#The Ancient Americas

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics

[khloxxy]

All I Want For Christmas Is You

[musette22]

Orpheus & Eurydice || Steve & Bucky

Moodboard for the @wintershieldbingo

Square: Mythology AU ✔️

I've always felt that the story of Steve and Bucky, particularly as told in Captain America: The First Avenger, had a lot in common with the Ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. For that reason, I have chosen to fill the Mythology AU square on my Wintershield Bingo card by creating a moodboard to draw narrative and visuals parallels between these two tragic love stories.

Orpheus & Eurydice

Orpheus was an artist, the greatest lyre player in the world, who was happily married to the love of his life, the beautiful Eurydice. Their happy life together gets cut short, however, when Eurydice is bitten by a viper and dies, leaving a heartbroken Orpheus behind. Orpheus cannot accept his true love’s death, and so he travels to the Underworld on a quest to get Eurydice back.

Orpheus manages to overcome various hurdles, such as getting past Cerberus, the three-headed hound who guards the gates to the Underworld, and finally pleads with Hades, the king of the Underworld to let Eurydice live again. Hades allows this on one condition: Eurydice is to follow behind Orpheus while walking out of the darkness of the Underworld towards the light of the land of the living, but Orpheus should not turn to look at her before she is fully out in the light again. However, as they begin to ascend towards the land of the living, Orpheus, afraid that his lover is no longer behind him, looks back to make sure she is following, causing Eurydice to tragically fall back into the shadows and be trapped in the Underworld once more. 

Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes

Steve and Bucky are very close friends and most likely even lovers, who live a mostly happy life together in Brooklyn. When World War II breaks out, Bucky is drafted and joins the army, while Steve stays behind in New York. In Italy, Bucky's squad is taken by the enemy, and he is kept prisoner in a dark, abandoned factory housing the lab of Hydra (incidentally also a multi-headed beast from Greek mythology).

When Steve, who received a superserum which turned him into the world's greatest soldier (as well as an artist), eventually also joins the army and gets to Italy, he is told Bucky is most likely dead. Steve point blank refuses to accept that, and embarks on a one man rescue mission - a quest, if you will - to get Bucky back. Armed with a wooden shield, the shape of which bears a similarity to a lyre, overcomes numerous obstacles, fighting Hydra goons and even Red Skull, who looks like the devil incarnate. Steve manages to free Bucky and even jumps over what strongly resembles the fiery pits of hell to get to freedom, only to lose Bucky again a short while later, when Bucky tragically falls from a train and is subsumed once more into the Underworld, i.e. Hydra’s claws.

Aside from the many narrative parallels, many visual parallels also exist between depictions of Orpheus and Eurydice in classical art and various scenes and images in CA:TFA. The moodboard above attempts to illustrate these parallels and similarities.

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[vyoru]

Mochis x the Olympics !

Some card art I did for the mochidex ! So glad Im finally able to post these. You should totally get the bot in your server if you haven’t, lots of amazing artists that put their hard work into this event !! super fun

[blueiscoool]

New Mexico Footprints are Oldest Sign of Humans in Americas

Fossil footprints date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, upending previous theory that humans reached continent later.

New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are probably the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew.

The footprints were discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in White Sands national park and date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, according to research published on Thursday in the journal Science.

The estimated age of the footprints was first reported in Science in 2021, but some researchers raised concerns about the dates. Questions focused on whether seeds of aquatic plants used for the original dating may have absorbed ancient carbon from the lake – which could, in theory, throw off radiocarbon dating by thousands of years.

The new study presents two additional lines of evidence for the older date range. It uses two entirely different materials found at the site, ancient conifer pollen and quartz grains.

The reported age of the footprints challenges the once conventional wisdom that humans did not reach the Americas until a few thousand years before rising sea levels covered the Bering land bridge between Russia and Alaska, perhaps about 15,000 years ago.

“This is a subject that’s always been controversial because it’s so significant – it’s about how we understand the last chapter of the peopling of the world,” said Thomas Urban, an archaeological scientist at Cornell University, who was involved in the 2021 study but not the new one.

Thomas Stafford, an independent archaeological geologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was not involved in the study, said he “was a bit skeptical before” but now is convinced.

The new study isolated about 75,000 grains of pure pollen from the same sedimentary layer that contained the footprints.

