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Deep Cuts 14: Spooktober Forever!

Well, folks, that’s another Spooktober in the books, but we came back for one last hurrah as Anna shares with Amber (and you!) a roundup of spooky and spooky-adjacent archaeological anecdotes from around the world. 

131 ancient Chinese ‘hanging’ coffins found on side of 100m cliff near Three Gorges Dam (South China Morning Post) 

[https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1891298/131-ancient-chinese-hanging-coffins-found-side-100m-cliff-near]

Interlocked Skeletons Found at Pre-Aztec Burial Site (National Geographic)

[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/burial-pit-found-mexico-city-archaeology-pre-aztec-spd/]

The “Fire Mummies” of Kabayan Burial Caves (FilipiKnow)

[https://filipiknow.net/kabayan-burial-caves-fire-mummies/]

Toothy Tumor Found in 1,600-Year-Old Roman Corpse (LiveScience) 

Content note: very gnarly images of tumor in situ may be upsetting for some audience members!

[https://www.livescience.com/26446-toothy-tumor-ancient-roman-corpse.html]

8,000-Year-Old Smashed Skulls on Spikes Found in Sweden, And Nobody Knows Why (Science Alert)

[https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-skulls-on-stakes-evidence-of-violence-deposited-in-lake-mesolithic-sweden]

Bodies of stone: Girolamo Segato (1792-1836) (Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology)

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17580656]

Between horrid and science. Girolamo Segato's strange anatomy (1792-1836) (Journal of Morphological Sciences)

[https://www.academia.edu/7463422/Between_horrid_and_science._Girolamo_Segatos_strange_anatomy_1792-1836]

Massive, Ancient Stone Monument in Kenya Held More Than 500 Bodies, 400 Gerbil Teeth (LiveScience)

[https://www.livescience.com/63397-kenya-ancient-cemetery-monument-lothagam.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180822-ls]

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As science communicators in anthropology and archaeology, we hosts of The Dirt acknowledge that we hold a position of considerable privilege and opportunity, and commit ourselves to continuous learning, unlearning and reflection. We recognize that our disciplines, as well as our own lives, are rooted in and propped up by settler colonialism, white supremacy, and dispossession.

We now reside on the stolen ancestral territory of the Shawnee and Haudenosaunee and on the lands of the Muscogee and Cherokee Nations, but over its lifetime, The Dirt has also been produced on the unceded traditional territory of the Piscataway Conoy and Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians, as well as that of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Patwin and Miwok peoples and all those dispossessed by Cession 296. We offer our show as a platform for Indigenous scholarship, history, and cultural expression, through citation and conversation, and we welcome the opportunity to host and compensate Indigenous scholars of archaeology and anthropology as interview guests.

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