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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Thank you for sharing all this brilliant information and your experiences. I would love to hear more from Dr. Gregory and the basket maker, please, if it’s not too much trouble. You’ve set lots of ideas fizzing in my mind, thank you!

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Not a dumb thought at all! I really like this idea! Like an early catalogue or “Avon lady”! And with things this cute - who wouldn’t end up buying lots of the full sizes? I need to find some images of the baskets you’ve mentioned now. What an interesting possible parallel. Thank you!

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 16/01/2025

If we can take one thing from the way lynch talks about art I think it should be to never again dilute your vision and don't put off any art you want to make because it all dies with you, there's no other way, there's no one else

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Lorelei King @loreleiking.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This so interesting. Crafts and art can really enhance the lived of those living with #dementia.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

#FindsFriday metal detected,mid 2020. Detectorist did the right thing so a friend and I went out to record and lift what turned out to be a scattered hoard. Excavation under pandemic rules was tricky. Better photos now exist but I like this one as it shows the crappy supplies which were all I had

Enameled copper alloy 'horse brooch' similar to Polden Hoard item

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Beloved #toys: a pair of #Roman ivory #dolls with articulated arms and legs found in a tomb of a little #girl from a wealthy family in Emona, Ljubljana/#Slovenia. The majority of the dolls in Roman times were made of less valuable materials such as clay, wood or linen. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

The picture shows two dolls with movable shoulders, elbows, hips and knee joints. The legs of both dolls are partially broken off. One doll's arm is almost completely missing. The limbs and torso are very long, the breasts small. The faces are largely destroyed. The hair is combed back behind the ears, reaching down to the shoulders at the nape. The ivory, which is actually white, has turned brown over time.

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

#FindsFriday 🏺 #archaeology #crete #minoan Lots of incredible miniature vessels laid out in a tripod tray from Phaistos. These may have been used for cosmetics, spices, or as toys. Dating between 1800 and 1700 BC. On display in the Heraklion Museum. Photo by me.

A reddish ceramic tray with 3 tapering legs and two side loop handles, covered with an array of miniature plates, bowls, jugs and jars of different forms, colour and decoration.

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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 16/01/2025

No you don't understand this is literally SO exciting 🤩 This research suggests that wealth and lands were passed down the female line, and instead of women leaving to join their new husband's family, the exact opposite was true.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We have several bits from Fishbourne, but we always thought it was smurf poo. 😳

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

#thiccthursday #archaeology 🏺 #israel These lovely ladies, who look to me as though they’re sharing gossip, are from the Neolithic Sha’ar Hagolan site in Israel, dating to around 8000 years ago. Now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Photo taken by my friend, Cathy Graham.

Buff coloured clay figurines of women with accentuated bottoms and legs, seated. Arm across chest, conical heads and beak-like noses. Eyes like conch shells stuck on. Legs taper to a finish rather than modelled feet.

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Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺) @sethchagi.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Discovered in 1994 at South Africa’s Drimolen site, DNH 7, known as “Eurydice,” is the most complete Paranthropus robustus skull found, dating between 2.04 and 1.95 million years ago. This rare female specimen offers invaluable insights into early hominin anatomy and evolution. #FossilFriday

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

46 signatures needed for 2,600!

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Gail Boyle FMA FSA @boyleg.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

BRISTOL FREE talk - 7.45pm 27 Jan 2025 "Lifting the lid on ancient diet: organic residue analysis of lipids from pottery" by Dr Lucy Cramp, Dept of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Bristol bgas.org.uk/events/event...

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Tracing Ancient Diet in Britain through Preserved Molecules in Pottery

Speaker: Dr Lucy Cramp, University of Bristol Organic residue analysis involves extraction of preserved biomolecules absorbed into the fabric of pots, ...

