Middle Savagery (lite)

sacred-profane: Rotor Finerats

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:22:58 -0800

sacred-profane:

Rotor Finerats

tytodiem: ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 23:00:00 -0800

tytodiem:

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)

"those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could..."

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:09:19 -0800

“those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.”

-
anna karenina - leo tolstoy

(via scribble-scribbles)

"It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and..."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:30:28 -0800

“It has occurred to me that this picture-taking might in some ways be an excuse to touch and pet and hold the iPhone itself, which has a weirdly calming effect on people, as though it were an amulet or maybe a small living animal. I am guilty of all the smartphone sins—in essence, staring at the phone when you should be staring at life. It’s possible that the act of taking a picture has such appeal because it manages to do several opposing things at once—I am allowed to pet the phone, to let the phone flatter me with its news, to let the phone mediate reality for me, and also to see what is going on around me and bear witness to a moment in my children’s lives, even if I am seeing it on-screen. To mitigate this, I often shoot blind, like firing a gun at the hip while I look directly at the action.”

- from “SAYING GOODBYE TO NOW” by Thomas Beller, The New Yorker (via tinkerkid)

richiedcruz: Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:47:52 -0800

richiedcruz:

Cool stuff: A flint knapped colorless bottle base I found.

Hey, cool. I wrote a paper about expedient knapped glass tools used by lepers in Hawaii.

carlbeanlarson: Laundry Characters / Sunset

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:35:02 -0800

carlbeanlarson:

Laundry Characters / Sunset

stuckwithpins: James Ehlers

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:44:59 -0800

stuckwithpins:

James Ehlers

John Conway's Log: Palaeontological Illustration, a Tell-All Confession

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:18:04 -0800

John Conway's Log: Palaeontological Illustration, a Tell-All Confession:

nyctopterus:

I got an email a couple of months ago, asking my advice on how to study, and get into palaeontological illustration as a career. My first impulse was to try to seem like a pro, and make up some bullshit. But I reconsidered, and answered honestly.

Palaeontological illustration is not a…

solifemaycontinue: true nomads. almeh: Afghan nomads in...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:39:26 -0800

solifemaycontinue:

true nomads.

almeh:

Afghan nomads in Pakistan travel back to Afghanistan

B.K. Bangash

Photo

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:28:52 -0800

process-arch: stfunithingas: ok that comment about the breaker...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:58:59 -0800

process-arch:

stfunithingas:

ok that comment about the breaker of the pot cursing made me smile.

Or the breakage is post-depositional and it’s the archaeologist doing the cursing.

"For example, among the Suku of Zaire, among whom I worked, the life expectancy of a hut is about ten..."

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:55:25 -0800

“For example, among the Suku of Zaire, among whom I worked, the life expectancy of a hut is about ten years. The typical biography of a hut begins with its housing a couple or , in a polygynous household, a wife with her children. As the hut ages, it is successively turned into a guest house or a house for a widow, a teenagers’ hangout, kitchen, and, finally, goat or a chicken house — until at last the termites win and the structure collapses. The physical state of the hut at each given age corresponds to a particular use. For a hut to be out of phase in its use makes a Suku uncomfortable, and it conveys a message. Thus, to house a visitor in a hut that should be a kitchen says something about the visitor’s status; and if there is no visitors’ hut available in a compound, it says something about the compound-head’s character—he must be lazy, inhospitable, or poor.”

- Igor Kopytoff, The Cultural Biography of Things, 1986

"Ancient stones in landscapes, the subject matter of this book, cannot be known or understood simply..."

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:04:04 -0800

““Ancient stones in landscapes, the subject matter of this book, cannot be known or understood simply from publications, from maps, diagrams, photographs and descriptions, because these are only representations. As representations they necessarily fail in conveying a bodily understanding of prehistoric remains. Statistical analysis, Geographical Information Systems and simulations are, if anything, far worse. There can be no substitute for the human experience of place—of being there—and it is only after this that the various technologist of representation come into play.””

- Christopher Tilley, the Materiality of Stone, 2004:218

lawsoffateherbal: Portulaca oleracea by Genevieve de Nangis...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:18:05 -0800

lawsoffateherbal:

Portulaca oleracea by Genevieve de Nangis Regnault (1170-80)

Purslane, one of my favorite salad ingredients.

Gorgeous bandana made by Navaho artist David Sloan.

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:23:08 -0800

Gorgeous bandana made by Navaho artist David Sloan.

livelymorgue: From the Mid-Week Pictorial, Jennie MacGregor,...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:10:27 -0800

livelymorgue:

From the Mid-Week Pictorial, Jennie MacGregor, scooped up by the Minneapolis police on April 10, 1924 for “dispensing wet goods” from her bootlegger’s life preserver. Its caption was headed with “A Perfect 36” — perhaps a reference to Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women’s suffrage? Photo: The New York Times

openaccessarchaeology: New Open Access Article- BANDING, CABLE,...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:45:03 -0700

openaccessarchaeology:

New Open Access Article- BANDING, CABLE, AND CAT’S-EYE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FACTORY-MADE CINCINNATI-AREA YELLOW WARE

http://www.ohioarchaeology.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=10&id=51&Itemid=54

Let me add a few tags to that:

#unsafe #unsafeworkingconditions #idiot #healthandsafetyFAIL

"There is nothing which more nakedly reveals our ignorance than an attempt at the visual presentation..."

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:10:25 -0700

“There is nothing which more nakedly reveals our ignorance than an attempt at the visual presentation of prehistory with its inevitable exposure of all those wide blank spaces which words can conceal or evade.”

- Jacquetta Hawkes, 1946.

Some of the earliest known footage of an archaeological...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:27:53 -0700

Some of the earliest known footage of an archaeological excavation, Dorothy Garrod’s Mt. Carmel work. The video quality is pretty bad, but you can see the horribly unsafe deep trenches!

openaccessarchaeology: Open Access Article- Aproximaciones...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:48:28 -0700

openaccessarchaeology:

Open Access Article- Aproximaciones antropológicas a las bandas cimarronas de las ciénagas de Cuba

http://www.cubaarqueologica.org/index.php?q=node/765