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Latonia Hartery was inspired by a 1937 newspaper headline that described how 1,300 women applied for a single spot on a British Antarctic Su
An interesting radio documentary about women explorers. Including archeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, who excavated the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows and Mi'kmaw midwife Mary Webb.
My gnome lodge is excellent… my gnome wife is beautiful
Hi everyone!
For my final project in Anthropology, I’m doing research on the K-Pop fan community! As a part of my study, I’m conducting a general survey on experiences within it. I’m trying to get as many responses as I can right now, so please pass this along to others!
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=UVeqmZol00mpjBiyj01EXlv7ZBv3Co5EiELaK3nT6bxUOFRaN1VXNU5GS0M5RUVZMVhZWDExV0IzNi4u
I don’t think a lot of people really understand that ecosystems in North America were purposefully maintained and altered by Native people.
Like, we used to purposefully set fires in order to clear underbrush in forests, and to inhibit the growth of trees on the prairies. This land hasn’t existed in some primeval state for thousands of years. What Europeans saw when they came here was the result of -work-
the east coast was all mature and maintained food forests. decades if not centuries of nurturing and maintenance. when the british arrived they were amazed that there were paths through the forest just “naturally” lined with berries and edible plants, like a garden of eden. then they tore that shit down to grow wheat. dumbasses
My mom is an ethnobotanist and getting people to understand this is literally her life’s work. A lot of native tribes just had a whole different way of looking at agriculture. Instead of planting orchards in tidy rows near their villages, they went to where the trees were already growing and tended them there. They would girdle trees by stripping the bark in order to stop the spread of disease or thin out badly placed saplings. And they would encourage the companion plants they wanted and weed out the ones they didn’t, so that in the end the whole forest would be productive while remaining an ecosystem and not a monoculture. It is still agriculture, but it is a form of agriculture that is so much gentler on the landscape that, as OP says, the European settlers could not recognize what they were seeing. To them the natives must have seemed to magically live in abundance while they starved. They did do controlled burns, but so-called slash and burn agriculture was never a primary farming strategy in North America. They were just way more subtle than that. They also made the amazing Mississippian mound structures so it’s not like they couldn’t do dramatic reshapings of the landscape when they wanted: but they changed their minds about that, walking away from Cahokia and the dense, farming-supported urban structure they had build there in the 13th century, well before any European contact. My mom says it wasn’t a collapse, it wasn’t a war, it wasn’t a natural disaster; the farmers in Cahokia just voted with their feet. They just gradually left, dispersing in different directions but generally not very far, and it was probably because they’d gotten tired of men’s bullshit. See, agriculture was a female domain in pretty much all the native American cultures. The specifics differed by tribe, but often they had gender-specific age-grade societies: for example, the Hidatsa Goose Society was composed of married women of childbearing age. Not only did they physically plant the fields, they also had responsibility for conducting the social and ritual events around ensuring the harvest. This included things like digging the storage pits, and organizing feasts in order to bring the whole community together to plant plots for families who were suffering illness or disability, and could not do it themselves. So, as Cahokia urbanized (at its “height” it was a population center of between 10,200 and 15,300 people), it is very likely that the traditional, informal systems of land use-right allocations–again, always the women’s domain–became stressed by top down political pressures from the rulers (who were men). And as my mom puts it in her book Feeding Cahokia: “If rights to land ever became highly restricted as a result of a top-down, centralized process of allocation, the likelihood of poorly informed and unfair decision making is extremely high.” So basically, the farmers took their families and they moved away. Not all at once, no mass exodus, just…gradually, they decided that they’d tried doing things the urban way, and they didn’t like it. They went back to living in smaller villages sustained, not by intensive farming, but by more garden-style plots and the traditional, sophisticated management of “wild” lands that they had never stopped practicing. It takes a shift in thinking to recognize that was a deliberate choice on their part. Not a failure: Cahokia never collapsed, not dramatically–it just gradually wound down. They were perfectly capable of feeding themselves and they did for well more than a century. They went back to the old way because they liked it better.
