“Thou … madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them.” — Ezekiel 16:17, KJV Along with notable human achievements such as the invention of the plow and the wheel, we should also celebrate a much older innovation, by tens of thousands of years: the dildo. In 2005, a team of researchers […]
Archaeology
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The White Sands Footprints
Anyone with even a passing interest in the peopling of the Americas will know that the Clovis First hypothesis has long been put to rest. The idea — that the first humans to come to the “New World” arrived around 12,500 years ago were the same people who fashioned fluted stone Clovis points (after Clovis, […]
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The Bronze Age
We love dividing the world up into threes: animal, vegetable and mineral; mind, body and spirit; past, present and future; starter, entree and dessert. And so it was 200 years ago, when the curator of what was to become the National Museum of Denmark, Christian Thomsen, gave us the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and […]
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Returned Artifacts Come With Poisonous Problems
The Hoopa Tribal museum is host to hundreds of cultural artifacts, but many among those returned to the tribe after a law passed in the 1990s made it easier for Native American communities to get their property back are dangerous to handle. During the 19th and 20th centuries, archaeologists, collectors and museums doused Native American […]