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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Great Spangled Fritillary on Echinacea purpurea.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Notes from a Tired Egyptian Guy Whose Job Is Explaining That Humans Built the Pyramids - McSweeney's

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If they ever have a contest for the worst opening sentence in a college related novel, here's my entry: "When I walked into my classroom on that first day of the semester, I found the air redolent with the stench of young minds lusting for knowledge." You're welcome.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I FOUND IT! Like, about ten minutes from my house. Seriously. In your collective faces, oh you skeptics, naysayers, doubting Thomases, and jabbernowls. Here is the PROOF that will leave you baffled!

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My Sherlock Holmes pastiche, A Death In Cornwall, is featured in the New Books listing of the Summer 2026 edition of Sherlock Holmes Magazine!

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Look who has an author's website. This guy. Not even sure why. Look at all the delicious wholesomeness discerning readers can find in a single place now. Suitable for reading, gifting, and a couple make excellent doorstops. kenfederbooks.com

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Ken Feder

Dr. Ken Feder is professor emeritus at Central Connecticut State University. Along with more than forty years of experience in field archaeology, he is the author of several books

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hey all! The webinar I provided for the Old Pueblo Archaeology Center in Tucson on the topic of “Exposing Frauds, Busting Myths, and Solving Mysteries in American Southwest Archaeology” is now available on their YouTube channel. Check it out here: youtu.be/0efYEXni9RQ?...

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Exposing Frauds, Busting Myths, and Solving Mysteries in American Southwest Archaeology by archaeolo

YouTube video by Old Pueblo Archaeology Center

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Princeton University Press is having a 50% discount sale on history books. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... My book, Native America: The Story of the First Peoples. Now on sale from the press for $19.98. Winner of the 2026 Popular Book Award from the Society for American Archaeology.

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Native America

An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuity

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Coming up! Register for my Zoom presentation Exposing Frauds, Busting Myths, and Solving Mysteries in American Southwest Archaeology for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center. Thursday, May 21, 7:00 PM Arizona time. (10:00 PM here in the East.)

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Big thanks to Jay L Evy for sending me this video.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The 2026 annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Incredibly gratifying.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Doing my Barkhamsted Lighthouse talk for the North Woods Land Conservancy. May 16, 7PM. Barkhamsted Community Center. Wait? A "lighthouse?" In Barkhamsted? That's 60 miles from the coast! Well, it all shows that even nineteenth-century stage coach drivers were capable of metaphor.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Look here. My latest from The Colorado Magazine: Missing in Mesa Verde. One of those bizarre encounters that could only happen to me. And we lived to tell the tale. Spooky, weird, and hilarious. Well, except for the dead guy. That wasn’t funny. At all. www.historycolorado.org/story/2026/0...

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Missing in Mesa Verde | History Colorado

Missing in Mesa Verde - A true story of fact versus fiction surrounding a disappearance in one of Colorado’s most famous archaeological sites.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I did a thing. Available as a paperback and as an ebook. Sherlock Holmes encounters a headless corpse in a megalithic chamber, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Piltdown Man. The game is afoot.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Donald Trump has just vetoed a bill that would have expanded the reservation of the Miccosukee Tribe in Florida. His reason? The tribe acts in a way: “to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

One of my goals in life, albeit a humble one, is to photograph a goose flying overhead at the instant it takes a shit and then post it, with a caption expressing my indignation, on a chem trails web page.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! NATIVE AMERICA: The Story of the First Peoples Kenneth L. Feder @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One of these things is not like the others.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It looks like a good way to help Ukraine would be to encourage Trump to let Musk sell Russia rockets.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The price of eggs is really getting ridiculous. In fact, yesterday I saw a bunch of chickens driving around in a totally tricked out, 2025 Hummer. Motherfuckers.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I was the Fulbright scholar to Nepal in 2016-2017. It resulted in over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, six peer-reviewed articles, and two books about Shaligrams! The sacred fossil ammonites of the Himalayas. shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/out...

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Outward Spirals

For more than two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an integral part of ritual practice throughout South Asia. Originating from a single remote reg...

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We've reached a point where I am entirely convinced that the obsequious little shitasses that constitute the Republican senate would happily vote in the affirmative if Donald Trump were to nominate Godzilla to be his special envoy to Tokyo.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

My article in The Colorado Magazine, Not All It's Cracked Up to Be: Ogham, Equinoxes, and Wandering Celts in Colorado, appears in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of the magazine. You can read a digital version here: www.historycolorado.org/story/2024/0...

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Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be - Ogham, Equinoxes, and Wandering Celts in Crack Cave.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Here in a newly minted year I remember the lyrics to the chorus of Paranoid Larry’s song Jesus Shaves: Blessed are thе ones who make peace Blessed are the ones who scrape by Blessed are the ones living holy lives And here’s to the rest of us who try. youtu.be/c_ZHhe0rBbk?...

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Jesus Shaves

YouTube video by The Roches - Topic

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Wukoki Pueblo in Wupatki National Monument.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Spirals in rock and sand. Molly (7) and Ellie (5) created the spirals on the right, inspired by the petroglyph.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Okay. Now I have a book cover and a title: Windows to the Past. Now all I have to do is write the book.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

That moment of pride when your 5-yr-old calls you on your bullshit.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Montezuma Castle National Monument never disappoints. The 900-year-old cliff dwelling was designated a national monument by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1906.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Check out my discussion of the Lighthouse village in northwestern Connecticut on Mike Allen’s Amazing Tales: www.amazingtalesct.com

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Amazing Tales From Off and On Connecticut's Beaten Path

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If you see a drone, don’t be scared. Just look up at it and in a firm voice say “Klaatu barada nikto.” You’ll be fine.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So, it turns out that Kash Patel, Trump's pick for FBI director, keeps an enemies list. Which is funny because, if you're a high school student in Connecticut and the admin learns that you keep an enemies list, oh boy howdy, you're in deep shit.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Not a “flying squirrel.” A squirrel flying.

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🏺Looking for something fun to watch with your family over the holidays? Check out the History Colorado series "Exposing Hoaxes" by @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social Dr. Feder talks about amazing #archaeology sites and strange misconceptions about the past 🏺 www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Our house has this cool and very useful feature. I call them "staggered shelves." Great for storing all kinds of stuff. You may know them by their more common name. Stairs.

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Ken Feder @kfed-archaeology.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Pic of my great-grandparents in front of their bakery in Brooklyn, NY. Signs in the window welcome back soldiers at the end of WWI. So, 1918.

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