Calling all archaeoblurs!

If you're an archaeologist* and have a Tumblr, reblog this or sound off in the comments! I figured it's high time we put together a directory of sorts.

*for our purposes, archaeologist can mean someone who has or is working on a degree in archaeology, you don't necessarily have to be currently practicing. If you have a blog that is specifically archaeology focused, include that and what your specialty is!

If you're in a related field like anthropology, museums, or archives, include yourself with whatever your field is :)

It’s been a while since I’ve actually introduced myself, so might as well take this as an opportunity, so thanks Reid!

I’m Mice/Mouse to most - your neighbourhood Australian archaeologist!

My blog primarily focuses on random archaeology things I come across that I find interesting - come ask me questions about things, I’m always keen for a chat and to help people learn about archaeology, Australia, and our extensive history!

I work in Australia in consulting archaeology (CRM as I think it’s more commonly referred to in the US), primarily with Aboriginal archaeology.

My specialty when I studied was in Australian multicultural heritage, which I wrote an entire thesis on, and am regularly tempted to return to. If you ask me, or I get the whim, it’s incredibly easy to get my to gush about it.

Back in May, CBC Arts reached out to me asking if I would be interested in joining the CBC Creator Program. After months of working with a producer and roping a few other people into this project, the pilot episode of my series on art heists is officially live. Shoutout to Producer Tiffany, Editor Gui, Artist Noah, and Research Assistant Amy.

Join me for a deep dive into this bizarre story of art crime.

I'm working on two new videos for CBC!!!!

trying to be an active mutual feels like this some of times

If you've ever thought to yourself "I basically know who this person is" about a stranger from reading their posts or watching their youtube videos, I guarantee you're wrong. Yes, even if you've been following them for a long time. Knock it off.

It's possible to know a fictional character purely from the little vignettes in a story because the author has intentionally structured those moments to show every relevant facet of the character. If you finish a story, and there were two scenes where the character was nice and one where they liked rollercoasters, then that's the character! They are nice and they like rollercoasters.

REAL PEOPLE DO NOT WORK LIKE THIS.

Real people posting on social media may appear somewhat similar to a fictional character being revealed scene by scene. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. You are not being shown a curated collection of carefully authored scenes that intentionally build up to a full character! You are seeing a random assortment of moments when the person felt like posting on social media, filtered through imprecise wording, missing context, whether the person slept well the night before, and who knows how many other factors. Real people are orders of magnitude more complicated than fictional characters because they are not designed to be easily understood by an audience! If you try to interpret social media posts as a found-footage story it will lead only to ruin!

I've been trying to reframe how I talk about content-producers to prevent myself from falling into this overly-familiar trap.

"That band? I haven't listened to all their music, but I like what I've heard. This song's my favorite."

"That actor? I enjoyed their performance in this movie and that TV show. Made me laugh AND cry. Good actor."

"YouTuber? I like their series on book-to-movie adaptations."

"Tumblr person? Yeah, I follow them because I like their posts on fashion history."

Being specific about WHAT you like makes for better conversations, and you don't fall into the "omg I LOVE them!" trap.

You're not putting someone on a pedestal, built up by your idea if them, so you're less likely to go knee-jerk-defensive if someone criticizes them. Keep some professional distance between you and "person you don't personally know but whose work you enjoy."

Mutuals changing their icons makes me feel like a child crying when their dad shaves his face bc they don’t know who he is

why are you green now??? you're my PURPLE mutual

I like when delivery people ask you to sign their tiny shitty screen with your finger like alright sure we can do some free drawing I guess. Some random strokes that evoke the essence of a signature. Looking me dead in the eyes while I play fruit ninja on this blank screen. Why not.

huuuughhhhh yahoo selling scraped data from tumblr to AI sloo probably uughhhwaaauuwghhhhhh

bwwaaaughhhhhhgggh enshittification continues

this is what you're looking for to opt out!!!

The setting on both of my blogs was already set to "prevent third-party sharing" when I checked, so at the moment Tumblr seems to be telling the truth. The bar is on the ground, but at least they're not digging to get under it!

I love posts that are like, there needs to be a story like this:

[Lists the entire premise of a story]

I think there is a story like that. I think it's in you.

Also on the email clean out I was reminded of the time a new kid joined my child’s preschool and he’d never seen a fire truck up close.

