#pre contact

[appalachianfuturism]

“The question led Barton to scholars like David Morgan and Kristen Gremillion, and obscure discoveries in places like Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, a 29,000-acre canyon system in the Daniel Boone National Forest.

Before the Gorge finds, archaeologists “assumed that the peoples of this region just sat around passively, waiting for others to send them the gift of agriculture,” says Morgan, director of the National Park Service’s Southeast Archaeological Center. “But that simply wasn’t the case.”

Plant materials recovered by archaeologists in the Gorge in the 1980s and ‘90s led to a historical revision “that fundamentally alters how we think about indigenous peoples of the [precontact eastern U.S.],” says Morgan. A trove of ancient seeds debunked then-dominant theories “depicting early inhabitants as backwater nomads that didn’t acquire agriculture—and thus the markers of complex society—until after A.D. 1, when maize arrived from Mesoamerica.”

Gremillion, a paleoethnobotanist, chairs the Ohio State University department of anthropology and is the author of Ancestral Appetites: Foods in Prehistory. She started working in the Gorge around 1989, using techniques such as direct radiocarbon dating and high-magnification microscopy to study ancient caches of seeds, food stores, cooking refuse, and human feces. She found specimens buried under massive stone outcroppings and in caves—all in remarkable condition.

“We found things like 3,000-year-old sunflower heads and baskets full of seeds,” says Gremillion, who compares the digs to opening storage vaults. The finds were unprecedented, and old vanguard archaeologists were dismissive. “They said the materials couldn’t possibly be so old.”

Gremillion’s research proved them wrong; the region’s indigenous peoples had been farming for more than 5,000 years. The work helped establish the Eastern Woodlands as an independent center of prehistoric plant domestication and agricultural development—alongside areas like southeast Asia, Mexico, and the Fertile Crescent.”

[macksartblock]

it's 4 am in a warehouse and i have a plane to catch

[drawbauchery]

part 19381203 of someone on the island realizing they might be in love or something

[get-back-homeward]

Life With The Lennons, Exclusive by Ray Coleman, April 1965 [x]

[knightinink]

tfw the “random” imps you pulled away from exterminators are actually your daughter & the boy you treated like a son who thought you were dead for the last 15 years (aka, drawing what I saw in a dream that I’m now making into an entire Helluva au).

[fantastic-nonsense]

having a real one because I got elected into leadership of a political org recently and I'm having to spend multiple days cleaning up the absolute mess that are my official email, Google Drive, and social media accounts

[beanmochiii]

siblings :’]

[neechees]

Ok but actually I WILL continue to critisize the historical inaccuracy of certain things in historical or fantasy shows/movies/books etc not only because well

1. If there's no non-evil nonwhite people in your fantasy movie & your excuse is "well its historically accurate because it's set in Europe, there weren't any brown people there" while ALSO being fine with the presence of stuff like spices, tomatoes & potatoes, certain animals etc despite the historical inaccuracy fuck you & gargle my dick & balls, you can't have it both ways, and

2. Straight up this allows people to not have to think about Europe's colonization and all the shit they wouldn't have because their ancestors were greedy, murderous assholes. There's people who think that potatoes are Native to Ireland (they're not), or don't know that Belgian Chocolate didn't exist pre-15th century because chocolate was cultivated my Mesoamericans, or think that Curry is a British invention and not an Indian one. There's even historical movies that do this and it's REALLY weird & kinda reinforces misinformation & myths

[koroleva-nazyalensky]

No STOP, B15 being a doctor in New York- NEW YORK IN 2012??? Can you IMAGINE the conversation between her and LOKI if this was post Battle of New York?

[phoenixcatch7]

Trying so hard to not start fic writing before I've even finished the game but I want so so bad to write a time travel fic where post totk wild gets sent back to pre calamity hyrule in the middle of a lynel or gleeok fight, like he's just covered in monster blood and guts with a mishmash of armour pieces (at least one barbarian piece) hair long and tangled, scars all over, wielding a ridiculously huge savage lynel spear tipped with dragon claw and dripping sizzling blood. Smoke coming off him. Arm looking half rotted.

In the middle of the throne room.

Several particularly delicate lords and ladies faint. All the guards are pointing spears. He nearly takes someone's eye out before realising where he is.

Once he realises when he is it becomes a race of time to make the right waves before zelda comes to pick him up.

[hermajestytak]

"I knew it! EARTH BABIES COME FROM SPACE!"

God help Zim when he has to take human health class in hi skool

[arthistoryanimalia]

More from VMFA visit:

1. Stirrup Vessel in the Form of a #Llama

Chavin (Peru), 500 BCE - 100 CE

Terracotta w/ polychrome slips

2. Stirrup Vessel in the Form of a #Duck

Moche (Peru), 200-500 CE

Terracotta w/ polychrome slips

[transingthoseformers]

Megatron, sheepishly: "Well.. shit. Where is he then?" (the camera casually cuts to Optimus laying on the floor in the autobot base, it's unsure whether he passed out or is asleep) Ratchet: "He's having his floor enrichment time. anyways byee I'm gonna delete your comm number adios" (about to hang up) Megatron: "WAITWAIT NO-" Ratchet: (Hangs up) "Son of a bitch.."

Considering how Ratty has had his comm number this long, i doubt he's gonna delete it.

This also gave me the idea of Ratchet having been on Orion AND Megatronus's emergency contact list before the war, along with Soundwave logically being on Megatronus's and Jazz being on Orion's

oh megatron. you poor poor highly intelligent idiot.

The way Ratchet put it leads me to believe he's the cause of Optimus being unconscious on the floor

[galionne-speeding]

Another first pass on a character for Sonic Pantheon! This time it's Boreas, a Megaloceros from a wiped out tribe with power over ice and cold.

[doodlboy]

POV: The human exchange student chops their hair off 5 days after living in hell

[crimescrimson]

The Scorned Hacktivist Wrench in Watch_Dogs Legion: Bloodline (2021)