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Here are the contents of an elite Minoan burial on the island of Aegina. They date to between 1850-1550BC and show the skill, delicacy & beauty of Minoan craftsmanship. The jewellery is of the very finest quality - dazzling & breathtaking in equal measure. 🏛️BM 📷mine #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Signed this one as well. Smaller campuses needed as cultural hubs and local centres of research

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Lampeter is such an important part of Cultural, Academic, Scientific and Theological life. Sign, Share and Help save it. We call on UWTSD & the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the future of the campus petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today I'm finishing Roman cooking jars, by burnishing the, almost dry, clay surface and incising the lattice-work decoration. They will be fired in a kiln where they will be starved of oxygen, to produce much loved, black burnished cooking jars. potted-history.co.uk

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Ancient Egyptian ivory sculpture of a leaping dog. The ivory is now biscuit coloured. Dimensions: 18.2 cm (L) × 6.1 cm (H) × 3.6 cm (W) A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth. The inside of the mouth is red. The eyes are outlined in black. Dated Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

WAKE UP BABE, THE FIRST NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF 2025 DROPPED!!!

Many mostly small, bright objects scattered over a dark background in space. In the top half on the right is an elliptical galaxy, a round light larger than the others, with a slightly warped ring of light around it. In the bottom half there is a barred spiral galaxy, big enough that we can see its bluish arms and its core in detail. Other objects include distant galaxies and nearby stars.

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Minoan art has probably the finest depictions of sealife of the whole European Bronze Age. Faience inlay in the form of a flying fish. Knossos, around 1600 BCE. #Archaeology

A miniature of a fish with wing-like fins.

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millyallen.bsky.social @millyallen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#FindsFriday This beautiful barbed & tanged flint arrowhead found in east Devon. So named for its triangular shape with a central projection at base (tang) flanked by two points (barb) to the sides. A proper time travel find. #flint #prehistory #arrowhead #archaeology #history

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#FindsFriday 🏺 #archaeology #iran this beautiful conical jasper conglomerate beaker with a bronze pin in its base was recovered as part of the excavations of Hasanlu, Iran in the 1960s. Dating to the 9th Century BC. Now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, 65.163.51.

Stone conical beaker, tapering to rounded base. Haphazard mosaic pattern of the reds, yellows and whites of the jasper.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Totally out of my period, but I really enjoyed this - written in such a wonderfully accessible & yet learned, way & raises a lot of possibilities. We still don't look at the one offs, those who travelled for work, family, military action... #Archaeology academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A gorgeous Late Iron Age / Early Roman copper alloy enamelled clothing accessory from the Cotswold Water Park #Gloucestershire @coriniummuseum.bsky.social for #FindsFriday Described as *a double owl* all we can see is a muscular (and vaguely disappointed) looking #Batman 😳 #DarkKnight 🦇

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread

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Karl @karlhannant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A French-Swiss archaeological team in Egypt has uncovered the tomb of a “wizard-doctor” Inscriptions on the tomb identifys its owner as "Tetinebefou", a physician during the reign of King Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty, 2305 BC to 2118 BC. 🏺⚱️ www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We cleared out a ton of clothes from our closet and donated them to a friend who’s helping people who have lost everything in these fires. They don’t even have the basics, and the loss is overwhelming. Getting them clothing, shelter, food - those are the priorities. See how to help below. #lafires

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

An absolutely fantastic #Roman barge, "De Meern 1", lenght 25m. It was wrecked in a winding tributary of the Rhine around the year 190 AD, possibly due to navigational error. Much of the barge's interior and the captain's personal belongings were preserved in...🧵1/2 📷 taken by me 🏺 AncientBluesky

A photo of a well-preserved wooden barge displayed inside a building. The barge is long and narrow, with wooden benches running along its length. It appears weathered. There are some people watching the barge, giving a sense of scale to the barge.

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This whole fresco is so incredible!

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

These predate the earliest known mentions of Inanna/Ishtar/Astarte by over a millennium and are slightly removed geographically from those early mentions in southern Iraq, but I always find it interesting when we see similar gestures and symbology that may have distant relationships.

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millyallen.bsky.social @millyallen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Carved post of the 16th century screen to Penshurst Place Great Hall, with faded remnants of its former coloured decorative scheme. #archaeology #history #Kent #colour #timber #medievalcolour

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millyallen.bsky.social @millyallen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#adoorablethursday Trompe l’oeil - French for decieve the eye, is an art technique bounded in realism. This is the beautiful illusion of a violin hanging from a door in the State Music Room at Chatsworth House. #art #history #archaeology #door #painting

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#thiccthursday #archaeology #turkiye 🏺 A number of generously proportioned female figurines with bold geometric decorations were recovered from c6thMill BC contexts at Hacilar in the south west of modern Türkiye. Examples found in museums including Neues, Berlin and National Archaeological, Florence

Overtly female ceramic figurines with emphasised breasts, hips, bellies and bottoms. Zigzag and striped paint to highlight curves. Conical heads, lozenge shaped eyes and short, tapered legs.

