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Old News, July 2020

This month, Anna shoe-horned a rhyme into every segue, so you know it's a good roundup. We look at submerged sites off the Australia coast, bone tools that look like stone tools, cats and mice respectively, and so much more!

Archaeologists Find Traces of Non-Tobacco Plant in Pre-Columbian Native American Pipe (Sci-News)

A Submerged 7,000-Year-Old Discovery Shows the Great Potential of Underwater Archaeology (Smithsonian)

Researchers Continue Search for the Roots of the Hyksos (Archaeology)

In Ancient Kazakhstan, Nomadic Herders Kept Their Toothless Pet Cat Alive (Smithsonian)

1,000-Year-Old Cat Skeleton Suggests Nomadic Herders Cared for Ailing Pet (Gizmodo)

1.4-Million-Year-Old Handaxe Unearthed in Ethiopia (Sci-News)

Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic (ScienceDaily)

Ancient oyster shells provide historical insights (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.