People assume my PhD was about space .... but it was actually about body modification in the archaeological record.
The Archaeology of Body Modification. The Identification of Symbolic Behaviour Through Usewear and Residues on Flaked Stone Tools (2000) 🧪 🏺
The Archaeology of Body Modification. The Identification of Symbolic Behaviour Through Usewear and Residues on Flaked Stone Tools (2000) 🧪 🏺
The Archaeology of Body Modification. The Identification of Symbolic Behaviour Through Usewear and Residues on Flaked Stone Tools
The origins of modern human behaviour have been constructed by some archaeologists as a question of the origins of symbolism. In this thesis I argue that consciousness is embodied and that body modifi...
www.academia.edu
February 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
People assume my PhD was about space .... but it was actually about body modification in the archaeological record.
The Archaeology of Body Modification. The Identification of Symbolic Behaviour Through Usewear and Residues on Flaked Stone Tools (2000) 🧪 🏺
The Archaeology of Body Modification. The Identification of Symbolic Behaviour Through Usewear and Residues on Flaked Stone Tools (2000) 🧪 🏺
🤖 Can #AI help #archaeologists identify how #stonetools were used?
#ICArEHB researchers A. Eleftheriadou, Y. Djellal, S.P. McPherron & J. Marreiros explore this with convolutional neural networks for #UseWear analysis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Archaeology #MachineLearning
#ICArEHB researchers A. Eleftheriadou, Y. Djellal, S.P. McPherron & J. Marreiros explore this with convolutional neural networks for #UseWear analysis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Archaeology #MachineLearning
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🤖 Can #AI help #archaeologists identify how #stonetools were used?
#ICArEHB researchers A. Eleftheriadou, Y. Djellal, S.P. McPherron & J. Marreiros explore this with convolutional neural networks for #UseWear analysis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Archaeology #MachineLearning
#ICArEHB researchers A. Eleftheriadou, Y. Djellal, S.P. McPherron & J. Marreiros explore this with convolutional neural networks for #UseWear analysis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Archaeology #MachineLearning
My PhD wasn't about space. It was a usewear and residue study of flaked glass artefacts that had been used for body modification, in the Pitt Rivers Museum. I made a bibliography of flaked glass and posted it to the Lithics-L back in 1998. Here it is if anyone is interested! 🧪 🏺
Flaked glass bibliography: a resource for lithics studies
I put this together for my PhD years ago, and sent it to the lithic email discussion list. Until recently it was still available online but ...
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August 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
My PhD wasn't about space. It was a usewear and residue study of flaked glass artefacts that had been used for body modification, in the Pitt Rivers Museum. I made a bibliography of flaked glass and posted it to the Lithics-L back in 1998. Here it is if anyone is interested! 🧪 🏺
Studying the Ghassanian clubs from Jordanian desert in really good company 😻 #Neolithic #DesertKites #usewear #Amman #CatLife
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Studying the Ghassanian clubs from Jordanian desert in really good company 😻 #Neolithic #DesertKites #usewear #Amman #CatLife
The Call for Papers for the next AWRANA Conference on Wear and Residues Analysis will be open soon. AWRANA26 will take place at Pisa @preistoria.bsky.social between the 9th and 12th of April 2026.
March 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
👋🏻 I’m Zane. Thanks for following!
I’m an Australian archaeologist with a dissertation that looked at responses to sea level rise 6kya in Australia’s NW through usewear/residues on stone artefacts.
Here’s some of the things I’ve worked on over the years 🧵👇🏻
I’m an Australian archaeologist with a dissertation that looked at responses to sea level rise 6kya in Australia’s NW through usewear/residues on stone artefacts.
Here’s some of the things I’ve worked on over the years 🧵👇🏻
December 2, 2024 at 9:28 PM
👋🏻 I’m Zane. Thanks for following!
I’m an Australian archaeologist with a dissertation that looked at responses to sea level rise 6kya in Australia’s NW through usewear/residues on stone artefacts.
Here’s some of the things I’ve worked on over the years 🧵👇🏻
I’m an Australian archaeologist with a dissertation that looked at responses to sea level rise 6kya in Australia’s NW through usewear/residues on stone artefacts.
Here’s some of the things I’ve worked on over the years 🧵👇🏻
Hey Bluesky, let me introduce myself. I’m an archaeologist specialised in usewear/functional analysis of lithics currently doing my postdoc in @roam-ugent.bsky.social at @archeougent.bsky.social.
December 6, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Hey Bluesky, let me introduce myself. I’m an archaeologist specialised in usewear/functional analysis of lithics currently doing my postdoc in @roam-ugent.bsky.social at @archeougent.bsky.social.
