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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Im not publishing in this area of study at present, but I’m on the hunt for exactly such works. Keep checking back on my page and I will post about my sources as I build out my understanding of this script! 🏺

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

You’re totally right! I don’t know what all of them mean. Some are god costumes others are pelts from hunting, others are just unknown to me. I’ve got research I’m doing about this right now.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Highly recommend getting a copy of calligraphy by Margret Shepard. It’s the straightest path to mastering fountain pens for adults in my experience.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

If there were a next most striking trait to look for in a given image, it’s how the character is posed. Direction facing, graphical position, what they have to wear, who is surrounding them, all of these things are depicted intricately for most characters. Also, many wear masks of the gods!

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Well, the numbers are there for every single person of note on just about every page. And I’m very certain there’s only the one writing system to develop in Mesoamérica in antiquity. Whether written on bark paper or stone stelae, it’s all this highly elaborate script

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We’re finding more and more that not many people are concerned with keeping digital data in a readable repository. Archives, even digital ones, need regular maintenance. How many full time workers do you expect are checking large stores of industrial data, rather than news articles or publications?

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My recommendation is to build the habit in the opposite direction. Most speakers I encounter operate like always plural, with exceptions from time to time

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

How do you report sites to local authorities where you are? Through city government, state government, or the nearest university?

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I love your enthusiasm here, and Chinese has been very stable, as has Latin script, in the last several thousand years. Writing scripts are the exception to preservation, not the rule. Most artifacts that are produced will disintegrate, as a rule. Forever is a lot of work, who is doing it?

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Wrong question frame. We know history forgets most of our lives, so Burden of proof is on why we should expect there be ANY record of these things. Who wants the future to know about the dongle for the widget and the gadget they used fifteen years ago?

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I cannot stress this enough- nobody has a long term file archive plan that accounts for general industrial outputs from the commercial sector. They scrap old things and move on. Just keeping track of bottleglass imprints from well known brands takes us several hours and it’s ~200 years stamping!

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Some days I wake up in a cold sweat following a nightmare that future “Pax Chaco canyon” guys are gonna have a FIELD DAY with the ruins of ancient chicago exurbs.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Very interested in what drives these computers to rework a human ancestor into what so clearly are chimpanzees.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#archaeobirds🏺#ornithology #zooarchaeology

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Ah, this can help me clarify. My recommendation for this example is option 1- countable words get plural form , and not option 3-this isn’t specifically undetermined or every choice possible. There’s loads of remarks you’re not looking for. Courtesy at play here too, since you’re inviting feedback

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In this case, English rigidly uses “remarks” since the phrase is keyed in by a he word “any”

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Need a view of the thin edge so we can see the temper!

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is my reminder to filter this out of my publisher provided lecture materials.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Check out the song 🎵 Chicken Man 🎵 from Evelyn Evelyn

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Really wanna take a moment here to point out that he’s also just, wrong in this calloused intro. We don’t get to claim immediate knowledge of continuity into deep history simply because contacted Tasmanians use stone. That’s a reckless extrapolation. Nothing “lucky” about it!

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Oh thank you Oxford friend Karen! I hadn’t seen the listings on Abe books. Places an order and now it’s just a matter of waiting on the post! Thank you so much. ☺️

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Putting out an all call- if anyone can seeing this can check their #university #library for a copy of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 3, please help! I can’t find a copy I can access! 🏺 #Research #archaeology #libraryfind #maya #mesoamerica #mexico

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Real facepalm moment- just learned how the feeds feature works on here! Going to fiddle with it to see if I can get some more help with that article.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Putting out an all call- if anyone can seeing this has a copy of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 3, please help! I can’t find a copy!

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

His birthday? The day “8 Deer!” Thats how we know his “name.” I don’t know what exactly this would mean for what people addressed him as when he becomes king, but this name is useful for tracking his deeds in these documents.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We see a complex glyph with an “A” shape, and a cane motif. This has a chain of 10 beads + 2 beads attached to it. This is read as the symbol for years, making this as the year “12 Cane,” in the traditional dating system. In the context of this page, we understand this is the year he was born.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

8-Deer Tiger Claw” is a difficult name to parse. Fortunately, we get his portrait in the text. From Codex Tonindeye, p 26, we see him in dress surrounded by several icons. Top left, see a deer with horns, and a string of 8beads attached to it. Beside it lies the tiger claw motif. In the low left,

Image of codex Nuttall depicting a colorful image of 8 Deer Tiger Claw.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

One of the most important figures in Mixtec codices, like the codex Nuttall, is a warrior and leader named 8-deer Tiger Claw, which is incredibly badass

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

For anyone wondering, the reason I’m doing this is because I’ve studied archaeology for years and there’s a weird air around American texts that makes it out like you’re not supposed to read them unless you’re some specialist. However, I think knowing what’s there is a worthy drive on its own.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Other Mixtec codices of note: Codex Waecker-Gotter Codex Colombino-Becker Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I Codex Bodley Codex Selden

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Take the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, named after Rockstar Mexican-American archaeologist Zelie Nuttall, and Baron Zouche, who held it in a private collection. It’s better to know it as “Codex Tonindeye” a Mixtec name that means something like “Chronicle” which describes what the text is.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

One major problem with studying the ancient writings of America is that none of them are named like “the mythology of Oaxaca” or anything that makes sense. They get named “The Paris Codex,” “The Codex Nuttall,” & “The Dresden Codex” Names come from current collections and not sources.

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Alex Arcane @alexarcane.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I’m gonna explore some meso-American archaeology lit soon. This means the Popol-vuh, Mixtec Codices, Maya Codices, other inscriptions of Americans, ancient and modern.

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