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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.
#when you start studying archaeology you expect to learn about stuff like that but then it turns out that archaeology is only about#professors hating each other being too lazy to actually teach you about any discovery more recent than 30 years or to show you any artifacts#and after few years you're like: tbh I could stop on tumblr posts it would be more interesting than actually studying this godforsaken field
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places i should be allowed to poke around in because i am curious by nature
container ships in the middle of the ocean
the large hadron collider
any salt mine
museum storage rooms
svalbard seed vault
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This aesthetic is great…
But may I present to you a fresher take on the real aesthetics of archaeology — I give you… dirtcore
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Still laughing at Brian May offhandedly writing the greatest understatement in the history of academia in his astrophysics doctoral dissertation:
Ah, yes - “various pressures.” Like being one of the greatest guitarists ever and playing/writing/singing for the most legendary rock band of all time.
Those various pressures.
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-I've cited you a million times but didn't recognize you irl
-Language barrier won't stop me from asking this important question but oh boy, it will be so chaotic and I'm gonna explain in ten times
-Academic conversation in English and then you both don't remember the word, you switch to your mother languages and turns out the word is the same in both of them
types of academic interactions:
-one or both of us is bad at eye contact
-Shakey Me Legg
-symbiotic infodumping
-Neither Of Us Know How To Make Conversation In A Conventional Human Format, Conversation Continues Chaotically
-””””normal””””
-one or both of us is bad at eye contact CHALLENGE MODE: we are talking in a group at a table and one or all of us are bad at eye contact
-’dont get me fucking started’ *gets fucking started*
-one person infodumps while others sit enraptured
-Zippy Me Zipper
-80 year old retired professor begins stories about life in the field, results may vary
-There Is A Language Barrier Between Us But God Damn If That’s Going To Stop Us From Communicating A Very Important Infodump, Mutual Excitement Is Maintained As Charades Begin
-somebody takes out their computer and u know ur about to see Some Shit
-somebody takes out their phone and u know ur about to see the research-related object of their greatest admiration
-We Are Having This Conversation In A Very Strange And Inconvenient Location But No One Wants To Interrupt The Conversation To Suggest We Move
-socialanxiety.png
-how do we socialize? are we socializing? what do we talk about? who am i
-Neither Of Us Know How To End A Conversation Despite Both Of Us Wanting To End The Conversation Oh God Oh No
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The Young Prince
In 1942 at Arene Candide Cave, Liguria, Italy, the 23,500-year-old remains of a young, Upper Paleolithic man we’re discovered. Thought to be a member of the Gravettian culture, this young male is aged to be around 15-years-old at time of death. Reports seem him tall and seemingly strong, likely a hunter during his lifetime.
Found on a bed of red ochre, the man was “spectacularly ornamented” with shells and deer canines, all perforated, and likely having formed some kind of cap. Also found alongside the remains was a mammoth ivory pendent and a 23cm-long flint blade in his right hand. The items found with the remains are what earned him the nickname ‘Il Principe,’ AKA The Young Prince.
Sources (x) (x) (x) (x)
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ACTUAL archaeological mysteries
* How do tarps go missing between field seasons?
* Why do I not have as much success with grants as others?
* How did we lose a datum? It's a frickin concrete cylinder in the ground!
* Can you read this person's field notes? Because I can't.
* Is this a bone or a rock?
* Which Munsell number is closest to this layer?
* Is this a sherd or a very convincing rock?
* We've had weeks to excavate. Why are we always rushing on the last few days?
* Was that previously recorded artifact scatter plowed to oblivion?
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*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document
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whoever got my voodoo doll, massage the back a lil pls
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happy sparkle on its wednesday monday
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Anyone else too tired after a whole academic year to pack for the fieldwork and kinda not mentally prepared for leaving loved ones for so many weeks or just meeee
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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.
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