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berangere444

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Born in winter.

Wanted to be a space pirate but nobody invented space ships, so, became an archaeologist, which is what is the nearest from space pirate.

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berangere444, to archaeodons
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Allright so the is tomorrow
https://nuitdeschercheurs-france.eu/?WelCome
https://noitedosinvestigadores.org/
Anybody live-tooting something ?
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berangere444, to archaeodons
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Another thread for the Heritage Days ! @archaeodons Girimui is located on the hill just next to Shimashii Ufuzatu Gusuku. It was the gusuku of the person who ruled over the area before Shimashii Ufuzatu Aji, named Tamamura Aji. He first lived there and then built Shimashii Ufuzatu Gusuku. He was overthrown by Ōeiji, one of the kings of the Nanzan Kingdom and the dynasty started to live in Shimashii Ufuzatu.

Large view of the square with the three shrines (only two visible on the photograph). The hi-nu-kan shrine is on the left of the photograph, and Usachiyu's shrine on the right. There is a cliff behind the hi-nu-kan shrine, and a hill behind the Usachiyu's one, with a lot of trees around.
Photograph of the Tamamura Utūshi composed of two limestone pillars capped with a concrete slab that probably replaces a lost limestone slab. The incense burner is of a quite unusual type, being a stone pot. The hill behind is covered with vegetation and the square in front is paved with cement.
Photograph of the hi-nu-kan shrine, which is a squared cavity inside the raw limestone bedrock wall. There is an incense burner inside the cavity.

berangere444, to archaeodons
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since nobody seems to know, i officially declare that the English hashtag for the European Heritage Days 2023 is now
bear with it.
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berangere444,
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@GuyDudeman
it's always a good day to talk about past (and present) colonialism.
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berangere444, to archaeodons
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So, the Journées du Patrimoine are this week-end ( https://journeesdupatrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/ ) and it's been a few years now that they are the "Journées Européennes du Patrimoine" so the hastag is . I checked and in English they are the European Heritage Days but the hashtag EHD2023 does not exist.
What's the hashtag ?
Or is it that despite the "European" in the name in fact only the French take part ? (I don't mind tooting in French) @archaeodons

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The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources

A few minutes ago I learned of a marvellous project to create the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (DMNES). This is under development, although a lot now exists, but a blog is available, and is itself a rather wonderful thing:

The dictionary aims to contain all given (fore, Christian) names...

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2023/07/28/the-dictionary-of-medieval-names-from-european-sources/

#DMNES #Medieval Names

berangere444,
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@ClaireFromClare @EdwardOvercoat @medievodons hey, i'm sort of doing this for the Ryukyu Kingdom ! i used to post popularity rankings from time to time on twitter, i should do that here too…

FlintDibble, to random
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It's Day. Shoot me your questions about archaeology, and I'll answer some!

berangere444,
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@benni @FlintDibble @archaeodons That's a hard one, every day brings its lot of exciting new knowledge, esp. here in where the field is so young that everything is turned almost up side down every 4 months or so... The surveys at Sakitari Cave bring new revolutionary info each time (presence of people at a time we did not have proof of that before, presence of tools for a period we did not have any tool before, ceram popping out of layers older and older...).

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@benni @FlintDibble @archaeodons As for my best find... I found a stone tool when I was a child, it got on display at the city office in a showcase in the entrance hall ! Maybe it's still there ! And just the other day ! We re-opened a test pit that had been surveyed last year by the board of education and first (mechanical) shovel scoop in the backfill earth we got one of the most beautiful stone adzes I ever saw in !

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@Nodami @archaeodons I do think indeed that any piece looted by our colonialist ancestors should be returned to the countries they belong to. I suppose there are a lot of political problems that I am not aware of, but I don't really care. I suppose the Louvre or the British Museum would feel a little bit empty, but hasn't the time come to grow museum collections on willing mutual loan ?

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@Nodami @archaeodons I mean we have thousands of really nice pieces of national antiquities sleeping in museum backyards that we could lend to any museum in the world and we could receive in exchange other pieces of antiquities that sleep in their backyards as well. I'm not a museum curator though so I'm not sure how things really could work.

berangere444,
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@Nodami @archaeodons I do think indeed that any piece looted by our colonialist ancestors should be returned to the countries they belong to. I suppose there are a lot of political problems that I am not aware of, but I don't really care. I suppose the Louvre or the British Museum would feel a little bit empty, but hasn't the time come to grow museum collections on willing mutual loan ?

berangere444,
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@Nodami @archaeodons I mean we have thousands of really nice pieces of national antiquities sleeping in museum backyards that we could lend to any museum in the world and we could receive in exchange other pieces of antiquities that sleep in their backyards as well. I'm not a museum curator though so I'm not sure how things really could work.

berangere444,
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@Nodami @archaeodons Concerning the second question, who hires us, there is a great lot of answers to that question. The answer also greatly varies according to the country. In France, indeed, archaeologists do work for universities, but most of them are employed by the a national institute in charge of archaeological surveys and research in the whole country (and unfortunately not present in the Fediverse).

berangere444,
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@Nodami @archaeodons There are also private companies in addition to this national institute, for instance Archaeodunum @Archeodunum has an account here. Municipalities, prefectures, regions, any administrative unit with a cultural office can hire archaeologists as well.
In Japan where I work, most archaeologists are hired by private companies that do the archaeological surveys at the request of the municipalities or prefectures.

berangere444,
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@Nodami @archaeodons There are a few archaeologists also employed by the Boards of Education of each municipality or prefecture, essentially supervising the work of the private companies. A even fewer are employed by universities, but to be honnest, programmed excavations by universities are really really few here (not sure for the rest of Japan).

berangere444,
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@Nodami @archaeodons i really hope other fediverse archaeologists will step in and tell you how it works in their part of the world, making Day a success !

berangere444,
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@Gonzalo @archaeodons Well, I personally have left Europe for too long to know exactly how museums behave nowadays, but I do remember some headlines in the recent years about museums having changed their visuals to fit DNA analyses for hair, eye colour and skin tones.

berangere444,
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@Gonzalo @archaeodons As far as Okinawa is concerned, things are changing too and the reconstruction of the appearance of the "Minatogawa Man" has been changed recently to fit the fact that he was genetically closer to populations of Southeast Asia rather than mainland Asia (China). Both the reconstructions are on display at the Prefectural Museum, with explanation that science is constantly in progress.

berangere444,
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@ninawillburger @ombra @archaeodons Well, this is absolutely not my field of expertise, but I suppose you would need to ingest quite a lot of fat to survive any Ice Age winter... I remember that a few years ago a (pregnant) archaeologist had a theory that the figurines were made by pregnant women looking at their own body in a time when there were no mirrors. She took photos of her own body from her eyes perspective and the curves you can see from up there were indeed really similar !

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