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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 7d

🏺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...
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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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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · 7d

I loved working on this and so glad to see it published!! ✨️

Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 7d

🏺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...
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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...

doi.org

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · 11d

New year and new undergraduate interns!! This year, I'll be mentoring with a focus on clay curation and experimental testing of ceramics!

We started with making some test bars this week, including some clays from California and North Carolina, the latter obviously the beautiful bright red one 😍

Image of legs sitting on the ground outside, which is a yellow gravel. Next to her are a swt of keys, printed article, corded headphones, and bags of clay.

Image of hands pressing clay into a rectangular mold form on a tray on yellow gravel. Other clay test bars are visible in different colors. Bags of clay, pottery tools, a sieve, and a printed journal article are also visible.

Image of four clay test bars, ranging from dark brown to bright red. Writing on each section of the test bar denotes sample name and firing temperature.

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Aug 11

I just finished making up some free printable zines on Caribbean archaeology! Featured are nine (for now) zines on different topics, including foodways, mythology, ballgames, language, edu resources, and more!

Link here but also available on my website!

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Image of a printable zine titled, "Women in the Early Caribbean". Each page features a few short sentences and hand drawn images.

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Dr Briana Pobiner @brianapobiner.bsky.social · Jul 17

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

Curatorial Associate

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Jul 22

Totally fair! Hope it makes more sense when you read it, hope you enjoy!

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Jul 21

Results indicate intense levels of trade and interaction not previously detected, much of it concentrated along the northern coast of PR!

Also highlighted is the importance of utilizing understudied collections materials and nondestructive testing.

Figure of a map of Puerto Rico with archaeological sites depicted as pie charts, representing local and nonlocal ceramics.

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Jul 21

Want to learn more about ceramics and exchange in early Puerto Rico? New paper by myself and colleagues is now out!

We looked at 12 sites and +300 ceramics to recreate ancient routes of interaction, including their directionality and intensity.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Accessibility and Exchange in Boriquén: Compositional Study of Ceramics in Pre-colonial Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico was populated by ceramic producing horticulturalist groups from South America somewhere around 600–400 BC, known as the beginning of the Ceramic Age in the Caribbean. The island served ...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Jul 2

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

A news story: "Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise"

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · Jun 18

I spoke with several leading archaeologists to better understand the impact recent federal funding cuts will have on archaeology in the US. The future doesn’t look good.

#NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage

New at @science.org 🏺🧪

Funding cuts to U.S. archaeology could imperil field’s future

A Science analysis of canceled and curtailed federal grants reveals hits to research, collections, and training

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jun 18

Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say:

🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!!

🥳🥳🥳

Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds.

Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal...

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Jun 3

Wanted to celebrate a little good news. Last Friday some other graduate students and I held an inaugural Anthropology Department Research Symposium for students! It was really successful, and we were able to get 100% of the costs covered for poster printing, awards, and plenty of food!

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 31

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · May 30

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.

Screenshot of NSF budget cuts to various programs

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · May 30

Did a pottery firing demo for my department here at UC-Santa Barbara. Couldn't figure out where to legally build a fire, so we improvised a bit!

Overall, it was pretty successful! Commercial clay always fires pretty poorly, but most of the ceramics survived or can easily crossmend.

Collage of fired pottery showcasing all the ceramics, the visible color difference between fired and unfired pottery, the comparison of successfully fired pots and those left in shards as a result of rapid heating, and finally a crossmended Venus figurine.

A collage of all of the unfired pottery sitting on a table, the pottery sitting on a picnic table where the firing took place, a picture of the pottery sitting on a metal grate warming up, and a picture of the pottery in the fire itself on a stand-up fire pit.

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Christina Warinner @christinawarinner.bsky.social · May 23

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!

We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 22

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · May 1

Back to back conferences from the SAAs in Denver to UCLA but getting some great exploring done! Can it be summer yet?

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Apr 28

SAAs Denver was a success! Had a great time catching up with colleagues and friends. Thanks to those who dropped by my poster! #saa2025

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Apr 22

Quick plug for my SAA poster, I will be presenting some new radiocarbon dates at 2 ballcourt sites in Puerto Rico! My poster is Saturday morning from 10-12. Pending supplies, I will also have some Caribbean archaeology themed stickers and pins to give out. 😎🫡

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olivia kracht @agreatbigolive.bsky.social · Feb 20

as our department moves into a new building at the end of the semester we've had to say goodbye to our large globe and Al the allosaurus.

but i cant say i hate the temporary replacements 🤪

Allosaurus in Guyot Hall Princeton New Jersey

Small plastic dinosaur in replacement of the Allosaurus

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Feb 11

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Red image with decorative border and handwritten black font that says, "after the capture of her husband, Anacoana continued to live with her brother and interact with the newly arrived Europeans. She would later become a cacique/cacica herself after the death of her brother. There have been reports of other women chiefs as well. Anacoana by the time of her death had around 300 caciques subordinate to her, and was one of the most powerful people on Hispaniola." A drawn image on the bottom includes the island of Hispaniola, with its native names of Ayiti, Quisqueya, and Bohio.

Red image with decorative border and black font that reads, "Even before Anacoana's rise to chiefdom, she and other women controlled and produced high-status goods such as duhos, or wooden ceremonial seats. Even offering gifts to Columbus herself. Women produced high quality goods, could become caciques, and participate in batey, an important ball game, with their own rules, and more. They were the center of Taino community." Drawings of images below include a wooden duho, decorated pottery, shell beads, a cemi idol, and carved figurines.

Red image with decorative border that includes a list of references by Keegan, Oliver, Goldstein et al., and Hendon.

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day! Celebrating by sharing this Caribbean archaeology infographic I made a while back, centered on women! 💖 (1/2)

Red image with decorative border that reads "Women in the early Caribbean" in handwritten black font.

Red image with decorative border that reads in handwritten black text "The history of archaeology has not often been kind to women, both those being studied within history and to the archaeologists who happen to be women. Today women only make up 35% of academic positions in archaeology in the US. More recently, scholars are upending the notion that women played passive roles in history, instead evaluating their power and active shaping of societies." Also features a drawing of a woman sitting on an overturned bucket, sieving materials over another bucket in front of her. Surrounding her are text blurbs with offensive phrases, including "the weaker sex", "terrible theories", "incapable of leadership", "indecent", and "too emotional".

Red image with decorative border that reads in handwritten black font, "There's been little research specifically focused on women in the early Caribbean, but here's what we know: the economy was "engendered", for instance, women would make the nets for men to fish. The lifestyles of the Taino require participation from everyone. The Tainos were also matrilineal, meaning that descent was passed through the mother's line, and the mother's brother typically held the most authority. Husbands would also move to their wives' village." Images at the bottom include drawn images of a woven net with weights, an angelfish, palometa, butterfly fish, and parrotfish.

Red image with decorative border and black handwritten font that says, "That's not to say that women had limited power or authority...one notable woman in the early Caribbean at the time of contact was named Anacoana. Her name meaning "golden flower". She was married to the "stranger king", cacique, or chief, Caonabo. She was also sister to another power cacique of Hispaniola." At the bottom of the page is hand drawn images of flowers, including guava flowers, firebrush, scarlet cordia, sweet potato, lumeria, and cuban buttercup.

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