Kathryn McKenzie

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I don't have many photos or videos of myself in the field because I'm usually the one taking the photos/videos. But recently I did film a short video about some historic archaeology and I thought maybe I'll share it here for #InternationalWomensDay! This is part 1: 🏺

Pacific Ocean Floor by MARIE THARP, Bruce Heezan, and Heinrich Berann, *as published in* the National Geographic. There, fixed it.😉

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❤️ Keen to combine CARE with FAIR?

🌱 Get involved with the work of the GBIF task group on Indigenous data governance to advance Indigenous rights and interests in open biodiversity data!

📣 Have your say in our survey:
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Historical illustration from 1666 depicting seven marine creatures from the Caribbean, arranged vertically. The species shown are labeled as Dorada, Rockfish, Espadon, Shark-fish, Lamantin (manatee) with a calf, Sea Cock (sailfish), and Becune. Each animal is detailed with distinct features including scales, fins, and unique body shapes, such as the Lamantin’s rounded form holding its young, and the Espadon’s long, sword-like snout. The drawing is monochrome, labeled with page references, and presented in a naturalistic style typical of 17th-century scientific illustrations.

🌴 The history of the Caribby-islands
London: Printed by J.M. for Thomas Dring and John Starkey ..., 1666.

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A diagram showing a quahog shell held between hands. The shell is also shown labeled from side and top views

Take a clam shell in your hands and point the outer edge down and the hinge up. Point the beaklike umbones near the hinge away from you. The bivalve's left and right valves can now be distinguished! Pic via the Atlas of Ancient Life (192) www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/mollus...

#zooarchaeology 🦴🏛️🏺

Excited to be the Chair of the newly established Indigenous data governance task force with the charge of asserting Indigenous rights and governance authority into one of the largest biodiversity repositories in the world. I’m joined by an amazing international team!

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News flash! ⚡ GBIF establishes an international task group led by Dr Lydia Jennings on Indigenous data governance to offer input and guidance for implementing the #CAREPrinciples within the GBIF network 🌱

Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG

@localcontexts.bsky.social

Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!

Yes, it's good!

This is a fairly comprehensive guide from GBIF that may be helpful
docs.gbif.org/georeferenci...

Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past - Volume 99 Issue 405

Charlotta Hillerdal, Alice Watterson, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, Jaqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland all appear on the podcast!

Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU

And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY

For my nerdy crafty pals, this is clearly for you

@barnaclebarclay.bsky.social (Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship @uvic.ca in collaboration with #uvic researchers @juliabaum.bsky.social & @iainmckechnie.bsky.social as well as a Tseshaht First Nation representative, Denis St. Claire.

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#CAREPrinciples

github.com/crmcclain/MO...

A similar photo of me, I got to go up in it! No idea what plane it is. Anyone know?

@b-thom.bsky.social

@qwustenuxun.bsky.social

#zooarchaeology #collections 🏺🐟🏛️

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newly published book:
"The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
will be launched at a sold out event tomorrow at the Courtenay Museum & Palaeontology Centre
www.courtenaymuseum.ca/upcoming-lec...

This Library in New Zealand Is Replacing Dewey With a System Rooted in Māori Tradition - Magazine Could libraries do more than store books? Explore how Te Awe Library is designing a new classification system rooted in Māori tradition and storytelling.

Under the Dewey Decimal System, books on wood carving and river systems would not be placed together, nor would books on conflict resolution and gardening.

magazine.1000libraries.com/this-library...

These are precontact weir stakes that still stick out of the mud at Hwkw’akw’la’hwum. These shxetl’, or salmon weirs, were a salmon enhancement and management technology used by Quw’utsun people for thousands of years. One of the oldest found shxetl’ was dated at over 6,000 years old. Photo courtesy of Jared Qwustenuxun Williams

Wooden stakes (pictured) in the shallows off Vancouver Island have baffled historians for years, that is until new research revealed they are a sophisticated ancient fishing method https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10095591/Archaeology-Canadas-underwater-wooden-stakes-mystery-FINALLY-solved.html

Examples of wood fishweirs from the Cowichan River and Comox Estuary on the shores of #Vancouver Island, in #BritishColumbia, #Canada. Made and fished by #IndigenousPeoples of BC like the Quwʼutsun people, also known as the Cowichan Tribes and the Comox. 1/2

First person: Indigenous agriculture and the Cowichan Estuary Restoration Project Jared Qwustenuxun Williams shares the importance of revitalizing Indigenous agriculture in the Cowichan Estuary.

Since time immemorial Hwkw’akw’la’hwum has existed as a place where Indigenous people have grown food. Now, after more than a century of colonization and land theft, the land is finally being returned to Quw’utsun stewardship.
Story by Jared Qwustenuxun Williams:
thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...

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"Hey GBIF, what day is it?"
Us: "The best day of the year - #InternationalDayForBiologicalDiversity!" 🤩🐛🧬

As a global biodiversity data infrastructure, GBIF works with our international network to provide anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.💚

#BiodiversityDay

Calm Waters
Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian
2000

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