Jonathan Hall

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[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@Evoincarnate @omegafreelancer Varanus is in dire need of getting exploded IMO. Way too much diversity along discrete lineages

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@Maya_X_0 Kushim (oldest recorded name)

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@TrueAfricanHero @loo_poopoo28709 @remarks Defending kid porn is really really weird hill to die on.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@Majora__Z @derek__olson There's sort of a meme where archaeologists use "ceremonial" to describe things they don't really understand. That has a grain of truth to it, but when it comes to a structure of a type we have extensive documentation as ceremonial...

Like wtf else could it be cuh?? A Bass Pro??

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@Super_Saiko77 Excellent, Mr. Liefeld, now let's see you draw the superhero's boots

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@Fresnofamous22 @CHPAlerts @oaklandpoliceca That is a missing child.

Never feel joy again.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@Majora__Z Paleontologists looking up extinct species and the search results are flooded by ARK Survival

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@ChudbobPump @CHPAlerts @LAPDHQ Oh no the system meant to find missing children will find a missing child. This is terrible for my doomscrolling hobby

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@CHPAlerts @LAPDHQ Stop using Bitly to redirect to an enshittified Twitter that can barely handle the traffic (and may require you to login to see).

Use your own URL shorteners to your own CHP website hosting the information.

[DragonsofWales @DragonsofWales]

Was just scrolling through FB, when this image pops up. But sure tell me again how genAI isn’t theft.
Parasites.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

The citation you're looking for is in footnote 15, Hosler's The Sounds and Colors of Power, which IIRC also has a map but I can't access the book right now. Copper mines have the highest (known) frequency in West Mexico but deposits exist throughout Mesoamerica. The Aztecs had deposits close to the Valley of Mexico but most of the mines were in Guerrero and Oaxaca.

You can tell in the abstract of his linked paper that there's copious evidence of a casting industry -- that is production. There are also examples of locally made copper/bronze objects made in that region.

Don't fall into the trap (like Sr. Arroyo does) of thinking that no mines = no production = no use. That's not how it's handled in Eurasian archaeology and for good reason. Almost nobody in Mesopotamia was smelting their own ores. Copper was being largely produced in Anatolia and tin came from northern Europe. Mesopotamian states were able to import both in massive quantities even when the territories on the route were hostile to them, and the same was true for Mesoamerica.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@trevseccles @cairoasmith Galactic Empire vs. Holy Roman Empire

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@weimarmoder @west_4th @cairoasmith Copper doesn't rust, it develops a patina :)

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@legodinoenjoyer

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@Majora__Z No, it pretty much covers the whole thing, and I've seen it cited often in papers. It's also available on Archive. But looking into it further, it looks like ol' Ucumu said it sucks and that the authors take too many liberties with the translation and jumble stuff around even.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

@Majora__Z @GetLexApp What about the 1970 Craine & Reindorp translation of the Relacion?

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

So wait, okay, is this just an AI translation?

Unfortunately that's not going to be valuable for research. As @Majora__Z alluded to it takes more than just translating the words, you need to understand the historical, cultural & linguistic contexts for old documents like this, too, which in the Relacion's case does involve some level of P'urepecha to avoid a telephone game-style semantic drift.

If that weren't true, people by now could have just fed documents into Google Translate and polished out the irregularities based on gut feeling.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

It's also a bit of a holdover from the ancient Greek idea of prehistory (Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron Ages, although we've yet to find tools and weapons made of hero). 19th century scientists loved the classics, so that inspired their typology.

Periodizations are still important even after absolute dating and the three-age system (albeit a very different version from the 19th century) still has relevance and use, but unlike in popular culture it's much more limited to (largely the western half of) temperate Eurasia.

The further you get to East Asia, the less terms like Bronze/Iron Ages are in vogue because they transition much less discretely and don't make sense as a descriptor of cultural change.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

"Invasive species" has stricter definitions than "exists outside of its home range". California zebras are basically limited to the property on Hearst Castle and evidently compete neither with native nor domestic herbivores.

A better example would be the parrots as they're more widespread but even they stick to eating imported plants. So, introduced, possibly even naturalized, not invasive.

[Jonathan Hall @ThesaurusRex84]

Short answer is no, there seems to be a disconnect between eating human flesh and the godmeat it's been "transubstantiated" into; even then, the portions eaten are very small. There's a story from the founding of the Purépecha where Taríacuri tricks a king and his court into eating his messenger (disguised as sacrificial meat), and it follows with them all gagging in intense repulsion.