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Sunrise at Sedona’s Cathedral Rock [OC] [3103 × 4096] - Author: akiratheoni on reddit

The prophecy states that only the chosen one can pull the sword from the stone. The Dark Lord, not one to be held back by prophecies and mythos, upheaves the stone itself and carves it into a hammer, using the still-bound sword as the hammer’s hilt.

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bruh what

If you ever get confused by an ancient object, show it to as many traditional handcrafters as you can. Odds are one of them will see it and go Huh.

Cross Discipline Input is vital to us all

This was mind-blowing and i would LOVE to see more examples 

Cool, cool, this is an entirely false meme that has caused me and many archaeologists countless headaches because it misses a fundamental aspect of why we didn’t go to these as knitting tools: their forging timeline doesn’t match up with the basic timeline of wool garment making.

The oldest knitted artifacts are from Egypt in the 11th century AD, the bulk of Roman dodecahedron production has been carbon dated to the 2nd to 4th century AD.  The earlier equivalent of knitting, nålebinding, was done with four sticks and it would have been more difficult and less convenient to attempt it with a dodecahedron.  Further, the stitch on early knitted artifacts was extremely fine, which similarly would’ve made making gloves via this dodecahedron method more difficult and time-consuming,

We have a lot of Roman textiles too.  The Mediterranean has amazing retention of fiber artifacts because the climate is very dry without a lot of drastic changes in temperature that would speed up decomposition.

Also, experts haven’t made any definitive conclusion on what the dodecahedra are for, because in archaeology, it’s considered extremely irresponsible to make definitive, certain statements specifically for this reason.  The wikipedia article on the dodecahedra even states this by outright saying that a lot of the uses are speculative.

@rosslynpaladin is right, cross discipline input is literally why archaeologists use techniques like ethnoarchaeology and why many archaeologists who specialize in a certain subject of object crafting are practitioners of the craft themselves.  The fact that so many people on tumblr don’t understand that we already do this in the science and it’s a core part of our theoretical framework is immensely frustrating.  All that being said, this is a bad example of cross-discipline input, because it misses out on the context of how wool garments were crafted during the period that the artifacts were being produced and used.

This site is so anti-intellectual it’s ridiculous. Tumblr loves to spread the idea that professionals, especially professionals in history-related fields, are a bunch of idiot bigots in ivory towers who don’t know how to do basic research. I’m not sure why Tumblr is so committed to this image but it’s very grating.

My favorite tiktok account right now is the guy who uses color settings and photo manipulation to turn everything into the Polish flag

What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAz

Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)

@clockworkrobotic

“Friend? Friend push ball? I push ball. I do good.”

Bees.  Smart enough to push a ball, not smart enough to not be fooled by a stick masquerading as a bee. 

maybe they know and they’re just being polite

Other dimensional beings are undoubtedly amazed at what human beings will accept as human beings too. “But it’s just a stick with a person on it.”

#excuse me neil but what the FUCK was that #thanks for that terrifying thought (nooby-banana)

NEIL WHY. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT.

This turns up on my dashboard. And I read it and am impressed that someone writes exactly the post that I’d write, without actually reading the name of the person who posted it.

And then I’m puzzled at all the Neil Why’s, and realise that this was me in the Wayback Long-ago.

At least I’m consistent.

And, I should point out, we are no closer to being able to spot the extra-dimensional stick “people” who move unobserved among us.

It’s reassuring how tumblr-like this entire interaction is. Including not reading the url

[ID: screenshots from Golden Girls. In the first Betty White looks confused and asks “Subversive?”. A white man in a suit answers, reading off a notepad. “As in, ‘Do you advocate the overthrow of the government by force or violence?’” Betty white’s eyes widen in shock. Then she looks forward, her face hardens and she answers “Violence.” /]

Happy New Year!

you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity

Not to mention that paint job says you do not give a fuck about autistics. It is insulting, literally painfully ugly, and represents autism speaks which also is a grotesque organization that does not care about us either.

VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS

The other thing about measles is that it resets your body’s memory of other diseases. So all those times you’ve gotten sick? Your body’s memory cells no longer remember those illnesses, so even if you get the same type of illness again your body will react like it’s the first time you’ve been sick.

It’s so much worse than “just a disease”. 

Measles does WHAT

Holy fuck

What the fuck what the fuck what the fUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

antivaxxers also, in part, helped sabotaged the human lyme disease vaccine for lyme disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi infection (until 2016 the only known species of lyme disease causing bacteria in the USA). In 1998, the first lyme disease vaccine for the strain of the bacteria prevalent in the USA licensed. It passed clinical trials and was shown to be safe and effective; it was between 76 and 92% effective at preventing lyme disease with 3 injections. Antivaxxers proceeded to abuse the adverse affect reporting system, often complaining of arthritis, and this caused media and general hysteria about the vaccine. if you remember the flu vaccine hysteria around the swine flu epidemic, it was kind of like that. despite double-blind trials conducted both before and after licensing, that was unable to support their claims and instead displaying that the vaccine was safe and effective, the damage was done, and the vaccine was shelved in the USA. you can get a lyme disease vaccine in Europe, but Europe has a different strain of the bacteria that causes lyme disease.

Lyme disease can become very serious, it can infect the nervous system and cause neurological problems especially in young children who are often bitten on the head or the neck, undiagnosed it can cause chronic health issues that mimic other diseases. Without safe prophylactic measures beyond trying to minimize contact w ticks, this has driven people who have had lyme disease, have chronic effects from mass-disseminated lyme disease infection, or people who believe they have chronic lyme disease to go to quack doctors and undergo unsafe, unapproved medical treatment in an attempt to stop suffering.

This would not be happening on the scale that it is if antivaxxers didn’t straight up execute a supervillain plot to sabotage the lyme disease vaccine. the vaccine was licensed in december 1998, which was the year andrew wakefield published his fraudulent research on the MMR vaccine

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease-vaccines

these people are fucking dangerous beyond compare

edited for clarity

antivaxer are terrorists and should be dealt like one

H.Bomberguy’s video on the anti-vaccine movement is absolutely worth watching in its entirety. Because it lays out just how fucking twisted and wrong the entire thing is, and how this entire movement that is KILLING CHILDREN is based on a lie for money.

wait wait wait wait WAIT!

YOU GUYS HAD A VACCINE AGAINST FUCKING LYME????

AND THOSE ASSHATS HELPED TO SHELF THAT STUFF?????????

Do you people even KNOW just how much trouble lyme disease makes every fucking year? Holy shit think of the possibilities!!!

So when I say I hate anti-vaxxers, yeah. This is why.

Every antivaxxer needs run through a chipper feet first.

Yeah, I said it. 🖕

Literally this.

People don’t want restrictions cos they want to fuck up your social life, or to stop you seeing your support network etc.

They want restrictions so their employers can’t force them into work.

This is horrible...

It's not even hidden. People openly admit to this. They've literally said openly "most of the deaths are people with disabilities so we shouldn't care".

1920's: I had a bird/His name was Enza/I opened the window/And In-flu-enza

2020's: