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Old News, Issue 3

Our roundup of the newest oldest stuff this month includes a frozen baby horse, a Maya funeral mask, intrepid robots, Neanderthal sailors (maybe?) and Anna's worst fake accent yet! 

First up, check out Patron Saint of The Dirt Dr. Kristina Killgrove's Google map plotting her coverage of archaeological topics the world over!

Stories covered in this issue:

'Spectacular' ancient public library discovered in Germany (The Guardian)

'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving (National Geographic)

Drought In Central Europe Reveals Cautionary 'Hunger Stones' In Czech River (NPR)

Hunger Stones Bearing Ominous Messages Have Resurfaced in Drought-Stricken Europe (Mental Floss)

Archaeologists uncover one of oldest villages ever found in Nile Delta, Egypt (Global News Canada)

Melting Permafrost Reveals Gnarly 30,000-Year-Old Baby Horse (Motherboard)

'Amazing' archeological find in Yukon's melting ice patches — an intact atlatl dart (CBC)

Hidden Medieval Door Leading to Smugglers’ Caves Discovered Underneath Scottish Castle (Smithsonian.com)

Mask of Maya ruler Pakal unearthed in Palenque (Yucatan Expat Life)

Archaeologists use ancient dirty dishes to reconstruct climate shifts (Ars Technica)

Robots discover secret tunnel maze hiding the skeletons of three 'sacrifices' under 3,000 year old temple (Mirror UK)

Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: First discovery of an ancient-human hybrid (Nature)

Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges (LA Times)

Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean (Science)

Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire (Open 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.