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Old News, July 2021

Older news than intended-- sorry for the late release, Amber was off in the woods being the world's sweatiest camp counselor.

This (past) month, though, we've got mystery humans, heroic archaeologists, super old math, even older art, and more!

Homo Who? A New Mystery Human Species Has Been Discovered in Israel (Discover) (cn: human remains)

These archaeologists helped quell a COVID surge in Madagascar (Nature)

Tablet Reveals Babylonians Studied Trigonometry Before the Greeks (Hyperallergic)

Neanderthal Artwork in Germany Dated to 51,000 Years Ago (Archaeology)

Archaeologists have found the lair of an exiled Anglo-Saxon hermit king (LiveScience)

Archaeologists Uncover a 3,000-Year-Old Shark Attack Victim (Smithsonian) (cn: human remains)

Research 'final nail in the coffin' of Paranthropus as hard object feeders (ScienceDaily)

Egyptian-French archaeological mission discovers warship from Ptolemaic era, remains of Greek funerary area dating back to 4th century BC (EgyptToday)

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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.