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Classical archaeologist and art historian with interest in all of ancient civilizations. I collect pictures of antiquities.
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mindblowingscience
Iraq dig uncovers 5,000 year old pub restaurant
Archaeologists in southern Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will illuminate the lives of ordinary people in the world's first cities.
phys.org
The US-Italian team made the find in the ruins of ancient Lagash, northeast of the modern city of Nasiriyah, which was already known to have been one of the first urban centres of the Sumerian civilisation of ancient Iraq.
The joint team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pisa discovered the remains of a primitive refrigeration system, a large oven, benches for diners and around 150 serving bowls.
Fish and animal bones were found in the bowls, alongside evidence of beer drinking, which was widespread among the Sumerians.
“So we’ve got the refrigerator, we’ve got the hundreds of vessels ready to be served, benches where people would sit… and behind the refrigerator is an oven that would have been used… for cooking food,” project director Holly Pittman told AFP.
“What we understand this thing to be is a place where people—regular people—could come to eat and that is not domestic,” she said.

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one-and-five-nines

Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

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ardatli

YES. This is such an important point. Those ‘girly’ girls doing their embroidery and quilting bees and grass braiding were vital parts of every domestic economy that has ever existed.

This is precisely what chaps my hide so badly about the misuse of the quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” because this is precisely what the author was actually trying to say.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a domestic historian who developed new methodologies to study well-behaved women because they were

1) so vital, and

2) their lives were rarely recorded in the usual old sources.

“Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history; against Antinomians and witches, these pious matrons have had little chance at all. Most historians, considering the domestic by definition irrelevant, have simply assumed the pervasiveness of similar attitudes in the seventeenth century.”

Original article: “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735” (pdf download from Harvard)

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dzjadzja

Well behaved women seldom make history: but they should.

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rhysintherain

The first woman to thread a needle reshaped our place in the universe, and made everything we’ve done since possible.

The first woman who warped a loom must have looked mad, right up until she made clothes on it. Then she was a hero.

The first grandmother to plant food seeds near her summer village, knowing she wouldn’t be able to walk as far next year as this one, and invented a garden.

The first woman to discover she could make mud into storage containers. The first woman to discover you could fire those containers to hold liquid.

We don’t remember any of their names, but they made us who we are. Everything we are is built on what they taught us.

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art-thropologist

That’s what I love about this quote. It can-and should-be read with both interpretations in mind. Pay attention to the presence of absence along side the trailblazers.

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