Mairi MacLean

Archaeologist. Sometimes reposts images of human remains. Tha dìreach beagan Gàidhlig agam, 's e Barrach a th' annam. All views my own. She/her, i/ise 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

[ScARF @ScARFHub]

Calling all archaeology students and ECRs!

We're offering a limited number of bursaries for SSASC 25 in Edinburgh. If you're interested in attending, we can help cover the costs!

The application deadline is 31st Jan 2025.

How to apply: https://t.co/RUc404wSLD

#HESSupported

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

⁦⁦A tactic often used to block a conversation about reparations for trans-Atlantic slavery is a false equivalence with Islamic slavery. This short film is a genuine comparison of the two awful systems. Thank you, the wonderful ⁦@atfdocumentary⁩ https://t.co/oOPeW6kcbX

[Calum Maclean @caldamac]

Calling it 'Lost Valley' is part of the problem too.
Coire Gabhail as it's been known a long time before any 'lost valley' nonsense.
The creep of erasure that all adds into the loss of connection to places & land, a process which we then see the excesses and symptoms of here.

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

Altho they probably don't care about either, so I suppose they're both moot points.

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

The things that annoy me most about the anti-Gaelic rhetoric are that 1) most anti-Gaelic people couldn't recognise it being spoken right in front of them in the middle of Glasgow & 2) they don't witness first hand the impact their hatred has on native speakers.

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@andrewlearmonth Thank you for taking the time to correct it!

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

I'm so tired... It's amazing how ignorant people are of Scotland's linguistic history yet they speak with such confidence... Also, what's wrong with having bilingual signs in places even if "the language was never spoken there"? Don't Gaelic speakers deserve linguistic parity?

[Andrew Learmonth @andrewlearmonth]

Andrew Marr blasts 'offensive' Gaelic signs as he backs Anas Sarwar to be 'proper' FM https://t.co/m21PjZuA1K

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@traighiar I wish we could ban the use of the word "remote" when talking about any of the Scottish isles 😒

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@KennethJMacLean @sweenyness I forget it's not necessarily common knowledge because I spend so much time around other archaeologists, esp ones who specialise in bones

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@sweenyness @KennethJMacLean I've never actually dug up or had first hand experience with a body (animal or human) in a bog, this is all theoretical and book learning 😂

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@sweenyness @KennethJMacLean Yeah! Like I said I don't know the rate/how long it takes for them to fully dissolve, it probably depends on the bog. It's why so many bog bodies are damaged so easily despite the amazing preservation. Was the bone really soft?

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@sweenyness @KennethJMacLean Aye but peat bogs preserve the soft tissues because there's no oxygen for decomposition whilst dissolving the bone because they're so acidic. All the bog bodies you see in museums are entirely soft tissue, not a single bone left in them.

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@KennethJMacLean @sweenyness Glad to make use of my education 🤓

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@KennethJMacLean @sweenyness It might have got caught in the bog & drowned.

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

@KennethJMacLean @sweenyness It's not that deep & the bones are all still there, they haven't dissolved so it isn't old. I dunno the rate that of bone disintegration in peat, so I'm gonna say probably 20th century? I could be way off tho. Can't see a cut or fill either so don't think it was purposely buried

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

The answer is obviously no?? What even IS a gender ideology?! People who think like this are clearly ignorant of cultures across the world esp pre-colonialism. Gender has always been a social construct. The smallest bit of googling would tell you that.

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

Our second question tonight #bbcqt

[Dr Emily Gal @egalArch]

Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity at based at @CSoilleir @UHI_NWH, blending archaeological methodologies with digital heritage, community co creation + oral histories! Please share

[Mairi MacLean @MairiEMac]

Come work with us at SIRFA hq! 🤓

[SIRFA @SIRFA6]

Interested in working with the SIRFA team? Pationate about Orkney's archaeological resources? We are recruiting a project assistant to work on the SIRFA Orkney Resource Assessment.

https://t.co/t6ZUSNahbl
@uhi_orkney @ScARFHub @ThinkUHI @UHIArchaeology @OrkneyCouncil @UHINWH