Doc McCullough

@marginalviking.bsky.social

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Archaeologist and historian. Museum Director. Musings on public history, Vikings/Norse, Greenland, archaeology of religion, mythology, and magic. Opinions my own, etc. Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking

A mother and a daughter - who is dressed as Robin Hood - take in the Major Oak.
A screenshot of Doctor Weird and Steve from Aqua Teen Hunger Force after Steve has been impaled by cobs of corn for the second time.
A tabby cat wearing a snappy 19th century suit
A gray tortoiseshell cat chewing on the leaf of a potted plant.
A black cat laying on a blanket covered radiator. His legs are all tucked in and not visible.
A promotional still from the TV series “The Father Dowling Mysteries”
A flyer for the school of arts and sciences colloquium featuring Todd White of https://signofthetworavens.com/
Malcolm Macdowell as Caligula starts to make sheep noises. The entire senate joins him.
The words “Limnal Space” with a heart spray painted beneath a walking bridge
A screenshot of Ned Flanders confronting Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney in the Simpsons Episode “In Marge We Trust”
A modified Calvin and Hobbes strip about the Voynich Manuscript. Credit to @ok_buddy_hobbes on Instagram
A reclining diluted tortoiseshell cat asleep on her back with one paw extended above her head
Page 192 of Death in a Dread Place’: Belief, Practice, and Marginality in Norse Greenland, ca. 985-1450 J. A. McCullough
A child’s drawing of two stick people on a Viking longship
A Neolithic phalange resting on my finger during an excavation
A candle labeled “the calming scent of a finished doctorate”
Chani (Zendaya) hearing Paul state that he will marry Irulan in Dune Part 2
“Yertle the Turtle bullcrap”
Black and white photograph of a small pendant in the shape of a walrus carved from a walrus molar from Norse Greenland. Currently at the National Museum of Denmark.
A photo of the second edition of “The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia” by Neil Price
A photo of a paperback copy of “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes” by Edith Hamilton
Cross types from Farm Under the Sand (Berglund 1998, Fig. 2)
Leather  scrap  from  Herjolfsnes incised all over with crosses, possibly a devotional practice (Nørlund   1924,  Fig.  132)
A redlined version of an erroneous meme associating Easter with the goddess Ishtar. Corrected by a Mesopotamia expert.
Reconstruction of O-29a “Thjodhild’s Church” in Qassiarsuq, Greenland. (Photo: visit Greenland.com
Two early Bronze Age flint daggers on display at the Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland
A contemporary McDonalds interior with a pale gray color scheme and electronic menus on the wall.
The interior of a 1980s McDonalds with anthropomorphic tree, Ronald McDonald mural, and florae shaped tables.
Myself and a friend toasting in the feasting hall at Hvalsey/Qaqortukulooq in Greenland, summer 2016.
A lead pilgrim’s badge (40x55mm)  depicting the crucifixion. from  Frederiksdal  near  Herjolfsnes  (Kopar  2009,  Fig.  4)
Jess McCullough sitting at the grave of the bishop with modern marker in the north chapel of Gardar cathedral. Igaliku, Greenland. 2016.
An archaeological drawing of amulet Sandnes 11 by Lisbeth Imer in “Peasants and Prayers” (2017) p.296
The Narsaq stick, drawn by Lisbeth Imer.