[SciShow] The Skeleton That Was 8 Different People (and 3 badgers)

https://sh.itjust.works/post/36189414

Ann's reproduction Smithport Plain (Caddo 1-2 ca. 900-1400 CE) bowl she made out of Red River clay we collected while doing archaeological projects in northwest Louisiana. #archaeology #ceramics

A beautiful selection of colourful #Roman glass vessels, including bowls, flasks, & pots. all made 1700-2000 years ago - they have survived in remarkable condition! On display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientGlass @drjeball.bsky.social

Wakrapukara, the "Horned Fortress," rises majestically above the Apurímac Canyon. This lesser-known Inca site offers stunning views, mysterious architecture, and a rewarding trek through remote highland landscapes.
Source:https://kenkoadventures.com/
#Wakrapukara #IncaFortress #HiddenPeru #PeruTrekking #AndesAdventure #Archaeology #VisitPeru #MastodonTravel

The same but different. The white patina on A) is natural mechanical & chemical weathering of gravel chert. Archaeologists call this cortex (i.e. weathered rock exterior). B) same process, but on a flint artifact (post-modification). A lot of Paleolithic artifacts are patinated. #archaeology

A Passion for Fruit - Archaeology Magazine

https://mander.xyz/post/28220259

Archaeology and Jesus’ Tomb https://buff.ly/17R3wNH #Christianity #Jesus #resurrection #EmptyTomb #theology #history #archaeology

Ancient garden found at Jesus Christ’s burial site, verifying biblical account

Archaeologists digging beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have unearthed a finding that provides strong evidence for a significant detail of the New Testament: the presence of a garden near the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/ancient-garden-found-at-jesus-burial-site/

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‘House of life’ filled with educational artifacts discovered at the Ramesseum in Luxor

A joint Egyptian-French team has uncovered new archaeological finds at the Ramesseum—the imposing mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II—on the West Bank of Luxor in the Theban Necropolis...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/house-of-life-discovered-at-the-ramesseum/

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A colleague has just alerted me to an "ARIT lecture on the new data re the Thera eruption tomorrow April 16 at noon EST: 'The Late Bronze Age Thera Eruption! New Perspectives from
Çeşme – Bağlararası in Western Anatolia'. An online lecture with Dr. Vasıf Şahoğlu, Department of Archaeology and Ankara University Mustafa V. Koç Research Center for Maritime Archaeology (ANKÜSAM)
16 April 2025, 7 pm Turkey - noon EDT
To join online please register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0Yur7TahTiWZRyOQJ1PnZQ#/registration

"Based on the composition of marine invertebrates found attached to it, the fossil was dated to the Pleistocene era. But exactly which species of early human ancestor it belonged to remained a mystery."

#Archaeology #Science

https://apnews.com/article/denisovan-human-ancestor-taiwan-bea8556942c2d73370e2c2a6406e66f5

Hey everybody, the PeriodO gazetteer of time periods is now in the Fedi:

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In "Fictitious Tradition and Cultural Memory", Holger Wendling explores how the past can be used to validate the present, based on Celtic cultural remains.
#CelticHistory #IronAge #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/BJVX5053

It's been known for 150 years that this one kitchen garden on the island of Gotland yields amazing finds from the period AD 375 to 540. Nobody's done much about it. In the past three days, members of the Swedish Metal Detector Association have covered EIGHT HECTARES intensively, including the garden. Now we know that it's a well-to-do but not regionally extreme manorial farm from c. AD 100 onwards that enjoys one particularly affluent century when they deposit a lot of metalwork.

Ancient Arabian cymbals ring up Bronze Age musical connections

https://mander.xyz/post/28210413

A lush, green Arabian Desert may have once linked Africa and Asia

https://mander.xyz/post/28208763

I listened to a talk on ungunteria, loom weight and lamp finds from the sanctuary of Artemis Lycoateia in Greece, beamed from Stockholm #Archaeology

Sword pommel 375-540, straight out of the plough soil. #archaeology

One of maybe 50 decorative mounts from a man's belt of the 900s or 1000s. Found an hour ago. #archaeology #vikings