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Old News, December 2022

We're back on the old news beat, friends! This month, we've got a magic mirror, ancient cotton, an early Christian burial in England, a relief depicting "that guy," and much more!

Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here’s what it tells us about women in seventh-century England (The Conversation)

11,000-Year-Old Carving of Man Holding His Penis, Surrounded by Leopards, Is Oldest-Known Depiction of a Narrative Scene (ArtNews)

Aerial investigation reveals 168 previously unnoticed Nazca Lines in Peru (LiveScience)

Cotton From Prehistoric Pakistan Found in 7,200-year-old Village in Israel (Ha’aretz)

Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum (Smithsonian)

https://theromanguy.com/italy-travel-blog/rome/colosseum/colosseum-naval-battles/

'Magic mirror': Hidden image revealed in reflection of centuries-old artifact (CNN)

Prehistoric Child’s Amputation Is Oldest Surgery of Its Kind (Scientific American)

African scuba divers rewrite a ‘settlers’ narrative’ of the slave trade (Washington Post)

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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.