Wine archaeology: where skepticism and good taste meet (free subscribers welcome). shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/tasting-da...
Tasting DaVinci’s Wine
How to capitalize on the past without being a jerk
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Shannon Lee Dawdy
@shannonleedawdy.substack.com
Author, public anthropologist, archaeologist of contemporary life. If you've got a time machine, DM me. https://shannonleedawdy.substack.com/
Professional baseball player is now a PhD candidate in Etruscan Archaeology 🏺⚾ www.nytimes.com/athletic/761...
He was one of baseball’s top closers. Now he’s a world-traveling archaeologist (Gift Article)
Brad Lidge made two All-Star games as an MLB closer. Then his curiosity led him in a different direction.
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Exploring the island where Orwell holed up to write 1984. What does the archaeology of the place tell us about his state of mind? (free subscribers very appreciated) shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/orwells-bo...
Orwell’s Bones
On gloomy islands and utopian orchards
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"On October 12, 1492, a stranger landed on the sandy shores of an island in the Bahamas. And the world changed." That's the first line of my new book. But it isn't about that day. It's about what came before. Out January 5th. Preorder here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H58VLS3...
Mammoths and Empires: A History of Indigenous Discovery, Civilization, and Adaptation in the Americas: Braje, Todd J.: 9798897102556: Amazon.com: Books
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🏺 Yard work reveals largest trove of Viking silver ever discovered in Denmark So, imagine this—a man in Denmark was just trying to improve his backyard when he stumbled … https://positron.today/posts/2026-09-09-yard-work-reveals-largest-trove-of-viking-silver-ever-discov/
Yard work reveals largest trove of Viking silver ever discovered in Denmark
So, imagine this—a man in Denmark was just trying to improve his backyard when he stumbled upon a treasure trove of Viking silver! In just half an hour of…
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Often neglected in historical accounts, children in the past can be rendered silent #NationalQuietDay Archaeological analysis of toys from the working-class neighbourhood of Vaakunakylä, Finland helps tell the forgotten stories of children's lives. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
By now you've probably seen the Odyssey (or better yet started reading Emily Wilson's contemporary translation), so no spoilers here. Homer/Schliemann/Nolan: conmen, entertainers, or both? (Free subscribers very appreciated) shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/the-odysse...
The Odyssey of a Mythic Archaeologist
Errol Flynn, Heinrich Schliemann, and the epic struggle for authenticity
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Will Lindsey Graham be embalmed or taxidermied? What will happen to his cats, Poppy and Ci-ci? open.substack.com/pub/shannonl...
Pets in the Afterlife
How animals help us tame death
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Been away from BlueSky because honestly it seems like a ghost town. This post relates to ghosts so giving it another shot. Anybody out there? (free to subscribe) #anthropology #archaeology #academicsky shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/the-mantel...
The Mantelpiece Urn
The domestic history of an awkward artifact
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What about the dirt of the East Wing? 10,000 years of history may now lie dumped on another Trump golf course. (free basic subscription) #anthropology/archaeology shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/a-peoples-...
There is nothing wrong with #Roman humour! 🏺
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 6mo agoFor #EpigraphyTuesday and #TilesOnTuesday I’m sharing a 2,000 year old joke from a Roman roof tile (tegula). The cursive inscription reads: “VENTVRAM / TERRIS / VID(es me)” – “Now that you see me, I’ve fallen to the ground.” From Vienna, on display at Römermuseum Vienna 📷 me 🏺
Britain's economy did not collapse after the #Romans left! Some of our most-read research from last year found an unbroken timeline of British metal production from the 5th century AD to the present day, questioning the idea of a post-Roman 'Dark Age'. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Trump's fails: a toilet water called "Empire" and the inability to build even a decent ruin. In this week's Substack (free!). #archaeology/anthropology #academic.sky shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/dancing-in...
Dancing in the Ruins of American Empire
Architecture, Hitler, and bad ballrooms
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Happy Earth Day! Last week's essay was in praise of the deep weirdness of life on Earth. Chill out, people, we're just a temporary anomaly here. shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/the-comfor...
The East Wing of the White House still exists! Read my State of the Tiny Union Address to learn all about it. Free subscribers welcome. @ad-of-aaa.bsky.social @academicblue.bsky.social shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/a-teeny-ti...
A Teeny Tiny White House
Microcosmic magic and manifesting destinies
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The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.” F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)
A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around
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The history of war tax resistance is as old as, well, war and taxes. Free subscribers welcome. shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/war-and-ta...
Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Good timing, going straight into my Ruins course this semester.
Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 7mo ago📰 Archaeological techniques help document and preserve evidence of the 2022 Yahidne war crime in Ukraine 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via PhysOrg phys.org/news/2026-03...
In 1901, divers found a 2,000-year-old Greek device that turned out to be the world’s first analog computer. Douglas Erwin’s essay explores what the Antikythera mechanism reveals about why some inventions transform the world—and others disappear. press.princeton.edu/ideas/novel-... #Biology
It's Lent. Which means I gave up plastic and discovered the ancient roots of plastic near the Strait of Hormuz. (Free to subscribers) shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/the-worldw...
Looking for something good to read? Check out Shannon Lee Dawdy's Substack, "Chronoscope," where she writes about contemporary life through the lens of archaeology. shannonleedawdy.substack.com
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Weird times. I write about contemporary life through the lens of archaeology. Histories behind the headlines, artifacts of our time, pre-industrial skills we need, futurist anthropology. MacArthur Fel...
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This film "is about how you lose your country... through countless small little acts of complicity.” THIS. Why I started to call my campus "Vichy Versailles". Academia conditions faculty to become so risk-averse they convince themselves that silence and inaction 'does no harm.' #academicsky
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ wins best documentary feature Oscar for teacher who opposed Ukraine war
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has won the Oscar for best documentary feature. The film’s central figure and co-director is a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia.
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It's wild to me that higher ed leaders can tell themselves that institutional neutrality will get the job done and then you've got Hungarian ambassadors and Russian dissidents saying this is the way you aid authoritarianism
Kimmer@kvonyborg.bsky.social · 8mo ago“‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ is about how you lose your country,” Borenstein said. “You lose it through countless small little acts of complicity.” apnews.com/article/best...
Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.
AmiyaJLO@amiyajlo.bsky.social · 8mo ago#IdesOfMarch
My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there
Always so lovely to hear that students are reading your work. Thank you @tatepaulette.bsky.social !
Tate Paulette@tatepaulette.bsky.social · 8mo agoSome last-minute prep before I head off to discuss @shannonleedawdy.substack.com's Patina, as usual paired with selections form Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Always a hit with the students in my Material Culture course. After this, looking forward to Curated Decay by Caitlin DeSilvey
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Diagnosing the Dead
What does our treatment of the ancient dead tell us about ourselves?
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