pottery enthusiast

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

People love to ask if I'm enjoying my new job as a field archaeologist but then when I say "Yes very much, I excavated a children's grave today!" They have the audacity to look at me like I'm the weird one

It's always oh 😐 and never did you enjoy excavating the child grave? Excavating the child grave looked fun, I bet you found some nice pottery

[ID: first image is a picture of colorful chalk handprints on concrete along a drawing of a cat and other unidentified drawings. second image is a picture of red handprints on a cave wall overlapping drawings of animals along other drawings such as zig-zags and circles. end ID]

Like imagine if someone brought you something weird but understandable contained in a material that they said was made out of wood and you could tell that it’s clearly made out of wood they’re not lying about that but it was also completely transparent and see through with no visible flaws. That’s about the level of weird we’re talking about here.

What the fuck I feel like a medieval peasant seeing an iPhone