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Old News, May 2022

This month, we've got stories on but not limited to: caves, genetics, ancient technologies, oysters, and wouldn't you know, some more caves? Also Amber finds a photo she wants to hang up in her locker. 

Scientists reveal how seascapes of the ancient world shaped genetic structure of European populations (Archaeology News Network)

Archaeologists Find Large-scale Mud Art in Alabama Cave (Ha’aretz)

Magdalenian Hunter-Gatherers Created Art by Firelight, Archaeologists Say (Sci-news.com)

Village dwellers buried dead beneath houses, archaeological evidence suggests (Tehran Times) - cn: images of human remains

New Study Reveals Function of Bronze Age Daggers (Sci-News.com)

This 12,000-Year-Old Wyoming Quarry Could Be North America’s Oldest Mine (Smithsonian Magazine)

Race to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces (Phys.org)

Ancient decarburization kiln discovered in Central China (China Daily)

First Pompeiian human genome sequenced (Phys.org) - cn: images of human remains

Oysters in Desert Reveal Secrets of Incense Route Trade 2,300 Years Ago (Ha’aretz)

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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.