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Dirt After Dark: The Writing's on the Wall (and It's Filthy)

This month, Anna and Amber are taking you through the annals of the esteemed history... of dirty drawings! It's graffiti all the way down, baby, so if you wanna see for yourself, check out:

7 Entertaining Examples of Ancient Graffiti (Mental Floss)

Unique ancient Sator-Rotas word-square discovered (Telegraph)

SATOR

AREPO

TENET

OPERA

ROTAS

...pretty cool, eh?

Female Genitalia Carvings Are Europe's Oldest Rock Art (Live Science)

World’s Oldest Penis Graffiti Found On Remote Greek Island (Fast Company)

A Brief Guide To The NSFW History Of Penis Art (HuffPo)

One of humanity's earliest drawings included an enormous phallus (Gizmodo)

These Raunchy Ancient Graffiti Prove Humans Have Always Had Dirty Minds (Ranker, oof)

Sigiriya Frescoes (Panique)

11 Samples of Authentic Viking Graffiti (Mental Floss)

The Long, Forgotten History of Graffiti in England (Google Arts & Culture)

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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.