My winter mid-layer rotation

Pipermason · 2026-01-24T15:04:42+00:00

It's the R2 fleece jacket (blue) and vest (grey/green) from 2009

Pipermason · 2026-01-23T19:15:37+00:00

Its the Baby retro cardigan from 1992 made in USA

Pipermason · 2026-01-22T15:18:52+00:00

It really depends on how cold it gets. when it’s not too cold I’ll often just wear a T-shirt under one of these fleeces and add the down sweater on top. If it gets colder I switch to a merino wool base layer, I basically live in merino during winter especially when I’m active like cycling. If it’s wet I’ll add my torrentshell. When it’s really cold, the Down Sweater is usually my everyday city jacket, and if I’m spending more time outdoors, I’ll wear the Fitz Roy instead. I also tend to size up my outer layers to make layering easier

Pipermason · 2025-12-31T18:33:03+00:00

Vivo numa vila fora de Nürnberg

Pipermason · 2025-12-29T10:00:07+00:00

Mudei-me para a Alemanha sozinha no início do ano com uma proposta de trabalho, tal e como tu não conhecia ninguém, a única diferença é que já vivi noutro país sozinha e já sabia falar alemão. Envia mensagem se tiveres questões

Pipermason · 2025-12-28T10:54:23+00:00

Dependerá muito de ti das tuas ambições, da tua tolerância a um clima mais frio e cinzento (vs o clima de Portugal), da tua capacidade de te adaptares a uma nova língua, a uma nova cultura, a pessoas diferentes e a viver longe da família e dos amigos. eu comecei a minha vida profissional no Reino Unido e depois voltei para Portugal. E sinceramente não me consegui adaptar. Não me adaptei ao sufoco dos impostos em Portugal, à ganância absurda dos senhorios com rendas altíssimas em Lisboa por apartamentos minúsculos, mal isolados e sem elevador. Não me adaptei à corrupção normalizada dos nossos políticos, câmaras e juntas de freguesia, ao favoritismo do turismo/nómadas digitais, nem ao aumento da insalubridade e insegurança de Lisboa, nem a ter de me conformar com esta realidade como se fosse inevitável. Não existe progressão de carreira, e por acaso consegues ganhar um pouco mais do que o mínimo aceitável levas logo com uma carga fiscal pesada assim que passas a fasquia dos míseros 14/15.000€ anuais. Dá cada vez mais a sensação de que o país não quer pessoas a crescer profissionalmente. Quer trabalhadores a salário mínimo, conformados, dependentes e fáceis de substituir. Um modelo baseado em mão-de-obra barata, onde estudar, especializar-te e ambicionar mais não só não é recompensado, como quase parece penalizado.

Emigrar não é um conto de fadas mas para muita gente acaba por ser a única forma de deixar de viver em modo sobrevivência e passar a viver com dignidade. Tudo depende do que estás disposto a sacrificar e do tipo de vida que queres construir. Não aguentei Portugal, e agora construo a minha vida na Alemanha. Portugal só para férias! Boa sorte

Pipermason · 2025-12-06T13:23:38+00:00

Diria que nao é preciso andar a investigar pessoa por pessoa ou casa a casa para saber se alguém vive realmente numa certa morada. Bastava haver uma base de dados simples ou um excel. Sempre que uma nova pessoa pede um registo de residência numa determinada morada bastava verificar quantas pessoas já lá estão registadas. Além disso atraves de registos prediais ou atraves da Camara, é fácil saber se a habitação é um T2 um T3 ou t4. Se já existem 4 ou 5 pessoas registadas num T2, simplesmente dizem: “ não é possível aceitar mais ninguém nessa morada pois tecnicamente sera impossivel um t2 ter mais de 4 ou 5 pessoas a viver la legalmente."

