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Cultura: Tradición de las tumbas de tiro

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations #mesoamerica

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ACTUAL archaeological mysteries

* How do tarps go missing between field seasons?

* Why do I not have as much success with grants as others?

* How did we lose a datum? It's a frickin concrete cylinder in the ground!

* Can you read this person's field notes? Because I can't.

* Is this a bone or a rock?

* Which Munsell number is closest to this layer?

* Is this a sherd or a very convincing rock?

* We've had weeks to excavate. Why are we always rushing on the last few days?

* Was that previously recorded artifact scatter plowed to oblivion?

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I should send the ESA my paper 🤣

If you don't see me in the lab at Los Guachimontones the next few days it is because I am going to New Orleans to present a paper at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference. But instead of presenting a paper on West Mexico, my paper is on archaeology and video game preservation. Specifically, how archaeology can help save historic video games from being lost forever. I'll be back on Friday!

#digital archaeology #archaeogaming #video games #archaeology

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Técnica: Corte, Desgaste, Perforado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #mesoamerica #first nations #native american #occidente de mexico

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Horrifying

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #mesoamerica #first nations #native american #occidente de mexico

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This was recommended to me on IG and I can't stop listening to it.

Original IG clip here - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5bYFiTMVXD/?igsh=OTZiNHJoNjl0cnVr

#Youtube

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Here is a picture of the tejuinera replica in the plaza of Teuchitlan. You could fit a child in the thing

That's not a sherd, it's a SHERD

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Floppy disk and zip drives are another form of media that is super threatened. How many games were distributed on floppy disks and zip drives? And out all of those, how many people bothered to save those disks and drives with the proliferation of CDs?

Somewhat related, at my job working at the Archaeological Research Center, our head archivist is moving to another house. She came across her Master's thesis from the early 2000s on floppy disk. She had to bring the floppy in and use the disk reader we use for archival work to retrieve a digital copy of her thesis. Until that moment she only had the printed version of her thesis because she never bothered to transfer the file from the disk and thought she lost the disk years ago.

If you don't see me in the lab at Los Guachimontones the next few days it is because I am going to New Orleans to present a paper at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference. But instead of presenting a paper on West Mexico, my paper is on archaeology and video game preservation. Specifically, how archaeology can help save historic video games from being lost forever. I'll be back on Friday!

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While everyone in the house was asleep, I uploaded the paper to Academia.edu and ResearchGate.net. I hope other people come across it and enjoy it, too!

I haven't put this up on Academia.edu or ResearchGate.net yet because the Internet in Teuchitlan is being really slow. But here's a Google Drive link to the text followed by the slides.

Enjoy!

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Cultura: Tradición de las tumbas de tiro

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #mesoamerica #first nations #native american #occidente de mexico

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I haven't put this up on Academia.edu or ResearchGate.net yet because the Internet in Teuchitlan is being really slow. But here's a Google Drive link to the text followed by the slides.

Enjoy!

#archaeology #video games #video game history foundation #saas #archaeogaming

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I could legitimately be dumb, but I don't think that preserves the Notes. And I had my whole paper in the Notes. There was no way I could memorize a whole paper. I forget a phone number after the area code if I don't write it down right away

If you don't see me in the lab at Los Guachimontones the next few days it is because I am going to New Orleans to present a paper at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference. But instead of presenting a paper on West Mexico, my paper is on archaeology and video game preservation. Specifically, how archaeology can help save historic video games from being lost forever. I'll be back on Friday!

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Hello beloved, can you please make that symposium paper post (or a version of it) blaze-able?

I honestly don't know what blaze is or what blaze-able posts entail. Could someone let me know?

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Thank you! I have gotten so much feedback from people which is unusual for me because I almost never get feedback on my West Mexican papers.

Also, I was having trouble with the font for the longest time. First, I had chosen a font that wasn't embeddable. Then, every time I would upload the PowerPoint to Drive, which took half an hour on the poor rural Internet I have in Mexico, the font would change. After several attempts at changing fonts and some Googling, it turns out Drive will automatically change fonts if they are not web compatible. So, to get my PowerPoint looking the way I wanted I had to put it in a .zip file and then upload it to Drone.

If you don't see me in the lab at Los Guachimontones the next few days it is because I am going to New Orleans to present a paper at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference. But instead of presenting a paper on West Mexico, my paper is on archaeology and video game preservation. Specifically, how archaeology can help save historic video games from being lost forever. I'll be back on Friday!

#PowerPoint tip in case you don't know #save yourself a headache

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Cultura: Tarasca

Técnica: Corte, Desgaste, Pulido

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #mesoamerica #first nations #native american #occidente de mexico

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The paper went well! I have had four people come up to and/or email me telling me how much they enjoyed my paper. It really warms my heart that other people care

If you don't see me in the lab at Los Guachimontones the next few days it is because I am going to New Orleans to present a paper at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference. But instead of presenting a paper on West Mexico, my paper is on archaeology and video game preservation. Specifically, how archaeology can help save historic video games from being lost forever. I'll be back on Friday!