BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS!
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
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My hand clasping a button with nails painted will allover tiny buttons on design. In the background, a pile of assorted shell buttons on a red textile.
Hand clasping a pile of shell buttons with fingernails painted to look like piles of buttons. Background has assorted shell buttons on a red textile.
Rare non-pottery manicure today, in homage to the humble mother-of-pearl button. Super common post-1890s with millions made from freshwater mussels in the American Midwest.
🏺All in one article, @lindsaybloch.bsky.social et al. present the development of a visual guide to standardize shell temper description within Pensacola Mississippian pottery, test the utility of this guide, and describe a method for producing this type of guide:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Look, I can't afford to have two hands, so I'm gonna have to cut one off.’”
dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
🏺We're always looking for better ways to capture consistent, replicable artifact data...this method is working for us! Our image guides are specific to shell-temper, but if any kind of ceramic paste ID is part of your dataset, maybe it will help you too.
#archaeology
doi.org/10.1017/aap....
Oooh, this is very cool! Texture is so hard to convey via nail polish, but worth giving it a shot.
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Thanks for the endorsement!
Screenshot of a webpage for Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. "Provenance of pottery from the Florida Keys: A geochemical pilot study"
🏺New pub--People in the Florida Keys were making their own pottery, not bringing it from the mainland!
Free to read and download via this link through the end of the year: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mAs3,rVDB...
Thanks to all my co-authors for pulling this together!
Related, there are a few places left in my SHA workshop on Button Identification. Grab your spot!
cardboard box with cards spilling out of it it. The top card reads "Historic Button Type Collection" with several illegible blocks of text below. The cards behind it have buttons of different shapes and sizes attached.
Cards laid out in a fan shape. the left hand side of the cards have pictures and text, and the right hand side have buttons attached.
Can't wait to catch up with many of you at the SHAs in Detroit! Also, I still have some button type collections for sale and am taking online orders from now until stock runs out. If you have year-end money that needs spending, I can help you 😄
temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases.
cartoon: in the style of Egyptian heiroglyhics the lyrics to the Time Warp have been phonetically translated and help illustrate characters from RHPS Caption; Rocky Horus Picture Scroll
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
Closeup of thumbnail painted with copper luster sprig on white ground, on top of a ceramic plate with the same design.
nails painted white with copper luster band. Thumb has a floral sprig in same copper luster. In the background is a plate painted with the same design
Ceramic sherd painted with a copper luster sprig.
Back to basics #maniarchaeology today. Maybe the most common ironstone pattern, this simple sprig motif in copper luster is called Tea Leaf, produced throughout 2nd half of the 19th century by many different makers.
Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park
🏺 Great writeup of our collaborative project with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to understand and revitalize potting traditions!
🏺 The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) is hiring an archaeological analyst, based in Charlottesville, VA. bit.ly/DAACSanalyst
🏺DYK that the first people in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos made pottery with dust that originated in the Sahara?!
Our new article confirms this, and a whole lot more about how the Lucayans engineered pottery in this challenging environment.
doi.org/10.1080/1556...
@emikracht.bsky.social
3rd image courtesy Maryland Archaeological Conservation laboratory: apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/.../tin_glaz...
left hand holding a small sherd. Fingernails and sherd are decorated with a design of blue grid with red stars inside and green at the intersections of lines.
Artifact image of sherds decorated with blue grid and red stars with green accents on a white ground.
Decorated sherds and a black and white image of a complete tankard with the same checked design. Text reads, "Chinese or common shape cup with painted star and grid pattern in blue, red, and green (left). This vessel may have been made in Bristol in the early 18th century in a fashion known as Bristol blue-red-green. Whole mug with similar pattern from a private collection on right. Angelica Knoll, 18CV60, c. 1650-1770."
A complete mug decorated with blue grid design with red stars inside. Top area has decorative border and reads "Union".
New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London.
This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family.
#maniarchaeology
🏺Nice work, @archfieldnotes.bsky.social!
🏺 Great writeup of our recent work!
Fox kit introducing themself!
my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
iron horseshoe fragments and iron shaped into rectangular chisel/celt forms. Figure 4 of article.
🏺New article! "Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast"
We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity.
What assemblages should we zap next?
Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz
#archaeology
YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?"
Yes: 68%
No: 18
A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.
You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”
