Archaeology Professor, Art, Sci-Comm, YouTube, Labor, and Politics. Views my own, He/Him
Apr 16, 2024 • 32 tweets • 9 min read
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Hey everyone! So @FlintDibble shared a bunch of great resources including YouTube channels for archaeology. This part I helped with a little, so I thought I'd go one further and put together a list of them all in this 🧵!
🧵 1/ Come along on a journey of how archaeology REALLY works..
So, recall this quite strange artifact I showed off a few days ago? It was found near the bottom of a historic fill layer at the Henry Whitfield House in Guilford, Connecticut. 2/ Here it is moments after recovery last July. This was one of the most interesting artifacts I had ever seen. Also, I had No Idea what this thing was, but I found it so evocative. Look at that weird little face on there! Look at that delicate handle!
Dec 14, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Ah... it begins
Thanks Jimmy
Dec 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Remember when you wrote that great paper, took you untold hours of work - cited dozens or even hundreds of thoughtful sources - and it was rejected? Well, prepare to despair over this paper citing only a bad textbook and a self-published preprint touting warmed over race science
I've been compiling threads, articles, and interviews from skeptics of #AncientApocalypse in the description of my YouTube video on the subject. I'll link them below in a 🧵
Please feel free to share others and I'll add them.
jasoncolavito.com/blog
Sep 26, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Here's where I'm going to end off on this, hopefully back where I started: Repatriation is a morally-right action. I'm speaking now to folks who are not already in this debate.
2/ Repatriation, if you don't know (and in the simplest terms I can manage) is taking the remains of Indigenous ancestors currently housed in museums, universities, and elsewhere, and giving them back to descendant communities (usually) for reburial.
Sep 26, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/ On the ethics of talking about bad actors. This is a followup post/couple of posts on a discussion still ongoing (you can check my profile if you'd like to see it firsthand) with @ArchyFantasies@FlintDibble@JenniferRaff and others 2/ @ArchyFantasies brought up this person's twitter profile last night on a discord which we both frequent. She pointed out that as of now, this person was not getting any serious, sustained criticism from the archaeological community and that they should - I agreed