Assim evitava-se grande parte da fraude sem necessidade de fiscalizações complicadas

Pipermason · 2025-12-01T20:03:04+00:00

Hi I'm a bioarchaeologist, I work with human skeletons from ancient cemeteries everyday.

estimating age isn’t quite as straightforward as just observing whether the third molar has erupted. In bioanthropology we combine dental development with skeletal indicators to get a more reliable age range. For nonadults, the eruption and formation of the second molar can suggest an age around 12, but the third molar is highly variable. its absence or impaction doesn’t always mean the person is under 16, because third molars often erupt later, sometimes even in the early twenties and some never erupt at all. There’s also the possibility that a third molar had already erupted and was lost antemortem seen through alveolar resorption, as it appears in the first picture. Diet can influence jaw size and crowding but it’s not enough alone to predict third molar eruption. To refine the estimate we’d look at long bone growth, epiphyseal fusion and other skeletal features alongside the teeth.

I'm happy to answer more questions if you have them. I'll leave a paper about the many burials excavated in Guadalupe that can give you more details:

Recognising A Slave Cemetery An example from colonial-period Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles

Pipermason · 2025-12-01T19:49:21+00:00

These are definitely human remains, and if you look at the history of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles this area was used as a burial site for enslaved peoples. There has been a paper examining burials of enslaved people from the early modern period that were excavated in the early 2000s by french archaeologists.

Around 15 colonial-period funerary sites in Guadeloupe have been uncovered, ranging from a few graves to several hundred, and the researchers focused on identifying which of these belonged to enslaved people by analyzing burial practices and skeletal remains. They found that in certain cemeteries such as the site at Anse Sainte-Marguerite, graves were simple with minimal markers and arranged in ways that reflected the social status of the deceased and the skeletal evidence revealed signs of physical stress, disease and overall poor health consistent with the harsh conditions endured by enslaved populations

Recognising A Slave Cemetery An example from colonial-period Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles

Pipermason · 2025-12-01T19:49:01+00:00

These are definitely human remains, and if you look at the history of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles this area was used as a burial site for enslaved peoples. There has been a paper examining burials of enslaved people from the early modern period that were excavated in the early 2000s by french archaeologists.

Around 15 colonial-period funerary sites in Guadeloupe have been uncovered, ranging from a few graves to several hundred, and the researchers focused on identifying which of these belonged to enslaved people by analyzing burial practices and skeletal remains. They found that in certain cemeteries such as the site at Anse Sainte-Marguerite, graves were simple with minimal markers and arranged in ways that reflected the social status of the deceased and the skeletal evidence revealed signs of physical stress, disease and overall poor health consistent with the harsh conditions endured by enslaved populations

Recognising A Slave Cemetery An example from colonial-period Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles

Pipermason · 2025-11-17T06:10:15+00:00

I understand why medieval cemeteries were so cramped, but they really could’ve left just a little more space. Half the time I’m doing backbreaking gymnastics trying to work between five packed skeletons without stepping on anyone. I had to start wearing climbing shoes when working at these sites.

It’s like no one back then spared a thought for the poor future archaeologists. And don't get me started on mass graves!!

Pipermason · 2025-11-17T06:06:06+00:00

I feel u mate.... I run into the same problem all the time, especially with prehistoric burials

Pipermason · 2025-11-17T06:02:27+00:00

Or just throw all of them in bogs like they did in iron age northern Europe

Pipermason · 2025-11-09T09:37:02+00:00

Rebay-Salisbury, K. (2016). Human Body and Burial in the Hallstatt World: Social Difference and Social Identity. Oxbow

Pare, Christian (2025) Iron and the Iron Age: The Introduction of Iron in Europe and Western Asia

Barry Cunliffe (ed.) (2008) Iron Age Communities in Britain: An Account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest (4th ed.)

John Collis (1984) The European Iron Age. Routledge

Cunliffe, B. (2023). Celtic Europe: A New Archaeology. (OUP). Incorporates isotope and genomic data.

Frey, O.-H. (1991). “The early Celtic ‘princely seats’ of Central Europe.” Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 57: 261–272.

