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Old News, Janbruarch 2023

We're working to catch up on the bonus material we owe y'all, so hang in there! This batch of news stories includes some mummy stuff, some Neanderthal food, some African archaeology, some Horse Guy stuff, and more!

Chemical residue reveals ancient Egyptians' mummy-making mixtures

Biomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming | Nature

Digital Scans Reveal Secrets of 'Golden Boy' Mummy | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

5,000-Year-Old Tavern With Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq (Smithsonian)

The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds — ProPublica

Young Sudanese archaeologists dig up history as ‘west knows best’ era ends (The Guardian)

Ancient Stone Tools Once Thought to be Made by Humans Were Actually Crafted by Monkeys, Say Archaeologists | Artnet News

Prehistoric population once lived in Siberia, but mysteriously vanished, genetic study finds (Live Science) (CW: human remains)

Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments.

The world's first horse riders found near the Black Sea (Phys.org)

Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists in Portugal Have Discovered the Remains of a Favorite Neanderthal Feast: Roasted Crab (Artnet)

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-year-history-dildo.html

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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.

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