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Old News, November 2021

This month, we're talking a controversial accoutrement, judgmental headlines, ancient city planning, and more that I can't remember right now because as you will hear, my recall is not tippy top at the mome. But it's fun episode, hope you enjoy, and let us know if you remember more about ground penetrating radar than I do from geoarchaeology class in 2007. 

Is this mammoth-ivory pendant Eurasia's oldest surviving jewellery? (Nature)

Peruvian mummy that's at least 800 years old found by archeologists in Lima (CNN) - images of human remains in story

Archaeologists say they've found a lost 4,500-year-old sun temple in Egypt (CNN)

Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Reveals Unusual Mud Ritual (Gizmodo)

Archaeologists have mapped the ancient capital of the Mongolian Empire (The Art Newspaper)

Archaeologists discover submerged dwellings of Maya salt workers (Heritage Daily)

Cave stalagmites show that flooding destroyed Liangzhu City: How an ancient Chinese culture met its end (Cosmos)

Rare boomerang collection from South Australia reveals a diverse past (Science Daily)

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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.

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