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Professor of Comparative Archaeology @UCL | co-author, New York Times bestseller #TheDawnOfEverything, w. #davidgraeber | media requests: MFlashman@janklow.com
Dec 4, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
Four leading historians offer their thoughts on #TheDawnOfEverything (1/6)
radioopensource.org/a-new-history-… @ 12:20 Philip Deloria - Harvard’s Professor of Native American History - on the Indigenous critique of European society as a force in history and its implications from past to present
#TheDawnOfEverything (2/6)
Mar 16, 2019 5 tweets 3 min read
Cylinder seals are a neglected topic at best of times. I've never seen a thread about them. So here are 5 reasons why I think these things should be much better known in media studies (and not just because they are very ancient and come mostly from #Mesopotamia). (1/5) Quite indestructible, these tiny carved stones are our main source of knowledge for about 3000 years of image-making (c. 3500 - 500 BC), from the time of the world's first cities to the Persian Empire. But they also had many functions, and were not simply "art objects" (2/5)