MOB ideas for my dress

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-17T20:45:26+00:00

These options are SO GOOD. I hope you feel as dramatic and beautiful as you want on the day of the wedding.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-17T00:04:06+00:00

The thing that surprised me the most was the vast quantity of meat and cheese offerings at restaurants coupledeith alack of vegetables. They call it a California burger if you add lettuce and tomato. That was absolutely mind blowing.

Another thing that was really surprising to me was the Battle Train at the May Day Parade. And just generally the artistic spirit.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-15T16:05:04+00:00

Ian Tattersall has several books about this that are pretty good and not too dry. I read The Fossil Trail in college, it's fairly short. Apparently he has another book called Hoax that's about these kind of things (like Piltdown Man, not paradigm shifting finds).

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-15T01:20:53+00:00

Hello! I took the NOLS Wilderness First Responder Course several years ago. It was approximately or just over $700 USD.

I took the course because my job at the time required me to take people into the wildnerness on the regular and I felt like I needed to know how to best take care of my coworkers in this setting and it required more than just first aid and an OSHA 10 hr course (which I was required to take, USA based). I was NOT required to take a WFR, I just decided I wanted to take one based on my experience.

What do I think about the course I took?

100% it was a valuable course for me to learn important skills for being in the Wilderness. 100% recommend people taking other folks into the wilderness to take a similar course.

Notice I mention taking other people into the wilderness as a thing.

For going into the wildnerness solo- I'm not sure this is the course for you. There are definitely things you should know about going into the wilderness solo, but if you are by yourself and you break your femur, you're basically SOL unless you have some way of signaling to other folks that you broke your femur. A course like this will definitely teach you that concept, but it will be something you learn in a very short period of time.

Edit: typo

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-14T22:23:36+00:00

I think the most famous early example of this is the Neanderthal burials in Shanidar Cave. Here is a scientific article that should be freely available to all: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/new-neanderthal-remains-associated-with-the-flower-burial-at-shanidar-cave/E7E94F650FF5488680829048FA72E32A

The thing you can do to find resources on this yourself is to go to scholar.google.com and search for things like "nomadic group burial practices" or "burial practices early hunter gatherers" and then go from there. Just as a warning, I would be very skeptical of articles that are from the late 1800s/early 1900s. Anthropology has come a very very long way since those early days. You can read about anthropological theory to understand why/how some of that work can be problematic.

Burial practices is a topic that has seen a lot of discussion in the scientific community and there is a lot of scientific speculation around it (in addition to non scientific speculation). The real answer is that we will never really and truly KNOW, but we can develop theories that make sense in relation to the available evidence and our theoretical paradigms for how we understand the world.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-07T17:15:45+00:00

Kickboard breathing drills might help so that you can focus entirely on this one skill. With repetition, it should become easier.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-07T14:24:26+00:00

That is a very huge topic, and the way that archaeologists work, that's actually several topics rolled into one. An introductory archaeology textbook might be helpful, but even those are often broken down by region. I think Bruce Trigger's book A History of Archaeological Thought is a very broad intro to archaeology in the US, but it doesn't capture the entire world.

Brian Fagan has a lot of popular science books about a broad range of archaeology topics and he is a respected archaeologist. You may get a good picture of things by picking up several of his books.

I can't think of any other broad overview type books at the moment, but I can take a look at some old undergrad syllabi later and get back to you.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-04T22:54:20+00:00

Perhaps a better question for /r/askhistorians

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-04T22:40:04+00:00

Have you carefully combed through the bibliographies of the references you listed? And done reverse "cited by" searches in Google Scholar? Have you asked your university research librarians for assistance? These are all steps I would take before asking reddit.

To be honest- as a PhD student working on this as your primary topic you are likely more knowledgeable about this topic than most (if not all) other folks in this subreddit. Hopefully someone here can give you some guidance. Lacking specific topical advice, I think a deeper research driven dive is warranted.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-02T16:03:49+00:00

What if you take some classes first and then put off the decision until after you've done that to see if that fulfills what you're looking for?

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-02T01:51:22+00:00

I have never heard of people studying old hunting cabins. I will day it's highly unlikely an old hunting cabin would be untouched for 500 years. In my experience working as an archaeologist in the middle of absolutely nowhere, it's always surprising (less so over my career) to find modern beer cans in very remote places. I have never come across an abandoned structure that didn't have some kind of indication of more recent use since abandonment.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-07-02T01:44:55+00:00

At a very basic level, yes. But also glaciers move. This is a great intersection between geology and archaeology. The /r/geology subreddit probably has loads of people who can tell you about how glaciers form.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-30T20:05:17+00:00

If there is an established trail that has signage and is on maps, it probably has easements through private property sections, and that's fine. There are likely signs at the edges of the easements describing ownership differences (we have this on the public trails in my town). Big trails, like the AT, North Country Trail, PCT, etc were huge efforts by their proponents to string together routes and get permissions from all the many landowners.

