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Cultura: Teotihuacana

Técnica: Modelado, Perforado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations #mesoamerica

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Técnica: Corte, Desgaste, Pulido, Perforado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations #mesoamerica

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Another reason why West Mexico is best Mexico, archaeology site cookies!

#west Mexico #los Guachimontones

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Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations #mesoamerica

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👀👀👀

You're reading my mind. One of the problems with the idea, I think, is identifying where that burned dirt was deposited. Same if it was a layer of ash.

Also, I was thinking charcoal rather than brush. If a ceramic vessel needed hours or half a day to fire, bajareque surely would need hours, as well. And there are some pieces of bajareque that I have analyzed that are like 12 centimeters or more thick. I imagine that needs a lot of time to be fired

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In reality, this should have been about bajareque, how bajareque was purposely created, what evidence I would need to prove a hypothesis on how the bajareque was created, etc.

I never imaged my dissertation would contain a huge section about bajareque, now it will. Because seriously, how do you fire a 100 meter wide guachimonton covered in daub in order to create bajareque that you can paint and decorate without causing charring, burning, or other fire related destruction?

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Cultura: Tarasca

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations #mesoamerica

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#west mexico #guachimontones #memes

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✨ NEW EPISODE ✨

049. Writing Maya Glyphs with Artist Julia Kausch

In this interview, we interview Mayanist and artist Julia Kausch. Julia shares her process for creating detailed replicas of Maya glyphs and art, as well as some insights into her research on ceramic vessel workshops and artist identification. You can follow Julia's work on Instagram at @julias_inkpot

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#Mesoamerica #podcast #maya #Instagram

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Cultura: Tradición de las tumbas de tiro

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations #mesoamerica

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I am disappointed to learn how difficult DAM has been with complying with NAGPRA

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Y'all

Look at this thicc vessel support

I have never seen a thicker vessel support than this one. It's so large you could club someone with it

That's not a sherd, it's a SHERD

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Cultura: Tradición de las tumbas de tiro

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations #mesoamerica

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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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I should send the ESA my paper 🤣

If you don't see me in the lab at Los Guachimontones the next few days it is because I am going to New Orleans to present a paper at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference. But instead of presenting a paper on West Mexico, my paper is on archaeology and video game preservation. Specifically, how archaeology can help save historic video games from being lost forever. I'll be back on Friday!

#digital archaeology #archaeogaming #video games #archaeology

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Técnica: Corte, Desgaste, Perforado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #mesoamerica #first nations #native american #occidente de mexico

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Horrifying

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts: