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1 Apr, 8 tweets, 4 min read
This is a thread of threads of threads on my archaeology Twittering. Yes it is

The lore contained in each thread & thread of threads will inform and astound you, dear reader

Translation: This is some high-quality edutainment. And share to make this the viral strain of the day!
This thread of threads contains several interesting archaeological case-studies from Pompeii to erotic Athenian art to Neandertals

It includes some good introductions to problems/topics in archaeology

My most recent thread of threads explores the history and archaeology of health and disease

It includes a multi-part look at the Athenian plague and a haunting look at infant mortality via the Agora Bone Well

More to come on healing magic

#ClassicalZooarchaeology is my core thread of threads looking at my own specialization

It's got tales of beloved pets, sacrificial ritual, food porn, and the mystery of chickens crossing the seas

This thread of threads documents my experience teaching with Twitter. Probably more for teachers shifting to online instruction, thinking about digital learning and engagement

This #MythicalAnimals thread of threads is more light-hearted

It includes looks at the dance of the flamingos in predynastic Egyptian art and bull-leaping on Bronze Age wall-paintings and more!

I've got a few threads filled with breathtaking archaeological landscapes and off-the-radar sites

A general photo thread:

Attic Borderforts trip w/ @ASCSAthens:

Where I'd like to be instead of quarantine:
I've got a few floating threads that I hope to add to in the future

If you're interested in the archaeology of ancient climate change, check here:

If you're interested in the ancient history of narcotics, read on:

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9 Aug
[ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD] Apollo’s sanctuary at Delphi is the stuff of legends

For over a thousand years, the famous oracle foretold the futures and fortunes of the city-states and heroes of ancient Greece

This thread explores whether she was stoned on geological vapors
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Set in a mountainous landscape, with a view down to the gulf of Corinth, the site at Delphi is breathtakingly beautiful

Ancient myths describe it as the center of the world, the place where Zeus’s two eagles met, each released at the opposite end of the earth
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I simply cannot get this point across enough. I’m not usually a romantic person when it comes to archaeology. It’s my job, after all. But, the feeling at this site is … it just is

It gets in your bones and fills your spirit
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31 Jul
We often think of life 6,000 years ago as short, nasty, and brutish. The site of Gourimadi reveals how innovative people were at the end of the Stone Age

This archaeology thread (with GREAT photos & video) shows how archaeologists uncover the prehistoric past
cc: @NorwInst
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Gourimadi is located on the island of Evia (Euboea) in Greece, right next to a huge rock outcrop of schist

It’s on a low ridge separating the Karystou plain to the south and Katsaronio plain to the north. The inhabitants had easy access to the plains all the way to the sea
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Everything about the site shows how cleverly located it is

The name Gourimadi means “big rock” in the Arvanitika (Albanian) dialect. I love this toponym

The rock was valuable to those living there 6000 years ago. The foundations of their walls were made from the local schist
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12 Jun
[ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD] One of the most pernicious racisms I see regularly is the myth that Africa has been an unimportant place in human history

But the archaeology of Africa is incredible. Black Lives matter, and so does their history
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Africa invented humanity

Not just once, but twice

Homo erectus first stood tall in Africa. Using tools, these clever ancestors of ours spread out all over the globe
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You think we’re a successful species?

Nah… Not on evolutionary terms. Homo sapiens have only been around a few hundred thousand years

Homo erectus thrived for a couple million
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2 Jun
So, as an archaeologist, I'm here to tell you the best way to destroy a racist statue

Please only do this on racist statues that deserve to be destroyed

There's lots of examples of destroyed statues. Iconoclasm is the fancy term
So, the first step, is to deface the statue

And by that, I mean remove its face

This can be done with a chisel and hammer. At least that's the traditional tool for much of iconoclasm

Pharaoh Thutmose III had mommy issues and did this on statues of his step-mom Hatshepsut
Usually the nose is the easiest thing to knock off. So go for it first

Like with this statue of Aphrodite excavated from the Roman Agora. The Christians knocked that honker right off and carved a cross into the forehead

And this brings up another key point. Make sure to tag it
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27 May
Today’s #ClassicalZooarchaeology thread is about my shit-hot database (😲!!!)

It’s designed in MS Access & uses touch-screen, speech-recognition, and an internal GIS

If you can’t do field/lab work this summer, maybe it’ll inspire you to optimize your DB for next summer
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This DB comes from years of struggling to design an efficient, largely error-free system to record tens of thousands of artifacts

Typos are a huge problem. My dad & I ran experiments. It turns out typos occur about 5% of the time (which matches research in the business world)
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My dad had been doing this for a while, and wrote some nifty archaeological barcoding software to get rid of half the typos

You can read about it here: researchgate.net/publication/40…

Below are some sample barcode tags
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2 Apr
Health care in ancient Greece and Rome was wild

Part 1. A visual thread
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As an archaeologist who studies the deep past, I’m here to tell you that we do not want to crash our health care system. We need our modern health care

This is what health care in the ancient Mediterranean looked like
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There are thousands and thousands of similar objects, found at sites all over the ancient Mediterranean

Any idea what they are?

Bueller… Bueller?
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