#i bird

[vaenire]

I used to roll my eyes at birder posts. Now I ID ducks in art at thrift stores.

[shwirlyshwoobie]

2 dollar

[vaenire]

More birds :)

1. Pyrrhuloxia

2. Northern Cardinal

3. Snowy Egret

4. Ring Necked Duck

[vaenire]

GREEN HERON, GREEN TAILED TOWHEE

GAMBELS QUAIL, ASH THROATED FLYCATCHER

BLACK CAPPED NIGHT HERN, NORTHERN YELLOW WARBLER

im yelling because im excited. Its spring migration, babey

[vaenire]

Hey, I’m Vae

Desert dweller

Amateur naturalist

Professional archaeologist

Avid reader

Chronic tumblr user

(Tags relevant to archaeology life, reading and birding are added to this post).

Recent book recs

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities by Gary Paul Nabhan

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache by Keith Basso

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Research interests

(Some are past research topics, some are related to my professional projects, some are just ideas swirling around. I love my work!!)

Food processing tool personalization as a way to track women’s migration and knowledge transmittal

Indigenous water management strategies and technology

Modern assumptions on past inter- and intra-gender relations and how archaeology is used to reinforce modern values

[cinderthegirlonfire]

do you ever just bird like rEAAALLLy hard and then you STREatcH but then you're like not bird so oh

[c-bloodmilk]

bird

[auritus]

this just in: i am a moluccan cockatoo