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Deep Cuts 3: Down the Rat Hole

We return to Flores to visit our old friends homo floresiensis, this time with a Very Special Guest in tow! In this excerpt from our Patreon episode, Grace Veatch (Emory University) walks us through her research at Liang Bua, and introduces us to the many, many things rat bones can tell us.

Veatch Bio - Emory University

Veatch Bio - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Human Evolution 3D Collection (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

And, since we are nothing if not generous to our Patrons, two more bonus links:

Playthrough of Rats! (1996), a Shareware game for Windows that featured prominently in Amber’s childhood.

Today in terrifying-to-The-Dirt headlines: Huge lizard terrorizing Florida family is species sold online for live overnight delivery (Sun Sentinel)

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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.

Likewise, we encourage all listeners who reside in settler-colonial states to learn about on whose land they reside, their place in the ongoing process of colonization, and how to contribute materially to reparations and Indigenous sovereignty.