“Dating pollen is arduous and nail-biting,” said Kathleen Springer, a research geologist at the US Geological Survey and a co-author of the new paper.

Ancient footprints of any kind can provide archaeologists with a snapshot of a moment in time. While other archeological sites in the Americas point to similar date ranges – including pendants carved from giant ground sloth remains in Brazil – scientists still question whether such materials really indicate human presence.

“White Sands is unique because there’s no question these footprints were left by people, it’s not ambiguous,” said Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Kansas, who was not involved in the study.

[3liza]

i just wanted to know what using a distaff was like and god help me I started laughing as soon as I saw + heard this wonderful man. i think I'm in love with him. Italy is a real place; you can go there

[numberonestuckyshipper]

What if: Steve and Bucky’s story but theyre from Ancient Greece

Does this exist?

[aphetaliamessages]

APH Nations' First Kiss

Italy: Holy Rome

That one's obvious as hell. We all saw it

Germany: Italy

The only person he's ever kissed. His first kiss as Holy Rome, and again as an adult. He was too awkward for anyone else before him.

His beefcake powers were not stronger than his absolute disaster gay syndrome

Japan: Alfred during Truth or Dare

He hated it. "Friends don't kiss friends! It's FORBIDDEN! And not in a hot way!!"

...Well, that was his first kiss on the mouth 🇬🇷

America: Forbidden kiss during the Cold War

Alfie certainly Became One With Russia that night. It was Russia's first as well

France: Some random guy in 1352

He was 18 in human terms and feeling adventurous. Little did he know the real adventure would begin 300 years later when an 18 year old Pirate England would swashbuckle into his heart

England: France. When Iggy came back as a pirate

He was really only ever meant for one man. No amount of tsunderism can allow him to escape Fate. It was also the day he lost his virginity 😌

China: A soldier

He would smooch the other Chinese soldiers in the tents. When he met Romulus that was all out the window tho

Canada: Cuba

They shared an ice cream like those 50s kids in the movies

Prussia: France

He drunkenly kissed him once, during the 1700s, at a party. Fran tasted like cigarettes, gross.

Ancient Rome: Julius Caesar

Turns out Caesar was even more of a manwhore than Rommy

[haridraws]

The 600-year old Birnham Oak

In central Scotland, there are just two trees left standing of the ancient wood named in the witches' prophecies in Macbeth.*

*(They tell him he'll never get vanquished until Birnham wood comes to Dunsinane so he thinks he's invincible but spoilers: he is not.)

I just about managed to get there in an offroad wheelchair, do a drawing of it, and... crawl inside the hollow trunk and perhaps pick up some kind of exciting curse.

(More travel drawings here)

[wgm-beautiful-world]

COPAN MAYAN CULTURE - HONDURAS

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Fish.

Culture: Mezcala

Place of origin: Middle Balsas Basin

Period: Late Preclassic-Late Classic

Date: 500 B.C.-A.D. 900

Medium: Cut, carved and polished stone.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 62: early Modern and Much Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

I can't remember if we did this one. It would have been late last summer. i think we did some specific species, but i can't remember if it was done in total. I am quoting the whole suggestion here: "Carboniferous forests, before Angiosperms became dominant. I want to see the lepidodendrons and the huge equisetes and all the many Araucaria and gnetophytes and ginkgos that once thrived."

It is too late to fix the typo, but the First item should read somemething like: "People, species, and landscapes of California circa 1400.

[swiftiesbuddie]

Marvel once again dropping the ball on casting Romani actors for Romani characters.

EDIT: Also, the fact that in the comics, before Captain Marvel is a White woman, they were a Black woman (at least Mar-vell went from being a White man to a White woman) and the OG Doctor Doom is a Romani man, but in the MCU, our introduction to the characters are both White people. And same goes for the Maximoffs.

And whitewashing Wiccan, Lilia Calderu, the Ancient One, and casting a fairer-skinned actor for America Chavez. Not a good look for them.

(Thanks to everyone for the corrections)

[marykatewiles]

A new installment of Hobbit Houses of America is here!

I've had my eye on Ancient Lore Village for years and I'm so happy to have finally gotten the chance to visit, and that they were so welcoming! Check out. my newest video to get the whole review of this magical place and to go inside three of their different stays there. It really is like no other place on earth!