Ancient OriginsJan 14
Ancient everyday items — from 11,000‑year‑old sculptures to 5,500‑year‑old shoes — show that the objects you use today have roots deep in human history, still resonating in our lives.
#AncientEveryday #LostHistory #FoundObjects #DeepTime #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/ten-oldest-everyday-items-0010619
LongreadsJan 13

"Frankly, I’m surprised you’re even interviewing me. Geologists generally treat me as a nonentity. I’m an un-rock, a cipher, just an irregular surface."

Marcia Bjornerud for High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/meet-the-oldest-rock-in-the-west

#Longreads #Rocks #Geology #Science #DeepTime #History #AncientHistory #Earth #EarthScience

Meet the oldest rock in the West

An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

High Country News
𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Jan 5

🧬 Life kept upgrading itself, code rewriting code. Single cells learned to cluster, then specialize, then network. Fungi arrived early, aquatic, flagellated, flinging spores like packets through water. They hacked land via algae, spun mycelial grids under shifting continents, laid dark infrastructure for everything that followed.

Evolution doesn’t rush toward dominance. It stabilizes conditions until dominance becomes possible.

#DeepTime https://bigthink.com/life/earths-complex-life-began-with-a-fungus/

Harold SmithNov 24

"this problem of deep time still haunts us, because it lurks behind the challenge of grasping #climatechange — i.e. the fact that the warming we’re currently seeing is happening far faster than it ought to. You can only really grasp the speed of what’s going on if you grasp the depth of time …"

Part 10.

https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-40-the-chthulucene-doom-on-a-satellite/

#deeptime #climatecrisis

---> https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/the-geological-sublime-lewis-hyde-deep-time/

Linkfest #40: The "Chthulucene", Doom on a Satellite, and The Ethics of Selling a Haunted House

Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I offer up the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that I...

The Linkfest
Nam HendersonNov 22
#ICYMI “rocks are best understood not as nouns but verbs, signifying events and processes…Herein lies Earth’s secret to wrinkling time…Accepting that we too live in geologic time can free us from narcissism…We may then realize that the text of the Earth itself is full of guidance on durable design and start laying the groundwork for a post-Anthropocene world” https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/wrinkled-time/ via @emergencemagazine re: #deeptime #geologictime + more
Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud

“We live in a vast, labyrinthine library of time.” In this essay, geologist Marcia Bjornerud celebrates the deep time-fulness of Earth, and orients us to read the many-volume stories kept in the rock beneath our feet.

Emergence Magazine
Show threadPeter RileyNov 10

“What’s Sacred “2015
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/whats-sacred-now/6549614

Megafauna Rock Art
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/burrup-peninsula-rock-art-shows-extinct-megafauna/6561788

#Burrup #DeepTime #FirstNations #iceAge #illustration #MegaFauna #Murujuga #Petroglyphs

What's sacred now? - ABC listen

Ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula are among more than 1,000 sites the WA government removed or blocked from its Aboriginal heritage register in the last two-and-a-half years. In 2012 the government created a narrower definition of sacred sites. The Supreme Court has thrown out those changes, but the government now wants a single public servant to determine sacred sites. Sarah Dingle investigates.

ABC listen
Peter RileyNov 10

50,000-year-old encyclopedia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-25/deep-time-murujuga-rock-art-gallery/104798598

#Burrup #DeepTime #FirstNations #IceAge #illustration #Murujuga #Petroglyphs #RockArt

Our country's 50,000-year-old encyclopedia

There are more than 2 million artworks on the rocks at Murujuga, with more stories under the waves.

ABC News
DeceptichumOct 26

DeepTime: Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making

The ABC has recently released Deep Time, “an interactive tool the Story Lab team within ABC News created to help all Australians better understand the ancient history of our continent and its First Nations peoples.”

Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making

Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.

Deep Time - ABC News
S. K. RileyOct 19

Australian First Peoples have survived here for at least 65,000 yrs.

They’ve lived through an ice age, volcanic eruptions, shared the land with giant animals that no longer exist - precious knowledge that’s been passed down thru 2,300 generations.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/time/
#DeepTime #FirstPeoples #Australia

Peter RileyOct 18

https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/tell-me-a-story/

#DeepTime #FirstNations #Sahul #Sunda

The epic story of Australia and its first peoples — like you've never seen it

The story of Australia and its peoples is vast and deep. It's one you should know, but possibly one you've never been told. Well, not like this anyway.

Deep Time - ABC News