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Old News, Issue 12

OLD NEWS IS BACK and slightly older than usual, dear listener! This month, we look at lovers, fighters, sports fans, sippy cups, and so much more!

Viking Drinking Hall in Scotland (Archaeology Magazine)

Ancient Egyptian Yeast (Archaeology Magazine)

Woodstock Archaeology (Time) 

The bow of a World War II submarine was discovered off the coast of the Aleutian Islands (CNN)

Ancient DNA from Roman and medieval grape seeds reveal ancestry of wine making (Science Daily)

Age of Discovery ship found perfectly preserved in Baltic Sea (The Independent)

Indigenous petroglyphs found for 1st time in Newfoundland (CBC)

This Young Man and Woman Were Buried Face-to-Face 4,000 Years Ago in Kazakhstan (Live Science)

'Lovers of Modena' Buried Hand-in-Hand Turn Out to Be Men (Live Science)

Forgotten Sculpture of Alexander the Great Found in Greek Museum’s Storage (Greek Reporter)

Skeleton of Ancient Sports Fan and Head-Shaped Jar Found in Bulgarian Grave (Live Science)

Babies Drank from Ancient 'Sippy Cups' Thousands of Years Ago (Live Science)

15th-Century Scottish Warrior Who Died in a Clan Feud Was Buried with 5 Extra Heads (Live Science)

Genome of nearly 5000-year-old woman links modern Indians to ancient civilization (Science)

Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement (ScienceDaily)

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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.