And again, different tribes had different specific ways of doing it, but farming was always the women’s domain–and there are also important spiritual figures who occur under different names in different tribes. One of these is Grandmother/Old Woman Who Never Dies: giver of all plant food, protector of children, bringer of summer, and rejuvenator of living and dying things. I’m just gonna end by dropping this passage from my mom’s book because it’s amazing: “I think it likely that the female flint-clay statues from BBB Motor and Sponemann represent an Earth Mother personage in a manifestation known to all early Cahokians, and that their Woodland ancestors had sought her powers and favors for centuries preceding the Mississippian period, just as Siouan speakers continued to protect her sacred bundles and conduct rituals focused around them long after Cahokia was abandoned. She never died. Several years ago, I accompanied a traditional Hidatsa farmer named Amy Mossett from New Town, North Dakota, to the Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center [in Illinois]. When we came to the display case containing a cast reproduction of the Birger figurine, Mossett froze, took a step backward, put her hand on her chest, and said, ‘That’s Grandmother. And the snake is her husband.’“
“By 1492 Indian activity throughout the Americas had modified forest extent and composition, created and expanded grasslands, and rearranged microrelief via countless artificial earthworks. Agricultural fields were common, as were houses and towns and roads and trails. All of these had local impacts on soil, microclimate, hydrology, and wildlife.”
William M. Denevan, The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~alcoze/for398/class/pristinemyth.html
Senegalese musician Sallilou on the Cas Cas, also known as Kashaka, which is an instrument made by connecting two small, bean-filled gourds with a string. [x]
I can barely keep a 4/4 beat, polyrhythms are insane! This is so lovely.
Absolutely in love with how many instruments humans have created around the world in order to make music 😩
I think the only universal experience amongst archaeologists is that we have all, at least once, enjoyed digging a really nice hole and then gotten very sad when there was nothing in it.
I follow a lot of archeology blogs (my favorite is definitely @chaotic-archaeologist) because I literally cannot remember a time when archeology wasn’t my dream career. I grew up watching archeology documentaries with my grandma and vividly remember telling her that I wanted to do that someday. It’s something that I truly believe I was meant to do.
Unfortunately, my physical health has gotten to the point that I’m probably never going to work in my dream field. With the damage to the nerves near the lower part of my spinal cord, physical activity is dangerous for me. These days, I’m lucky to walk to my bathroom and back without going numb and being in extreme amounts of pain. And it hurts. Like, I didn’t know I could be this crushed by something before. I think about tiny Arsinoe who was so certain that she’d be an archeologist someday and my eyes fill with tears because she lost her dream. And yeah, writing is awesome. I love my books and the characters I create. But it can never compare to archeology.
I’ve known for a while that I wasn’t likely going to be able to work as an archaeologist, but I think the reality of it finally just hit me as I was reading a post from an archeology blog I like. Teeny Arsinoe who would read about archeology and dream about her future career and talk about it so much is devastated. And adult me is just as crushed. This is the one thing I have always known I wanted and having it taken away is... I’d compare it to losing a limb. I don’t know what the hell kind of happiness I’ll find in a career that will always come second best.
But also, thanks to the blogs like @chaotic-archaeologist and @archaeologysucks for at least just being brilliant blogs that give me all the archeology content my heart desires. We’ve never interacted but your blogs are amazing.
Hey there,
1) I am honored that I can bring you any amount of joy,
2) I have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. It has recently become clear to me that my body may not tolerate another field season, or even a single excavation. There is still a career for me in archaeology. There is still a career for YOU in archaeology. We can work with existing collections, we can work on designing and coordinating projects, we can work on public outreach, we can work in academia, we can work in lab, we can work in GIS, and so much more.
Don't for one minute count yourself out. Archaeology is more than excavation, and there are countless opportunities for physically limited people like you and me to make valuable contributions.
“Tear gas is not a low-risk weapon; instead, it can cause serious injury and have lasting effects, particularly for more vulnerable groups. This is exacerbated when it is misused by law enforcement officials,” the report states.
A human rights group at the University of Toronto is calling for a ban on tear gas as a riot control agent, arguing police often misuse the chemical weapon and that it can often harm peaceful protesters or innocent bystanders.
In a report released Thursday, the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP) calls for all levels of government to issue legislation banning the use of tear gas, to destroy current stockpiles of the chemical weapon and to halt all imports, exports and manufacturing of it.
“It has an inherently indiscriminate effect and is really abused against peaceful assemblies and against vulnerable populations,” Vincent Wong, a research associate at the IHRP and co-author of the report, told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview.
