what happened to the charm of a small town?
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I have an unhealthy obsession with the Sutton Hoo burial, items currently displayed in the British museum.
...think they'd let me try the helmet on if I asked nicely?
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I am falling in love with the idea of not just a library in my forever home, but an archive. Collected diaries and vintage journals, old dvds and video games, common place books, grimoires if I can find them, all alongside my favorite books.
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some thoughts i had on my second watch of todd in the shadows' video on somerton
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Experimental Archeologists are fucking rad!
Let me geek out about science a bit more, alright? And for that I really wanna talk about that part of archeology that normal folks know very little about: Experimental Archeology.
And I know for a lot of people this sounds kinda strange. How the fuck are you going to experiment about archeology? Isn't archeology all about dicking in the dirt for some ceramic or something? Or about excavating ruins?
Well, here is the thing. Ruins and ceramics can tell us a lot about the life back in "ye olden days", but they also leave a lot of questions. Questions about how the people were actually living and how the things that were excavated were actually created.
You might know all those Ancient Alien nutjobs. Folks that will yell about how people in the ancient times (or, lets be honest, how non-white people in the ancient times) could never have ever done this with the technology of the time.
That is where experimental archeology comes in. In a lot of the cases from the old times we actually have found some tools, too. So we know what kind of tools that might have been used and the like. And as thus they experiment how to use those tools and other things we know were available to create those things.
With that we know that for example Stonehenge could have been created by very few people in a fairly short amount of time. We also have a good idea of how the pyramids might have been build and how many people it took. (Less than you think.)
But experimental archeologists and experimental historians do even more. They recreate food and the methods it was cooked based on findings we made. They recreate clothing and furniture and other tools, learning a lot about the process through it.
Which is amazing - and we are learning quite a lot about the past through it. It is fucking amazing.
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one-way ticket in your pocket. what happened to the charm of a small town?
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If the body and the life were two things that we could divide, I'd deliver up my shell to be filled with somebody else
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Autistic boy infodumping his special interest for humanity (circa 1.5 billion C.E.)
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blah blah my life sucks this blah blah blah everything is stupid that…have you listened to nonbeliever by lucy dacus? because i know just the way to cure all your ailments..
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