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Old News, March 2020

This month, we've got so much new for you! There's bug men, schadenfreude, mysterious mammoth bones, and at least one huge bummer in the bunch. It's Old News!

Possible Insect Rock Art Found in Iran (Archaeology)

Possible Maya Capital City Explored in Mexico (Archaeology)

'Little Foot' skull reveals how this more than 3 million year old human ancestor lived (Phys.org)

Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo (Science Daily)

This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones (New York Times)

How forgers fooled the Bible museum with fake Dead Sea Scroll fragments (CNN)

How AI could help translate the written language of ancient civilizations (UChicago News)

Machine Learning: What it is and why it matters

Student discovers 5,000-year-old sword hidden in Venetian monastery (LiveScience)

Ancient engraving of warrior with 'elaborate hairstyle' and 'pronounced butt' discovered in Scotland (LiveScience)

Plague victims in medieval mass grave were arranged with care by 'last chance' hospital's clergy (LiveScience)

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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.