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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

#OnThisDay - 26 April - in AD 121 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born. He would rule as Roman Emperor AD 161-180, being judged the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors'. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC III Marcus Aurelius 183; Münzkabinett Berlin (18208908). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Head of Marcus Aurelius, laureate, right.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Fortuna, draped, seated left on low seat, holding rudder set on ground in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

there aren't any words for how much I hate the people doing this. I wish every harm upon them, it is right and just to pray for such harm

screenshot from a news item about the cuts being undertaken in services: "Mr. Kennedy is also eliminating entire but lesser known parrts of his department, such as the Administration for Community Living, which supports programs that help older Americans and people with disabilities live independently. Advocates for disability rights say the cuts could deprive the most vulnerable Americans of housing, personal care and other services."

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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Please keep this in the public eye. It's very difficult to work with individual stories, but the director has a name. Horrible, as always. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested

No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

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Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Reading about prehistory in the morning, talking about supplements in the afternoon. A day in the life of an independent researcher.

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Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I spent Sunday documenting and sampling Roman quarries on the Veli Brijun island in Brijuni National Park just west of Pula, Croatia. It was lovely spending a day outside. It's also lovely getting back to archaeology. #archaeology #romanquarries #brijuni

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/03/2025

Open this image up fully. Look to the top right. That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. And that bright point of light? Earth.

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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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Dr. Robert Barry Mason @robertmason.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

For #ToxologyTuesday an archer from Tell Halaf, Syria, dating to the Iron Age c. 1200-900 BC. My photos of 2014 at the British Museum. I don't know if they are shooting the lion or riding it! @british-museum.bsky.social 🏺

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 17/02/2025

What facilitated the emergence of social elites in Late #Neolithic Denmark? Analysis of monumental farmhouses suggests food production and control of surpluses was key, implying a powerful farmer elite displayed their status through food provisioning. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Aerial photograph of a monumental farmhouse, outlined in postholes. Two people stand in the outline.

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Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Does anyone happen to have a good drawing of the central figure from this Parthian bowl from the National Museum of Asian Art, acc. no. S1987.114. I don't think I can fully make out the detail from the photos I have. asia.si.edu/explore-art-... #Parthian #AncientArt

Closeup of figure in "Parthian dress" from silver bowl (National Museum of Asian Art S1987.114). Photo from Gunter and Jett, Ancient Iranian Metalwork (1992), 84.

Silver bowl (National Museum of Asian Art S1987.114) with center roundel featuring figure in "Parthian" dress.
Photo from https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S1987.114/

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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩 📷 Feb 2022 Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

A fossil ammonite carved into a face during the Late Iron Age or Roman period

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

In ancient Egypt, people drank low alcohol beer and wine to avoid the parasites in "raw water." The old graves, which I excavate, are full of children who died from diseases we now can vaccinate against. You are ghouls for promoting this garbage.

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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

We normally determine the function of bitted groundstone tools by the shape & angle of the bit. Certain bit shapes & angles are more conducive to specific tasks than others. Of course, that doesn't mean that tool was only used for that purpose. #archaeology #lithics

Illustration of working bits of an adze, plane, axe & gouge with small depiction of tool used on wood.

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Dr Elsa Panciroli @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Evolution is over.* *Evolution is not over

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

“I think it’s increasingly likely that the modern humans who were beginning to emerge from Africa about 60,000 years ago were already producing figurative art, and we simply haven’t found the evidence yet.”

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Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#throwbacktuesday to my favorite part of doing my PhD: field surveys of quarries.

Me sitting on a log documenting an ancient quarry filled with sediment and leaves. Quarry faces can be seen in front of me.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“[w]e are not witnessing a patriarchy or a matriarchy. What we are seeing is perhaps more interesting—a society in which, in many areas, the question of whether you were a man or a woman did not determine the life you could lead.”

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Çatalhöyük: Its Story Continues - JSTOR Daily

Our understanding of the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük continues to evolve as archaeologists challenge inherited biases in the face of new material evidence.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Who are the pioneers of archaeology? Addressing gender bias in our field means rethinking disciplinary history Join us at WAC-10 for (Re)making History: Exploring the Archaeological Contributions of Women from Past to Present worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/theme-... Photo coriniummuseum

Three women archaeologists excavating in the early 20th century.

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This doesn’t remotely surprise me. “Poor workplace climate” doesn’t even begin to cover what some of us have experienced. And that’s not even taking into account the institutional retaliation that can occur when women speak up about toxic workplaces.

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Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I've been doing an analysis on Late Neolithic assemblage from northern Croatia, but almost all of the lithic pieces are covered with hard, impossible-to-remove amorphous lumps. Does anyone have similar experiences? How can I remove it without damaging the pieces? #lithicanalysis #helpneeded

Left hand holding a piece of light brown coloured lithics covered in amorphous sediment.

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Pere Gelabert @peregx9.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

2 fully funded 4-years PhD positions at my group at the fantastic Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in Vienna!! @univie.ac.at to start in February 2025 (or as soon as possible). The students will work on ERC SHADOWS project 🦊🐶🐺😀. PhD 1 on sedaDNA, PhD 2 on Megafauna genomics 🦁🐅🪨⚒️

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#OnThisDay - 3 December - in AD 311 the former Roman emperor Diocletian died. He had retired in AD 305 to his palace at Spalatum (Split), yet the tetrarchic system he had created would not endure. #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: RIC VI Antioch 13; ANS 1960.175.2. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🏺 The first remains of Tabun 1 were recognised by Yusra, a Palestinian woman who had already dug for years with Garrod. Here is Yusra in 1932 with other young women fieldworkers named as Rashidi and Amui Haj, and in 1934 with Dorothy Garrod.