New #OpenAccess paper: when did cereal agriculture adopt low harvesting?🧐 Our study traces the shift from high to low cereal cutting between 11,000 and 6,000 cal BC in SW Asia—a gradual yet transformative process that shaped the Mediterranean #agriculture 🌾🔬 #archaeology #usewear #confocal @csic.es
January 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New #OpenAccess paper: when did cereal agriculture adopt low harvesting?🧐 Our study traces the shift from high to low cereal cutting between 11,000 and 6,000 cal BC in SW Asia—a gradual yet transformative process that shaped the Mediterranean #agriculture 🌾🔬 #archaeology #usewear #confocal @csic.es
My latest PhD paper is now out on the late Pleistocene tusk shell beads from Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, northwest Australia. The paper also includes discussion of usewear analysis and experimental archaeology.
doi.org/10.1080/0312...
doi.org/10.1080/0312...
Late Pleistocene scaphopod beads from Boodie Cave and deep time traditions of personal ornamentation in northwest Australia
Tubular segments of Scaphopoda (tusk shell) were traditionally used by Aboriginal peoples in the manufacture of ornate bead necklaces across northwest Australia. Twenty-seven scaphopod shell beads ...
doi.org
November 15, 2024 at 12:27 AM
My latest PhD paper is now out on the late Pleistocene tusk shell beads from Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, northwest Australia. The paper also includes discussion of usewear analysis and experimental archaeology.
doi.org/10.1080/0312...
doi.org/10.1080/0312...
In Ardeche for the 11th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped & Ground Stone Industries of the Near East presenting the the results on the use of ground stone tools to process pulses at Kharaysin (Jordan) 🌱🔬 @iphes-cerca.bsky.social @csic.es #archaeology #usewear #neolithic
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
In Ardeche for the 11th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped & Ground Stone Industries of the Near East presenting the the results on the use of ground stone tools to process pulses at Kharaysin (Jordan) 🌱🔬 @iphes-cerca.bsky.social @csic.es #archaeology #usewear #neolithic
🪨 Decoding #Acheulean percussive technology — #ICArEHB researchers Eduardo Paixão, João Marreiros & Erella Hovers co-author this open access study on #UseWear traces in stone tools.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#LithicTechnology #Archaeology
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#LithicTechnology #Archaeology
July 24, 2026 at 2:24 PM
🪨 Decoding #Acheulean percussive technology — #ICArEHB researchers Eduardo Paixão, João Marreiros & Erella Hovers co-author this open access study on #UseWear traces in stone tools.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#LithicTechnology #Archaeology
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#LithicTechnology #Archaeology
awrana2026.cfs.unipi.it/registration/ AWRANA #congress in Pisa 2026 opened registration and abstract submission. Don't miss the #EarlyBird deadline on 15/08/202! #archaeology #usewear🏺
Registration – AWRANA2026: Breaking Patterns in Archaeology
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April 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
awrana2026.cfs.unipi.it/registration/ AWRANA #congress in Pisa 2026 opened registration and abstract submission. Don't miss the #EarlyBird deadline on 15/08/202! #archaeology #usewear🏺
Groundstone specialist Cristina Tsoraki's analysis indicates that the macehead has no signs of usewear and that it was probably buried not long after it was made (illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social)
August 23, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Groundstone specialist Cristina Tsoraki's analysis indicates that the macehead has no signs of usewear and that it was probably buried not long after it was made (illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social)
The first article from my PhD results is now published — and it’s Open Access!
We show how handaxe grip and use evolved over time at La Noira (France).
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#usewear #prehistory #handaxe #paleolithic #acheulean
We show how handaxe grip and use evolved over time at La Noira (France).
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#usewear #prehistory #handaxe #paleolithic #acheulean
Use-Wear Analysis Shows Changing Handaxe Grip and Use Across Time at la Noira (France) - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
Handaxes — sub-oval bifacially flaked stone tools — were produced for over a million years across Africa, Europe, and Asia during the Lower Palaeolithic. Their relatively uniform shape across varied e...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The first article from my PhD results is now published — and it’s Open Access!
We show how handaxe grip and use evolved over time at La Noira (France).
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#usewear #prehistory #handaxe #paleolithic #acheulean
We show how handaxe grip and use evolved over time at La Noira (France).
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#usewear #prehistory #handaxe #paleolithic #acheulean
These findings support a model of early subsistence practices in which both female and male individuals at Wilamaya Patjxa hunted large mammals.
Lithic usewear confirms the function of Wilamaya Patjxa projectile points 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lithic usewear confirms the function of Wilamaya Patjxa projectile points 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 8, 2023 at 6:34 PM
These findings support a model of early subsistence practices in which both female and male individuals at Wilamaya Patjxa hunted large mammals.
