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Old News, January 2022

She's alive! Anna is still recovering, but mustered the strength to record Old News.

1st bioengineered hybrid animals discovered — in ancient Mesopotamia (Live Science)

Archaeologists Discover—and Start to Decode—Rare Medieval Runes (Smithsonian)

Headquarters of Ancient Egyptian mining mission found in Sinai (Heritage Daily)

Badger leads archaeologists to hoard of Roman coins in northern Spain (CNN Style)

4,000-year-old stone game board discovered (Oman Observer)

Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Stone Board Game in Oman (Smithsonian)

Ancient Clovis hunters may not have wiped out mammoths after all (Science News)

East African fossils may be the oldest modern human remains (Cosmos)

Archaeologists Unearth Earliest Evidence of Multi-Cropping (Sci-News)

Archaeological dig reveals California Gold Rush food imports (University of New Mexico)

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The Dirt Podcast

Archaeology, Anthropology, and our shared human past.

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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.