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Dumped in the toilet – the story of Saciro’s vessels and poor Latin skills: Archaeological finds tell stories from different areas of life. In 2000, a set of Samian ware vessels was found in a latrine at the settlement …1/3

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2021-01-28

Day 27 STORYTELLING. Many of the painted documents of ancient Mesoamerica were props for storytelling. In some cases the narrative stories are preserved in other documents, but in most cases they are not. We need more study so that we can reconstruct the stories!

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2021-01-27

day 22: Red

The Tlatlauhqui Tezcatlipoca, or the Red Tezcatlipoca, from "Historia de los Mexicanos por sus pinturas".

Named Camaxtle, Camaxtli, or Mixcoatl (who he transforms into in chapter 8).

His depiction here is from the Codex Magliabecchiano (pg 42r).

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2021-01-23

Day 20 GIFT. Here is the presentation of a gift or offering of cacao in the Mixtec book, the Codex Nuttall. The German-Mixtec deity, Pretzelcoatl, looks on. He is worried about his two friends who got tied in a knot in her headdress.

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2021-01-20

Or, maybe the real were the friends we made along the way ...

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2021-01-16

Day 13: Gender

I have a lot I'd like to say about this topic, but my thoughts are a jumbled, rambly mess right now, so I'll start with this:

Tēcciztēcatl as a gender-changing (or genderfluid) deity

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2021-01-14

catch up Day 8: Decolonize
For my post-doc, an overarching goal is to help human sacrifice w/in academia & more globally. I plan to reconstruct the lives of sacrifices to provide a humane & bottom-up view using cutting-edge scientific methods 1/n

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2021-01-10


On the move in the empire: Mobility both in Roman administration and military was of great importance. The career of Titus Varius Clemens from Celeia (Celje, Slovenia), which lasted more than 40 years, can be reconstructed... 1/2

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2021-01-06

Day 4, COMMUNICATION. Discussions of communication in Mesoamerica typically focus on books & writing. But more information was moved from one place to another by people who traveled, such as merchants. This was partly an elite-commoner distinction in knowledge.

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2021-01-04

Day 26 Communication.

Discoveries such as a modern hyoid bone, presence of the FOXP2 gene and the presence of complex behaviours have led many to suggest Neanderthals were capable of communicating in a complex manor, much like our own species

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2020-01-26

Another angle on 'story time' of course would be the many little excavation anecdotes we have in our field journals.

Like that time a scorpion and I had a little ... misunderstanding about who was first in the excavation house‘s bathroom that one evening. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️

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2020-01-25

Here‘s something special for - one of a couple of 'miniature from early Neolithic ... made from a cortex in this case.

https://t.co/v3cQ2f69yc

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2020-01-24

Day 23 Interpretation

The image from 1909 is the interpretation of neanderthals based on the La Chapelle aux saints skeleton, the one beside it is a modern reconstruction.

These images show how advanced our interpretation of this species has come.

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2020-01-23

Day 20 Reconstruction - I grew up with the late Peter Connolly's fantastic reconstruction pictures of the Roman army - his books were part of my childhood

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2020-01-21

For day 21, '#experimental': short thread on visiting a tomb on the island of ... and some thoughts on (and

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2020-01-21

Today's Day 18: Caturday.
Working with extinct animals, its sometimes hard to imagine how the species would have looked in life . The work of paleoartists such as this drawing by Mauricio Anton provide an insight into these amazing big cats (Smilodon)

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2020-01-18

Maybe the real features were the friends we made along the way? 🤔😲😉

Today‘s 12th topic is:

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2020-01-13