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Old News, December 2021

This month, we’ve got nifty nits, cut kings, alternative art, surprise structures and the return of a super weird dude. And more!

Neolithic Family Tree Constructed Using DNA Data (Archaeology)

A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb (Nature)

Archaeologists reveal unknown structures in the Machu Picchu National Park (Heritage Daily)

This Is the Story of the Artist Who Has Made a Career Tattooing Herself Like Europe’s Famed ‘Iceman’ Mummy (Artnet)

Five Foot Six and Circumcised: CT Scan Uncovers Mummy of Pharaoh (Ha’aretz) (cn reconstructed human remains, no mummy hog)

More Denisovan Fossils Found in Siberia (Archaeology)

Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear (Journal of Archaeological Science)

Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments (PNAS)

Nits on ancient mummies shed light on South American ancestry (Heritage Daily) (cn human remains)

The 'Amber Elites' in Ancient Kaliningrad Went to Eternity With Their Horses (Ha’aretz)

Archaeologists Discover Oldest Domesticated Dog Remains in Americas (Smithsonian)

Synagogue Ruins Tell Secrets of Jewish Community in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains (Ha’aretz)

Archaeologists stunned by theory that Jewish slaves 'witnessed Tower of Babel creation' (The Express)

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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.