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I spoke to Reuters about the export of "alien" Peruvian mummies. If they're really archaeological, then Peru needs to halt the trade. But one clear possibility is they're able to leave the country because they're just fake, and the numbers are inflated. reuters.com/world/americas…

Why does nobody say this about math? I challenge any of you to spend 2 minutes on Arxiv and tell me what the hell is going on arxiv.org/list/math/new

Milei sacks historians whose research led to convictions of junta officers telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

I'll be back in Cambridge, MA next Monday to talk at MIT. I'll get into how "ancient trepanation" or cranial surgery was given an existence via 19th and 20th century "ancient Peruvian" and "Inca" examples, and the political stakes of it becoming "Andean." history.mit.edu/.../trepanning…

This afternoon at 4 at MIT!

So proud of PSU History Dept. Latin American historian PhD Dr. Alex Herrera!

The most important of this video is not my talk at Brown (which I was honored to be invited for), but the conversation that the great Gabriela Wiener 🇵🇸 and I have at the end about the re-encounter of Peruvian ancestors, identity, and racism. Top 10 day of the last year.

Lo más importante de este video no es mi charla en Brown (a la que tuve el honor de ser invitado), sino la conversación al final que la incréible Gabriela Wiener 🇵🇸 y yo tuvimos sobre nuestro reencuentro con ancestros peruanos, identidad y racismo. Top 10 día del año pasado.

It’s social media real now! Really grateful to those who have helped me through this process. Celebrating by doing something “pinch me, I’m dreaming” for the next project.

I agree that this museum has serious interpretive issues. The previous president for 30 years, Ellen Futter, refused to make any substantial changes. Now, a Black person, Sean Decatur, is president and as is often the case, will be expected to make everything A-ok. 🧵

Lots of fascinating material in Christopher Heaney’s terrific Empires of the Dead but this is 🤯: Munch’s The Scream may have been inspired by a Chachapoyas mummy that he and Gauguin saw at the Trocadéro ethnographic museum.

Today's reminder of how dumb AI can be (courtesy of PPT, in this case).

Me perdí de compartir la publicación de este ensayo cuando salió en Julio en la gran revista Arqueología y Sociedad, sobre la colección de ancestros y "la arqueología de los Andes del siglo XIX como nexo de investigación global". revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/Arqu…

Congratulations to Christopher Heaney (Christopher Heaney) for winning the Bolton-Johnson Prize for his book, Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press).

I’m humbled. This is such an honor. See you in NY!

Honored by this distinction. Thank you to the members of the committee and the participants of the HAHR/WMQ double issue who helped shape this piece.

My article “Global Mariátegui” was published online back in April, but happy to see it that it has now been published as part of the May issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Open access too! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to Christopher Heaney! His book "Empires of the Dead" was awarded the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Bolton Johnson Prize for best book in English on Latin American history. #AHA25