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In June, NDP MP Matthew Green began a petition to ban the use and manufacturing of tear gas in Canada, which has since amassed more than 9,300 signatures. The deadline for signature is Sept. 8.
Continue Reading.
Tagging: @politicsofcanada
IF YOU ARE CANADIAN PLEASE SIGN THIS SH*T!!!
Signatures close Sept. 8th 2020, remember to click the link sent via email to finalize your signature.
Not sure how many Canadian followers I have, but please, if you support BIPOC, if you are troubled by the increasing militarization of our police, sign this petition!
This is an official House of Commons Petition put forward by an MP, not just something from change.org or the like. It has the potential to make a very real difference!
reblog this if you draw your 7s with a line through it and like this if you're a freak of nature
Its here! Thank you lovely @random-anthropology for this! I asked ages ago about this but covid ya know and she remembered! Thank you thank you thank you! I'm in love with it!
The one she sent is red (one of my favorite colors) but here is what it looks like!
Hooray! I’m so happy you like it!!
This meme is so niche but goddamnit it is *my* niche
The REGALIA, the beauty, the pride. Yes little sisters!
This is so precious!!!
stop this is so cute
This is too fucking precious!!! I never see this kind of thing include Native girls! I love it!!!!!
I just got chills.
Inuits in the Arctic can survive perfectly on a plant based diet 😤
indigenous hunting is like, the ONE kind of hunting that shouldnt offend anyone and yet
listen, i fucking love whales. i do. i have advocated against cetacean captivity and whale hunting since i was like 13. i HATE whale hunting. but have you ever seen the prices for food in a grocery store in indigenous areas, if they even have one?
i can guarantee no vegan has ever paid $22 usd for a bag of grapes, and you cannot farm that far north. they can forage for some foods, but its not enough to sustain themselves and get a nutritionally complete diet. this isnt just cultural or religious practices (although cultural and religious practices are significant and shouldnt be stripped from them), its literal survival. indigenous people hunt in a very sustainable way (a single bowhead whale can feed an entire community for a year), they arent out here killing a bear just to hang it on their wall. they are trying to survive. subsistence hunting by native tribes is 100% morally correct, even if (like me) the thought of animals dying makes you sad. fight against the japanese whaling fleets who kill hundreds of whales under the guise of research and then sell the meat. fight against wealthy americans who kill animals just to stuff them and put them on their wall. fight against seaworld and their disgusting cetacean captivity practices. but dont come at native people who depend on subsistence hunting to survive. fucking colonizers.
Still trying to come to terms with the fact I'll never be a librarian who can speak a dead language and be recruited by a ruggish but handsome explorer for a quest to lift the curse and save the world
Not with that fucking attitude
The Romans and Friends in Quarantine
Caesar: working from home, all day and night. Is trying to multi-task seven things at once. If the virus doesn't get him, overworking himself will
Antony: Is drunk 24/7 and bored out of his mind, starts many projects and finishes none of them, plays far too many video games, takes up twelve new hobbies that he subsequently forgets
Cleopatra: is discovering that she'll lose her mind if she's quarantined with Antony one more day, has a secret stash of wine that she drinks in the bath
Brutus: spends his time writing poetry that he later crumples up because he thinks it's all shit, lies awake at night haunted by every awkward thing he's ever said or done, cries in the shower
Pompey: gets drunk and tweets shit he thinks is profound at the time, complains constantly about having to wear a mask
Cassius: rearranges his entire house, organizes everything down to the sock drawers, orders way too much on Amazon
Octavian: argues on social media all the time, has a shelf full of books he's "definitely going to read next" but keeps buying more online instead
Any archaeology documentary suggestions?
Time Team, forever and always.
Here’s a link to their youtube channel, where you can watch episodes for free! Check out this list of particularly good episodes to get you started.
-Reid
Do you have any recommendations for archaeology blogs run by Indigenous people? I haven't been able to find any, but I thought that you might know of one
Unfortunately I don't. But I do follow @finding-my-culture and I would encourage you to check them out.
-Reid
I’m an Indigenous archaeologist but I’m not very active on Tumblr anymore. There’s several of us over on Twitter but I’m not aware of anyone with a blog.
