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Old News, December 2020

Anna and Amber round out the weirdest, worst news year with ancient Amazonian city planning, Roman Britain, sensational headlines, climate change, one very naughty Frenchman, and more!  

French man investigated over 27,400 item archaeological hoard (CNN)

Archaeologists Find Ancient Villages Laid Out Like Clock Face in Amazonia (Sci-News)

A 500-Year-Old Aztec Tower of Human Skulls Is Even More Terrifyingly Humongous Than Previously Thought, Archaeologists Find (Artnet) (cn: images of human remains)

New Study Suggests Ancient Americans Received Hospice Care (Archaeology)

Climate change caused the demise of Central Asia's river civilizations, not Genghis Khan (EurekAlert)

Indus Civilization People Ate Mainly Meat and Dairy Products (Sci-News)

Scientists Search for the Land of Punt (Archaeology)

British Archaeologists Unearth ‘Tremendously Exciting’ Ancient Roman Mosaic (Art News)

Revealed: The story of the silk and gold clad woman buried in London’s Spitalfields 1,600 years ago (Independent)

Spooning skeletons: Who were these 3,000-year-old 'Romeo and Juliet'? (LiveScience)

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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.