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Lindsay Bloch

@lindsaybloch.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, v. old pottery, v. good dogs, ceramic-themed nail art, historic buttons. ig:maniarchaeology. She/her 🇵🇸 temperedarchaeology.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 09/08/2026
Feel free to check if your city or town was a Sundown town. Notice that most Sundown towns were not in the South. And if you want to go to your local library or city hall to update some information, or pull some records, please heed the warnings by the researchers that put this map together...
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New #maniarchaeology 💅! This English variety, consisting of yellow transfer-printing on a dark brown refined redware body, is sometimes called “Yellow Printed Brownware” and dates to the early 19th century. It is rare in North American contexts, but check out this example from Drax Hall in Jamaica
Hand with brown nail polish and yellow designs over. In background is furniture with lacquered design of birdsHand painted will brown nails with yellow overlay. Green backgroundSherd of yellow printed brownwareJug of yellow printed brownware
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Oliver Larkin @oliveralarkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS! U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.” HERE TO STAY! WI NOU KAPAB!
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Rare non-pottery manicure today, in homage to the humble mother-of-pearl button. Super common post-1890s with millions made from freshwater mussels in the American Midwest.
My hand clasping a button with nails painted will allover tiny buttons on design. In the background, a pile of assorted shell buttons on a red textile. Hand clasping a pile of shell buttons with fingernails painted to look like piles of buttons. Background has assorted shell buttons on a red textile.
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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🏺All in one article, @lindsaybloch.bsky.social et al. present the development of a visual guide to standardize shell temper description within Pensacola Mississippian pottery, test the utility of this guide, and describe a method for producing this type of guide: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Creating Standardized Guides for Pottery Temper Characterization | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Creating Standardized Guides for Pottery Temper Characterization
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
‘Look, I can't afford to have two hands, so I'm gonna have to cut one off.’” dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🏺We're always looking for better ways to capture consistent, replicable artifact data...this method is working for us! Our image guides are specific to shell-temper, but if any kind of ceramic paste ID is part of your dataset, maybe it will help you too. #archaeology doi.org/10.1017/aap....
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Creating Standardized Guides for Pottery Temper Characterization | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Creating Standardized Guides for Pottery Temper Characterization
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks for the endorsement!
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🏺New pub--People in the Florida Keys were making their own pottery, not bringing it from the mainland! Free to read and download via this link through the end of the year: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mAs3,rVDB... Thanks to all my co-authors for pulling this together!
Screenshot of a webpage for Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. "Provenance of pottery from the Florida Keys: A geochemical pilot study"
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Can't wait to catch up with many of you at the SHAs in Detroit! Also, I still have some button type collections for sale and am taking online orders from now until stock runs out. If you have year-end money that needs spending, I can help you 😄 temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
cardboard box with cards spilling out of it it. The top card reads "Historic Button Type Collection" with several illegible blocks of text below. The cards behind it have buttons of different shapes and sizes attached. Cards laid out in a fan shape. the left hand side of the cards have pictures and text, and the right hand side have buttons attached.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 08/11/2025
ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases.
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Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation
ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)
cartoon: in the style of Egyptian heiroglyhics the lyrics to the Time Warp have been phonetically translated and help illustrate characters from RHPS
Caption; Rocky Horus Picture Scroll
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Back to basics #maniarchaeology today. Maybe the most common ironstone pattern, this simple sprig motif in copper luster is called Tea Leaf, produced throughout 2nd half of the 19th century by many different makers. Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park
Closeup of thumbnail painted with copper luster sprig on white ground, on top of a ceramic plate with the same design.nails painted white with copper luster band. Thumb has a floral sprig in same copper luster. In the background is a plate painted with the same designCeramic sherd painted with a copper luster sprig.
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🏺 Great writeup of our collaborative project with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to understand and revitalize potting traditions!
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🏺 The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) is hiring an archaeological analyst, based in Charlottesville, VA. bit.ly/DAACSanalyst
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Paycor Job Openings
at Monticello
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🏺DYK that the first people in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos made pottery with dust that originated in the Sahara?! Our new article confirms this, and a whole lot more about how the Lucayans engineered pottery in this challenging environment. doi.org/10.1080/1556... @emikracht.bsky.social
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Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands: Reverse Engineering a Novel Pottery Type
Palmetto Ware is a low-fired earthenware that was developed in the Lucayan Islands (The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands) ca. AD 700–800. Its production and use by the Lucayan...
