almost over, still got one or two prompts to catch up with. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Here's no. 19: We're not fond of messing w/ the archaeological record; reconstruction's always interpretation. But we've now got great tools to just think about what could've been …

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prompt no. 18: - a versatile material and (pun intended) backbone of human ingenuity.

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Polymath or not, this is not the kind of research to be achieved single-handedly - is

(#Inktober prompt no. 12:

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This piece makes me so happy ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ (art for @/ArchInkMom tysm)

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Day 16 - I had to include the book "Archaeological Illustration" in the list — I love all the colour (literal/metaphorical) that illustrations add to our imagining and reconstructing of the past. I value the work of illustrators so much for this, notably

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prompt number 13 is about … "Reconstructing - From scratch.

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Today's prompt is "#InSmallThingsForgotten" - and when it comes to the of small things, it gets personal … touching right onto my own research into the of northern central Europe. 😉

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“Uncommon Ground” a quick one for Very out of practice! 😳

There’s a story about Lewis Binford, one of the major figures of mid-century American archaeology that has him grinding a pretty potsherd under his heel to a prove a point about…science? +

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And we‘re finishing this 2020 with (it‘s also after all):

Reminding us that is, indeed, about people.

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Admittedly rather boldly interpreting today‘s 9th prompt:

So, here’s 'Count' Byron Khun (1896–1954, born Francis Byron Kuhn) - who is considered 1920s stereotype pulp fiction archaeologist by some ... and braggart grave robber by others.

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For “land” drawing on Land Back : there is a lot more archaeologists need to be doing for the return of objects (“artefacts”) and ancestors (“human remains”) as part of restorative justice, indigenous governance and decolonization.

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