alphacaeli: wagnetic: alphacaeli: I don’t know whose photo…

Sunday, September 20th, 2015

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wagnetic:

alphacaeli:

I don’t know whose photo this is (please tell me if you know where this came from!) but I’m a meme. Omg that’s me in a meme. A feminist meme. My life is made. This is on the same level as my caving gear in a museum.

Why are you having a tupperware party with a bat? What does a bat need tupperware for?

We were excavating an archaeological site within a cave system. The tupperware was used for transporting fossils out of the cave without damaging them! We placed the fossils in sealed bags with their ID tags, wrapped them in bubble wrap, and placed them in the containers so we could be sure they wouldn’t break on their way back to the surface. It was a bit hairy travelling in and out of the system, as you can see. :)

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pocketofmadness: Marina Elliott, Elen Feuerriegel from…

Saturday, September 12th, 2015

pocketofmadness:

Marina Elliott, Elen Feuerriegel from Australia, and Americans K. Lindsay Eaves, Alia Gurtov, Hannah Morris, and Becca Peixotto.

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I watched the online version of the 2-hour Nova special that’s airing next week. The interviews with the six archaeologists who did the actual excavation were compelling. I’m prone to claustrophobia, which makes the thought of caving squeezes a bit of a nightmare for me; watching that part of the footage raised my heart rate.

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“To find one complete skeleton of a new hominin would be hitting the paleoanthropological jackpot. To…”

Thursday, September 10th, 2015

“To find one complete skeleton of a new hominin would be hitting the paleoanthropological jackpot. To find 15, and perhaps more, is like nuking the jackpot from orbit.”

Ed Yong, 6 Tiny Cavers, 15 Odd Skeletons, and 1 Amazing New Species of Ancient Human

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