And apply for Dr. Hopkins summer medical anthropology course in Spain: tamuabroad.via-trm.com/program_broc...

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It provided a "user-friendly" way for navigators to calculate a change in latitude using a few simple manipulations of dividers. The scale, visually similar to boxwood, was recovered from between two stern framing timbers during the 2010 excavation.

This artifact proves that the plain scale—an analogue navigational computing instrument—was already in use by English sailors traveling to the colonies, while the primary text popularizing it wasn't published until 1624.

The Warwick was a magazine ship for the Virginia Company, lost in a hurricane in 1619. #NavTech #Archaeology #ShipwreckDiscovery #PlainScale #17thCentury

Let’s all congratulate Dr. de Ruiter for his hard work and dedication! This award is very well deserved.
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Each recipient will receive a commemorative medallion bearing the A&M System seal and a certificate signed by Chairman Albritton and Chancellor Glenn Hegar.

Award recipients are designated “Regents Professor” for the duration of their employment within the A&M System. They will receive a stipend of $15,000 — payable as $5,000 annually for three consecutive years — funded through their employing institution or agency.

The Regents Professor Award program, established in 1996, recognizes faculty members whose contributions advance the academic institutions and serve the people of Texas. Since its inception, 323 faculty across the System have been honored.

Colonial authorities interpreted clandestine burial as idolatry, but historical sources cite it as cuyaspa—"for the love they bear them": community care, not just resistance. Maintaining ties with ancestors ensured the survival and fertility of the living community in the face of colonial disaster.

At Jahuay (Chincha), Indigenous people created inconspicuous burial spaces to protect their deceased. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why hide the dead? Spanish evangelization and rampant treasure hunting destroyed ancestral cemeteries, severing the vital reciprocal bonds (uyway) between the living and the dead essential for social and cosmic order.

Following the Spanish invasion and massive demographic collapse, Indigenous Andean communities secretly buried their dead outside of sanctioned sites—a practice known as clandestine burial.

What helps: cat‑free buffer zones near protected areas, keeping pets indoors, community trap-neuter-release (≥75% neutered), and targeted deterrents.

Why it matters: island species are especially vulnerable, and cat predation has driven extinctions.

Across 29 years, 169 cat encounters were observed, and cats are now found up to 7 km inside the reserve. Cats attempted to prey on tarsiers 19 times; 12 were successful. Tarsiers always alarm call, sometimes mob (~18%), and shift behavior: more traveling/foraging, less resting/socializing.

Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos, the struggles they face as they work to make Chicago their home, and the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity.

Los Yarderos explores the lives of migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacán, who hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Ellie has continued to research early archaeology in Peru by completing a LAUNCH Undergraduate Thesis and an archaeological survey of the Mantaro River under Dr. Kurt Rademaker.