#archaeology

[sparrowsabre7]

I'm now imagining that dinosaurs had feather only as lil' crowns.

If humans were reconstructed from nothing but bones, they would 100% give us fur. The idea of “hairless except for the top of the head where the hair is actually the longest in the entire animal kingdom” would never come up

[mindblowingscience]

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons buried together in southern England and uncovered strong evidence of female-line descent. Among the large kin group, who lived before and after the Romans launched their invasion in AD 43, more than two-thirds were descended from a single female ancestor. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the unrelated family members were male. "This tells us that husbands moved to join their wives' communities upon marriage, with land potentially passed down through the female line," explains geneticist Lara Cassidy from Trinity College Dublin. "This is the first time this type of system has been documented in European prehistory and it predicts female social and political empowerment."

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[petermorwood]

I looked at this and thought a thought, then consulted the comments to see if anyone else was thinking what I was thinking.

And yes.

Yes, they were. ;->

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Also, once again amazed and pleased to see any artefact, whether carved panel or moulded glass or fired clay, which has lasted this long and remained this intact.

Or was intact enough - giving proper credit to clever conservators who in their free time must be skilled beyond measure at jigsaw puzzles - for this level of restoration.

Lioness Devouring a Man, Phoenician Ivory Panel, c. 9th-8th century BCE. From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.

[along-the-silkroad]

Golden aureus of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, c. 171-172 CE. British Museum (ID: R.12617)

[moonkissedmel]

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[2seeitall]

Egyptian wall in Karnak Temple, Egypt

[hylianengineer]

Hey, important point:

A Homo sapiens human did not make this axe. It's so much cooler than that.

There weren't any anatomically-modern Homo sapiens (that's humans like us) until about 300,000 years ago, and that was in Africa. There definitely were not any in Britain at that time, so they can't have made this axe.

Who was in Britain at the right time? Homo heidelbergensis. There's a bunch of arguing among scientists about whether they're a subspecies of Homo erectus (this idea has gotten less popular recently), or their own species (current most common view), but they weren't quite like us.

And yet, they made this. Isn't that cool?!

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Courtesy Alison Fisk

[noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas]

Sean bienvenidos, japonistas arqueológicos, a una nueva publicación, en la que vuelvo a hacer una crítica a la moda japonesa y a las personas que creen que pueden denominar o asignar el término osushi (おすし), sin ningún conocimiento del mismo. Lo único que pretendo es dejar las cosas claras y que menos que nadie se sienta ofendida. Una vez dicho esto, pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - ¿Qué es sushi? Suhi está compuesto de す que significa vinagre y し que significa arroz, por lo cual sería arroz avinagrado. Las imágenes que os voy a poner a continuación son un insulto a la gastronomía nipona y española. Esto no es sushi:

Lo siento pero eso para mi no lo es es una guarrada gastronómica.

Esto si es es Sushi:

VIVA JAPON Y SU GASTRONOMÍA LARGA VIDA A AMATERASU Y EL EMPERADOR BANZII.

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Espero que os haya gustado y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones. que pasen una buena semana.

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考古学の日本研究家の皆様、新しい投稿へようこそ。ここでは、日本のファッションと、おすしについて何も知らないのに「おすし」という用語に名前を付けたり割り当てたりできると信じている人々を再び批判します。私が望んでいるのは、物事を明確にし、少なくとも誰も不快に感じないようにすることだけです。そうは言っても、始める前にリラックスしてください。 - 寿司とは何ですか？ 「すひ」は酢を意味する「す」と米を意味する「し」で構成されているので、酢飯になります。以下に示す画像は、日本とスペインの美食に対する侮辱です。 これは寿司ではありません: 上の画像。 申し訳ありませんが、私にとってそれは美食の汚物ではありません。 さて、これが寿司です：上の画像。 - 日本とその美食万歳。天照大御神と万歳天皇万歳。

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気に入っていただければ幸いです。今後の投稿でもお会いしましょう。良い一週間をお過ごしください。

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Welcome, archeological japonists, to a new post, in which I once again criticize Japanese fashion and people who believe they can name or assign the term osushi (おすし), without any knowledge of it. The only thing I intend is to make things clear and that at least no one feels offended. Having said that, make yourselves comfortable because we are starting. - What is sushi? Suhi is composed of す which means vinegar and し which means rice, so it would be vinegared rice. The images that I am going to put below are an insult to Japanese and Spanish gastronomy. This is not sushi: images above. I'm sorry but for me that is not sushi, it is a gastronomic filth. This is sushi: images above.

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LONG LIVE JAPAN AND ITS GASTRONOMY. LONG LIVE AMATERASU AND EMPEROR BANZII.

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I hope you liked it and see you in future posts. Have a good week.

[mindblowingscience]

Sheets of gold have been discovered gilding the tongues of more than a dozen mummified Egyptians near modern Al-Bahansa, reflecting a practice once believed to grant the dead an ability to speak in the afterlife. Archaeologists uncovered a trove of treasures from a tomb dating back to the Ptolemaic era 305 to 30 BCE in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, which belonged to an individual named Wen Nefer. The trove includes not just the 13 gold tongues, but a mummy with golden fingernails; and heart scarabs, amulets, funerary pottery, canopic jars that held the removed organs of the deceased; and walls painted with elaborate, gilded scenes depicting gods, stars, and the process of embalming.

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[thesilicontribesman]

Ancient Auroch Skull, Bos primigenius, Perth Museum, Scotland

Aurochs are the wild ancestor of domestic cattle. Destruction of forests and hunting over thousands of years led to their extinction. The species survived in Britain until the Bronze Age.

This skull was found at Chapleton Moss, east of Forfar, Angus in 1790.

[sergioguymanproust]

Have you ever wondered what happened to all those ancestors that knew nothing of a single god ,for that same matter what about Paleolithic and Neolithic men? We look back and past civilizations talk about gods ,goddesses, and cryptids.So where this idea of a single vengeful and loving god originated from and his cadre of angels and demons ,hell and heaven, we already know these so called religions such as Catholicism Christianity,Judaism,Islam,we know they were taken well more like stolen from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia ,Etruria,Greece,and other civilizations lost in the sands of time,to put it nicely.Now in this pic again ,we come full circle from my point of view and I believe in time we will return to being a polytheistic civilization which will offer more opportunities to choose from not just one God but gods and goddesses ,if we are pushed back to an almost near extinction event .Don’t be surprised because we are after all a weird ,and dangerous warmongering race , where anything and everything is possible,and yes loving and supporting,charming and beautiful people.If you can believe it.We keep discovering tablets and stones that spoke of a past filled with many perhaps extraterrestrial deities adopted by us to elevate our spirits and vibrations. We must continue to dig to understand what has brought us to this present moment in time .Perhaps more than just an illusion ,some monks call Maya. Words by Sergio GuymanProust.More in coming postings.

excavation of a stone disc depicting the Aztec moon goddess, Coyolxāuhqui (1978)

[antoinepuisais]

Untitled,

2021,

mixed media on linen,

20 x 16 cm

[sherdnerd]

Sometimes I think about the why of archaeology. Like its cool and all but why is it important? Why do we have legislation protecting artefacts and sites, restricting construction and export and ownership? I figured it out while I was, ironically, at a paleontology exhibit. There are only 13 Archeoptorix fossils in the world. 2 are in private collections. Scientists and the public have no access, and so in order to own some trinket, these individuals are holding back science. And that put my thoughts on the fundamental value that underpins my professional views as an archaeologist: Knowledge is inherently valuable, regardless of its age. We work to bring back lost knowledge for its own value, and preserve that which we have through materials