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Old News, Issue 4

This month, we’ve got a double-themed episode for you--we’ll start off with some news that’s thought provoking and positive (because we all need some positivity), and then we’re hopping on the train to Spooktober Town with some downright haunting stories. 

This month's stories:

"Whose Land Do You Live On?" Reminds Americans Colonization Happened in Their Backyards (Scientific American) 

Amber mentions the story Posting Your Hike on Instagram? Now You Can Tag Your Location’s Indigenous Name from Yes! Magazine

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery (PRI)

How a tribe in Karnataka fought and won a legal battle to stay in a tiger reserve (Scroll.in)


'Not everything was looted': British Museum to fight critics (The Guardian)

Learn more about-- and book tickets for!-- Uncomfortable Art Tours at The Exhibitionist


Millennial Aboriginal Australians Have Developed Their Own Language (Atlas Obscura)


Dermestid roundup:

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Identification of dermestid beetle modification on Neolithic Maltese human bone: Implications for funerary practices at the Xemxija tombs (Journal of Archaeological Science)

Chomp chomp chomp - https://twitter.com/jess_e_thompson/status/1046813046381957120


Secret identity of 150-year-old body found in NYC revealed (New York Post)


Are Humans Nutritious? Cannibalism Study Wins Ig Nobel Prize (Newsweek)


3,500-Year-Old Hand is Europe’s Earliest Metal Body Part (National Geographic)


Mummified Human Corpse Filled with Bees, Wasps and a Squirrel Discovered Hanging from Tree (Newsweek)


3,500-year-old pumpkin spice? Archaeologists find earliest use of nutmeg as a food (UW News)


‘Child VAMPIRE' burial ground discovered on archaeological dig in Italy (Express UK)


Murdered man's body found after tree 'unusual for the area' grew from seed in his stomach (Mirror UK)


The anthropology of heavy metal – meet the academic challenging the metalhead stereotype with actual hard research (NME)


Researchers Discover Neanderthal Child Was Devoured by a Giant Bird (Time)

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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.