Thrilled to announce that Chronovarium, my collab interactive artwork with Nellie Pease, is shortlisted for the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize!
Go on a deep time journey with Chronovarium - make choices to shape your own mini ecosystem and see the fossil traces left behind at http://chronovarium.com
As well as being a free online resource for science outreach and education, Chronovarium will be exhibited at the South Australian Museum from April to July this year
I've passed my #viva (yay!) and can now share two recent publications:
First, our article on reconstructing prehistoric land cover in the Humberhead Levels is now out in Vegetation History and #Archaeobotany.
We applied the Multiple Scenario Approach to produce spatially-informed quantitative reconstructions across four #prehistoric periods, working through the complexities of #wetland-rich 'blue-green' #landscapes where #freshwater and #marine systems intersect.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-026-01087-6
Second, I contributed to the #archaeology chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of #Anarchism (March 2026), which connects #anarchist theory and #history to contemporary political developments.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031980299
More publications on the way as well and on to what comes next, whatever that might be (pls send me your #postdoc postings 🙏 😅 ).
Dozens of Bizarre Ancient Lifeforms Discovered in ‘Extraordinary’ Fossil Find
Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands
The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5674661 [https://hexbear.net/post/5674661] > > It took six million years for the forests to return to the level of diversity they had before the meteorite, and the species that slowly grew back were completely different than what came before. Legumes—plants that form symbiotic relationships with bacteria that allow them to fix nitrogen from the air—were the first to appear, and they enriched the formerly nutrient-poor soil. This influx of nitrogen, along with phosphorus from the meteorite’s ash, enabled other flowering plants to thrive alongside the legumes and to displace conifers. As flowering species competed for light, they formed dense canopies of leaves and created the layered Amazon rain forest we know today, which is characterized by a blanket of productivity up top and a dark understory at the bottom.
🔴 **Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands**
“_Here we describe chronological, archaeological, faunal and botanical data that support the presence of Holocene hunter-gatherers on the Maltese islands. At this time, Malta’s geographical configuration and sea levels approximated those of the present day, necessitating seafaring distances of around 100 km from Sicily, the closest landmass._”
Scerri, E.M.L., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S. et al. Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08780-y.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Palaeoecology #Migration #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
Fossil evidence found of humans domesticating avocados 7,500 years ago
The Famous Bering Land Bridge Was More Like a Swamp, Geologists Say
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