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Open Thread - 08-12-22 - Courage

Submitted by JtC on Fri, 08/12/2022 - 8:14am

Courage comes in many forms. I believe it is inherent in all of us. Fear is the great inhibitor that may push it to the side or the catalyst that may bring it front and center. It may lay dormant, sometimes forever suppressed or it may ooze from every pore. Some may bluster about their courage only to fold under duress, some may be as timid as a mouse but rise as a lion in the face of adversity. Courage is an attribute that may manifest itself in ways that are totally surprising to the individual.

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Why the Mar-a-Lago raid could be the best thing ever for the Left

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 11:11pm

Die-Hard Trump fans don't care about facts. I can sort of understand where they are coming from because of the way the Democrats went about going after Trump (i.e. the Dems started with the B.S. Russiagate). So if you stopped listening after that then you missed the real and substantial scandals of Trump.

Hey Everybody, it's 8/11! In 3114 BCE on this date

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 5:24pm

the Mayan calendar started. Work on Stonehenge had only recently started and it would be somewhere around 36 years until Noah was born. This is kind of important because this calendar is based on planetary motions, not begats, so that if we can interpret a glyph we can know exactly when the event in question occurred. BTW, no great flood in mesoamerica or merrie engelonde; it happened in year nunca.

be well and have a good one

Open Thread - Thurs 11 Aug 2022 - Sex and Gender in Archaeology Part II

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 5:08am

Sex and Gender in Archaeology, Part II -

A few weeks ago I wrote a little bit about 'woke' archaeology. This week I want to discuss a couple of examples of the re-examination of archaeological remains (basically skeletons in burials) and how that re-examination has changed the sex assigned by archaeologists of the individual studied, and perhaps our overall view of the individual's society. Theory and 'facts' can change in Archaeology, and any other discipline, as science and knowledge changes (see this article, linked by Peachcreek in a comment on my open thread on woke archaeology, for a good summary of all this).

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