Against Guilty History Settler-colonial should be a description, not an insult.

A truly stupid piece that I’m shocked was actually published.

And if you think settler colonizer is an insult, maybe you’re the one with the guilty conscience.

The deadly US Civil War origins of the term 'deadline' YouTube video by Red River Archaeology Group

The lethal historical origins of the term dead-line.

Did you know that US #CivilWar POW camps were likely where 'deadlines' originated? In this clip, Dr. @ryankmcnutt.bsky.social explains their very literal and deadly origin to me.

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Burials of 28 people Andrew Jackson enslaved found at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried.

Archaeologists used GPR to identify the probable location of a cemetery for people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson on the grounds of The Hermitage plantation. 🧪🏺

. . .and the Clovis debates were often unreasonably acrimonious). But then you also have processualists and post processualists chucking chairs at each other over theory at the same time.

Yes. I mean, Bluefish caves decimated Cinq-Mars career: look at him, reduced to only being able to work at a national museum for the rest of his life . . .

(I’ll note in seriousness, and for the record, he admitted his own frustrations over the reception of Bluefish Cave. . .

Lost Cause commemoration for 2nd Manassas. Interesting that the first flag is official first flag of the Confederacy, but personal commemoration for Tennessee still clings to the battle flag.

Best illustrated by this already dated breastplate half modified with lip on the right shoulder to allow the effective use of a musket.

And the intersection of the Medieval and the modern with the armor fragments.

Some of my favorite artifacts from the SEAC tour of Jamestown. Starting off with the this wee 1st/2nd century Roman oil lamp.
Curation of past objects in the past. historicjamestowne.org/collections/...

Maybe it’s post election doldrums, but I’ve never seen a class less interested during a discussion of race, class and gender than today’s.

Happy to have been a part of this session at #SEAC24 honoring the man who got me into archaeology. Who once recited the entirety of the Riddle of Strider while I was excavating a feature at field school. Hence the title . . . I wandered far from Kevin’s research foci, but his legacy is his impact

Hair raising! 💈🦰

Some fantastic Viking-Age or Late Norse combs from Shetland, at Shetland Museum and Archives.

Do read @grungeviking.bsky.social's 'Small Finds, Big Questions: Two Decades of Research on Combs in Viking-Age Scotland' in the EUP book, The #Viking Age in Scotland, which I co-edited!

I keep forgetting the little 🏺🍻

By the rain. Round which the weasel lightly leaves its train You are the ploughed earth on which horses stand You are the grain that once did crown the land You are the bread the farmer once did eat You are the strength when peace returns to gree
—Goldfield, Jewish soldier in the German army in WWI

You have no grave, no cross but you did die. Maybe in some dark thicket your bones lie Or you were sunk in swamp in deep of night, Or Cossacks cruelly robbed you of the light. And when it was and where and how …and why I know not: death in forest does not cry. You are a skull now white bleached by