonishing power and access. This is a truly terrible situation for all Palestinians and for Australia.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.”

Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d
2024 paper