“I telled him we had a lever that made a fire truck come RIGHT HERE and fire fighters come talk to us about safety and we went to pull it but Christina sawed us and said ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT’.”

“Do you remember what the firefighters said about safety the previous times someone pulled the lever?”

“Mama they said lots of things. Don’t let fire in you house. If there is fire pull the lever. If there is NO fire… they said… a lot of things. We got stickers.”

“They said not to pull the lever if there’s no fire?”

“…”

“They said it’s important to not pull the lever because they have to protect people who DO have fire?”

“…”

“Buddy?”

“How do you make fire?”

ever since i learned about ghost buildings i haven't been able to stop thinking about them

this is body horror

Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)

oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.

I raise you:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)

“Belka” and “Strelka”, Soviet space dogs after landing. USSR, 1960. [1800x1295] Check this blog!

The amount of people in the notes to this post (and any other space dogs related content) being surprised that Belka and Strelka or some other “dogmonaut” survived starts to concern me. Surely you guys know that most of the space dogs survived their journeys and went on with their doggy lives? Certainly you understand that getting the living creatures into the space and safely bringing them back was the point in these experiments? Like, you all get that these dogs were sent into space as part of the programme aimed at safely getting a human cosmonaut there, and Soviets weren’t just launching puppies to their deaths for the fun of it? You don’t just baselessly extrapolate Laika’s fate on all of them, right? Right?

…

Anyway, in case you get worried or upset looking at the space dogs’ photos, please know that most of the space dogs survived their journeys and went on with their doggy lives. They were sent into space as part of the programme aimed at safely getting a human cosmonaut there. Getting the living creatures into the space and safely bringing them back was the point in these experiments. Belka and Strelka definitely survived their flight, Strelka had puppies (one was gifted to JFK), and they both lived well into the old age.

i forget her actual name(it translates to little star) but the last of the dog cosmonauts before gagarins flight ended up being adopted by gagarin and his wife and he often spoke about being grateful for her contribution

That would be Zvozdochka. She was also named by Yuri Gagarin. Here’s a picture of her with her friends sourced from a Russia Beyond article that manages to misidentify all 4 dogs (correct labels added to bottom of photo added by me)

yesss thank you

[ Image One: A grainy color photo showing two people in white coats and caps, and two dogs. One person is crouched on the ground with the white dog, Belka, unbuckling it from a harness/vest. The other person is actively pulling a brown and white dog, Strelka, from the reentry capsule. They are in a field of brown and green grasses.

Image Two: A black and white photo of four dogs, with their names written in different colors. The names are written both in English and in Russian. From left to right: The white dog is Belka, the first white and brown dog is Zvozdochka, the black dog is Chernushka, and the second white and brown dog is Strelka. / End ID ]

Eyy if yall could help me get my latest video to 500 views, I'll give you each a piece of candy and a kitten. I think my channel is in YouTubes bad books for criticizing what's happening in American museums and archives under Trump and I need your help to dig myself out. Please give this a watch, send it to a friend and subscribe if you haven't already. ALSO, my cat shows up very prominently around the 2 minute mark 🐈‍⬛️❤️

I very genuinely need tumblr to understand that museums are as diverse as historians, egyptologists, archaeologists, and what have you in general. Like from the way people are talking you'd think that only straight white Western men are ever involved in these concepts, because the internet at large just loves to be able to get on their little high horsie about how they are sooo much more morally correcter than the Evil Other

Which is absolutely not a concerning attitude to have, not at all no sir

forgot I'm on the piss on the poor website so I'll spell it out: Western straight white men aren't per definition the Evil Other either

You know where the real danger is? Anti-intellectualism, the concept of moral purity, and opening your damn trap when you don't know shit about fuck

don't think I can't see some of you reblogging this from me very specifically without the second addition just so you can get your tired ass "dunks" on the British Museum in anyway, so just to spell it out again: this goes for ALL museums. thinking there is any one """evil""" museum that DOES need to be closed down and that YOU know which one that is is the slipperiest fucking slope to being a flunky for alt-right bullshit

For anyone who actually wants to read the map, here's a better view of it.

I have a suggestion

-person who forgot to take their not-feeling-terrible medication

So this post is the single reason I took my meds today. Reblogging out of duty.