#caucuses

[estera-shirin]

Amulet, Azerbaijan or elsewhere in Caucuses, 1880 CE

The museum notes: "This is a very unusual amulet created with the niello technique, including the inscription. The technique and the decorative forms indicate the origin in the Caucuses. In the inscription the name of the woman for whom the amulet was made is clear, but the abbreviations for the amuletic inscription itself are not readily given to interpretation. Amulets from this area and niello amulets in general are quite rare. Inscription: Yaffa bat Rachel, May the Lord Protect and Sustain Her."

[crazycircassianwizardmagic]

I highly recommend checking CircassianRoots on Twitter they have some great posts showing beautiful culture and history of Circassia

[archaeologicalnews]

Oldest known drinking straws identified

Archaeologists have identified the oldest surviving drinking straws. The long silver and gold tubes are over 5,000 years old and were likely used to drink beer from a communal vessel.

These were initially found in 1897 in the Maikop Kurgan in the Caucuses. This large burial mound is one of the most famous Bronze Age elite graves from the region, containing three individuals and hundreds of precious objects.

This included the eight tubes, each over a meter long, some with bull figurines on the stem. Earlier research identified them as scepters or perhaps poles for a canopy. They are now on display in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, but their purpose remained unknown. Read more.

[gwydionmisha]

Missouri Enacts Strict New Voter Rules and Will Switch to Caucuses

A new photo ID requirement is the latest in a Republican-controlled state. The law also does away with the state’s presidential primaries in favor of a series of caucuses.

Caucuses exist to suppress the primary vote.  All of this is designed to suppress the vote in elections in general.

[ancientstuff]

Archaeologists identify the oldest example of drinking straws

An analysis of long ‘sceptres’ from a burial mound near Maikop in the Caucuses has been revealed to be the oldest example of drinking straws

Very long and very old, used for communal drinking from a vat, or maybe a cauldron. For drinking beer in Mesopotamia, anyway.

[ephemeriee]

Vittorio Sella, Svaneti, Georgia, late 19th century

[bustedbernie]

Shadow group provides Sanders super PAC support he scorns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders says he doesn’t want a super PAC. Instead, he has Our Revolution, a nonprofit political organization he founded that functions much the same as one. Like a...

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Iowa caucus: Voter freaks out after learning Pete Buttigieg is gay

A viral clip shows the unidentified woman — wearing a green hoodie and denim jacket with an Amy Klobuchar pin — going on an anti-gay rant and attempting to take back her vote while a caucus precinc…

  I don't know which is more disheartening; her attitude once she found out, or the fact that she went there to caucus for a candidate on whom she, obviously, didn't do six seconds worth of research.