Alex Pel
@paleoanarcheo.bsky.social
Paleoanthropologist, union rabble rouser at UCW, band dad at JSR, former Denver DIY evangelist and grumpy line cook.
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Very excited to announce Taphosource! Our lab at CSU has made our database of hundreds of confocal microscope-scanned cut, tooth, percussion, and trampling marks available open source! This is the result of years of work in experiments, scanning, and prepping data by everyone involved.
August 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Very excited to announce Taphosource! Our lab at CSU has made our database of hundreds of confocal microscope-scanned cut, tooth, percussion, and trampling marks available open source! This is the result of years of work in experiments, scanning, and prepping data by everyone involved.
Yesterday absolutely ruled
August 6, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Yesterday absolutely ruled
In a ridiculous turn of events, I'm throwing out the first pitch at the Rockies game tomorrow lol
August 3, 2026 at 3:58 PM
In a ridiculous turn of events, I'm throwing out the first pitch at the Rockies game tomorrow lol
Happy fossil Friday, seems as good a day as any now that I've signed the offer letter to announce I'm moving to DC basically for a dream postdoc position
Hint: it's on my shirt
Excited, but it's insane to be moving out of Colorado after 20 years. Denver will always be home
Hint: it's on my shirt
Excited, but it's insane to be moving out of Colorado after 20 years. Denver will always be home
July 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Happy fossil Friday, seems as good a day as any now that I've signed the offer letter to announce I'm moving to DC basically for a dream postdoc position
Hint: it's on my shirt
Excited, but it's insane to be moving out of Colorado after 20 years. Denver will always be home
Hint: it's on my shirt
Excited, but it's insane to be moving out of Colorado after 20 years. Denver will always be home
Hey Michaels, do you need a zooarchaeologist consultant, because what the hell is this supposed to be?
July 23, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Hey Michaels, do you need a zooarchaeologist consultant, because what the hell is this supposed to be?
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the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
July 21, 2026 at 12:43 AM
the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
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The perfect parody doesn't exis-
July 17, 2026 at 4:23 AM
The perfect parody doesn't exis-
Happy fossil Friday from me and Paranthropus aethiopicus
Artist IG: jonald_juck
Artist IG: jonald_juck
July 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Happy fossil Friday from me and Paranthropus aethiopicus
Artist IG: jonald_juck
Artist IG: jonald_juck
Hard to describe how incredible it was to see @themountaingoats.bsky.social at Red Rocks as the sun set
July 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Hard to describe how incredible it was to see @themountaingoats.bsky.social at Red Rocks as the sun set
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So excited to be a co-author on this paper with an amazing team led by @egveatch.bsky.social, published today! Tl:dr - 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 scavenged (not hunted) Stegodon and did not have control of fire at Liang Bua.
🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.
doi.org
July 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
So excited to be a co-author on this paper with an amazing team led by @egveatch.bsky.social, published today! Tl:dr - 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 scavenged (not hunted) Stegodon and did not have control of fire at Liang Bua.
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🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.
doi.org
July 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.
New paper out! Very honored to be a part of this research led by @egveatch.bsky.social We argue that H. floresiensis most likely scavenged Stegodon kills from komodo dragons, rather than hunted these dwarf elephants, and that there is no evidence they used fire. Link below!
July 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
New paper out! Very honored to be a part of this research led by @egveatch.bsky.social We argue that H. floresiensis most likely scavenged Stegodon kills from komodo dragons, rather than hunted these dwarf elephants, and that there is no evidence they used fire. Link below!
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My dear friend and colleague from Tanzania, John Mturi, is raising money for urgently needed surgery for his wife Edita Accumulating medical costs are never cheap, especially on an archaelogy student's pay. Please consider helping, every little bit matters.
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-sur...
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-sur...
Donate to Urgent Surgery for Edita Mturi, organized by Mturi A John
My name is John Mturi, an archaeology student from Tanzania, East Africa. I am reaching ou… Mturi A John needs your support for Urgent Surgery for Edita Mturi
www.gofundme.com
May 15, 2026 at 12:37 AM
My dear friend and colleague from Tanzania, John Mturi, is raising money for urgently needed surgery for his wife Edita Accumulating medical costs are never cheap, especially on an archaelogy student's pay. Please consider helping, every little bit matters.
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-sur...
www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-sur...
Playoff hockey I love you
May 6, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Playoff hockey I love you
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the GWOT also exists in the Bluey universe, implying the existence of both Osama bin Doggin and Saddog Hussein.
canonically, Rosita's dad in Sesame Street served in Iraq and suffered a service-connected spinal injury
April 25, 2026 at 4:54 AM
the GWOT also exists in the Bluey universe, implying the existence of both Osama bin Doggin and Saddog Hussein.
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i mean they kind of were for a few months... tiny desk concert, etc
but absolutely one of the most underrated bands of the last 15 years
but absolutely one of the most underrated bands of the last 15 years
Restorations should have been huge. youtu.be/1Rv6q1-y27Q?...
April 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
i mean they kind of were for a few months... tiny desk concert, etc
but absolutely one of the most underrated bands of the last 15 years
but absolutely one of the most underrated bands of the last 15 years
New Dillinger Four in 2026, goddamn
April 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
New Dillinger Four in 2026, goddamn
I'm so tired, depressed, angry
March 2, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I'm so tired, depressed, angry
Now is the time of monsters
March 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Now is the time of monsters
Our lab has a new open-access paper out today!
We are presenting our database of several hundred experimentally generated bone surface modifications that the Pante lab has been creating, collecting, and scanning over the last 10+ years!
Birds unrelated.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
We are presenting our database of several hundred experimentally generated bone surface modifications that the Pante lab has been creating, collecting, and scanning over the last 10+ years!
Birds unrelated.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Frontiers | A comparative bone surface modification database for revealing the origins and evolution of human carnivory
Fossilized trace marks left by our ancestors as they processed animals for food are important clues to the emergence and intensification of human carnivory a...
www.frontiersin.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Our lab has a new open-access paper out today!
We are presenting our database of several hundred experimentally generated bone surface modifications that the Pante lab has been creating, collecting, and scanning over the last 10+ years!
Birds unrelated.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
We are presenting our database of several hundred experimentally generated bone surface modifications that the Pante lab has been creating, collecting, and scanning over the last 10+ years!
Birds unrelated.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Jesus fucking Christ lmao
Minneapolis, MN -
Very developing situation here. FPS agents ran into the hotel. Tear gas deployed. Hotel patrons forced to put their hands up. One agent’s nose bloodied.
Very developing situation here. FPS agents ran into the hotel. Tear gas deployed. Hotel patrons forced to put their hands up. One agent’s nose bloodied.
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Jesus fucking Christ lmao
Murderers and fascist thugs, nothing more, nothing less
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Murderers and fascist thugs, nothing more, nothing less