#the iron age

[lightdancer1]

One of the key lessons of archaeology and history in Africa is that humanity's growth is not a linear teleological process:

Today in Black History Month, beginning the expansion of Black and African history out of the narrow corner of East Africa most directly linked to the Mediterranean and the Hijaz. This is in no small part to set the stage for what happens when the existing growing polities in this part of the world had headlong collisions with the religious and political aspects of the Islamic world. One important factor to understanding what happened in Black Africa that did not happen elsewhere in the same way, and which had very direct relevance on how states and armies formed in the region is that West Africa leaped straight from Stone to Iron Age.

Iron, it should be noted, is much more abundant than the things that make Bronze on the one hand, and on the other this is why the Iron Age was more proto-democratic than the Bronze Age which promoted highly autocratic centralized states. This, IMO, at least partially accounts for the more decentralized state traditions in the Sahel as the kind of cultures that arise around metallurgy that works more simply than that of the Bronze Age allows for diffusions of authority and expertise rather than concentration of them. Everything has its advantages and everything its drawbacks.

[lily-isalittlegirl]

that's true but what did tumblr do to john green in 2014

Haven't stopped thinking about this since I saw it

[professionalowl]

so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944. 

Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538. 

Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.

[okthisway]

What are you doing, Solas?

inspired by this incredible Iron Bull and Solas chess game edit by LethallanTV

[kinascorner]

In Memoriam of the 3 party member system😔, a curated selection of some of my favorite three-way dialogues.

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100% support the devs on doing what they need to to balance gameplay, and i'm excited to try the new combat system, but I'll miss the surprise additions to chatter.

[mooshs-crack-headcanons]

I think it's funny that when Cassandra gathers ppl to save the world you get the (mostly) het Inquisition. But when Varric gathers people it's always a wild pack of deranged fruits, AKA the DA2 crew minus Sebastian (the dlc straight) and the Veilguard minus Solas (status pending)

Idk what to put as a ending post image so here's Varric with his cleavage out

[briccko]

Everyone is here!!!

[basiliskonline]

@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk

[socialprawn]

fight someone your own size

[orientalld]

[inquisitorgaywarden]

Stupid nerds

[mimorugk]

Andraste's flaming sword …. 🧎

[chevalierlogan]

[tiger-grace]

Dick: oh no, is that a gray hair?

Steph, shaking her head sadly: twink death

Dick: nevermind, must be from the dog!

Cass, raising an eyebrow: twink immortality?

[tench-art]

I'm adding the lore I've learned from the comments to this... DLC of the "Varric's collar saga"

[aldruiel-scribbles]

In this link there is definitely not a folder with every Dragon Age eBook, numbered in order of reading plus the two Encyclopedias about the world. Please do not use the link, there are not free books in there.