Will Williams

Ph.D. archaeology student. Historical archaeology and memory worker.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

[Legonium @tutubuslatinus]

On this day - May the Fourth - the ancient Romans gathered in feast to commemorate the end of the Bella Stellaria (Stellar Wars) and to celebrate the fall of the Imperium. NUMEN TECUM SIT : MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU #MayThe4thBeWithYou

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

@KathyReichs Clifford the big red dog.

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@ArchaeologyGame What about the archaeologist sat in front of an excel spreadsheet?

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

@CommodoreBlog And https://t.co/TCAt1zkBOm (amiga pic).

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

@ArchaeologyGame I loved your presentation! Thank you for sharing such a personal story.

[Arys🏺🪶 @ArysPan]

❤You are 40k now! I'm extremely honored and thankful for the follow🌿

*Ancient mosaic from Halicarnassus with wishes: 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩, 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘑𝘰𝘺, 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳, 𝘏𝘖𝘗𝘌.

🎇Happy #NewYear to all, may you have a great and prosperous year ahead✨

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

@masonsa92300881 @anthropologydp @Graham__Hancock You understand it’s a parody account, right?

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

@anthropologydp Munching on yams. So I’m happy.

[Chris Stantis, PhD @ChrisStantis]

This brand name makes forensic anthropologist pause....

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@CostelloWilliam MAXQDA never fails me.

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@anthropologydp You’re the only reason I keep coming back to Twitter. You’re single handedly saving the platform.

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

@MiriamGClark And sometimes class members have a few "extra" years on them!

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

@EtienneT_Esq I believe it depends on the period and location. In NJ late 18th-early 19th century “enslaved African descended people” is appropriate. Those enslaved were likely born in the state due to import bans from Africa.

[Will Williams @willwilliams68k]

My paper exploring slavery in rural Bergen County, NJ, in the late 18th to early 19th century has been published in the New Jersey Studies journal. https://t.co/UolJjLeQze

#academia #published #Archaeology

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@daheels1 @Rodrigu63888423 @BrynnTannehill Have you thought for a moment that sarcasm isn’t easy to convey in 120 characters? Perhaps the problem is with your delivery?

[The Anthropology Department @anthropologydp]

A student in a Phish shirt just left a pan of brownies in the faculty lounge, so make sure to take one.