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I have these Ariat composite-toe work boots that I love (women’s size 9.5, though I am usually closer to an 8.5). They are so comfortable. 10/10 would buy again.

Depending on where you are working, it can also be worth getting a pair of steel-toed muck boots.

Hi, I'm going to be doing a dig school in Italy in a few months, and I've been trying to find a good pair of steel-toed boots. I'm transmasc, and my feet are really small (6.5), so I can't really wear men's shoes, and it's really hard finding quality women's work boots, ESPECIALLY with a steel toe. Do you have any recs?

My own boots are Timberlands, which are basically the same in women's as they are in men's, but they don't have steel toes. Is this a requirement for your field school, or can you get other boots? I know plenty of working archaeologists who don't wear steel toes.

But there is also absolutely a market for women's steel toed boots out there. If any of my followers want to chime in with their own boot recommendations, please do!

@archaeo-geek and @archaeologysucks as two working professionals I wonder if you have any advice?

-Reid

#field gear #health and safety

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lol I have moved on to researching another person, and another "researcher" attached a document to him for a baptism 80 years before he was born in a different country. Are people even awake when they are doing this stuff? Do they just go, "Same name; must be the same guy!"

I just spent an entire day untangling a knot in a friend's family tree. It turns out that about 100 years ago, some careless researcher accidentally smooshed together two guys with the same name, in spite of the fact that they lived in different states. Even though this person appears on nearly 500 people's family trees on Ancestry.com, and dozens of people have submitted him as their qualifying ancestor for the Sons/Daughters of the American Revolution, no one has ever taken a second look and thought, "Hmm ... it's a bit weird that this feller was still living in Pennsylvania 15 years after he died in Ohio."

Anyway, I think I have it all sorted out now, and I wrote up and posted a document explaining my reasoning, attached to his profile on the tree I made. I hope it is helpful to someone, and that I'm not about to have 100 angry DAR/SAR members show up at my door with torches and pitchforks because I said that their Revolutionary War Soldier Boy ancestor wasn't actually, and they're not as super special as they thought they were.

#genealogy #sloppy research

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I just spent an entire day untangling a knot in a friend's family tree. It turns out that about 100 years ago, some careless researcher accidentally smooshed together two guys with the same name, in spite of the fact that they lived in different states. Even though this person appears on nearly 500 people's family trees on Ancestry.com, and dozens of people have submitted him as their qualifying ancestor for the Sons/Daughters of the American Revolution, no one has ever taken a second look and thought, "Hmm ... it's a bit weird that this feller was still living in Pennsylvania 15 years after he died in Ohio."

Anyway, I think I have it all sorted out now, and I wrote up and posted a document explaining my reasoning, attached to his profile on the tree I made. I hope it is helpful to someone, and that I'm not about to have 100 angry DAR/SAR members show up at my door with torches and pitchforks because I said that their Revolutionary War Soldier Boy ancestor wasn't actually, and they're not as super special as they thought they were.

#genealogy #the dar/sar is bullshit #people just like to feel special i guess #u.s. history #revolutionary war #sloppy genealogy 'research' is one of my pet peeves #people will just copy and paste any old bullshit without a second look or thought

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Wasn't this blog called archaelogyrocks? Did i miss something?

Nope! It was born as my complainy work side-blog, and accidentally gained a following when one of my posts went viral. I am here to tell the younguns why archaeology is not a career to be entered into lightly.

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Sometimes there's just no heterosexual explanation.

Obituary of Montague Claude Milot (1853-1883), an Ohio artist I came across while researching a friend's family tree. Montie lived with his widowed mother his entire life, and never married or had children. While that's not proof he was queer, it is definitely a strong possibility. Sometimes we have to find our history in what isn't said.

Montie Milot. Many here will regret to learn that Montie Milot, formerly of Bucyrus, died at Wichita, Kansas, on Monday 3d inst. and was buried at New Carlisle, Clarke county, in this State [Ohio], on Thursday 6th. The Springfield Republic contains the following notice of the funeral: Quite a delegation of young men, former acquaintances and friends of the dead artist, Montie Milot, went to New Carlisle to-day to attend the funeral, the bearers being selected from the number. Among other beautiful floral tributes about the casket was an easel two feet high on which was a large palette of cut flowers, showing used brushes, daubs of colors, etc. This was furnished by J. A. Buel & Co.

#19th century #ohio #art history #queer history

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The days are getting longer, weather has improved, the field season has started to pick up, and you know what that means, folks. That’s right! Tis the season of paid car naps!

#la vie de la archaeologist #monitoring

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With apologies to the entire archaeological community

#archaeology humor #just archaeologist things

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i really can’t stress enough how much i recommend regularly engaging with older art– movies, books, whatever. like, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” and all that, but also, there’s just something really fascinating and kind of beautiful about reading something written by someone who lived so long ago and really connecting with it, recognizing the humanity of people who once seemed like abstract concepts to you

#literary history #people have always been people #it is a fascinating experience to read the words of long dead people #and to see what is alien and what is familiar

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

#books #research #adventures in technology #resources

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Fun fact! Astragali or tali (the knuckle bones of hoofed mammals) were the original Roman dice, since they naturally have 4 distinct sides. Probably equally used for gambling and fortune telling. Bonus: it’s not ethically sketchy to own them, like it would be with human bones.

