Quotey posted:

A truck of laundry? Is there dropshipping for clothes cleaning?

Quotey posted:

A truck of laundry? Is there dropshipping for clothes cleaning?

Quotey posted:

ty for laundry details, makes perfect sense. obviously it has to travel to be distributed lol

Doctor Jeep posted:

Kim Bong Chill posted:

Take your classist oppression theater elsewhere

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/eweissunburied/status/1432792224270483461?s=20

Megillah Gorilla posted:

More like anthrapologists, am I rite?

Apologists for desecrating human remains and cultural artefacts with no regard to the extant peoples of those cultures.

EDIT: But seriously, I'm in STEM and all pro-science and all, but just take some drat photos and return them back to the people you stole them from.

Science doesn't give you carte blanche to be a turd. Maybe try being respectful and asking next time.

Office Pig posted:

Anthropologists are pretty cool dudes if you're the head of an extraction company looking for an in on indigenous lands

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A sacred site in Western Australia that showed 46,000 years of continual occupation and provided a 4,000-year-old genetic link to present-day traditional owners has been destroyed in the expansion of an iron ore mine.

The cave in Juukan Gorge in the Hammersley Ranges, about 60km from Mt Tom Price, is one of the oldest in the western Pilbara region and the only inland site in Australia to show signs of continual human occupation through the last Ice Age. It was blasted along with another sacred site on Sunday.

Flesh Forge posted:

https://twitter.com/DahliaZahava/status/1442094247285563394

Orange Devil posted:

I read an interview with a doctor in the Dutch biblebelt who would ask her patients who refused the vaccine literally this instead. A good bunch of them then agreed and she gave them the vaccine.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

This person is a literal phrenologist btw

Kaedric posted:

Hmm let's do a bare bones minimal search of their twitter history while I take a sip of this here drink....

here's a retweet

https://twitter.com/History_Reclaim/status/1430228037996531714

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/eweissunburied/status/1432792224270483461?s=20

A Buttery Pastry posted:

The Chinese one? Because that’s not what the rest of them are, AFAIK.

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/eweissunburied/status/1432792224270483461?s=20

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Traditional knowledge, like oral traditions, is rarely recorded in written form. Experts on oral traditions, such as Glynn Custred, estimate that in less than 1,000 years oral traditions are not likely to contain any factual information. Alexander von Gernet notes “neo-traditions” are invented to create a symbolic link between the past and the present, even when no link exists. Furthermore, oral traditions, and tribal traditional knowledge in general, are awash with tales of creation, mythical creatures and supernatural events. CalNAGPRA chooses religion over science.

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The Tjapwurung, an Aboriginal people in what is now southern Australia, shared the story of this bird hunt from generation to generation across an unbelievably large slice of time — many more millennia than one might think possible. The birds (most likely the species with the scientific name Genyornis newtoni) memorialized in this tale are now long extinct. Yet the story of the Tjapwurung’s “tradition respecting the existence” of these birds conveys how people pursued the giant animals. At the time of this particular hunt, between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, volcanoes in the area were erupting, wrote amateur ethnographer James Dawson in his 1881 book Australian Aborigines, and so scientists have been able to corroborate this oral history by dating volcanic rocks.

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Like Aboriginal Australians, the Klamath people became literate within the last 200 years or so. Before that, their societies were oral. Information and stories were passed on verbally from one generation to the next. In such societies, two factors generally create the conditions necessary for millennia-long preservation of accurate oral histories: specialized story-keepers and relative cultural isolation.

What are the limits of such ancient memories? For what length of time can knowledge be transferred within oral societies before its essence becomes irretrievably lost? Under optimal conditions, as suggested by science-determined ages for events recalled in ancient stories, orally shared knowledge can demonstrably endure more than 7,000 years, quite possibly 10,000, but probably not much longer.

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In a nutshell, the unique conditions of Australia led to some of the world’s oldest stories. Some recall the time when the ocean surface was significantly lower than it is today, the shoreline was much farther out to sea, and lands now underwater were freely traversed by Australians. These stories are known from perhaps 21 places around the Australian coast, and most are interpreted as memories of the time when sea level was rising after the last great ice age — a process that ended around 7,000 years ago in Australia. Based on the evidence, these oral histories must have been passed down for more than seven millennia.

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Humanity has direct memories of events that occurred 10 millennia ago. This conclusion runs against what many anthropologists and others have inferred about both the factual basis and the longevity of such oral traditions. Science more broadly has generally been dismissive of these, largely considering them anthropological curiosities, minutiae that define particular cultures. Now many of us are forced to look at ancient stories as potentially more meaningful. The preservation of extant oral traditions, in whatever cultures they may still be found, is imperative — they help define us all.

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An ancient oral tradition, passed down for countless generations, tells of how an ancestral creator-being transformed into the fiery volcano, Budj Bim. Almost 40,000 years later, new scientific evidence suggests this long-shared legend of the Dreaming could be much more than a myth.

New mineral-dating measurements conducted by Australian scientists highlight the possibility that the traditional telling of Budj Bim's origins may be an actual account of two historic volcanic eruptions that took place in the region about 37,000 years ago – which, if true, might make this the oldest story ever told on Earth.

"If aspects of oral traditions pertaining to Budj Bim or its surrounding lava landforms reflect volcanic activity, this could be interpreted as evidence for these being some of the oldest oral traditions in existence," the researchers, led by geologist Erin Matchan from the University of Melbourne, write in their study.

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"We in the West have only scratched the surface of understanding the longevity of Australian Indigenous oral histories," archaeologist Ian McNiven from Monash University told Science.

The findings are reported in Geology.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

More like anthrapologists, am I rite?

Apologists for desecrating human remains and cultural artefacts with no regard to the extant peoples of those cultures.

EDIT: But seriously, I'm in STEM and all pro-science and all, but just take some drat photos and return them back to the people you stole them from.

Science doesn't give you carte blanche to be a turd. Maybe try being respectful and asking next time.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

This person is a literal phrenologist btw

GWBBQ posted:

Wait, what?

Victory Position posted:

hell yeah, drat America, the Tories should have crushed the Revolution

Ghost Leviathan posted:

This person is a literal phrenologist btw

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/eweissunburied/status/1439350813713862661?s=20

kingcobweb posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlBeijer/status/1442641412017774600

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/thebirdmaniac/status/1442288178971303936

https://twitter.com/thebirdmaniac/status/1442293191667978240

She's mad that her phrenology collection is getting taken away

Milo and POTUS posted:

A British Empire with an entire continent's worth of resources to exploit and comparatively much closer.


Probably still would be better lmao