#archaeology

[prokopetz]

Sometimes I think about how we don't know whether caves actually had any particular significance to so-called "cave people", or whether that's just where their art and culture happened to survive for us to see it, and I wonder what disproportionately durable aspect of our present culture is going to give future civilisations entirely the wrong idea about us. I bet it's going to be something really stupid.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Archaeology will do that to you. I think people working in areas of Europe still have to be careful about mustard gas in the soil and @archaeologistproblems don't you have a story about cholera or something?

You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."

[forever70s]

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

[thesilicontribesman]

Clevedon Iron Age Gold Torc, Clevedon, Somerset 250-75BCE, The British Museum, London

Hollow, decorated torc terminal and twisted wires from a multi- strand torc. Found in the 19th century, these may be parts of the same torc.

The terminal is ornamented with raised crescents and pellets, defined by areas of basket-weave pattern, similar to the Sedgeford and Snettisham gold torcs.

[medievalistsnet]

Archaeologists Find Floor Made of Bones in The Netherlands

Archaeologists in The Netherlands have made a rare and intriguing discovery: a floor constructed entirely from animal bones. This unusual find, uncovered during the renovation of a building in the town of Alkmaar, is only the latest example of such a phenomenon in North Holland, with similar floors previously documented in a few other Dutch sites.

[worldhistoryfacts]

Heinrich Schliemann's drawing of the hill at Hissarlik in western Turkey. His obsession with the Trojan War -- which most experts at the time thought was merely mythological -- led him to find the site of ancient Troy there.

[tlatollotl]

Cultura: Culturas de la costa del Golfo, Centro de Veracruz

Técnica: Modelado

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

[noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas]

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[blueiscoool]

Greece Returns 1,055 Ancient Coins to Turkey

Greece on Thursday returned a hoard of over 1,000 stolen ancient coins to Turkey in the first repatriation of its kind between the historic rivals and neighbors, Agence France-Presse reported.

The move came a few months after Turkey publicly supported Greece in its long quest to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum in London.

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the hoard of 1,055 silver coins had been seized by Greek customs guards on the border with Turkey in 2019.

“These coins had been illegally imported,” Mendoni said at a ceremony at the Numismatic Museum, which specializes in currency and medal collections, in Athens.

Greeks are “particularly sensitive” to repatriation issues, she said.

“All illegally exported antiquities from whichever country should return to their country of origin,” Mendoni added.

Turkish Culture Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said the operation was the first repatriation from Greece.

Greek and Turkish experts determined that the coins were part of a stock hidden in Asia Minor between the late 5th and early 4th century BCE, she added.

While research is ongoing, it is possible the hoard was secreted in modern-day Turkey during the Persian Wars expeditions of Athenian general Cimon, a veteran of the 480 BCE Battle of Salamis, she added.

Broadly used

Most of the cache were tetradrachms — ancient large silver coins — originally minted in Athens and used broadly in the eastern Mediterranean, said Museum Numismatologist Vassiliki Stefanaki, a coinage expert.

Stamped with the image of an owl, the Athenian relics were also used locally to pay tribute to the Persian Empire, and Persian governors used them to reward their troops, she said.

Other coins came from Cyprus, the islands of Aegina and Milos, from Asia Minor cities founded by Greek settlers, the Iron Age kingdom of Lydia, and Phoenicia in modern-day Lebanon, officials said.

Mendoni on Thursday also thanked Turkey for supporting Greece’s campaign to secure the return of the Parthenon Marbles from London.

The British Museum has long maintained that the Marbles were removed from the Acropolis in Athens by royal decree granted to Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

But in June, Zeynep Boz, the head of the Turkish Culture Ministry’s anti-smuggling committee, told a UNESCO meeting in Paris that no such document had been found in Ottoman archives.

Her statement was “decisive” in favor of Greece’s position, Mendoni said Thursday.

Ersoy through a translator said Turkey wanted “with all its heart” to see the Marbles return to Athens.

“The Greek people should have them, they belong to them,” he said.

Boz, who attended Thursday’s ceremony in Athens, told Agence France-Presse that the timing of the coins’ return by Greece was not related to her report in June.

The five-year delay was caused by the time required by the Greek justice system to authorize the coins’ repatriation, she said.

[homregeszet]

🎁2️⃣0️⃣🎄Amikor minden a helyére kerül

Ez a különösen szép csontfésű az elmúlt év során került elő egy 5. századi településrészlet feltárása során, egy ház betöltéséből. A több részre tört fésűnek mára minden darabja megtisztítva a helyére került, így a háromszög fogójú, visszahajló állatfejben (?) végződő darabon jól láthatóvá vált a gazdag díszítés: a háromszög középvonalában és mindkét hegyesszögénél függőlegesen futó, bekarcolt vonalköteg dísz, és a felületét díszítő pontkörsorok. A fésű lapjait bronzszegecsek fogták össze, melyekből hat ma is látható, kettőnek pedig a helyét lehet megfigyelni.

Restaurátor: Mlakár Lilla Fotó: Mészáros Viktória

Jenei Anita

[museeeuuuum]

Went to an Exhibition Department open house yesterday at a certain museum! They were serving apple cider and cookies and encouraged everyone to take a laser cut snow flake (mine is sitting on a shelf behind my desk). I talked to one fabricator about her project handpainting and weathering fake leaves for a natural history exhibit. Two people brought in examples of models they were constructing in their free time because (unsurprisingly) many exhibit fabricators are craftspeople outside of their 9 to 5. Also, nerds.

I often pass by this department and love seeing what they're up to, and I'm glad to have been learning people's names and getting the opportunity to chat and hear about everyone's projects!

[sergioguymanproust]

We know so little about the Egyptians.Their secrets ,their gods and goddesses,most of our knowledge is often misinterpreted and assumed correct,while in many cases the mysteries of their Pyramids and even the Sphinx still remain unsolved.We are still grappling with with the construction methods to build the Pyramids. Engineering books regarding the cutting and transport of massive blocks of granite offer at times childish explanations.Knowing full well that the technology was non existent,perhaps the only plausible explanation would be the intervention of an extraterrestrial civilization that went all over the planet establishing outposts for later generations to return to Earth and settle again , pushing us aside because they were superior to us in every aspect. There are so many tales , hypotheses and theories that my head spins faster than a top,haaa! Where did the idea of chimeras and anthropomorphic deities originate from ?Looking at the Egyptian pantheon of ancient gods and goddesses is an intriguing example of cryptids.In my book this is one more import from extraterrestrial beings from their civilizations to establish a foothold on this world.In my opinion pyramids of different heights and design were used as portals to travel between dimensions and worlds using possible wormholes to move within this solar system and other planets outside our quadrant.Well, patience is a virtue indeed, so we might have to wait a bit longer to speak to a person of interest, that might illuminate us on the truth of the matter and begin to resolve our problems to move forward in time and space . Words by Sergio Guyman Proust

Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx. Photography by Erin Sitt, 2014.

[micewithknives]

I let myself rest and now I'm daydreaming about academia and academic research and writing again

[daenystheedreamer]

Skara Brae Buddo, human figure carved from whalebone, dated c. 2,900 – 2,400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae, a Neolithic settlement located in the Bay of Skaill on the Mainland, an island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.

[local-queer-classicist]

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