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3 months agodanny_de_cheeto87
If anyone is curious about what I think a good example of Archaeooptics is you should look into the Chavīn de Huantar site in South America! It was a very important temple and pilgrimage site during the early Chavīn Horizon in the Andes region, and some of the stones in the temple hallways were believed to have been polished in a way that reflect light all the way into the main temple room that housed the Lanzon stone, which had a depiction of their main deity on it. It's super cool!
3 months agoanthro_gyal_zen
oooooh I love this, shells 🐚 are so important culturally in the Caribbean, used by our Indigenous and African ancestors!
3 months agosluckychild
I very rarely see zooarchaeologists who specialise in fish call themselves Ichtyoarchaeologists due to confusion but I will ask some next time we meet. I suppose I would find it weird personally to give myself a title over a single specimen. I study a lot of cereals but I wouldn’t call myself poaceaearchaeobotanist. Most of the zooarchs I know who study fish do stable isotope analysis on them so they say they are both an enviro and biomolecular archaeologist, like I am. I will however ask because it’s an interesting term
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