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Hi! Welcome to my corner of the internet.

About me:

Not a minor

Interest in archaeology/history

In theory I don't mind answering general questions abt archaeology but if you're looking for specialist information this is Not The Place lol.

Are we cool? Cool.

strawberryjamdays

Tholos of Delphi

Today, I had the pleasure of digitizing some old film. This one was my favorite and came out of a box labeled Greece 1986. Luckily, the Tholos is easily recognizable.

(I am an archivist currently working on a classical archaeology degree, so this was a fun find.)

#tholos #delphi #tholos of delphi #ancient history #greece #archaeology #digital archives #athena #neat!

watasnak

what the fuck are my mutuals doing

aflo

Settlers of catan

#aluminum arrows are so expensive :(

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard

lasrina

oh this was about someone specific

dozydawn

nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

ch40s0w1

context explaining why the announcer is screaming, this is supposed to take a high level competitive agility dog 40 seconds

sandersstudies

This video makes me cry every time it’s on my dash and I can’t even iterate why.

Like the dog doesn’t even know it’s a competition and she’s made history. She(?) just is happy and knows she made her owner happy too.

solely-ashes

The face of a being with only a wind storm between their ears, moments before unleashing it unto the world

severeprincesheep

always a pleasure to see this girl on my dashboard

torchwood-99

"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

#tropes #writing #AGREE

bardically-uninspired

three-way reset clash

animentality

achievement-hunter

textandimageenjoyer

prokopetz

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

today I had a dream that there was a species of deer called “ice deer” and every winter they’d travel up North and have their babies in a frozen cavern and the babies would be sort of comatose in the cold, and then the deer would leave the babies there and migrate South until spring, and just before the first thaw, they’d go back up North and find their babies and wait for them to thaw out and wake up and they’d nurse them.

But with the Earth getting warmer and spring coming sooner and winters being less harsh up North, the babies were starting to thaw out too early, so when the Ice Deer got to them, they’d been awake already and starved to death.

So there were only like, 300 Ice Deer left. They were bigger than elks, all white with blue antlers that even the females grew, and I realized the only solution would be to somehow lead them North every year when it started thawing. As a human I could check the weather and the ice in the North Pole and when it was time to go to the babies, even if the deer thought it was still winter.

So I had to devise a plan to get the Ice Deer to follow me North to their babies on time every spring, and it just became part of my life. I did other stuff and lived life as usual while keeping track of the weather near the end of winter and I’d be like, welp it’s time to lead the deer North, and I’d set out to find their winter home.

And a lot of people were like “this isn’t a permanent solution. We need to focus on climate change so it’s fixed for good.”

and I was like dang I know but the Ice Deer need us right now so, someone’s gotta do it? And it just became a thing I did.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

ppl messaging me like “I thought this was real for a minute”:

cynegrim

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

: O !!!!!!!!

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

Everyone asking is absolutely allowed to use the Ice Deer in their fantasy world building and in fact I encourage it bc I love the idea of this one made up animal quietly linking all of your universes.

kayforpay

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

kayforpay

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

archaeologysucks

You mean like this?

The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun

I grew up with this book, which is frickin’ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.

Or if you want something you can put on your wall, there’s this:

World History Timeline

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway

I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!

mckitterick

I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.

Same for The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. Great references!

lepetitpoete

okay but here’s an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

✨️with a special focus on colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure✨️

You can spend hours upon hours exploring this

lobstabear

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

knittingontheroad

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

Hey genuine question: if someone that spends a lot of time in a space that you both frequent and keeps having very loud, intensely personal conversations with their friend while standing in close proximity to you, is there a reasonable expectation of privacy or after the 5th time this has happened am I allowed to start making comments on the contents of these conversations.

#arch rambles #like is there genuinely an implicit meaning in that by standing literally directly behind me that they wouldn't mind me joining in #because no one would reasonably expect that I wouldn't be able to help overhearing when they're that close #or would they expect me to just pretend that I can't hear them??

thatlittleegyptologist

Y'know that fact, the one where it says 'Archaeologists found 3000 year old honey in an Ancient Egyptian tomb and they ate it because honey lasts forever'?

As an Egyptologist, it's always baffled me because uhh...there's very few tombs that were intact enough to have food stuffs in them, and even fewer where honey was involved. If someone ate honey from one of those tombs, I'm pretty sure I would know about it. I mean, I know about Petrie smelling of bat piss and being a bit nuts, why wouldn't I have ever heard the name of the archaeologist who decided to chance botulism?

So I looked it up and got a wonderful spiral of circular citation. Everyone was saying the same thing over and over again, but no one was saying who it was other than 'archaeologists in an Egyptian tomb', which was incredibly frustrating. So, giving up on that, I looked into the known intact tombs we have like Kha and Merit or Psusennes I, but neither had honey jars. Which left only one option: Tutankhamun.

His tomb contains one cylindrical alabaster jar (No.055) in which Howard Carter noted there was a 'resinous material'. Looking that jar up led me to where they'd tested it and discovered it was honey. However, there are no records of anyone tasting or eating the contents of this jar prior to it being tested decades later (y'know, when they'd invented the tech to test that stuff).

So basically, there was a jar of honey in Tutankhamun's 3300 year old tomb, but there's no evidence that Howard Carter ate any of it, especially since he notes that he cleaned the jar with xylene.