Notice of the recent Discovery of a Cist, with Fragments of Urns and a Jet Necklace, at Law Park, near St Andrews; with a Note of the Discovery, near the same place, of a Cremation Cemetery of the Bronze Age, with many Cinerary Urns, in 1859. http://bit.ly/1021YRR
Medieval deerskin processing waste from the Moor House site, London EC2 http://bit.ly/1uCkRKU
A Hoard of Bronze Objects from Wester Ord, Ross-shire, and an Early Iron Age Burial at Blackness Castle, Linlithgowshire. http://bit.ly/15zQaId
Notes on the Corporation of Surgeons and Barbers of the City of Edinburgh. http://bit.ly/ZuHnAq
[TRANSITIONS TO AGRICULTURE IN THE EASTERN OLD WORLD] A shell-midden on the island of Sangnodaedo; a Neolithic site off the southern coast of Korea http://bit.ly/172MBPk
On the Coinage of Ceylon during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. http://bit.ly/10wo106
Will the True Age of the Borax Lake Pattern Please Stand Up? The Archaeology of CA-HUM-573, an Early Holocene Site on the South End of Pilot Ridge, Humboldt County, California http://bit.ly/11z8XQa
Your Open Access (free to read) Archaeology daily:
Analyse der Keramik aus der frühmittelalterlichen Siedlung am Standort Ledine bei Torčec http://bit.ly/1zkRKeZ
Extracts from the Presbytery Records of Dalkeith, relating to the parish of Newbattle, during the incumbency of Mr Robert Leighton, 1641-1653. http://bit.ly/1a9CaZ9
Further Megalithic Discoveries and Explorations in the Islands of Malta during 1892 and 1893, under the Governorship of Sir Henry A. Smyth, K.C.M.G. http://bit.ly/10vRiry
Ethnographic Materials and Ethnoarchaeology Workshops Regarding Northern Baja California Indians http://bit.ly/1dTVsym
Open Access (free to read) articles on archaeology:
Notice of Ecclesiastical Music found in the Burgh Charter-room of Dundee. http://bit.ly/11PmW5E
Notes: (8) Short Cists in the Parish of Innerwick, East Lothian: (a) Thurston Mains, (b) Skateraw. With a Report on the Skeletal Remains from the Cist at Thurston Mains. http://bit.ly/1a6UjW1
Early Medieval Thatching Needles from the Site of Torčec - Prečno pole: a Contribution to the Knowledge of the Slavic Settlement of the Drava River Basin http://bit.ly/13lCoYw
An apparent tragedy, possibly arson, caused a settlement to burn and fall into a river, where it was preserved in silt for about 3,000 years. Experts call the Must Farm site in England the most important Bronze Age settlement ever found in Britain. Archaeologists have excavated a fantastic array of artifacts, including vitrified food, pottery, tools, jewelry, worked wood, slaughtered animals and textiles and are set to enter the laboratory and do many years of work analyzing their discoveries. They even hope to get Bronze Age recipes from the prehistoric smorgasbord.
You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you’re just like. Oh ok
I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn’t a broken leg would mean you Die because you can’t. Do things
And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn’t properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps
So basically I have connected the two dots (“you didn’t connect shit”) I’ve connected them
And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh
Really makes you think
Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I’d love to see where crows are going with this
Fun fact, there is little info on crows (as far as species of interest go) because they’re so good at evading human tactics for collection and observation. I had a friend who studied them in grad school. Not only do they describe humans to each other (so crows you’ve never seen before will avoid you), they also learn the precise distance of net cannons (for trapping and tagging) after 1 encounter and then stand at that distance the entire time (making naive researchers think maybe they can juuuust caych em). So basically you need to befriend them (a common strategy), or find a murder that’s never seen you before (researchers wear presidents masks to throw them off, but then they remember and describe the cars). In this case, you have one chance to collect enough in the group to get good data. Whatever crow you catch once, you probably will never catch again, ruling out biosensing devices (like they use with other birds and turtles n junk).
The latest big finding about crows is that they have a grasp of knowledge breadth, meaning they “know what they know” meaning they are conscious (self aware), have subjective experiences and can reflect on their knowledge. (Source) This also implies they have an understanding of the unknown.
Look up Andreas Nieder and Jon Marzluff’s work if you want the deep skinny.
It honestly sounds to me like crow researchers, instead of studying them as most animals are studied, need to start using a sociological approach to studying crows!
It can be helpful to visualize this number when talking about very small probabilities like dying in a plane crash and doing so can help put more pressing health conditions into perspective, such as the fact that we are approaching a time where 50% of people will develop diabetes in their lifetimes.
Becoming disabled demands learning how to live effectively as a person with disabilities, not just living as a disabled person trying to become nondisabled. It also demands the awareness and cooperation of others who don’t experience these challenges. Becoming disabled means moving from isolation to community, from ignorance to knowledge about who we are, from exclusion to access, and from shame to pride.
Disability studies should be required for the health professions.
