welcome to the bog @bogemocrib - Tumblr Blog

sam, just hire some writers already

bruh what

If you ever get confused by an ancient object, show it to as many traditional handcrafters as you can. Odds are one of them will see it and go Huh.

Cross Discipline Input is vital to us all

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

This was mind-blowing and i would LOVE to see more examples

lawful-evil-novelist

Cool, cool, this is an entirely false meme that has caused me and many archaeologists countless headaches because it misses a fundamental aspect of why we didn’t go to these as knitting tools: their forging timeline doesn’t match up with the basic timeline of wool garment making.

The oldest knitted artifacts are from Egypt in the 11th century AD, the bulk of Roman dodecahedron production has been carbon dated to the 2nd to 4th century AD. The earlier equivalent of knitting, nålebinding, was done with four sticks and it would have been more difficult and less convenient to attempt it with a dodecahedron. Further, the stitch on early knitted artifacts was extremely fine, which similarly would’ve made making gloves via this dodecahedron method more difficult and time-consuming,

We have a lot of Roman textiles too. The Mediterranean has amazing retention of fiber artifacts because the climate is very dry without a lot of drastic changes in temperature that would speed up decomposition.

Also, experts haven’t made any definitive conclusion on what the dodecahedra are for, because in archaeology, it’s considered extremely irresponsible to make definitive, certain statements specifically for this reason. The wikipedia article on the dodecahedra even states this by outright saying that a lot of the uses are speculative.

@rosslynpaladin is right, cross discipline input is literally why archaeologists use techniques like ethnoarchaeology and why many archaeologists who specialize in a certain subject of object crafting are practitioners of the craft themselves. The fact that so many people on tumblr don’t understand that we already do this in the science and it’s a core part of our theoretical framework is immensely frustrating. All that being said, this is a bad example of cross-discipline input, because it misses out on the context of how wool garments were crafted during the period that the artifacts were being produced and used.

derinthescarletpescatarian

This site is so anti-intellectual it’s ridiculous. Tumblr loves to spread the idea that professionals, especially professionals in history-related fields, are a bunch of idiot bigots in ivory towers who don’t know how to do basic research. I’m not sure why Tumblr is so committed to this image but it’s very grating.

beardedmrbean

rosyish

Like I’ve been to public highschool. I was on tumblr in hs literally documenting the fucked up things I was doing. I know teenagers do drugs and have sex.

But y’all for some reason are NOT grasping how weird it is to have 20-30 year olds play high schoolers and have them so sex scenes and then have adults watch it like ……….. hmmm what’s not clicking

mysharona1987

bigbrainharry

prokopetz

Emoticons are well and good, but sometimes what I really need is, like, an antimoticon. A succinct symbol that denotes the complete absence of one particular emotion without implying anything about any other emotions I may or may not be experiencing.

teamingmate

feeling this energy

ot3

op deleted this tweet which is the saddest thing to ever happen because this is a really really really good tweet

naggingatlas

boowomp

cillianmurphyswhore

I see a lot of people mad about the Dune movie because it’s only a part one and that they take a lot of time world building. However I don’t think they understand the scale of the books and how you simply cannot fit book one into one movie and that a lot of things in the book are complicated and need a good setting up to understand them. I think the movie did a great job of that and everything about it was excellent.