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Friday, January 06, 2023
People at Auckland Museum (PAM) - Administration - Career - View Job - Collection Manager, Taonga Māori
https://aucklandmuseum.elmotalent.co.nz/careers/opportunities/job/view/231
People at Auckland Museum (PAM) - Administration - Career - View Job - Curator, Archaeology
https://aucklandmuseum.elmotalent.co.nz/careers/opportunities/job/view/230?fbclid=IwAR2AaoXWueHDddw1Uta1y0a3xneFVu04ngfOmYYH2P__H7_9KxgykmWYtC4
Ancestral Home Of All Humans Revealed Through World's Largest Genome Reconstruction Of Our Ancestors - Ancient Pages
Ed: If that was the answer, they were asking some funny questions.
https://flip.it/nKnuyR
Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in the world | British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/caring-only-known-full-kakapo-feather-cloak-world
Did Humans Arrive in Micronesia Much Earlier Than We Thought?
https://flip.it/EFjl7K
British sale of artefacts and specimens
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/481823/questions-raised-over-sale-of-aotearoa-artefacts-at-sotheby-s-auction
Aus shipwrecks
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-27/maddy-mcallister-shipwreck-mermaid-history-underwater/101803164
Antarctic conservationist Nigel Watson receives medal for services - NZ Herald
NZ Herald
"The contribution he's made to ensuring Antarctica's cultural heritage is protected has allowed Aotearoa New Zealand to shine on the world stage," he ...
'Lots of information isn't secret, it's just hard to find': Nicky Hager on the investigative techniques of one of NZ's most famous whistle blower Owen Wilkes
And an archaeologist too.
https://flip.it/6olSCf
Records of the Canterbury Museum Volume 36 2022
Articles on pounamu from Piopiotahi (Milford Sound), kūmara pits in Temuka, the history of Ladysmith Cake, the pre-European production of stone tools, artist Margaret Stoddart's visits to the Chatham Islands and a new species of New Zealand mayfly.
https://www.canterburymuseum.com/research/records-of-the-canterbury-museum/
2023 Archaeology Week Update – Area Co-ordinators
Due to the early submission to AINZ for the December issue several of the wonderful people who have put their hands up as area co-ordinators for this year’s Archaeology Week were missing. They are as follows –
Canterbury – Clara Watson – clara@underoverarch.co.nz
Bay of Plenty – Josie Hagan – Josie@insitu-heritage.co.nz
Wellington – Mary O'Keeffe & Eva Forster-Garbutt – mary@heritagesolutions.net.nz
Northland, Southland/Otago, West Coast, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough...anyone keen?
Kia ora!
Toni-maree Rowe
Archaeology Week Coordinator
archaeologyweek@nzarchaeology
The history of the domestic cat in Central Europe
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/history-of-the-domestic-cat-in-central-europe/310159D75603E48DE19A357A65894AA0
From Explorator:
A roundup of 'human evolution' finds in 2022:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-12-28/ty-article-timeline/hominins-on-the-briny-and-other-human-evolution-stories-in-2022/00000185-58bb-d6a2-adf5-79fbe70e0000
An 800 000 years bp+ homo erectus skull from China's Hubei province:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-12-27/Million-year-old-fossilized-skull-of-Homo-erectus-excavated-in-China-1g6oYNMMxl6/index.html
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/28/WS63ac3f47a31057c47eba6a95.html
A 40 000 years bp cave site in Spain may be the 'last hangout' for Neanderthals:
https://www.iflscience.com/cave-chamber-closed-for-40-000-years-found-in-neanderthals-last-hangout-66822
300 000 years bp evidence of humans wearing bearskins from a site in Lower Saxony:
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-humans-skins-years.html
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-726262
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11094-221223-europe-bear-skin
cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248422001543
More on 300 000 years bp evidence of tool use from that same site in Lower Saxony:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/tiny-flakes-tell-a-story-of-tool-use-300000-years-ago/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/300000-year-old-flakes-indicate-ancient-tool-use/145554
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/12/19/tiny-flakes-tell-a-story-of-tool-use-300000-years-ago/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11089-221221-sharp-flint-flakes
More on the suggestion that hominins were sailing the Mediterranean 450 000 years bp:
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-human-ancestors-aegean-sea.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-humans-may-have-sailed-the-mediterranean-450000-years-ago
https://www.salon.com/2022/12/28/our-human-ancestors-learned-to-sail-half-a-million-years-ago-study-suggests/
More on why hominins may have started walking:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/12/19/early-humans-may-have-first-walked-upright-in-the-trees/
Ed: Then again see the recent Scientific American article which saw it as not a one time or one cause event.
Study suggests that some 50 000 years bp stone tools from Brazil may have been made by monkeys:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/50000-year-old-stone-tools-were-made-by-monkeys/145671
Haven't had a Neanderthal revisionism piece in a while:
https://www.newsweek.com/2023/01/13/neanderthals-were-smart-sophisticated-creative-misunderstood-1769443.html
... or something on human/Neanderthal interbreeding:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/forensic-anthropology-expands-the-view-on-human-neanderthal-interbreeding
Feature/interview on Chris Stringer's work with assorted early hominins:
https://www.theguardian.com/focus/2022/dec/31/chris-stringer-origins-of-man-lifelong-mission
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