Jesus Christ, people, if you follow me I hope you would 1. Know better and 2. Feel comfortable contacting me or any of the other public-facing archaeologists who post often on such topics.
I have had people in my extended social circle find skulls before and I helped them safely deliver it to a proper place to facilitate repatriation after police said it was no big deal. Seriously, ask someone for help, it's important.
And, before you ask: yes I have tried to get professional orgs to make a simple guide on what to do when you inadvertently find a site or human remains. They felt it was too much of a liability to give even broad advice or resources. Contact an individual you trust.
Let me know if you'd want me to work on such a thing. Myself and @DrKillgrove have been wanting to for years and I couldn't risk it as a student. Now that we are both rogues we can probably do it on our own.

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28 Oct
@MildlyAutistic You said you don't mind boring so I will preface this by saying my understanding of appropriation comes from studying aesthetics and art historical theory as well as postcolonial theory (which is much more cross-disciplinary) so people with other backgrounds may not agree.
@MildlyAutistic So, the way I most often think of appropriation is as a way for people to borrow a sense of cultural capital from a group (specifically an embodied, almost inherent-seeming sense of who they are & what they represent). People want that aura and not the tool itself.
@MildlyAutistic If you are fond of Pierre Bourdieu as I am (all the biological anthropologists have now left the thread) you may also conceptualize an appropriative act as a way for a person to make a play to be included in a group they don't have access to (a field of restricted production).
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28 Oct
Here's my take, having used this as an archaelogy (#pubarch) lesson many times before: the fridge quiz is bad for the thing NYT says it's for, but it's bad because our subjective assessments of economic, social, gender, and ethnic identity using groceries is very unreliable.
Exhibit 1: I've been teaching a #pubarch garbology lesson for about 7 years now and can only remember once where a team got close on those predictions. My colleague made the exercise with his university students, counting and listing their household garbage.
While someone's purchases/food/garbage may be informative about them & may reveal things they don't tell you (like how much cake they really eat) it isn't like you can just glance at a fridge or receipt and know the people of a household.
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