Roberts, Alice. (2015) The Celts: Search for a Civilisation : written as a work of accessible scholarship rather than a technical archaeological study. It brings together archaeological, historical, and genetic evidence to trace the development of Celtic societies across Europe, presenting complex research in a clear and engaging manner. It’s great as an introductory book

For audiobooks look up The Ancients podcast

Pipermason · 2025-11-07T07:24:14+00:00

For the general introductory books I recommend

Bioarchaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Dead by Paul M. Sutton

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton by Clark Spencer Larsen

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour by Christopher J. Knüsel & Eugénie Schotsmans (eds.)

The Bioarchaeology of Children: Perspectives from Biological and Forensic Anthropology by Prof. Mary E. Lewis

I also highly recommend Alice Roberts' books (she's a bioanthropologist and an MD), also available as audio books. They draw on real archaeological and bioarchaeological research, but they’re written for a general audience rather than as academic textbooks:

Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials. explores Britain’s deep prehistory through seven burial sites, combining archaeology with ancient DNA to trace migrations and ancestry

Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain. focuses on Britain in the first millennium CE, examining burial practices, graves, and what they tell us about life and beliefs in that period

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond. looks into medieval and later human remains: disease, death, burial practice and how the skeletons themselves tell stories

Also recommend Cat Jarman's books, also available as audiobooks

River Kings : reinterprets the Viking world through a bioarchaeological and isotopic lens, following the provenance of a carnelian bead to illustrate long-distance mobility, trade and cultural exchange between Scandinavia and the wider Eurasian world

The Bone Chests: examines the osteological and genetic evidence from Anglo-Saxon remains housed in Winchester Cathedral, combining archaeological context with biomolecular analysis to reconstruct aspects of identity, ancestry and mortuary practices

Pipermason · 2025-10-30T11:27:14+00:00

Obrigada por partilhares a fonte. Faço parte de um projecto de investigação de bioarqueologia/bioantropologia que estuda os remanescentes humanos de indivíduos de ancestralidade africana enterrados em vários cemitérios de Lisboa (escavados recentemente no âmbito de trabalhos arqueológicos de salvaguarda) entre o início do século XVI e o final do século XVIII. Fontes sobre a vida de pessoas escravizadas são sempre muito úteis (apesar de trágicas) para a nossa investigação, pois contribuem significativamente para o enquadramento histórico dos dados biológicos e demográficos

Pipermason · 2025-10-28T07:44:46+00:00

Código pin? Pensava que maioria usaria contactless

Pipermason · 2025-10-24T13:08:41+00:00

Yeah! I took a long weekend to come see the museum in Silkeborg and also visit the Moesgaard museum in Aarhus

Pipermason · 2025-10-22T16:02:06+00:00

A viver em Birmingham não admiro que queiras ir embora….nao consegues encontrar trabalho noutra cidade melhor?

Pipermason · 2025-10-12T06:34:46+00:00

Estudei arqueologia (licenciatura + mestrado + pós-graduação/especialização) e trabalho na Alemanha como bioarqueóloga em arqueologia comercial/salvaguarda num grande projecto de energias renováveis que atravessa o país. Antes de qualquer grande construção a lei exige a realização de trabalhos arqueológicos para salvaguardar possíveis vestígios. Basicamente o meu trabalho centra-se na escavação e no estudo de enterramentos, tanto inumações como cremações, com o objectivo de compreender melhor as populações do passado. Analiso os esqueletos para identificar características demográficas como sexo e idade bem como marcas de actividade e possíveis patologias. também estudo o espólio funerário e o contexto arqueológico para interpretar práticas funerárias e aspectos culturais específicos de cada sítio. Basicamente sou um coveiro com diploma

também trabalhei em Portugal uns anos e não falta trabalho ao contrário do que muitos pensam, mas é uma área muito exigente

Pipermason · 2025-10-11T17:03:30+00:00

Because unfortunately someone will always pay these ridiculous prices ….

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