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Scott 🦇Cave🦇

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Former historian, current stay at home dad. just a clod of the common earth Posting RVA-area plant pics on Insta @powerlinebotany, for now

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Jul 11

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Jul 7

“you seen this shit, dawg?”

Instagram screenshot: archaeologyart Sculpture depicting a seated man wearing a full head mask representing a prairie wolf, accompanied by two dogs, dated
400-800 AD, originating from Veracruz, Mexico. Currently housed in the collection of Museum aan
de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, Belgium.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 22h

since I am engaged in horn-tooting:

I created a tool to systematically consult the records for every volume held at the Spanish Archivo General de Indias, and almost nobody uses it.

www.scottcave.net/classic-inve...

Classic Inventario Dinámico — Scott Cave

www.scottcave.net

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

they’re so spooked by the No Kings thing

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19h

Nice argument. However, I have already depicted myself as a smoking velocipede queen and you as a flopping fop.

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 20h

an old drawing of a bad b smoking and hitting a male bicyclist with her bike. The caption “THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF VELOCIPEDING”

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 3h

IMO Moche pottery outclasses Roman sculpture hands down, and it's a crime that we don't learn about it in school www.worldhistory.org/image/9733/m...

Moche Head [Pottery Vessel]

Portrait head of a Moche man. Peru, Moche Culture, 1st to 7th century CE. Fired clay. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

www.worldhistory.org

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 4h

Academic publishing is too important to leave to academic publishers

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 4h

”would you like to see the art of the region you are from gathered in a convenient format? lol, not for you”

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 4h

Damn, that‘s way too long.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 4h

This is so true, of Mesoamerica and the Americas broadly…I would like to submit Adena and Hopewell effigy pipes for consideration also. I love the aminals :)

Effigy pipe of a standing human with large earspools and other regalia

Pipe with a bird pecking a human face, from Pike County, Illinois

Beaver Effigy Platform Pipe
Illinois, Pike County, Bedford site, A.D. 200–400;
pipestone, river pearl, and bone, l. 11.1 cm

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 4h

I had this book through ILL for a while and was OBSESSED.

I really wish that I could have seen the exhibition and that the book was a bit cheaper.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand

Along the Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi Rivers, the archaeological remains of earthen pyramids, plazas, large communities, and works of art and artifacts ...

yalebooks.yale.edu

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 4h

art*

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

I wish I wasn’t going to be in Florida this weekend

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

they’re so spooked by the No Kings thing

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Elvie 🍂🎃 @elviereads.bsky.social · 18h

what if I soften the hell out of a whole finely chopped shallot, deglaze the pan with cheap red wine, add a bunch of fresh tomatoes and herbs and a single chili and half a stick of butter, and simmer it for a while

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

Yep, it’s from Veracruz, so I’m not sure how it ended up in Belgium. Nothing good, probably.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

it’s frankly stunning how good mesoamerican sculpture is, especially when you remember that they didn’t have metal tools.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 5h

Tests being done for potential H5N1 Avian Flu in Saltville wildlife.

Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 7h

Virginia: Saltville investigating sudden deaths of vultures in town wcyb.com/news/local/s...

Saltville investigating sudden deaths of vultures in town

The Town of Saltville said that they have reached out to agencies to investigate the sudden death of vultures throughout the town.In a Facebook post, the town s

wcyb.com

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Sep 13

yo dawg you ever stood in the very granary of powhatan, seen the sun glisten off the wild rice and spotlight the small flowers growing amongst them?

bro, bro, have you ever been filled with tears at a glimpse of the landscape before the desolation of colonialism

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Feb 25

🌿🌰 I went and visited the nearest piece of public land to this site and found something almost as rare: an American chestnut | Castanea dentata.

These functionally extinct trees, which resprout from their early 20th century roots, are uncommon in the mountains, but truly rare in the coastal plain

A living twig with leaf buds. Smooth, which is one of the ways you can tell it is a chestnut and not a chinquapin

the long, straight, possibly dead main trunk

a stump sprout with the characteristic orange-y bumps of chestnut blight, Cryphonectria parasitica

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

FB really does hate links

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

75 hits from here, 33 from IG, and 11 from FB

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 5h

having run a natural experiment on different social media, I can say that this is the place that drove the most traffic to my source post yesterday, and by a lot.

FB did almost nothing, despite me being friends with most of my professional circle.

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jake frankenstein's monster not the doctor @okabacus.bsky.social · 8h

so fuckin true my g

Medieval text showing a chicken and the words "puilus pipit / the chicken peepeth"

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

and then from there publishing my dissertation (oof)

I‘m not in academia, but my ideas are good and can contribute to the field still

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

You may detect a theme here, but it’s about a guy from Oklahoma who gets kidnapped to Mexico City, and who was extremely good at hand signals. My hypothesis is that Plains Indian Sign Language is a few centuries older than we think it is.

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