Daniela Ávido

Remember how Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Piccard is an archaeologist? He followed in Trowelblazing footsteps, Jaquetta Hawkes, who scripted this distopian "what if" for the BBC in 1962.

Watching this it's important to remember Monitor was the BBC's leading, prime time, arts and culture programme.

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

¡empieza hoy!

Por que a veces necesitamos vehiculizar en otros formatos lo que estudiamos. "Ciencia de contrabando" un taller virtual para compartir formas amenas de comunicar ciencia. A cargo de @escortalabrocha.bsky.social y @marcelovitores.bsky.social , en el marco de los cursos de extensión de SEUBE/FFyL-UBA.

La figura de fondo muestra distintos científicos ingresando a un caballo de Troya con el cartel "entretenimiento". El texto de la imagen dice: Humanidades en curso. Ciencia de contrabando: el entretenimiento como facilitador de la comunicación públuca de las ciencias sociales y humanidades. Prof. Daniela Ávido y Marcelo Vitores. Inicia 23/9. Martes 18hs. Virtual. UBA FILO. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

"Ciencia de contrabando" un taller virtual para compartir formas amenas de comunicar ciencia. A cargo de Daniela Ávido (@escortalabrocha.bsky.social) y Marcelo Vitores (@marcelovitores.bsky.social).
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¡Los esperamos!

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La Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Digital tiene presencia digital en Linkedin, Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook y X. 🧵1/6🧵

Neanderthals:

YouTube video by Arqueología en Cortos gARCADES: Revisión de "Ancient Aliens: The game"

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Online dissemination of 3D bioarchaeological data: An exploration of ethics, user preferences, and contextualisation in an official digital repository setting This article explores how ADS users prefer to be presented with bioarchaeological data and investigates how these preferences can inform the ADS's protocol for the dissemination of digital bioarchaeol...

New in IA69: Bohling, S. Online dissemination of 3D bioarchaeological data: An exploration of ethics, user preferences, and contextualisation in an official digital repository setting doi.org/10.11141/ia....
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“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.” “It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination,” the statement says. “Because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. In this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.”

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."

Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

What if instead of torturing myself for having emotions, I accepted and embraced them?

And then used them to destroy my enemies.

A lenghtly call for papers for an edited book drawn together by myself and Robert Spinelli. We're looking for discussions on all the different ways pseudoarchaeology can be used, or how it appears, for example its appearance on social media or in pop culture, how it is used towards far-right extremism, pseudoarchaeological explanations of human origins, etc. We are not looking for strictly debunking chapters, we are more interested in looking beyond debunking. Email myself at halmhofe@ualberta.ca or Robert at rspinelli@ncis.org for more questions or submissions. 250 word Proposals and short author bios due by May 5, with selected authors contacted by June 5. Chapters of 5000-7000 words due Dec 31st.

New CfP: @librarianchef.bsky.social and I are looking to draw together a variety of folks (not limited to just archaeologists) who are interested in writing about pseudoarchaeology & the ways pseudoarch is used/appears in the world! See our call below, dm or email me or Robert with any questions! 🏺

Time for a new project!

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please check out the more detailed information below.

Amigues de @red-hd.bsky.social, Red Colombiana y Asociación Argentina de #HumanidadesDigitales e #HumanidadesDigitais, no pierdan esta oportunidad de mostrar su trabajo sobre, en y desde Latinoamérica en la Conferencia de la @ach.bsky.social
Llamado abierto hasta 05/abril:
👉 ach2025.ach.org/es/cfp/

Heritage friends, this is a good time to consider whether your content is actually 'inspiring' or a 'timeline cleanse' just because it's old.
Heritage is not anodyne, feel good stuff.
'lovely' objects displayed in museums 1000s of miles from where they were found; items celebrating war/conquest >

Cultural heritage is on the list 🏺

Show us your starts, 🌱 your seeds, your fails & biggest harvests, talk compost! 💩 Find your veggie gardening people Please share and comment to be added! #VeggieGardening #UrbanGardening #orchard #GrowFood #GrowYourOwn #OrganicGardening #Gardening #Garden #VeggieGarden #Regenerative

Should these pages come back, pay careful attention to the changes that have been made & how they are being used to construct a fantasized, national identity. Heritage, incl. history, are powerful parts of identity, & they are going to be rewritten into fantasized, & likely nativist, narratives.

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

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We are hiring! The Department of History at the University of Guelph seeks a tenure-track assistant professor of Rural North American History. For more details on the position and how to apply, click here:
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Hoy se cumplen 80 años de la liberación de Auschwitz por el ejército rojo. Como solía hacer en tw en estas ocasiones, comparto el relato de mi abuela Janke que estuvo con su madre en Buchenwald y sería liberada días más tarde.

University that wants to do a post-fire study on honey/wax, DM me. Any lab that will do free analysis of honey/wax to keep fire-adjacent hives/clients safer? Trust the #beekeeper that tells you LA honey will not likely be healthy this year… I won’t spin it w/o testing (luckily I have 2024 buckets)🌱

Better care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoples New recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal bones, pelts and other remains

🏺🧪 Really honoured to have been asked to comment on some upcoming Indigenous-led work on developing ethical approaches to handling animal remains in a heritage context!

This work is going to be so important for future approaches to zooarchaeology.

www.science.org/content/arti...

A good summary of science denial tactics

Imagine having the technology to travel deep space, but once reaching another planet - you need the locals carving a couple of lines into the dust for your orientation … 😬

It seems like a good time to re-introduce myself in a little archaeology thread. 🏺 I started in the Mediterranean, working on interaction between Greeks and other groups, especially in Sicily. I used Greek pottery to understand how people defined their identity. But then I got interested in space.

Thanks for noticing.

YouTube video by ArchaeoSquatch QGIS 4 Archaeology - Course Intro & Installing Software

Are you an #archaeologist wanting to learn #QGIS for #archaeology? I have an entire course on YouTube, check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTY...