A wild potato carried across the Colorado Plateau reveals an Indigenous path toward domestication long before maize ruled the Southwest. Stone tools, starch grains, and living plants tell the story. #Archaeobotany #IndigenousScience #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tiny-potato-that-traveled-far
The Tiny Potato That Traveled Far

How a wild tuber reshapes the early history of farming on the Colorado Plateau

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New excavations at Chankillo uncovered an early astronomical structure and a ritual vessel of warrior-astronomers, revealing that ancient Andean elites linked cosmology, political authority, and martial power long before the famed Thirteen Towers were built.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/12/earliest-astronomical-architecture-in-the-americas-uncovered-a-place-where-warriors-watched-the-sun.html

#pagan #archaeology #archaeoastronomical #astronomer #andeanarchaeology #chankillo #indigenousscience #ritualarchitecture

Earliest Astronomical Architecture in the Americas Uncovered: A Place Where Warriors Watched the Sun

ew excavations at Chankillo uncovered an early astronomical structure and a ritual vessel of warrior-astronomers, revealing that ancient Andean elites linked cosmology, political authority, and martial power long before the famed Thirteen Towers were built.

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Honouring the land and water in freshwater science #Indigenousscience #Climate

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Leprosy has been part of the Americas' history far longer than we thought—and it may still hold secrets that impact our health today. #infectiousdiseases #indigenousscience #ancientDNA

https://geekoo.news/the-ancient-american-roots-of-leprosy/

Moray isn’t just a ruin it’s an agricultural laboratory built by the Inca civilization, high in the Sacred Valley.
These perfect circular terraces descend like a spiral into the earth, each level with its own microclimate. Some say it was used to experiment with crops, to adapt seeds to different altitudes.
Source:https://xplormachupicchu.com/
#Moray #SacredValley #IncaWisdom #Cusco #Peru #IndigenousScience #AndeanHeritage #AgricultureAndSpirit
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Fascinating read. I guess it pays to ask the locals about local history.
#Archeology #IndigenousScience
Indigenous Elders Help Researchers Decode Ancient Rock Art

https://mymodernmet.com/indigenous-rock-art/

Indigenous Elders Decode Ancient Rock Art Filled With Shamans Spiritually Transforming Into Animals

“We know why specific motifs were painted, and what they mean.”

My Modern Met
" Can the scientist step outside of themselves as an individual and think about the whole of life? Can they step into the science of sustainability and understand the interconnectedness and relationality between life forms?
#Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Integration #IndigenousScience
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/conversation-yvette-running-horse-collin

Part of the amazing Ngunnhu of the Ngembri on the Barwon river at Brewarrinna, NSW, a complex stone net (literally) of ancient fish traps and holding ponds, designed to work efficiently in different water level and flow regimes.

Those of us in the business of modelling and understanding flows and networks could learn a thing or two here. 1/N

Bear with me (while I find better WiFi access)

#networks #mathematics #IndigenousScience

#indigenousscience she:kon!
I’m Mohawk and Abenaki, Board member of AISES, professor Emeritus and former Dean of Undergraduate Research at RIT, co-founder of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell, cofounder of Native Alumni of Princeton. My primary focus has been to get Indigenous candidates into STEM. I would like to post job positions that I see here on other boards at AISES, Cornell, Princeton and RIT. Please let me know if you’d like me to do that. Nyah’weh, Dr. Dube

Faculty Position: Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences

My colleagues in Geography (University of British Columbia) are advertising for an Assistant or Associate Prof. Please amplify!

#IndigenousScience #IndigenousAcademia #AcademicChatter

https://www.arts.ubc.ca/academic-postings/indigenous-environmental-studies-and-sciences-assistant-associate-professor/

Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (Assistant/Associate Professor) - Faculty of Arts

June 7, 2024 The Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or entry-level Associate Professor, specializing in Indigenous approaches to the environment, from a natural and/or social science perspective.  Priority research areas include, but are not limited to, 1) …

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