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A satirical papyrus showing a lady mouse being served wine by a cat while another cat dresses her hair, a third cares for her baby, and a fourth fans her. The mice have hilarious huge, round ears.

Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo

When: New Kingdom

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"Over the past year, NPR analyzed a database crowdsourced by thousands of hobbyists, looking to uncover the patterns, errors and problems with the country's markers. The effort revealed a fractured and often confused telling of the American story, where offensive lies live with impunity, history is distorted and errors are sometimes as funny as they are strange."

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Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

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"My goal is to share the magnitude and diversity of human achievement. Pseudoarchaeology robs Indigenous peoples of their heritage. Hancock’s narrative of engineering feats from some “lost” civilization includes the Sphinx in Africa, pyramids in Mesoamerica, and an enormous, terraced monument in Indonesia."

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100%!

Martha, with all due respect, you do not get to claim the dirt nerd title. That belongs to the archaeologists, and our cousins the geologists/soil sciences.

This is what a REAL dirt nerd looks like

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New Women in Archaeology Podcast episode, all about conferences.

Navigating Conferences (Released 2016)

Conference season is here.  Enjoy this episode that’s all about the art of conferencing, which was originally recorded way back in 2016.  It was our third episode for the Women in Archaeology Podcast!  And, being one of our earliest episodes, the audio quality is a little all over the place.  Chelsi Slotten, Kristen Bastis, and Kirsten Lopez discuss the ways to navigate conferences, from all the…

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This happened AGES ago when I was still a baby archaeologist.  Conference season is here.  Be nice.

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A Wee Bit of Shameless Self Promotion

Jome designs I've made in Redbubble. Please let me know what other kinds of archaeology themed nerdom you'd like to see!

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Learning queer history is an act of resistance. Reclaiming the stories of our collective past is a healing process. Listening to the people who have lived through things you barely remember is community building.

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Knock knock!

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"Two Indigenous archaeologists from the U.S. Southwest shed light on how “abandonment” and other common archaeological terms continue to cause harm. They offer insights into how to rewrite narratives of the past. . . ."

"Today, with the appointment of Secretary Deborah Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo (a federally recognized tribe), as head of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the stories and laws might be changing within certain contexts. However, false interpretations of history still perpetuate the harms of colonialist practices. These flawed chronicles undermine Indigenous peoples’ knowledge about their own histories on specific landscapes. They also continue the erasure and misrepresentation of American Indian pasts in public narratives."

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(via "Wandering Archaeologists" Magnet for Sale by Trowel-Tales)

New design on Redbubble!

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This is an older blog post but it sounds like this is an ongoing issue in the UK.

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Oy, archaeology PhD candidates, I see a unique opportunity in your future . . .(dance your dissertation!).