Screenshot of NSF budget cuts to various programs
Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut.
It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.
Showing my students some medieval pottery from Yemen at the ROM today, including this one with a cat's paw impression in it!
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Art history lesson time. Caravaggio is a famous Italian baroque painter. He was also a murderer.
Drawing of two Reindeer, outlined in black and unfilled with light brown colouring. One, large, bodly coloured with elaborate, forward facing antlers is, bending their neck down to sniff or lick the other. The other is large and appears to be laying down, head on one side?
As we approach mid-winter, an illustration of cave art showing two Reindeer; from Font de Gaume cave, France.
One is licking or smelling the other who appears to be sleeping? giving birth? dead or dying?.
Originally rendered by someone of the Magdalenian culture, 16,000 years ago.
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This is great! Can I be added to this list?
Check out this new pub “Hunting, fishing, and foraging in times of conflict: the implications of choosing safety in the Mississippian Central Illinois River Valley” written with some great co-authors! doi.org/10.1080/0734...
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