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Old News, September 2021

Join us for a round-up of some of the most exciting stories in the world of archaeology from now-last month! Come for the older-than-scientists-but-not-oral-historians-thought findings in different corners of the globe, stay for the peek inside Amber's brain as she rambles and engages with the devils advocates in her head. It's been an exciting month for the Discourse.

Stories shared and discussed on this episode include:

Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas (New York Times)

Jennifer Raff's Twitter thread

The Hobbit's bite gets a stress test (Phys.org)

Explainer: What the Most Recent Archaeological Findings in Tamil Nadu's Sivakalai Mean (The Wire)

Moroccan cave yields oldest clues about advent of human clothing (Reuters)

Lice Evolution Tracks the Invention of Clothes (Smithsonian)

Possible Grave of Medieval Christian Hermit Excavated in Spain (Archaeology)

Mass grave of slaughtered Crusaders discovered in Lebanon (LiveScience)

Study Suggests That A Tunguska Sized Explosion Destroyed A City 3,600 Years Ago (Forbes)

Mark Boslough's Twitter

Comet Research Group on Indiegogo

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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.