A Thank-you To My Subscribers
In the past few months, I’ve had a surge of new paying subscribers, which is a wonderful feeling, especially since the vast majority of my content is free, and I don’t publish anything like the amount of other writers. So, I wanted to say a heartfelt thanks to you all, paid and free subscribers. My aim is always to produce several high quality, well-researched pieces every month. This often means reading around 50 journal papers and sometimes several books to make sure I have all the context and gets the facts absolutely right. As many of you know I am also a full-time archaeological researcher, which means I’m not blessed with much free time to write. Therefore I’m doubly grateful that many of you want to support me with a paid subscription.
I try to keep my content to a good mix of prehistory, modern and traditional anthropology, contemporary issues and historiography, and I always have more ideas for articles than I can easily produce. If there’s anything you want me to focus on, or pay less attention to, please leave your thoughts in the comments.
So welcome aboard new subscribers, and thanks to you who have been with me for a while, I’m planning to get the podcast up and running again soon and I’ll be unlocking some older content as well. Thank you friends!
Dear Stone Age Herbalist,
I have just an article by you titled “ The rise of Archaeologists Anonymous” in UnHerd. I thought it is was a great read and illustrated the global problem of critical studies impact on academia. I have one question for you if I may. I am Australian and have a local interest in the quote “Indigenous Australians belong to the oldest continuous culture on earth etc etc”. You then say in follow up that “the comment happily accepts that modern Aboriginal Australians are the owners of, and descendants from, 40,000 year old fossils found at Lake Mungo. …….these Pleistocene skeletons are the sole preserve of the Aboriginal people and not the common inheritance of humanity has been securely acknowledged”
I would like to know if you are saying that the statement “Indigenous Australians belong to the oldest continuous culture on earth” is overreach or are you agreeing with it? In my (unqualified) opinion I find it difficult to accept.
Thanks in anticipation,
Russell
iamthewalrus@rsdj.net