Lee Raye

leafyhistory.bsky.social

18 August 2026 16:49

The sturgeon is Britain's biggest native fish. It's extinct in our rivers today, but once upon a time it was a regular visitor, possibly returning here to breed. Here's a thread with some of the wild stories which were told when it was still found here. #envhist #animalhist 🧵🐟

David

archaeomather.bsky.social

31 July 2026 15:23

“General distribution of prehistoric ruins in the United States as far as known” - in the first issue of “Records of the Past” published in January 1902.

Rosemary Joyce

rajoyce.bsky.social

13 June 2026 19:19

Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/

Rosemary Joyce

rajoyce.bsky.social

13 June 2026 19:17

20/20 maybe the authors think the world they believe in is the sole Truth. Maybe they are uncomfortable having what is true tested by scholars who never had a place at the high table of the Ivory Tower before. Either way, students see the value in anthropology. And maybe that’s the greatest threat.

Rosemary Joyce

rajoyce.bsky.social

13 June 2026 19:15

8/ we have objectively, empirically *improved knowledge* in a very anthropological way: by showing that reductionism misdescribes reality. That, I think, is what makes these critics uncomfortable; they like certainty and universal dicta, and anthropology says “it depends”.