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- Return?
My last entry was so long ago, I had the funny thought today that maybe my blog had become the digital equivalent of a sunken shipwreck. IN 2023, manymanymany things happened. I received a Graduate Certificate in Archaeology at the start of the year for the few topics I studied… Read more: Return? - Lithics and Lost Limbs
This is Part IV of a series on a short intensive class I did on Lithics. Q: When was the earliest known successful surgical amputation? A) 700 years ago B) 3100 years ago C) 7000 years ago D) 31000 years ago ⏳ ⌛️ If you chose option C, you were… Read more: Lithics and Lost Limbs - Lithics, Line Art & Limericks
An unlucky lithics student named Joan Couldn’t tell between ice cream and stone She ran into grief When she fractured her teeth – She’d fancied a taste of a Hertzian Cone. • A Hertzian Cone is a kind of break that happens when you chip a material which fractures conchoidally… Read more: Lithics, Line Art & Limericks
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- A little popular cultureI have finished consuming: • 2021 Film, ‘The Dig’. Very beautiful movie, capturing real… Read more: A little popular culture
- A poemWhose bones these are we want to know.They died a million years ago;They won’t… Read more: A poem
- A Snowman from Ukraine in PeacetimeI woke up this morning filled with stress from the night before, and surprised… Read more: A Snowman from Ukraine in Peacetime
- Ancestors and holiday thoughtsThere’s a Black Friday sale here for Ancestry/DNA testing, which is weird. For one,… Read more: Ancestors and holiday thoughts
- Working memory workoutThis week I am confronting myself! I have a not-so-excellent working memory and I… Read more: Working memory workout
- What do Archaeologists wear?I am off to a field trip tomorrow! The university released a lot of… Read more: What do Archaeologists wear?
- Week of wonderingThings I have done in the last week: 1. Wondered what there is to… Read more: Week of wondering
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