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Dr. Michelle I. Turner

@chaco-arch.bsky.social

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Archaeologist researching the US Southwest, professor, museum professional. My website: michelle-turner.owlstown.net

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My friend Kari Shleher at UNM and her coauthors just published a new paper on sourcing azurite. At Ancestral Puebloan sites, we find it as little spherical concretions and of course as pigments. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fig. 2 from the paper, a photograph of azurite-bearing rock on the left and spherical azurite concretions from Lisbon Valley

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Little fluffballs outside the kitchen window. It's been cooling off fast in the evening this week.

Two sweet mourning doves sitting on a wooden board, all fluffed up.

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I got assigned my new office a couple weeks ago, I ended up with a nasty stained desk chair, but somehow it’s incredibly comfortable for my bad back. So I bought this cheapo cover for it and now it’s quite fabulous.

Plain old rolling desk chair with a William Morris-ish floral design cover

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love today's daily poem

A poem called Autumn by Jane Hirshfield

Again the wind
flakes gold-leaf from the trees
and the painting darkens—
as if a thousand penitents
kissed an icon
till it thinned
back to bare wood,
without diminishment.

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Facebook reminded me that a year ago, I accepted this award from the American Association for State and Local History, for the museum's maritime studies journal I helped develop and that I edited. A month later, I was among 21 people laid off. The journal was abandoned after 3 issues.

Me holding a certificate for an AASLH Award of Excellence

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fall flowers from my garden for a stormy, gloomy day

A little vase of pink dahlias, purple cosmos, white strawflowers, and orange calendulas

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Monet's Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers is at the National Gallery. I used to have a poster of this, many years ago, so I was excited when someone gave us some tubers to grow them.

A Monet painting of yellow flowers in a vase on a wood table.

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Our Jerusalem artichokes (aka sunchokes) are amazing right now. They’re taller than me! We started with a handful of tubers two years ago, they spread wildly. A wonderful native plant in N. America and the tubers are edible.

Yellow flowers on tall stems. They look a bit like sunflowers but with yellow centers.

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My life is insane but I was somehow able to make some time for classical music at Yale tonight

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my students in the archaeological theory seminar brought some Wisconsin copper for show and tell today, in honor of reading Binford on the old copper complex.

Chunk of copper sitting on a journal article

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