23 year old former anthropology student, field archaeologist by day.
Fascinated by evolution, fossils, bones, rocks, people, culture, politics, animals, and behaviour.
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Graduate students are the worst.
(via 30blogafeller)
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In Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, anthropologist Karen Ho uncovers some of the inner-workings behind one of the most influential cultural machines today. After a year of working for a Manhattan investment bank and months of in-depth interviews, Ho describes how the actual culture of Wall Street drives global capitalism and less of what we consider as the “free market.”
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Source: youtu.be
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– Milford H. Wolpoff (via steveyaas)If we compare Earth’s history to a 24-hour day (with one second equaling 50,000 years),
Earth originates at midnight.
The earliest fossils were deposited at 5:45 A.M.
The first vertebrates appeared at 9:02 P.M.
The earliest mammals, at 10:45 P.M.
The earliest primates, at 11:43 P.M.
The earliest hominins, at 11:57 P.M.
And Homo sapiens arrives 36 seconds before midnight.(via beautifulspirit-mind)
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True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women.
– Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never been a married woman who kept her family name. I have had students hold that up as proof of my “sexism.”
My own brother told me that he could never marry a woman who kept her name because “everyone would know who ruled that relationship.” Perfect equality – my husband keeps his name and I keep mine – is held as a statement of superiority on my part.(via sinkme)
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I embrace the idea we are dependent upon the ancestors and that ancestors are active agents in our lives and other lives. They are us. They passed on their DNA, our characters, and our deep time cultural history; they are forever our teachers.
– Peter R. Schmidt, African Archeology and the Ancestors (via earthsoldier) -
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“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings.” - Cornel West
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Archaeological News: In pictures: Prosthetics through time →
“We’re seeing the first glimpses of the development of prosthetic devices,” says Dr Jacky Finch, who has analysed this Egyptian prosthetic toe. It dates to between 950-710BC and was found on a female mummy in a tomb near Luxor.
A model of “the Capua leg”, part of the Brought to Life…
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Precisely.
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