Sometimes I pause and reflect on the fact that my job has made me the kind of morbid weirdo who has favorite human bones.

#bones #human remains #faunal bone #fortune telling #gaming and leisure #roman history

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Hello! We did consider bothering tech tumblr for this but we figured we should ask what field researchers use - do you know of a calendar app that can show past events? Every (pay to upgrade) out there is for facebook birthdays etc. I can hardly make a timeline of the 1980s much less BCE, or gasp, switching calendar systems. The programming cannot be that difficult but it requires a database and surely, surely someone has my middle-school poster paper project online on some web 2.0 netscape escapee that isn't google or excel and just doesn't show up on searches anymore

Oof. I do not know the answer to this, but definitely sounds like a good thing to have. Anyone have any ideas?

#history #timelines #technology #history apps

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Surely now you have to tell the class what's your favourite bones and why?

Listen up, class!

Top 3 human bones:

1. patella (kneecap): small! round! smooth! fits pleasingly in the center of the palm like a smooth-tumbled river stone.

2. clavicle (collarbone): fantastic curved shape, sexy as heck! A+

3. distal phalanges (finger and toe tips): so teensy! so shaped! Hardly ever get found because they are just Too Smol.

#human remains #just archaeologist things #bones #my job has made me a morbid weirdo

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Sometimes I pause and reflect on the fact that my job has made me the kind of morbid weirdo who has favorite human bones.

#just archaeologist things #human remains #i mean doesn’t everyone? #they’re just so neat!

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One of my favorite folk songs is about the loss of young men in WWI and its impact on traditional dance in England.

also the english are weird about folk culture. we are. we've relegated our folk dances and music to the zone of esoteric nerd shit that only weirdos do, and then we go looking for esoterica in the non-english parts of our heritage because we don't think we've got any of it of our own

#folk traditions #folk music #wwi #british history #20th century #Youtube

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#u.s. history #texas #slavery

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Yeah, unfortunately that was pretty common. Most girls were at least 15 when they married, but every now and then, one was 14 or even 13, and didn’t have a whole lot of agency in the matter.😬

I just had someone decline my suggestion to add the names of a person’s parents and children to their memorial on FindAGrave, because, and I quote, “this memorial is about Dianna, not her children.” Which is officially the most bizarre reason I’ve ever encountered for someone declining an edit on there.

#19th century #american west #women's history #child marriage

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I wrote and submitted a biography out of spite, because I am That Kind of petty history nerd. I wonder if the keeper of her memorial will decide any of her biographical details are relevant?

Diana Armstrong was born in 1825 in Madison County, Illinois, likely in the Township of Prairie Ridge, the eldest daughter of Andrew Jackson Armstrong and Mary Ann Roberts. Not long after her birth, the family relocated to a farm in Yatesville-Sinclair Township, Morgan County, where her father held a land patent about ten miles northeast of Jacksonville. By the late 1830s, the family had moved to Griggsville Township in Pike County, to a farm about 2.5 miles northwest of the town of Griggsville. On 11 April 1839, when Diana was just 14 years old, she married Richard Simmons, a 25-year-old farmer. They remained in the township of Griggsville, on a farm near Diana's parents, until about 1852. Diana and Richard had at least five children during that time: Andrew Marion (b. 1840), William M. (1842-1906), Mary Sophia (Hill 1844-1912), Mariah J. (b. 1846), and Charles J. (b. 1852). In 1852, Diana's parents and nine of her younger siblings departed Illinois on the Oregon Trail, leaving Diana's young family behind. Her mother died on the journey, and her father died shortly after arriving in Oregon. Without much reason left to remain in Griggsville, Diana and her husband took up a land claim in Scotland Township, in McDonough County, about four miles east of Macomb, adjacent to land held by Thomas Carnes, who had previously been their neighbor in Griggsville. It is unclear what became of Richard Simmons after this time, but it is likely that he died sometime between 1852 and 1856. After Thomas Carnes' wife also died in childbirth in February 1856, Diana and Thomas threw in their lot together, and were married 19 May 1856 in Macomb, Illinois. Not long after their marriage, Diana and Thomas moved to La Harpe, in Hancock County, where they lived for at least ten years. The couple had at least eight children: Samuel T. (1857-1919), Adella Delores (Spangler 1858-1934), Nancy (b. 1861), Douglas (b. ~1864), Ella Frances (Lofton 1865-1928), George C. (~1866-1935), Daniel McClelland (~1868-1919), and Lewis A. (~1870-1939). Diana also continued to raise Thomas's children from his first marriage, but the Simmons children do not appear to have remained in their household. By the end of the 1870s, the Carnes family had returned to McDonough County, settling in Blandinsville Township. Diana died there on 14 September 1879 of Typhoid, and was buried at Wesley Chapel Cemetery. Thomas survived her by twelve years, and was buried beside her in 1891.

I just had someone decline my suggestion to add the names of a person’s parents and children to their memorial on FindAGrave, because, and I quote, “this memorial is about Dianna, not her children.” Which is officially the most bizarre reason I’ve ever encountered for someone declining an edit on there.

#genealogy #spite #pettiness #historical research