Archaeologists Don't Dig Up Dinosaurs
December 2011
33 posts
Egypt gets a hotline to complain about archaeology! →
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Via Egyptology News, it looks like the new Minister of Antiquities is already pushing out the memory of Hawass and doing his best to get the Egyptian people involved in preserving their region’s history. Ahram Online reports:
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is to operate a hotline service to receive complaints, ideas and suggestions to help the council develop its archaeological work.
Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim announced the hotline would open on Monday. It will be operated five days per week from Sunday to Thursday from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm until its full operation in January when it will be operated 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
I have high hopes for this guy.
Trio of Canid Skulls Show Evidence of Domestication 30,000 Years Ago →
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Archaeology.org considers this to be one of the top archaeological discoveries of 2011. The skulls, found in the Czech Republic, show some of the traits that distinguish domesticated dogs from their wolf ancestors. This find is significant because the site dates to some 30,000 years ago - 15,000 years earlier than canines were thought to have been domesticated.
things that i am doing.
- creating a poster for the annual NAACP Martin Luther King Day breakfast about excavations at Malaga Island and my current research at Peterborough… and standing at the entrance to the breakfast (attended by 500+ people) and discussing it.
-(hopefully) submitting my impending thesis chapter that compares/uses Malaga Island and Peterborough for the exhibit on Malaga that is opening at the Maine State Museum in May as additional reading material.
-doing a poster/talk for Thinking Matters (USM student research symposium) in April.
-speaking at the Maine Archaeological Society Meeting in April about Peterborough research… and maybe trying to get myself in on the next meeting at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology.
-writing my EFFING THESIS. ahhhhhahaha. :(
I hope to add “attending the SAA” in there, but I don’t think I can afford it. Shit.
Bitches who put archaeology tags on dinosaur fossil posts, you must know I hate you.
Oh So Anthropological: Sophisticated stone tools and piles of bones identify early bird hunters in coastal California →
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A collection of delicate stone tools discovered on California’s Channel Islands indicates that early humans in the Americas were hunting local waterfowl some 11,200 to 12,200 years ago.
“The points we are finding are extraordinary,” Jon Erlandson, director of the University of Oregon’s…
flatlanddan reblogged your post: it’s moments like these
Completely random, but you reminded me I have to renew my library books (including Trigger) just
glad i could be of at least SOME service! ;)
it's moments like these
that i’m super glad i actually read the entire 600-ish pages of Trigger’s A History of Archaeological Thought and underlined and took notes in the margins when i read it in 2008. because it is making this part of my thesis so much easier to write (and i totally don’t give a fuck that i’m only really citing him, cause he’s THE fucking dude when it comes to this).
also, i still have a crush on ian hodder.
Archaeological News: History in the Wells →
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A mother-load of archaeological artifacts dredged up from wells helps tell the story of the first permanent English colony in the U.S.
James Fort, Virginia, 1607. For years, it was thought that the remains of the historic Fort first established by English colonists in 1607 had been long…
DAMNNN GURRLLL, I'D LOVE TO STUDY YOUR STRATIGRAPHY.
i like “can i look at your MASS-turbation?”
get it? mass-turbation? bio-turbation?
yes.
Sketchy Etsy: Real Human Bone Necklace/Thoracic Vert Totem →
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oh what the shit. you’d think, after all the strides that NAGPRA has made (or forced people to make) as far as not displaying human remains as though they are merely objects rather than flesh, that this person would think twice about the ethical/moral implications of walking around with a piece of someone’s relative around their neck.
my question is, how did this person acquire pieces of human bone? are these medical cadaver bones? the whole thing seems super fishy to me. and really, i didn’t think it was legal for ANY human bones to be purchased/sold without a biological collection permit.
Totem? Are they trying to sound cool and historic or are they actually trying to sell someone’s ancestor?!! Either way: NOT OKAY.
“texture is wonderfully porous” (Yeah, osteoporosis is pretty convenient, right?) This person is attempting to sell this human remain as some sort of talisman?
Not okay! Not okay! Buy the Naked Archaeology 2012 calendar instead of this disrespectful bling!
UNGH.And that is incredibly disturbing… They say they comply w/US regulations but that sounds a bit fishy. I like how they keep adding more states they can’t send it to. How about all 50?
a day in the life: Apply to ALL THE FIELD SCHOOLS →
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http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_cc_islandarch.html
was the field supervisor/grad assistant for this course last year. definitely super fun, and a really, really awesome and varied site if anyone wants to check it out. the island is several miles out into open ocean, and was used as a prehistoric fishing station at least 7k years bp, as well as a very productive fishing and cod salting station from the early 17th century onward. it is also the site of the infamous honvet murders (a book/sean penn movie called “the weight of water” was based upon the murders there).
:)
On my quest on finding and applying for field schools (that’s what I’ll be doing this winter break, yay) I have compiled a pretty sizable list and thought I might as well share. If you’ve any you would like to share, please do!
The Slavia Project in Drawsko, Poland
Two sessions:
July 02 -…
