Scott Van Keuren

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver is good at his job

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This is why I avoid Texas (as a Texan). And that was a smart and appropriate post.

How have I not seen this movie?

ASU launches groundbreaking database of Sonoran Desert archaeology | ASU News Archaeology is most famously known for methodically digging into the earth to uncover secrets of the past. But once the physical items have been unearthed, how can the information that has been gleane...

An important effort by tDAR to create a comprehensive regional digital archive, in this case of Huhugam archaeology, is critically considered in a new article in @saa-aap.bsky.social . news.asu.edu/20251007-art...

Just put my grant proposal in, fingers crossed.

🏺 Two of best projects I've heard about recently which not only tell us about the past, but come full circle to tangibly impact people's lives today:
- "Romani Community Archaeology Project"
- recent evolutions of "Dama International" on fallow deer

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The Sacred Waterways of Black and Indigenous Communities An exhibition at the Mystic Seaport Museum takes visitors on a journey through centuries of interrelated traditions of seafaring and artmaking, revealing oft-ignored histories.

A review of the Entwined exhibit at Mystic Seaport Museum

a photo of a large, vaulted room inside an abandoned house by Bryan Sansivero

a photo of a room with stacks of dollhouses and toy cars inside an abandoned house by Bryan Sansivero

a photo of an abandoned, turreted house by Bryan Sansivero

Photographer Bryan Sansivero documents otherworldly, forgotten houses in his forthcoming book, ‘America the Abandoned.'

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Margaret Beck and Matthew E. Hill Jr. detail their innovative #methods to investigate potential #slipmaterials and compare red #pigment hues. Using graphs, they analyze CIELAB color data to describe and compare hue.

Learn more about their findings in AAP's latest issue.

YouTube video by History Revived AI reimagines how the Incas lived in Ancient Peru

*Back when Precolumbian Incan Peru had thirst-trap Midjourney girls strolling the stone streets in bikinis. #pseudohistory #pastiche #slop #LLM #animated #weird #vaguelyfunny #YouTube #erudite #archaeologistnightmare

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The Trailblazing Pueblo Potter Who Forged Her Own Path Though Jody Folwell has always felt rooted in her culture, she pursued a ceramics practice in the early 1970s with a desire to find a distinctive voice.

A Texas art show’s title, originally in Tewa, translates to “I came here, I got here, I’m still going.” The phrase perfectly summarizes Jody Folwell’s brave life and work.

Several bills introduced in congress that will nullify national monuments: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

A heads-up to my colleagues in anthropology and archaeology: this is the current pinned post of a right-wing influencer with over 200K followers on X and 1.7M subscribers on YouTube.

Patrick McGovern, the ‘Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,’ Dies at 80

Super nice when I reached out to him as a young grad student w crazy idea. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains? Use this database to find out where Native American remains were taken from and which institutions report still having them. Check on institutions near you.

Three decades after legislation pushed for the return of Native American remains to Indigenous communities, many top U.S. museums and universities still have the remains of thousands of people in their collections.

Use our database to check on institutions near you (last updated Jan. 2025):

Burlington is there for Steven.

'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history.

I need to talk about this horsesh*t in class next week. www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

Inside Higher Ed • September 03, 2025 Ohio State Bans Most Land Acknowledgments The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

We should all be paying attention here — land acknowledgments banned at Ohio State University

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Where should archaeologists dig next? The winners of this OpenAI contest can tell them. Archeological sites, like those in the Amazon, are disappearing faster than we can find them. Can AI help?

This makes me uncomfortable. Not only is this a question of ethics & respect, but perhaps these two archaeologists should ask themselves WHY a tech titan from Meta would want to locate heritage sites in resource-rich, Indigenous regions like the Amazon.

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What’s up with this photo? Is that the Taung Child?

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will? Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

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BREAKING: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction today blocking the Trump administration from handing Oak Flat over to a private mining company while three lawsuits challenging the land exchange proceed.

More details: biodiv.us/3V8uKAO

Donald Trump’s Guide to Museums Why are museums filled with artifacts from the past? Why don’t they include things from the future?

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Here is the truth about museums:

Museums are among the most trusted institutions in American society. Especially history museums.

Museums support over 700,000 jobs in the US.

Museums generate $50 billion in economic activity in the US every year.

Just the facts. That’s what we do. #museum

As for the demand for “access to an inventory of all permanent holdings" — well, let's see what can be made public on that score www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

An ancient archaeological site meets conspiracy theories — and Joe Rogan In the hills of southeastern Turkey lies a site so ancient, it's turning our understanding of civilization on its head and leading to conspiracy theories.

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Texas Homebuilder’s Family Quietly Sells One of the Largest Private Ranches in the U.S. A half-million-acre New Mexico ranch once owned by a Texas homebuilding dynasty has quietly changed hands in one of the biggest land deals in recent U.S. history.

Tons of Ancestral Pueblo and other sacred locations on this land, fingers crossed. sanangelolive.com/news/outdoor...

Saving Hawaii’s History From the Ashes, One Object at a Time

"There is a lesser-known and more heartening narrative afoot: the thousands of cultural artifacts that made it through the fires, with more being discovered by archaeologists and cultural practitioners nearly every day."

US Justice Department says Trump can cancel national monuments that protect landscapes - ICT News A Justice Department legal opinion disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked. The department said presidents can cancel mo...

Somehow missed this one: ictnews.org/news/us-just...