Lithic usewear confirms the function of Wilamaya Patjxa projectile points 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lithic usewear confirms the function of Wilamaya Patjxa projectile points 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
*skating rinks, though chair lifts might have some interesting usewear
January 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
*skating rinks, though chair lifts might have some interesting usewear
New exciting experiments have just began at @chewlabluc.bsky.social
🌾🔬🦷 #experimental #archaeology #plants #teeth #usewear
🌾🔬🦷 #experimental #archaeology #plants #teeth #usewear
September 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New exciting experiments have just began at @chewlabluc.bsky.social
🌾🔬🦷 #experimental #archaeology #plants #teeth #usewear
🌾🔬🦷 #experimental #archaeology #plants #teeth #usewear
Thanks to Dr Jaroslav Řídký and his team for hosting me at the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. It was a wonderful stay ended with a lecture about my research on #usewear #groundstonetools #plants #neolithic#SWAsia #RyC @iphes-cerca.bsky.social 🌱🔬
February 20, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Thanks to Dr Jaroslav Řídký and his team for hosting me at the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. It was a wonderful stay ended with a lecture about my research on #usewear #groundstonetools #plants #neolithic#SWAsia #RyC @iphes-cerca.bsky.social 🌱🔬
Total cosmic coincidence! Thesis available here if you want to read it. 🏺
The Archaeology of Body Modification. The Identification of Symbolic Behaviour Through Usewear and Residues on Flaked Stone Tools
The origins of modern human behaviour have been constructed by some archaeologists as a question of the origins of symbolism. In this thesis I argue that consciousness is embodied and that body modifi...
www.academia.edu
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Total cosmic coincidence! Thesis available here if you want to read it. 🏺
🌟Exciting News🌟 We are thrilled to announce that we are organizing a session on obsidian diffusion, technology and use at the 31st EAA Annual Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸 (3-6 Sept. 2025)
#Obsidian #TechnoTypology #UseWear #LithicStudies #Diffusion
#Obsidian #TechnoTypology #UseWear #LithicStudies #Diffusion
December 24, 2024 at 10:04 AM
🌟Exciting News🌟 We are thrilled to announce that we are organizing a session on obsidian diffusion, technology and use at the 31st EAA Annual Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸 (3-6 Sept. 2025)
#Obsidian #TechnoTypology #UseWear #LithicStudies #Diffusion
#Obsidian #TechnoTypology #UseWear #LithicStudies #Diffusion
Anyone know of any usewear analysis that have been done on slingshot pebbles/stones? @prehistorian.bsky.social?
January 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Anyone know of any usewear analysis that have been done on slingshot pebbles/stones? @prehistorian.bsky.social?
As mentioned, my dissertation identified significant changes in the types of plants being processed by Aboriginal people at Murujuga between 12-6kya as sea level rise transformed the arid plains into an archipelago. I did this with usewear/residue analysis.
Read more here: shorturl.at/zc2KI
Read more here: shorturl.at/zc2KI
December 2, 2024 at 9:28 PM
As mentioned, my dissertation identified significant changes in the types of plants being processed by Aboriginal people at Murujuga between 12-6kya as sea level rise transformed the arid plains into an archipelago. I did this with usewear/residue analysis.
Read more here: shorturl.at/zc2KI
Read more here: shorturl.at/zc2KI
You can read it! It's here:
Also I think the stitches would make a beautiful tattoo.
Also I think the stitches would make a beautiful tattoo.
The Archaeology of Body Modification. The Identification of Symbolic Behaviour Through Usewear and Residues on Flaked Stone Tools
The origins of modern human behaviour have been constructed by some archaeologists as a question of the origins of symbolism. In this thesis I argue that consciousness is embodied and that body modifi...
www.academia.edu
March 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
You can read it! It's here:
Also I think the stitches would make a beautiful tattoo.
Also I think the stitches would make a beautiful tattoo.
Can you add me please :) my two latest papers are on Australian Aboriginal shell beads and shell knives using experimental archaeology to investigate manufacture characteristics, debitage patterns and usewear.
February 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Can you add me please :) my two latest papers are on Australian Aboriginal shell beads and shell knives using experimental archaeology to investigate manufacture characteristics, debitage patterns and usewear.
Usewear is fascinating. I would suggest as an archaeologist - parks or schools (playground equipment/benches), laundromats, post offices, libraries, government offices, established college campus libraries, old granges, traditional barbershops, independent mechanics.
January 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Usewear is fascinating. I would suggest as an archaeologist - parks or schools (playground equipment/benches), laundromats, post offices, libraries, government offices, established college campus libraries, old granges, traditional barbershops, independent mechanics.