Backstake My Life Into Pieces

hey im gen and i eat dirt. im an archaeologist based in Modoc County i love my job, can you say the same, imperial?

[earpcaps]

[spectrometrie]

they just discovered a pristine prehistoric cave w burials and ceramics and children's foot imprints that has been untouched for three millennia 😭😭😭

[spectrometrie]

Préhistoire : une grotte incroyable découverte à Saint-Projet

Une grotte datant de l’âge du Bronze (2200-800 av J-C) a été découverte à Saint-Projet. A l’intérieur, des vestiges archéologiques intacts.

[mintcons]

Bridal Veil Falls from the tunnel view outlook, Yosemite National Park, USA

[kas-e]

Winter in Nevada

[nevada-altitude-photography-dea]

Old haunts.

[nevada-altitude-photography-dea]

Juniper scrub land.

[ritualpurposes]

PSA

Archaeology is inherently political. I sometimes forget that, but today has been a nasty reminder. We as archaeologists have a duty to make sure our research is not co-opted to support racism and to make sure we are respectful of the cultures we study. People too often use the cruelties past to justify the cruelties of the present. So if you are here because you are a white supremist hoping to use Celtic/ Iron Age culture to fuel your arguments please kindly fuck off. England has always been diverse, and your visions of a  glorious homogenous past have no place here. 

[beholdingslut]

do you ever get overwhelmed by the amount of history in the world that you don’t know

[dying-poet-deactivated20200804]

taking any college course on societal issues in the united states is just like: *realizes its bc of reagan* *traces the cause back to reagan* *discovers the original policy came out of the reagan administration* *finds factual inaccuracies ignored by the reagan administration that are then used to push policy* *finds statistics that show the severity of the aids crisis as well as the beginning of mass incarceration of poc were caused by reagan* *hates reagan*

[mariacallous]

[the-indecisive-anthropologist]

A VERY cool article about Indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea interpreting the archaeological remains they find through daily activity.

Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too

In Papua New Guinea, Indigenous peoples have been interpreting their ancestral landscapes for generations.

[fantasy-scifi-art-deactivated20]

Tomb Raider by PAVEL BOND 

[archaeologistproblems]

Archaeologist problems: When you’re reading the artifact catalogue section of a site report and you see:

But you grew up in the ‘90s so all you can think about is:

[frolicingintheforest]

[wildernesswanderess]

[vintagecamping]

Some boys set up the sail boats at Camp Minkalo on Silver Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

California, 1960

[mapsontheweb]

Climate and vegetation during the last glacial period/ice age.

[picnic-blanket-delights]

“The mountains and sky kissed thanks to elevation and atmosphere.”

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