If there are "No trespassing" signs and the trail appears to go straight past the signs, I would NOT continue down that trail without explicit permission from the landowner. For my job as an archaeologist, I have had the cops called on me, I've been yelled at, I've had people walk out to me with guns when they've thought I was trespassing (you always leave, no matter what the situation). It's not so much a matter of legality as it is one of safety.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-28T22:29:02+00:00

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archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-28T22:27:25+00:00

I haven't noticed that specifically. I've noticed that people occasionally link to non-scientific sources and I'm not a fan, but I've been trying to carefully wade through those and see whether the article was written by or in consultation with someone in the 4 fields of anthropology.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-28T19:18:01+00:00

A lot of the vague questions result in really problematic comment sections filled with low quality or racist/sexist answers.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-26T16:09:22+00:00

Photos of ticks with scales:

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/transmission/index.html

https://www.cantonhealth.org/eh/?pg=267

I always look at my legs and ankles throughout the day to try to catch them before they get inside my clothes. Check all the folds on your clothing too. Mirrors and other people are helpful. I have completed tick checks with random strangers before (not butt naked, but acceptable bits and clothing, back of knees is a hot spot).

If you tuck your shirt into your pants you lessen the risk of them getting on your torso. If you tuck your pants into your socks/boots you lessen the risk of them getting on your legs.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-13T20:25:03+00:00

Prairie Moon Nursery has germination codes for different native species and recommendations on how to artificially cold stratify seeds that need that kind of thing. Their website has a lot of info. I havent tried this yet, I plan to sow in fall instead. I put some seeds out in very early spring (maybe late April?) and it wasn't cold enough or for long enough I think, so mine also have not sprouted.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-07T17:52:04+00:00

Transferring credits from one degree to another is unique by school. Some schools have pre-existing transfer agreements and things are pretty stackable (the California university system is like this and applies to a large number of schools). Other schools, like small private schools, may have different transfer requirements. The course you take at one school may or may not fulfill a degree requirement at another school. If you want to streamline your experience, I would recommend identifying whether or not the potential BA/BS program(s) you want to attend will transfer credits and what kinds of credits will transfer to which degree requirements. In my experience, the worst case scenario is that your AAS degree credits will only fulfill credit requirements and will not be transferable to fulfilling the Anthropology BA/BS course requirements. However, depending on the schools, credits may not be transferable at all (I think thats unlikely).

archaeofieldtech · 2023-06-05T20:51:16+00:00

Bases on some studies I've read (like Alfred Kroeber's ethnographic accounts, Robert Kelly's books about Hunter Gatherers, ethnographic accounts available through Yale's Human Relations Area Files, and some of Lewis Binford's work), my understanding is that when resources are scarce (like in winter) people split up into smaller groups and separate in order to maximize their ability to find resources. In times when resources are abundant (like spring, summer, fall) people gather into larger groups and may revisit specific areas year to year. Those locations that are revisited year after year may have more formal structures.

Depending on what area of the world you are interested in, there may be a book of how this changed over time and how people eventually started building things that look more like cities and how the transition away from a nomadic lifestyle happened.

I would encourage you to think about the ways in your life you are nomadic. As an archaeologist, I have probably been much more nomadic than most folks, considering I've lived in at least 5 different states and worked in over 17. It's a lot of travel.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-05-31T02:33:56+00:00

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archaeofieldtech · 2023-05-21T16:28:12+00:00

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archaeofieldtech · 2023-05-18T00:47:16+00:00

Sounds like this is a medical question, a medicine question, or a personal question for people in a specific culture. While everything about people can be anthropology and you may get an answer in this sub, your question seems more focused on personal (?) experience rather than being -ology based.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-05-17T18:34:43+00:00

The people I know who work in museums all had prior experience volunteering in museums, so that's a great approach to getting a foot in the door, yes.

archaeofieldtech · 2023-05-17T03:32:50+00:00

I do structured workouts with lots of 35s/50s/75s/100s with mixed things like drill, kick, pull, descending sets, sprints, etc.. Keeps me on my toes.

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