Feel free to check if your city or town was a Sundown town. Notice that most Sundown towns were not in the South. And if you want to go to your local library or city hall to update some information, or pull some records, please heed the warnings by the researchers that put this map together...

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 8mo ago

If you're wondering whether your town was a sundown town? Check this map. Shout out to everyone that immediately noticed that most sundown towns were not in the South.

New #maniarchaeology 💅! This English variety, consisting of yellow transfer-printing on a dark brown refined redware body, is sometimes called “Yellow Printed Brownware” and dates to the early 19th century. It is rare in North American contexts, but check out this example from Drax Hall in Jamaica

BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS! U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.” HERE TO STAY! WI NOU KAPAB!

Rare non-pottery manicure today, in homage to the humble mother-of-pearl button. Super common post-1890s with millions made from freshwater mussels in the American Midwest.

🏺All in one article, @lindsaybloch.bsky.social et al. present the development of a visual guide to standardize shell temper description within Pensacola Mississippian pottery, test the utility of this guide, and describe a method for producing this type of guide: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘Look, I can't afford to have two hands, so I'm gonna have to cut one off.’” dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026

As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

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🏺We're always looking for better ways to capture consistent, replicable artifact data...this method is working for us! Our image guides are specific to shell-temper, but if any kind of ceramic paste ID is part of your dataset, maybe it will help you too. #archaeology doi.org/10.1017/aap....

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."

Thanks for the endorsement!

Orion🌈&sm9eb@sm9eb.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@lindsaybloch.bsky.social 's button type sheets are also great for classroom use because increasingly I've found that tactile contact with objects far away from a screen increases students' sense of well-being. And they often have fun stories about grandmothers' or great-grandmothers' collections!

🏺New pub--People in the Florida Keys were making their own pottery, not bringing it from the mainland! Free to read and download via this link through the end of the year: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mAs3,rVDB... Thanks to all my co-authors for pulling this together!

Can't wait to catch up with many of you at the SHAs in Detroit! Also, I still have some button type collections for sale and am taking online orders from now until stock runs out. If you have year-end money that needs spending, I can help you 😄 temperedarchaeology.com/buttons

ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases.

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation

ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.

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From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)

Back to basics #maniarchaeology today. Maybe the most common ironstone pattern, this simple sprig motif in copper luster is called Tea Leaf, produced throughout 2nd half of the 19th century by many different makers. Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park

🏺 Great writeup of our collaborative project with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to understand and revitalize potting traditions!

Florida Museum of Natural History@floridamuseum.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Archaeologists partnered with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to better understand why Pensacola potters, who lived in Mobile Bay and adjacent coastal regions to the east and west around A.D. 1150-1700, used marine shell temper in their pottery. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/temp...

🏺 The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) is hiring an archaeological analyst, based in Charlottesville, VA. bit.ly/DAACSanalyst

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🏺DYK that the first people in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos made pottery with dust that originated in the Sahara?! Our new article confirms this, and a whole lot more about how the Lucayans engineered pottery in this challenging environment. doi.org/10.1080/1556... @emikracht.bsky.social

Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands: Reverse Engineering a Novel Pottery Type

Palmetto Ware is a low-fired earthenware that was developed in the Lucayan Islands (The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands) ca. AD 700–800. Its production and use by the Lucayan...

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New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London. This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family. #maniarchaeology

🏺Nice work, @archfieldnotes.bsky.social!

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last yr.

Archaeologists are using advanced mapping technology to search for Maronberg, a hidden settlement of escaped slaves on St. Croix that has eluded discovery for centuries. buff.ly/HL7nQBi

🏺 Great writeup of our recent work!

Florida Museum of Natural History@floridamuseum.bsky.social · last yr.

Archaeologists used X-rays to distinguish iron from different periods of America’s colonial past. Their results show that the purity of iron and its trace elements can be reliably used as a diagnostic feature. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch... Study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fox kit introducing themself!

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social · last yr.

you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.

🏺New article! "Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast" We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity. What assemblages should we zap next? Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz #archaeology

YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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