Kristina Killgrove

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Pre-Inca culture acquired Amazonian parrots from hundreds of miles away to use their feathers to decorate the dead, new analysis reveals Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.

Pre-Inca culture acquired Amazonian parrots from hundreds of miles away to use their feathers to decorate the dead, new analysis reveals www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery' The ancient coin was probably minted in what is now Spain in the first century B.C., but no one knows why it was used to pay a 1950s transport fare.

2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery' www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

he’s gonna give a speech in front of an AI generated banner that says, “ŃMIMMS1ØN ACĞŒMPLISSHEP”

2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery' The ancient coin was probably minted in what is now Spain in the first century B.C., but no one knows why it was used to pay a 1950s transport fare.

A Leeds man has donated an ancient coin given to him by his grandfather -- who found it in a pile of bus fare in the 1950s. 🧪🏺

Asante spider: A rare African sword ornament from Ghana's Gold Coast that later helped a man in Texas barter for his life The spider-shaped sword ornament was created in Ghana in the 19th century and was passed down in a Texas family for generations.

Your astonishing artifact for the week! 🏺🧪

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

WSJ - Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s and threatening the global economy. www.wsj.com/world/middle-east...

1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

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Fair question! Reminds me how the neighbor boy wrote his brother’s name on our house siding. He wondered how we and his mom figured it out it was him — he misspelled his brother’s name. 🤣

A giant cookie with a badly drawn UNC logo

A giant cookie with a badly drawn UNC logo AND a badly drawn Duke logo (oddly colored in black)

It’s the second UNC-Duke 🏀 game of the year, which meant I had to stop by Harris Teeter to check on their bakery skills. The Teet never disappoints! 🤣

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

'Lord Paul Boateng said the findings exposed UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard...continue to be retained to this day in circumstances that beggar belief”.'

I talked to experts to understand why people across time and space have shaped their kids’ heads. 🏺🧪

TV: Archaeologists are on the hunt for priceless treasures. Let’s see what they’ve found. 🏺

Actual archaeologists, buzzing with excitement:

Awww, look at my home state, learning from all the Lost Cause bullshit that echoed in I was taught in school in the '80s.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪

We use Asana and it's... fine. (Recently moved from AirTable, which was easier to use; not as many bells and whistles.)

Yeah, "looks cool" is always a potential reason!

Ancient 'alien-like' skulls have been found on every continent but Antarctica. Anthropologists are starting to figure out why. Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

"In the same way that some people swaddle their children, the same way that there's religious circumcision, you bind the heads of your children because that is what we do to our children." -- bioarchaeologist Christina Torres 🏺🧪

Growing up in Charlottesville, it didn't bother me when outsiders called Rio "ree-o", but when people mispronounced Monticello (as mont-i-sell-o), it drove me nuts!

What, no love for Staunton, Buena Vista, or McGaheysville? (Love my central VA shibboleths!)

Prosciutto di Portici: A ham-shaped portable sundial likely owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law — before it was buried by Mount Vesuvius This small bronze sundial was a portable way of telling time, but it may have made you hungry.

Yessss, I wrote about the Prosciutto di Portici last summer! Such a fun artifact. 🐷

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Creator of Heated Rivalry sets series on Alexander The Great and Aristotle Creator of Heated Rivalry sets series on Alexander The Great and Aristotle

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Influencers are promoting peptides for better health. What does the science say? The latest wellness craze involves injecting these molecules for athletic performance, longevity and more. Scientists say the research isn't keeping pace with the health claims.

I don't understand how we have to beg people to get vaccinated while other people are fine shooting themselves up with untested compounds for unproven "gains" risking god knows what

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

Sorry boss, I can't work, I'm watching Kristi Noem do a press conference and she doesn't know she's been shitcanned

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

This list is about changes that affect the skeleton (and can be seen by archaeologists centuries or millennia later). Castration is the only genital surgery that archaeologists have found past evidence of.