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electricslug asked:

Ok I'll bite

What is your special interest and do you have any fun facts about it?

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chillyfeetsteak answered:

ok there's this thing in the sahara desert called the Richat Structure. It's 30 miles wide, it can only really be seen from space. it just looks like this giant fucking EYE in the middle of the desert. i came across it by accident while just scrolling around on google earth like a decade ago and went HUH???? cause it's so creepy and weird so then I got obsessed.

basically scientists think it's a highly eroded dome and not an impact site or man-made or anything. a bunch of different kinds of rock are exposed in concentric rings. however, it is an archeological site and they've found a bunch of Archeulean tools and artifacts in great condition there (like stone axes and stuff from homo erectus). archeologists think this area was used in tool manufacturing.

im just totally fascinated i think it's cool as hell

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#chillyfeetsteak#Richat Structure#Archaeology#oh damn that's Neat#Neat!#homo Erectus#informative reblogs
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anarchywoofwoof

god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

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postpoeticparadox

holy shit bronze age pro sheep bone gamer girl

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roach-works

this is hilarious but also im gonna cry like this teenage gamer died and they buried her with her high score. no one took back the pot or divided it up because no one would play against her again. her family and friends buried her with her wins. im crying

#Giraud#et al#Gamers#Gamer Girl#Bronze Age Gamer Girl#Kazakhstan#Archaeology#damn the 8est knucklebones player EVER#rip Queen#u_u u_u u_u#informative reblogs
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a-s-fischer

If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

#a s fischer#Ea Nasir#Archaeology#Classical Studies#History#informative reblogs#appreciative reblogs
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Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father April 17 (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. Based on its dimensions compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the Triassic Period creature, which they named Ichthyotitan severnensis, was between 72 and 85 feet (22-26 meters) long. That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would rival some of the largest baleen whales alive today. The blue whale, considered the largest animal ever on the planet, can reach about 100 feet (30 meters) long.

Don't mind me, just thinking about how fossils for marine life are rarer than for land-based life and there could have been all kinds of shit living in there that we haven't even discovered yet.

#Reuters#Will Dunham#Archaeology#Ichthyosaurs#Neat!#Marine Lizards#Articles#informative reblogs
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Abstract: In this paper we present T. rex fossils as disruptive objects that can drastically influence the actions and reactions of humans that encounter them. We present a vision of the T. rex as being a key node within a web of human and object associations that ultimately produces, first, extreme desire in humans, and then a breakdown in human relationships resulting in disagreements, disputes, lawsuits, and the committing of crime. From there we bring these T. rex fossils into the concept of desirescape which sees a network of object/object and object/human reactions provoking irresistible desire in humans. We argue that this desire can push humans to violate law or social norms or, in several T. rex cases, sue each other. How then should we humans approach T. rex and other disruptive objects? Cautiously, and with the knowledge that these objects may be more powerful than we are.

Yates & Peacock, 2024.

#wtf scientific papers#Yates and Peacock#Archaeology#Tyrannosaurus Rex#Fossils#Cursed Objects#The Truth#u_u#Psychology#Sociology#appreciative reblogs
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raidcore

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garbage-empress

Once on IMDB I saw a “goof” which was that during a scene set in India(?), the light flicker was at the wrong frequency (in hertz). I wish I knew what movie it was to show you guys, I want to say it was some Marvel shit.

I always wondered how this person knew that. Was there an amazing Indian electrician who just instinctively felt the flicker rate was off? Did they go frame by frame and count the flickers per second?

I wanna say that was Tenet?

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garbage-empress

holy fuck

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neko-mancy

*punching propane tank in a video game*

“no way! I fill these for a living.”

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greatermaguro

Wait until you nerds discover the emergency siren fan community

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emergency-broadcast-system

Hi

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chaotic-archaeologist

This is kinda what it feels like to be an archaeologist trying to identify an artifact. And you bet your ass we’re incredibly grateful for each and every person who makes ridiculously specific websites like this.

