Brandi L MacDonald

Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia Like stone artefacts, ochres (Earth mineral pigments) are durable, surviving from deep time archaeological contexts across the globe, leaving lasting …

Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats! 🥳

New paper out on chert sourcing for our project in Eswatini. #ArchSci 🏺

Come visit our Virtual Reality display in Studio 3, room 1.24 at WAC-10 in Darwin. #WAC10

all this fascism is terrible for my anxiety disorder

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

American #archaeology friends and colleagues: I suggest you start data scraping NOW from ANY Federal repository you might use for GIS data, etc., I'm working on the NOAA coastal LiDAR here. Message me to collab.

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It got me too! Will block and report. 😄

Papers can be nominated for the award upon being accepted for publication in a journal or edited volume. Nominations for papers accepted for publication or published within 2025 should be submitted by 𝟯𝟭 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

We particularly encourage submissions authored by early career researchers (i.e., graduate students or researchers awarded their PhD within the previous eight years at the time of application).

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Papers nominated for the award should be:
- peer-reviewed and published (online, digitally, or in print) in a journal or edited volume
during 2024
- written in English

The award was established to honor Charles C. Kolb, a SAS member for over 30 years, and dedicated editor of its Bulletin, for his intellectual contributions to ceramic studies, his role in communicating knowledge through his comprehensive reviews, and his continuous efforts to support new scholars.

The purpose of the award is to promote and acknowledge research excellence in the field of archaeological ceramics and highlight the key role of interdisciplinarity.

📢 Award Announcement!
The Charles C. Kolb award for Archaeological Ceramics submissions window is now open! The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) offers one award per year to the best published paper on science-based archaeological ceramics research. More info here bit.ly/4fmIX51
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Monticello researchers receive funding for largest study of colonoware in history For 24 years, Monticello’s Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery has been studying and cataloging artifacts left behind by early and enslaved Americans, creating an online arch...

🏺Made the local paper 😁
Excited about this research!

Very excited to play a supporting role in this Colonoware project with a kickass team of researchers 💜🏺#ArchSci #archaeology #NSF

Crawling back out into the world after 11 days of being terribly sick. I’m lucky to have friends bring me food (thanksgiving leftovers 4EVA), but 0/10 do not recommend. Inbox and to-do list have reached disaster levels. I’d rather stay in bed until January. Stay healthy, folks.

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My instinct is that this is targeting CRM industry… still… students shouldn’t pay for this when there are so many other people and resources out there.

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

I’ve always wondered about this. Great write up!

Rock carvings at Alta, Norway. UNESCO World Heritage. August, 2024 📸

Wow, this sounds really interesting! Bookmarked!

Small glass vials of red, yellow, and orange powdered ochre

Various rocks and stones that make red paints.

Some pics from our recent ochre workshop at the Alta Museum. Making ochre with the lovely Heidi G and Beth V.

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

Some rock art from a recent fieldwork trip to Eswatini. #archaeology #RockArt #ochre

Same, girl. Same.

The end.

Well, I’m glad there were other fights lined up so that I could at least see some boxing.