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Don't buy a DJI Mavic 3 Classic if you want to do any kind of mapping work

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Cultura: Teotihuacana

Técnica: Modelado, Perforado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

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Cultura: Teotihuacana

Técnica: Modelado, Perforado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

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Técnica: Corte, Desgaste, Pulido, Perforado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

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Another reason why West Mexico is best Mexico, archaeology site cookies!

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Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

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You're reading my mind. One of the problems with the idea, I think, is identifying where that burned dirt was deposited. Same if it was a layer of ash.

Also, I was thinking charcoal rather than brush. If a ceramic vessel needed hours or half a day to fire, bajareque surely would need hours, as well. And there are some pieces of bajareque that I have analyzed that are like 12 centimeters or more thick. I imagine that needs a lot of time to be fired

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In reality, this should have been about bajareque, how bajareque was purposely created, what evidence I would need to prove a hypothesis on how the bajareque was created, etc.

I never imaged my dissertation would contain a huge section about bajareque, now it will. Because seriously, how do you fire a 100 meter wide guachimonton covered in daub in order to create bajareque that you can paint and decorate without causing charring, burning, or other fire related destruction?

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Cultura: Tarasca

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

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✨ NEW EPISODE ✨

049. Writing Maya Glyphs with Artist Julia Kausch

In this interview, we interview Mayanist and artist Julia Kausch. Julia shares her process for creating detailed replicas of Maya glyphs and art, as well as some insights into her research on ceramic vessel workshops and artist identification. You can follow Julia's work on Instagram at @julias_inkpot

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Cultura: Tradición de las tumbas de tiro

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

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I am disappointed to learn how difficult DAM has been with complying with NAGPRA

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Y'all

Look at this thicc vessel support

I have never seen a thicker vessel support than this one. It's so large you could club someone with it

That's not a sherd, it's a SHERD

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Cultura: Tradición de las tumbas de tiro

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

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ACTUAL archaeological mysteries

* How do tarps go missing between field seasons?

* Why do I not have as much success with grants as others?

* How did we lose a datum? It's a frickin concrete cylinder in the ground!

* Can you read this person's field notes? Because I can't.

* Is this a bone or a rock?

* Which Munsell number is closest to this layer?

* Is this a sherd or a very convincing rock?

* We've had weeks to excavate. Why are we always rushing on the last few days?

* Was that previously recorded artifact scatter plowed to oblivion?

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I should send the ESA my paper 🤣

If you don't see me in the lab at Los Guachimontones the next few days it is because I am going to New Orleans to present a paper at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference. But instead of presenting a paper on West Mexico, my paper is on archaeology and video game preservation. Specifically, how archaeology can help save historic video games from being lost forever. I'll be back on Friday!