Mary Jo Figuerero

Aquí otros colegas se despachan sobre esta ideologizada e ignorante comunicación del gobierno de Milei

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Texto: Estimadas socias y socios La Sociedad Argentina de Antropología expresa su más enérgico repudio ante el comunicado oficial del gobierno nacional referido a la fecha del 12 de octubre, que afecta a la sociedad en su conjunto y a los pueblos originarios en particular. Allí se expresan perversas necedades violatorias de legislaciones nacionales y disposiciones legales de organismos internacionales (ONU, OEA, UNESCO, OIT) que establecen el respeto a la diversidad cultural y el reconocimiento de derechos. El comunicado emitido contiene afirmaciones agraviantes y deformantes sobre los pueblos indígenas, utilizando categorías y conceptualizaciones obsoletas que reflejan el racismo de Estado impuesto por el gobierno actual y que funcionan como armas peligrosas, justificadoras del genocidio colonizador. Sociedad Argentina de Antropología y logo

La Sociedad Argentina de Antropología expresa su más enérgico repudio ante el comunicado oficial del gobierno nacional referido a la fecha del 12 de octubre, que afecta a la sociedad en su conjunto y a los pueblos originarios en particular.

Love this, many thanks for these thoughts 🙏🏽

Un hilo 🧵 que rescata la trayectoria de Jane Goodall pero también lo situa en la trama histórica y social dónde primó un discurso que eligió destacar su protagonismo como logro individual, ignorando a propósito todes quienes posibilitaron el trabajo y su continuidad.👌🏽⚱️🧪

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Next Monday, @celsoneto.bsky.social will speak in our lecture series on race reification and population descriptors in human genomics. Come around!
Register here: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#PhilSci #PhilMed #race

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YouTube video by National Geographic Jane Goodall: The Hope (Full Episode) | SPECIAL | National Geographic

National Geographic just made this 2020 documentary on Jane Goodall’s life available on YouTube youtu.be/4ST6pqfCTy0?...

🏺 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

www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/ope...

Oh que tristeza pero que vida bien vivida 💔🥺

Why Honest Museums Make a Stronger America When a nation tells the truth about itself, it gives future generations the tools to do better. That is why the Smithsonian Institution and other museums that document the history and afterlives of sl...

"Americans deserve history that is researched, peer-reviewed, and responsibly interpreted—not history edited by politicians. Attempts to scrub, minimize, or euphemize the history of slavery do not “unify” the nation; ... blackpast.org/in-defense-o...

If you're into history and into beer and HAVEN'T read Tate's book "In the Land of Ninkasi" are you REALLY into history and beer?

The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job | Tom Lamont From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore order

Entre los trabajos que jamás elegiría hacer ….
A la vez es la nota más bizarra y fascinante!!!!
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside of Africa. Leading scientists reached this conclusion after reanalysis of a skull known as Yunxian 2 discovered in China and previously classified as belonging to a member of the primitive human species Homo erectus. Continue reading...

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Esto vi que hacían unos guías con clientes en los senderos cerca del APN en el Iberá. Meta foto 📷
Probé en una quinta usando el canto de la app de Aves con una pareja ratoneras anidando. Escucharon demasiado alertas. Al día siguiente desaparecieron! Me sentí tan mal 😣 nunca más lo intenté

Qué bueno que sigan viviendo los libros con historias 😍

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Partió del tema selección y uso de materias primas líticas a lo largo de 8000 años en el área de Los Antiguos, Patagonia con un acercamiento formacional y conectó con los territorios y memoria indígena. La defensa de Wendy Demak se puede ver en: t.co/GsAgS1rW6Z
#Archaeology #Lithics #Patagonia🏺

Captura de la Pantalla de una computadora que muestra el canal YouTube de la Secretaria de Posgrado de FiloUBA y una placa con agradecimientos con texto y bordeado por fotos de grupos de personas

Semana que termina con una enorme alegría en medio de mucha desazón: tenemos nueva doctora en nuestro equipo 🤩 Ayer Wendy Dekmak defendió su tesis doctoral en arqueología 🥹 #UniversidadPublica #CienciasSociales #Conicet @iarqueouba.bsky.social

La @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org pone en #AccesoAbierto una selección de artículos sobre diversos temas de arqueología europea por este mes.⚱️

it was a privilege to speak with Stanford’s Professor David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social about my book #EveryMonumentWillFall last month for his #speakingoutofplace podcast

our conversation is now online here >> speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/09/e...

The Struggle to Repatriate the Skeletons in Our Closets — Columbia Political Review In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which outlines the process for museums, universities, and federal agencies to return Native Americ...

1/2 Many folks don't understand NativeBio's mission when it come to DNA and healthcare, but for sure they understand right away when it comes to Language Data and Ancestors Remains. It's altogether folks. www.cpreview.org/articles/202...

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Burial features and finds (lithic projectile points and stone beads) from 5300–3000 BP monumental burials at Kaillachuro in the Titicaca Basin.

Why did early Andean civilisations build monuments? #MonumentsMonday 🏺

Radiocarbon dating finds some monuments pre-date sedentism, agriculture and social inequality, indicating they were built purely to memorialise ancestors, not display elite power.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Call for Presenters: "Overcoming Access Barriers in Archaeology" Lightning Round, SAA 2026, San Francisco Title: Overcoming Access Barriers in Archaeology Participants: Moderators: Joshua Vallejos & Sarah Surface-Evans Chairs: Tara Larson, Jaimie Adams, Laura Heath-Stout (pending space) Up to 15 Panelist...

CALL FOR PRESENTERS 🏺♿🧵
Overcoming Access Barriers in Archaeology
A Lightning Round session at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology #saa2026
April 29–May 3, 2026
San Francisco, CA

📢🚨 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: We are looking for a few more contributions to a session at the upcoming #SAA2026 in San Francisco 🧪🏺! The session is all about combining plant and animal data in archaeology. DM me if you'd like some more info or are interested! Session abstract in the comments 👇.

Tal vez sea porque estoy más cerca de Pablo Penchaszadeh que de les becaries, pero pegó fuerte esta nota preciosa 🥲

Es preciosa la nota 🥲