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London. This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family. #maniarchaeology
left hand holding a small sherd. Fingernails and sherd are decorated with a design of blue grid with red stars inside and green at the intersections of lines.Artifact image of sherds decorated with blue grid and red stars with green accents on a white ground.Decorated sherds and a black and white image of a complete tankard with the same checked design. Text reads, "Chinese or common shape cup with painted star and grid pattern in blue, red, and green (left). This vessel may have been made in Bristol in the early 18th century in a fashion known as Bristol blue-red-green. Whole mug with similar pattern from a private collection on right. Angelica Knoll, 18CV60, c. 1650-1770."A complete mug decorated with blue grid design with red stars inside. Top area has decorative border and reads "Union".
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🏺Nice work, @archfieldnotes.bsky.social!
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🏺 Great writeup of our recent work!
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Eli @elihosen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Fox kit introducing themself!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/07/2025
my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🏺New article! "Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast" We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity. What assemblages should we zap next? Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz #archaeology
iron horseshoe fragments and iron shaped into rectangular chisel/celt forms. Figure 4 of article.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10/06/2025
YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵
3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated? 

Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧪 Another round of NSF grant terminations is expected today. But here’s a silver lining: there’s already a webinar for you today at 2 pm ET if you’re in that boat! (Tries to find the dark humor in moments like these…)
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🏺 New #maniarchaeology inspired by 2 of my favorite things: porcelain and buttons! Prosser-molded porcelain buttons were made post-1840 and are very common archaeologically. However, the original transfer-printed designs on some of them, known as "calicos" are often worn away.
my hand laying over a pile of small white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted black, each with a decorated button painted on.my left hand palm up to show a handful of white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted with buttons to match, one per finger, on a black background. my hand laying over a pile of small white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted black, each with a decorated button painted on.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Remember, these forms are NOT toys. They are not jokes. If these forms are to be effective, they should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES be flooded with incorrect information, which would render them useless. So definitely do not do that. Do not do it one time, or a dozen times, or even hundreds of times.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW: Today, NSF "disestablished" most of its scientific advisory committees. These are committees of outside experts convened to help shape NSF programs. Only five statutorily required committees remain, the rest are gone. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If you are National Guard or active duty military & you are ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, call the Gl Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487 There is support, you don't have to go through with it.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW: @nytimes.com reports that the Trump admin is moving to strip hundreds of thousands of immigrants of Social Security Numbers they got when they were granted work authorization, repurposing a "death master file" to try to erase their previous legal presence in the United States.
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ Trump Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”
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ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I've been busy restocking button boxes for the Society for American Archaeology meeting in a few weeks. Order online or visit my booth in Denver--I'll have special à la carte buttons for sale there too 🙂 The shop will be closing for the summer, so now is your chance! temperedarchaeology.com/buttons
Me, a white woman with graying hair, sitting behind a booth that has a table runner reading "Tempered Archaeological Services, LLC" with two birds as logo. On the tabletop are stacks of boxes with pbuttons printed on them and various flat printed items. Behind, other tables and vendors are visible. Fourteen cards organized in an overlapping square to show off images of buttons and attached real buttons. The tops cards read "Horn" "Shell" and "Composition" with smaller informational text that is too small to read in image. Background is stark white.A cardboard box with an allover photograph of buttons printed on it. Label in the center reads: "Historic Button Type Collection ca. 1700-1950. (c) Lindsay C. Bloch All Rights Reserved"A cigar box open with a label reading "Antique Buttons a la carte $5-15 Prices as Marked". In the box are cards printed with buttons and a single unique button mounted on each card. small labels are visible at the bottom of the cards but not legible.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Not sure who needs to hear this but one cannot “deport” a citizen. Thank you.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So weird to see colleges promoting their USNWR grad school rankings today like grad students aren’t being disappeared by their government.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.
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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I said this on the other site, but I think the media needs to stop using the word “arrested” if a person hasn’t committed any crimes, hasn’t been read Miranda rights, hasn’t been formally charged with anything and their family and lawyer doesn’t know where they are. It’s kidnapping. It’s abduction.
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I think the media needs to stop saying the word "arrested" especially when a person has not been formally accused of any crimes and the person's lawyer cannot locate them. People are being
*kidnapped* by the federal government, kidnapped.
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NEWS
abcnews * 22h
A Tufts University PhD student on a visa was arrested by immigration authorities outside of Boston on Tuesday night, according to the school and the student's lawyer.
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.
fingernails painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric. a small ceramic sherd with a stylized geometric pattern in blue and whitethumbnail painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🏺 And that little girl went on to learn French and become an archaeologist, both of which would change her interpretation of the museum 😂. Can you fault my logic though? #archaeosky
Excerpt from a journal written in a childish cursive script. It reads "We ate lunch and then went to a museum that had French indian artifacts. Some of them were very similar to American indian artifacts. The museum was about the people of Savoie, the part of France we are in."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Opinion | By eliminating DEI, the University of Virginia is getting back to the racial ideals of Thomas Jefferson.
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