#ancientafrica — Public Fediverse posts

Re-upping from Friday:

Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/pleiades-literature-club-call-for-participation

Pleiades is hungry for new bibliographic references. Let's build a community effort to monitor scholarly publications for work that can enhance, correct, and expand the gazetteer in the history, archaeology, linguistics, and mythology of spaces and places in the ancient world.

Boosts appreciated.

#ancientHistory #archaeology #classics #ancientSouthwestAsia #ancientAfrica #linguistics

Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/pleiades-literature-club-call-for-participation

Pleiades is hungry for new bibliographic references. Let's build a community effort to monitor scholarly publications for work that can enhance, correct, and expand the gazetteer in the history, archaeology, linguistics, and mythology of spaces and places in the ancient world.

Please boost.

#ancientHistory #archaeology #classics #ancientSouthwestAsia #ancientAfrica #linguistics #gazetteers #HGIS #PleiadesGazetteer

Ancient cemetery tells a tale of constant, low level warfare - Enlarge (credit: Crevecoeur and Antoine 2021)
When archaeologists in the 1960s ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1768575 #biologicalanthropology #forensicanthropology #projectilepoints #ancientwarfare #ancientweapons #ancientafrica #climatechange #anthropology #aswanhighdam #archaeology #pleistocene #stonetools #skeletons #science #trauma #sudan #nile

Earliest known burial in Africa is that of a small, fragile child - Enlarge (credit: Mohammad Javad Shoaee)
78,000 years ago, a child died two to t... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1763016 #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleoanthropology #funeralpractices #humanevolution #middlestoneage #ancientafrica #anthropology #humanculture #archaeology #gravegoods #science #burials

Africa’s first Iron Age culture had a sweet tooth - Enlarge
Chemical traces of 3,500-year-old beeswax on central Nigerian potsherd... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1759983 #ancientafrica #ironageafrica #lipidresidues #ancientfood #archaeology #science #ironage #gc/ms

People slept on comfy grass beds 200,000 years ago - Enlarge
Fragments of glassy petrified grass and microscopic traces of plant material, dating to ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1698983 #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleoarchaeology #ancientafrica #modernhumans #archaeology #earlyhumans #paleolithic #southafrica #science

The first people to live at high elevations snacked on giant mole rats - Enlarge / Views of Fincha Habera from outside and from inside. One might speculate on how often its... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1548857 #ancientpeopledidstuff #huntergatherers #humanmigration #ancientafrica #archaeology #eastafrica #ethiopia #science