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alexandra @bigmoodenergy.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

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Average Aussie Egyptologist (aka Thérèse Clarke)🦋 @ausegyptology.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Our lovely friends from Universidad de Alcalá have made the videos from the Shaped Conference available at the link below! www.youtube.com/@mortexvar74...

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

One of the highlights of our year was the creation of the Straeon Mewn Maen (Stories in Stone) short film that showcased our work in Wales and the beauty of our Welsh churches. Please enjoy this introductory scene and follow the link in the thread below to watch the full documentary.

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michaeljflynn @michaeljflynn.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Copper safety-pin (1200 BCE) found in Paphos…designed for longevity - over 3000 years and still relevant and effective

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

More to read on these in The Lord of the Gold Rings: The Griffin Warrior of Pylos by Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker and also in Cockles, Mussels, Fishing Nets, and Finery: The Relationship between Cult, Textiles, and the Sea Depicted on a Minoan-Style Gold Ring from Pylos by Caroline Tully

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

#findsfriday 🏺 Not quite 5 gold rings but 4 fabulous ones from the Griffin Warrior grave at Pylos. Of Minoan style if not origin, these are part of a large assemblage of semi precious stones, precious metals and ivory found deposited with a male in his mid 30s. #archaeology #prehistory #mycenae

Image of 4 gold signet rings with Minoan style ritual designs. Image from griffinwarrior.org.

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It’s the blank stare they give as if we’re the weird ones!?!

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I find him such a curious character. Amazing sites and treasures at his feet but he still felt he needed to embellish. The back and forth with the carpet society is a wild ride! Sadly, it seems to out people off studying some of the artefacts that were recovered from the site.

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Photos from Obelisk Art History (front) and Turkish Archaeo News (rear).

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

#thiccthursday this seated, corpulent, nude lady was found by James Mellaart in Çatalhöyük in 1961. Likely c.8000 years old. The head of the woman and the cat to the right (orange) are modern reconstruction. Use and meaning up for debate. Museum of Anatolian Studies, Ankara.

Seated figurine depicting a plump, probably mature lady with unidentified object between her feet. Large cats either side of her used as armrests. Front view.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Philippos was nestled all snug on his kline, when he was awoken by such a clatter: the sound of eight tiny fallow deer on his roof, with a little old Silenos bringing joy and wine … 🏺🍇 🎄 (no, it doesn't rhyme!) Merry Christmas, everyone! #MetMuseum 📸 me (see ALT for more)

Corinthian Greek terracotta plate with black figure decoration depicting a man snuggled under the covers of his bed, his lyre hanging on the wall above him.

Possibly by the Chimaera Painter
ca. 595–570 BCE

Met Museum (06.1021.26)

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

when the star on the tree is an actual star lol A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄

A NASA photo of NGC 2264- a cosmic tree that has been named the Christmas Tree Cluster which lives in our galaxy about 2,500 light-years from Earth. It contains baby stars that are between 1 and 5 million years old 🥺

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Natalie Boyd @natalieboyd.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate this week. Seasons greetings to all those of other faiths or atheists. I hope you and your families are safe, warm, happy and healthy and that we can all spread some kindness and joy in the last days of 2024 ❤️

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

With seven days remaining and 88 per cent of funding secured, can we help @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social get their fund to purchase Betchcott Hill over the line lovely #Shropshire people? www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/appeals/betc...

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Betchcott Hill Land Appeal | Shropshire Wildlife Trust

Help us purchase and restore 50 hectares of land in the iconic Shropshire Hills.

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I will be sharing not one but three videos for the penultimate day of our advent calendar! All deal with writing systems that have suffered from excessively narrow definitions of what writing is...

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The „totempole“, a nearly 2m high composite sculpture from Göbekli Tepe, Türkiye, was originally placed in the wall of a rectangular building of the 9th millennium BC. It was found covered by a wall mantle and the face of the uppermost depiction destroyed. Museum Şanlıurfa. #archaeology

Photo from a museum: a complex sculpture showing three people one above the other.

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