Black and white photograph in Pitt Rivers museum Garrod archive, taken 1932. Image shows three young Palestinian women wearing traditional dress including skirts, bodices, blouses and a cardigan, with head coverings. They are outside a masonry building, one sitting by some cans and a makeshift table with metal pots, and potentially a sieve. Two others stand up near the door of the building. All three look relaxed, two have small smiles. In the background are stony flat fields and scattered trees.

Black and white photo from Pitt Rivers museum Garrod archive. Image taken in 1934. Shows two women sitting together in a shaded area next to a plastered wall and wall woven of plant material; branches or plants also form the roof and are filtering the sun. The older European woman on the right is sitting in a wooden chair, wearing a tailored dress with her black hair in a bun. She is looking at the young child the other woman is holding on her lap, and reaching a hand toward him. The younger Palestinian woman in the left is wearing layered patterned clothing including trousers or a skirt, a long blouse or embroidered shirt and a head covering. She is also looking at the child she holds while her left hand directs their attention to the European woman on her left, and her hand crosses in front of the European woman's. The child wears pale clothing with embroidery and a white hat, they look 18 months to 2 years old.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#ReliefWednesday - Terracotta lamp decorated with portraits of Sol and Luna, ca. AD 175-225. An inscription on the base suggests an association with the Saecular Games of Septimius Severus in AD 204. 🏺 Image: Ashmolean Museum (AshLI 419). Link - latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/xml/AN_Fortn...

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The most characteristic pottery vessels of many Latest Eneolithic/Early and Middle Bronze Age cultures of the eastern Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas are intricately decorated cups. Drinking seems to have been important… Coțofeni Culture, Muzeul Naţional al Unirii Alba Iulia. #Archaeology

Museum display: Three small cups hanging on a tree branch.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 25/11/2024

Kids will be kids: The first #fossil collectors, apparently, were ... #Neanderthals (at least that's what finds from the Mousterian levels in Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain seem to suggest). archaeologymag.com/2024/11/nean...

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Neanderthals were the first fossil collectors, new evidence from Prado Vargas Cave reveals

Upper Cretaceous marine fossils discovered in the Prado Vargas Cave in Spain suggest Neanderthals may have collected them for reasons beyond practicality

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC. 📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

A lawn, squares of which have been dug out until a depth of 30 cm. There are bicolor length indicators (red and white) and, on the flat uneathed bottom: a wooden floor : planks on joists. The wood is black and corroded.

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Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In honour of my Name Day today, here are two photos of me talking about the things I love: #archaeology and #astronomy.

A photograph of me standing on a podium with a microphone giving a presentation during the Experimental Archaeology Conference in Trento, Italy, in 2019. Red chairs with the audience can be seen in the front.

A photograph of me with an extended right hand next to a small telescope talking about Hypatia of Alexandria during a public lecture in honour of Women's Day.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 25/11/2024

"Archaeology has always been about people. We’ve become so specialized that there is a tendency sometimes to forget the people. Archaeology helps explain why we are similar and why we are different." (B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)

Drawing of hand undusting, wirh the help of a brush, an apparently ancient pottery vessel with a crack in the rim. In the background the vague silhouettes of people can be seem: a child putting a vessel into the ground next to a woman and a man with another child on his hand next to another woman with an even smaller child on her arm.

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My favorite coincidence is that the Origins of Species was published #OnThisDay in 1859, followed 115 years later—to the day—by the discovery of Lucy. 🧪🏺

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Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Colin Renfrew - the passing of a giant in archaeology.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

#OTD in 1859, Charles Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species, saying ‘light will be thrown on the origin of man’. Exactly 115 years later the skeleton known as Lucy was discovered in Ethiopia!

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m very sad to hear that Colin Renfrew, a giant in the field of Prehistoric Archaeology, has joined the realm of the ancients. An academic archaeologist with one foot firmly in the trench, he combined theory & fieldwork with flair - and had a knack for asking the right questions. His work lives on

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Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I may be late for this week's #FossilFriday, but enjoy a photo of a nice tube-shaped rudist fossil from Istria, Croatia. Rudists were sedentary bivalves and major reef-building organisms during the Cretaceous.

Tube-shaped fossil in a chunk of rock held in the left hand of a person. Other tube shaped fossils can be seen in the background.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Something wonderful for the weekend! About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this tiny figurine was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Imagine the artist at work, sitting by the warmth and flickering light of a fire, carving what is the world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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North 02 @north02.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I found this on the internet, no idea who made it, but its gotta be one of my favorite neanderthal images

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's out - paper by Mark Hall (mainly), myself and James Graham-Campbell on the Lindisfarne playing pieces (amongst other examples). Archaeological Journal. Open Access From Durham Uni / DigVentures excavations on Holy Island www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Blue glass playing piece - early medieval - from Durham University / DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#FieldworkFriday. Flashback to a few years ago, working on the first dated Pleistocene archaeological site from the 'Empty Quarter' of Arabia. People were making stone tools next to a lake here 85,000 year.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 20/11/2024

Happy #GISDay 🗺️ On this most special of days, may all your data be clean, none of your software crash, and all your scale bars be accurate. 1/2

Map of a great house community in Chaco canyon, highlighting locations of habitation sites in relation to audible and visible area.

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Katarina Šprem @geokate.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Indiana Jones and the chaîne opératoire.

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Jonas Holm Jæger @jonasholmjaeger.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If archaeology was radio, the Tollund Man would be Radio Classic. One of the best preserved natural mummies in the world, the Tollund Man died around 405–384 BC during the pre-Roman Iron Age. His body was buried under 2 m of peat and arranged in the fetal position.

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