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a man with a beard is sitting on a bench with his eyes closed and playing cards . ALT: a man with a beard is sitting on a bench with his eyes closed and playing cards .

Spoons.

You're fed with a spoon as soon as you're off the milk, and you're fed with a spoon before the river takes your aged body to the bitter waters.

And the click-clack of wooden spoons sounds like the rattling of old dry bones.

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Definitely thinking a good response to the VP thing would be a larger collective response of some sort by several of us (we're stronger together) 🏺

Graphic featuring the Peopling the Past blog logo, the full title of blog post 67 “Beyond the Grave with Melissa S. Cradic, and an image of an Apulian red-figure volute krater depicting Hades and Persephone in the Palace of the Underworld

For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the Near East peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/21/b...

Aerial view of MSc students excavating in the Cairngorms, Scotland

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It's almost like land acknowledgements are all well and good until they can smell the barest whiff of actual reconciliation passing by and then they want to burn it all down.

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Graphic featuring the Peopling the Past blog logo, the full title of blog post 35, and an image from a Greek vase painting showing a winged monster diving towards a ship filled with sailors.

Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world!
Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here:
peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/08/b...

Hot damn!

If you're into ancient edibles, fabled feasts, storied spreads, and bygone breakfasts, you should check this out! 🏺

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit.
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Graphic with title of the blog post and an image of an ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons.

Our countdown to Halloween continues today as we look back to our series exploring the presence of the Undead and highlight #PeoplingBlog 68: Controlling the Restless Dead in Mesopotamia with JoAnn Scurlock
peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/28/b...

And the press doesn't even do the most basic "tapping on the red light to make sure it's not malfunctioning."

Exhibit #1659 of how dismantling the humanities is actively destroying our world.

Anyone with an Intro to Anthropology course could understand the conception of aunties and uncles outside of the overly-simplistic paradigm taught in elementary.

Hell, even having 1 non-white friend would have done.

And people are *interested*!

Look at Stephan, Milo, Kayleigh, Flint, North 02 (to name some bigger channels).

People are hungry for more than the surface-level stuff on mainstream media.

They *are* smart enough for nuance, for complex ideas, for "we don't know!"

The no. of folks at conferences are a fraction of those who want to be there; consisting mostly of those with the time, money, privilege and/or need to attend.

What about underprivileged communities? Those with accessibility/health concerns?

Film+social media has potential only now being unlocked

I gave a presentation on exactly this at the Canadian Archaeological Association this Spring and another at the BC Archaeology Forum two Saturdays ago.

When the overwhelming majority of archaeological reporting in Canada is dry, data-heavy technical reporting, accessibility through film is crucial.

They have finally found the Great Googly Moogly!

I remember the day you got back from getting your laser eyes! We went to check on you in your shack. The room was so dark. If I recall, you had some anime playing, but you were just listening to it because you couldn't open your eyes to watch it.

Got some dang good mileage outta them laser eyes!

Nearby the broken case was a book called "Khipus and You: A Primer on Reading Knots", Van Gogh's painting The Potato Eaters, and a tuft of Guinea Pig fur.

Officials are stumped as to where the thief may have absconded!

Just finished listening to the dulcet tones of @maklelan.bsky.social reading The Bible Says So, and the next listen recommended to me was a JBP book.

Holy missing the mark, Batman!

"It seems that you enjoy reason and critical thinking? Can we recommend to you the precise opposite of that?

Two people sit in camping chairs in a meadow, in conversation with each other.

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I was watching a video recording an old cooper crafting a bucket from scratch.

Once he was done, the interviewer, a younger person perhaps still developing their interviewing chops asked, "So, why go through the trouble of making a bucket?"

The old man replied, "What do you mean?🤨 It's a bucket."

This reminds me of a quote I'm butchering that goody something like, "faith isn't something you believe, it's something you do."

Makes perfect sense, and for millennia has been understood as *necessary,* to have a physical space reserved for that doing.

This is an important conversation to start here in Canadian archaeology 🇨🇦🏺

The discussion has started down south with @flintdibble.bsky.social, @miniminuteman.bsky.social, and others.

But Canada has its own challenges to address, its own history of archaeology being abused, erasure, and denialism.

Maybe this is a time to have a roundtable or panel discussion about threats to archaeology/gists in Canada, drawing folks accross Canada from Parks, CRM, academia, etc. to talk about identifying different types of threats and suggestions on how best to document and address them 🤔
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Look what arrived in the mail today! Hooray and congrats to Ken Feder! "Insightful, respectful, important, and a pleasure to read. It belongs on the bookshelf of every American," according to one archaeologist who blurbed the book. Get your copy today!

Newfoundland

Breaking News (over a picture of Indiana Jones): Archaeologist blunders his way through yet another discovery without any actual archaeology. Dozens dead. "He really is quite bad at this" says every other archaeologist.

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

If you're lucky!