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headspace-hotel

Hey I think this is really beautiful because everything you see around you, there is someone fucking delighted and fascinated about it and the world is so loved and full of love and that’s really amazing if you ask me

#Humans are Great#u_u#Special Interests#Fandom#Miscellanea#IMBD#Goofs#History#Archaeology#Memory#appreciative reblogs#THIS is what makes the Internet Gr8#uvu uvu
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Okay, gotta ask - where can we read more about Cahokia?

XD That's a BIG subject obvsl, and there's allot of research and scholarship on it out there, not all of which will agree with the take I presented. I particularly enjoyed Graeber and Wengrow's handling of it in The Dawn of Everything(pp. 330, 399, 452, 464-9, 475, 482, 503), which is probably the most direct inspiration for that particular reblog-reply(tho: their handling of it is part of larger arguments, so it'd probably be better if you, at least, read from Chapter 9 to the conclusion to see HOW they're using it and why).

Another discussion of Cahokia I love, though it only touches on the issues I mentioned in that reply sort of tangentially(ie: by discussing all the human sacrifice they were doing), is Ancient Faith and the Fall of Cahokia, a lecture the anthropologist Tim Pauketat gave as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2017...

...Or at least I THINK that's the lecture I liked; it's the most likely one in my youtube History, but I haven't watched it recently so idk if it is THE one(the one I'm remembering was a discussion of how the religion practiced at Cahokia was embedded both in the landscape and in a sort of "conversation" with cosmic forces? And how the sacrifices related to that "conversation"?? So if that lecture is about that then it IS the one I remember). The channel Ancient Americas also has a good summary of the research on Cahokia circa 2022, though the channel-runner's not an academic so he just sticks to the consensus positions.

#Anons#Followups#Cahokia#Archaeology#Anthropology#History#Native Americans#ask replies#Our Staff#zA Opinions
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ancientcharm

3D reconstruction of the palaestra in Baths of emperor Caracalla.

Made by Rome in 3D.

These are some screenshots (extra large images) that I took from the original 360 panorama image by 'Rome in 3D'

The extraordinary work by Rome in 3D team received recognition from scientists in the field of 3D reconstruction, archaeology and topography of Rome.

#ancientcharm#Rome in 3D#:O :O :O#Archaeology#Reconstruction#3D Modeling#The Baths of Caracalla#History#Rome#Gr8 Art#appreciative reblogs#informative reblogs
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Esoteric arts: Archaeologists at Pompeii in Italy have found what they believe is a female sorcerer’s box of objects. The magnificent little miniature amulets, gems, and other items were found in the remains of a wooden box at Casa del Giardino, and were most likely used for personal ornamentation or protection from evil forces and bad luck. Among the objects found were crystals, buttons made of bones, phallic amulets, and a glass bead engraved with the head of Dionysus.

#:D#History#Archaeology#Pompeii#Jewelry#Gems#Trinkets#Women have Always Been Here#uwu#informative reblogs#I found a Cool Rock yesterday!
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couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name

I think if indiana jones' adoring students ever went on an Adventure(tm) with him it would be really funny if that was the turn off. like, a routine dig he was leading for the school goes awry and he has to get all cocky gunslinger ladies man hero mode and the students are like. hey what the fuck. his shirt gets ripped up revealing he's jacked and that one girl is immediately wiping the 'I love you' make up off her eyes. an entire room filled with artifacts gets destroyed while they make an escape and the kids are all horrified. "professor jones. how many people have you killed" "well, do you count the damn nazis as people-" "UNFORTUNATELY YES. LEGALLY YES. ARE ALL ARCHEOLOGISTS MURDERERS." he's flirting with some random woman on the dig and all the students are like what the hell. you can't talk like that. where did the droning and stutter go. why are you not flustered. she inevitably swoons into his arms or something and they're like "oh my God eww he's so sweaty. ma'am literally what's wrong with you. blink twice if you need help". they're so betrayed to find out he never even NEEDED glasses, he was wearing nonprescription lenses in class. Indy's lowkey hurt he's like I thought you guys thought I was cool :( and they're like 'yeah when you're in a bowtie and telling us about sumarian gardening techniques. WHY do you have a whip right now you freak'

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#couldnt think of a funny name#Indiana Jones#Excellent#uwu#Indy's Students#College#Archaeology#Adventure#appreciative reblogs
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