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hanr86 t1_jb0pu79 wrote
Reply to comment by AmarakSpider in Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
Well that's embarrassing
AnaphoricReference t1_jb0peqb wrote
Reply to comment by Bentresh in The difficulties of translating gender in ancient texts by MeatballDom
The Netherlands has had three female Kings in a row in recent history. The Consitution is quite clear the topic: the monarch is King, and King (written) may be read as "Queen" if a woman is monarch. This led to an interesting discussion about downgrading the title of Queen as consort of the King to Princess, in analogy to Prince for the consort of a regnant Queen, because people have gotten so used to equating "King" and "Queen". And in common parlance both King and Queen were used for Beatrix: without qualification it is "Queen", but it is for instance "the first Dutch King that [..]".
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FixerFiddler t1_jb0m5jv wrote
Reply to comment by frznflm in Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
Most museums have thousands or even hundreds of thousands of artifacts and only a handful of people looking after them and researching them. Unless someone get intrigued by one particular object it could sit unstudied for decades or centuries.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
20 generations? Buddy you are failing at basic math.
The instrument in the OP is of historical interest relating to a particular culture. Instruments from halfway around the world have little to do with it.
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Wazzok1 t1_jb0grnf wrote
Reply to comment by JegElskerGud in Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
It's just so sad at how little a single archeologist can do in their careers, and like everyone they only get one life. Added onto that the dwindling number of jobs in the field... How is archeology going to survive if it takes a decade to get "yeah this deer antler is an instrument" published?
JegElskerGud t1_jb0f7bb wrote
Reply to comment by Wazzok1 in Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
That is quite common. Just in the last decade there was a journal pushing for more of the Dead Sea Scrolls to get published.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
What tf are you on about? A 2,000 year old thing is an old thing.
Wazzok1 t1_jb07q1w wrote
Reply to Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
I can't believe how slow the pace of archaeological publication is... They were excavated 25 years ago, reanalysed in 2012 and 2016, and those findings took 7–11 years to be published.
WeeklyIntroduction42 t1_jb06rbr wrote
Reply to comment by Buusey in Bookclub and Sources Wednesday! by AutoModerator
The China history podcast is currently doing a series on Taiwan’s history. So far they’re only at the 1950s
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Reply to comment by NoAdhesiveness4316 in Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
Wouldn't it most likely be cham
Eminence_grizzly t1_jazw092 wrote
Reply to comment by Cap_Vast in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator
Why are you so surprised? Stuff like that kept happening after that, too - in Asia, Africa, and Europe.
NoAdhesiveness4316 t1_jazvs65 wrote
Reply to Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments by NotTRYINGtobeLame
If this is from Southern Vietnam, it is likely not a Viet relic, more like Indian or Polynesian.
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bangdazap t1_jazqn53 wrote
Reply to comment by Nonskew2 in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator
>Which leads me to add one remark, that the number of purely white people in the world is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny; Asia chiefly tawny; America (exclusive of the new comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians, and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who, with the English, make the principal body of white people on the face of the earth.
Benjamin Franklin, “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, People of Countries, Etc.” (1751)
Prejudice blinds you to the facts of reality I guess.
Elmcroft1096 t1_jb0tmfy wrote
Reply to comment by phillipgoodrich in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator
Anither issue I remember reading about Liberia is that Abolitionists thought of Africa as one large homogeneous place, ignoring the various regions inhabited by different tribes and nations that the African American slaves or their ancestors had come from initially.