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FlintDibble, 23 godziny temu do histodons en

Ruining a Sunday funny: a 2023 poll found that 47% of respondents believed that archaeologists study dinosaurs

For the full Ipsos poll results, see: https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-publicoutreach/ipsos2023_report.pdf

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FlintDibble, 2 dni temu do histodons en

Check out "Up Close: The Archaeology of the Athenian Acropolis," another of my remote teaching videos. Now on YouTube, free for all.

It's a fun and educational tour of the monument

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Link: https://youtu.be/gxsrY9MrVyI

FlintDibble, 4 dni temu do mythology en

Boar's tusk helmets, described in Homer's Iliad, have been found in Mycenaean graves, deposited several centuries before the Iliad was written down

But, they were mostly made from tusks of domesticated boar (male pigs), not wild boar, as too many people fancifully imagine

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