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dsaarchaeology.bsky.social
Archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica, #Pseudoarchaeology, and Appalachia . Posts my own, unless I’m a brain in a jar! He/him
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Next they'll be removing all references to the Transcontinental Railroad.

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This is so damn frustrating. Like having NASA prove Earth isn't flat.

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THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2025 IS LIVE Three issues - a Sword & Planet special - a New Jirel of Joiry story... The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus stories will be added to this year's issues! Go here to learn more and back the magazine: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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Question, would MAGA still be mad if the Springfield immigrants were eating transgender mice?

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Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

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Archaeologist reports from frontline of war on heritage and culture (as well as everything else) in the US ⬇️ And do click through to see Erin’s photo diary of the day the email arrived.

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Prepping for tomorrow’s classes…

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Archaeoethnologica: Internet Archaeology Nº 67 - 2024 +INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/09/inte... #Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #Protohistory #IronAge #celts #palaeoenviroment #heritage #Rome #GIS #torques #journals #openaccess

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In the spring of 1996, I attended an archaeological field school in Honduras that was an NSF-REU. It would have been prohibitively expensive otherwise. I am an archaeologist today because of the program!

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Need!

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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Archaeology, we don't do dinosaurs, except when we have to keep things quiet...

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Does anyone have a photograph of a road/street name sign named after discoveries made through developer-led archaeological work? Niche query, I know. Maybe @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social?

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Mood…

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Apparently I overlooked this important tome in my #Atlantis research! 🙃

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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

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Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

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I propose that the nation’s chief executive should show leadership by personally investigating this strange phenomenon…

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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

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Q: Why haven’t aliens visited our solar system? A: They read the reviews, we only have one star!

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A special treat showed up in the mail!

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Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.

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Holding my breath for the History Channel Special, "In Search of Plato's Mysterious Lost Cave!"

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An important reminder!

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My 2025 Bingo card is shaping up nicely!

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You can’t silence me! 😂

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😱😱😱 theonion.com/egyptologist...

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A long overdue addition to my collection arrived in the mail today!

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Oh, these dice are going to be fun!

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A new semester of “Bigfoot Stole my UFO” begins next week!

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Where’s the lie? 😂

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My article in The Colorado Magazine, Not All It's Cracked Up to Be: Ogham, Equinoxes, and Wandering Celts in Colorado, appears in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of the magazine. You can read a digital version here: www.historycolorado.org/story/2024/0...

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Is this the MCU crossover we've all been waiting for? Be sure to check out our most recent episode covering #Stargate with the wonderful @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social! Forgive our ignorance if the later TV series already explained this. 😶 Listen at movieswedig.com or wherever you get your #podcasts!

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It’s not a “door to heaven,” it’s #Stargate (1994), dweeb! Joined by @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social, we talk gods, aliens, archaeology, dunking on your colleagues’ translations and curiously paradoxical attitudes towards arming children. #Archaeology #Film #Podcast Listen now at movieswedig.com!

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I believe! 😂

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Another day, another end-of-the-year list! 👍😎 The German translation of "After 1177 BC" has now been included among the “most important non-fiction books of 2024” by Frankfurter Allgemeine. I attach screenshots of the English translation (courtesy of Google).

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