#Neolithic

Sue Greaney

SueGreaney

Ok, as @Bluestone4 has asked for my opinion, here goes. Comments relate only to the peer-reviewed paper, not to the TV programme. The re-discovery of a stone monument not far

Michaela Joffe

joffeorama

y'know how archaeologists only relatively recently learned that a lot of cave paintings were ANIMATED when viewed by campfire? & how cave paintings show a remarkable level of anatomy and

Southeast Asian Historians

SEA_historian

1/8 Let's start with Rock Art! I guess if historians study the past through texts, then the "texts" that archaeologists study are material remains. In my case, I am really

Dr Toby Driver

Toby_Driver1

#HillfortsWednesday -in early summer Wales had its 2nd driest May on record for 124 years. New 2020 drought aerial imagery on #GoogleEarth for the Vale of Glamorgan includes many Iron

Irkutyanin

Irkutyanin1

New Book Thread! Now reading: The Pre Hostory of Britain and Ireland 2nd edition. Despite being far from the known Tin mines, the highest density of Bronze weapons and tools

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread (longish but hopefully interesting): While reading about the sudden collapse of the Balkan Neolithic cultures, like Vinča culture (pic) at the end of the 5th mill BC, I came

Egyptian history

EgyptAnthro

A thread about Queen Tiye. One of the images Afrocentrists use to appropriate is often this photo (or similar ones) of queen tiye. Let me tell you first why this

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

As bloody as the world wars were, they weren’t particularly bad by historical standards. The 17th century was uniquely bad for 2nd millennium AD, with Little Ice Age & glut

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: This is an example of a Neolithic shaft hammer axe...It is made of stone. A hole was drilled through it, and a shaft is fixed into it. Nothing special...Except

גלעד בצלאל יפה, ארכיאולוגיה אונליין Gilad B. Jaffe

TheOnionGod

1/ Today on #Archaeology_Online we're going north, to a group of islands North of Scotland called Shetland. Here archaeological evidence has been found which represents almost all stages of European

(((Kim Biddulph)))

kimbiddulph

I've always been concerned with the visual representation of past people. I got the amazing chance to help create some characters for publications about prehistoric Scotland for @ForestryLS. Alex Leonard

Historic Environment Scotland

HistEnvScot

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay!Wetlands are areas of land saturated with water - permanently or seasonally. In Scotland, they've allowed for some pretty incredible discoveries over the years.Don't believe us? Hold on to

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/9Of course regulators worry about Ant's disruptive potential. Its overwhelming success had less to do with its technological innovation and more to do with the fact that a lightly regulated

Lissa Not Moving On Evans

LissaKEvans

A thread on some of the books that I enjoyed most this year. I did not find it as easy as usual to lose myself in a book this year,

Egyptian history

EgyptAnthro

A thread about the DNA (as well as cranial and dental) evidence that shows that Egyptians are overwhelmingly indigenous. 1) this one is the easiestNational Geographic Genographic project that concludes

Karl Sharro

KarlreMarks

Religions make a big deal of the afterlife but have you ever wondered what the food would be like? Surprisingly there's very little written about it. Catering in the afterlife,

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