Ken Feder
@kfed-archaeology.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood archaeologist. Books: Native America: The Story of the First Peoples; Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries; The Past in Perspective; Native American Archaeology in the Parks; Archaeological Oddities; and more.
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Ken Feder
@kfed-archaeology.bsky.social
· Jun 26
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!
NATIVE AMERICA:
The Story of the First Peoples
Kenneth L. Feder
@princetonupress.bsky.social
NATIVE AMERICA:
The Story of the First Peoples
Kenneth L. Feder
@princetonupress.bsky.social
My article about the Rocky Mountain Martian hoax of 1864-5. A real hoot! www.historycolorado.org/story/2025/0...
Rocky Mountain Martian | History Colorado
Rocky Mountain Martian - At the height of the Civil War, an international (and interplanetary) humbug straight out of science fiction dazzled the world.
www.historycolorado.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My article about the Rocky Mountain Martian hoax of 1864-5. A real hoot! www.historycolorado.org/story/2025/0...
RORO
www.rorotoko.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The truth is out there. Way, way out there.
June 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The truth is out there. Way, way out there.
A book is a journey and I am so glad I was able to take that journey with so many brilliant people.
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A book is a journey and I am so glad I was able to take that journey with so many brilliant people.
I’m so grateful to Eric Cline and to the team at Princeton University Press including Rob Tempio, Chloe Coy, Elizabeth Bird, Erin Suydam, and Alyssa Sanford; Melody Negron at Westchester Publishing Services; and my amazing copyeditor Ashley Moore.
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m so grateful to Eric Cline and to the team at Princeton University Press including Rob Tempio, Chloe Coy, Elizabeth Bird, Erin Suydam, and Alyssa Sanford; Melody Negron at Westchester Publishing Services; and my amazing copyeditor Ashley Moore.
“…it’s not hard to believe that his college students thoroughly enjoyed his lectures—as most readers will this fascinating book. An entertaining and enlightening survey of what archaeology tells us about the first Americans.”
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“…it’s not hard to believe that his college students thoroughly enjoyed his lectures—as most readers will this fascinating book. An entertaining and enlightening survey of what archaeology tells us about the first Americans.”
So, it’s 2025, and look here. After gestating for five years, it’s a book! NATIVE AMERICA: THE STORY OF THE FIRST PEOPLES. And let’s not even talk about how insufferable I will be now that the book has garnered a Kirkus starred review which is a pretty big deal in the biz:
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So, it’s 2025, and look here. After gestating for five years, it’s a book! NATIVE AMERICA: THE STORY OF THE FIRST PEOPLES. And let’s not even talk about how insufferable I will be now that the book has garnered a Kirkus starred review which is a pretty big deal in the biz:
Of course I said “Yes!” and if anyone reading this thinks “Oh yeah. I turned down that gig. I guess Feder was their backup plan,” please don’t tell me, lol.
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Of course I said “Yes!” and if anyone reading this thinks “Oh yeah. I turned down that gig. I guess Feder was their backup plan,” please don’t tell me, lol.
Princeton University Press editor Rob Tempio contacted me in 2020 about contributing to a book series called Unearthing the Past to be edited by the estimable Eric Cline, George Washington University archaeologist and author extraordinaire.
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Princeton University Press editor Rob Tempio contacted me in 2020 about contributing to a book series called Unearthing the Past to be edited by the estimable Eric Cline, George Washington University archaeologist and author extraordinaire.
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!
NATIVE AMERICA:
The Story of the First Peoples
Kenneth L. Feder
@princetonupress.bsky.social
NATIVE AMERICA:
The Story of the First Peoples
Kenneth L. Feder
@princetonupress.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!
NATIVE AMERICA:
The Story of the First Peoples
Kenneth L. Feder
@princetonupress.bsky.social
NATIVE AMERICA:
The Story of the First Peoples
Kenneth L. Feder
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Then turn the bus south for Los Lunas, New Mexico! Ten Commandments on a boulder baby!
June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Then turn the bus south for Los Lunas, New Mexico! Ten Commandments on a boulder baby!
There are two types of people in the world: people who eat the black and then the white, and people who are just wrong.
June 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There are two types of people in the world: people who eat the black and then the white, and people who are just wrong.
I messaged you on FB. Asking for you to remind me of your mailing address so I can send you a copy of the new edition of Frauds!
April 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I messaged you on FB. Asking for you to remind me of your mailing address so I can send you a copy of the new edition of Frauds!
As you well know, René Descartes was a drunken fart.
March 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As you well know, René Descartes was a drunken fart.
Great news! And good to hear from you. Been to Scotland years ago. Soentva little time in the Orkneys. Loved it!
March 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great news! And good to hear from you. Been to Scotland years ago. Soentva little time in the Orkneys. Loved it!
One of these things is not like the others.
March 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
One of these things is not like the others.
Holly; you’re crushing it!
March 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Holly; you’re crushing it!
And… not in the original short story but in the Granada tv production of Thor Bridge, Holmes points to a map and says: “See Watson, the Ricardo Franco Hills. See the unscaleable cliffs which time and the foot of man have never touched, where monsters from the dawn of history might still roam.”
March 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
And… not in the original short story but in the Granada tv production of Thor Bridge, Holmes points to a map and says: “See Watson, the Ricardo Franco Hills. See the unscaleable cliffs which time and the foot of man have never touched, where monsters from the dawn of history might still roam.”
I have the DVD. Love this: Piltdown Man was formally announced in 1912, the same year Lost World was published. A character in that novel says: “If you are clever and know your business you can fake a bone as easily as you can a photograph.” Conan Doyle gets a lot of shit for that.
March 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I have the DVD. Love this: Piltdown Man was formally announced in 1912, the same year Lost World was published. A character in that novel says: “If you are clever and know your business you can fake a bone as easily as you can a photograph.” Conan Doyle gets a lot of shit for that.
It looks like a good way to help Ukraine would be to encourage Trump to let Musk sell Russia rockets.
March 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It looks like a good way to help Ukraine would be to encourage Trump to let Musk sell Russia rockets.
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.
Motherfuckers.
March 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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.
Motherfuckers.
Reposted by Ken Feder
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.
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March 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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.
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Reposted by Ken Feder
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...
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...
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
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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...
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...