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  1. 📖 **Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent**

    "_Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world._"

    🔗 press.princeton.edu/books/hard.

    #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #History #Histodons #Rome #Economy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

  2. 🇧🇬 **Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?**

    "_Treasure found in prehistoric graves in Bulgaria is the first evidence of social hierarchy, but no one knows what caused the civilization’s decline_"

    🔗 smithsonianmag.com/travel/varn.

    #History #Histodons #Chalcolithic #Gold #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bulgaria #Europe

  3. 🇰🇿 **A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy**

    "_Occupied from around 1600 BC and linked to the Cherkaskul and Alekseevka-Sargary cultures, Semiyarka is a newly identified 140ha Late Bronze Age settlement in north-eastern Kazakhstan._"

    Radivojević, M. et al. (2025) ‘A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy’, Antiquity, pp. 1–9. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.1024.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Asia #Kazakhstan #BronzeAge #Research #Academia

  4. **Oldest coin ever found in Saxony: 2,200-year-old Celtic gold “Rainbow Cup” unearthed near Leipzig**

    "_It is classified as a Celtic quarter stater, dated to the 3rd century BCE, and was likely minted in northern Bohemia, one of the main Celtic centers at that time._"

    🔗 archaeologymag.com/2025/10/old.

    #History #Celtic #Gold #Coin #Saxony #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics

  5. 🧐 Sabe o que é um archeotipista? Nesta entrevista, Carlos Batista explica!

    📷 Podem também ficar a conhecer mais sobre história dos primórdios da #fotografia, sobre #cianotipia e sobre o projecto de arte e ciência implementado na #FigueiraDaFoz por este doutorando do IHC.

    O vídeo é da ESECTV e está disponível no RTP Play e aqui: youtube.com/watch?v=7dgQ5wHCiw4

    #Histodons #Archaeodons #Photography #Cyanotype #CyanotypeExperiments #HistoryOfPhotography #ArtAndScience #HistóriaDaFotografia #IHCTalent

  6. :arizona: **Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest**

    "_At Suya there is evidence for a pitched battle, consistent with documentary accounts. This marks this conflict as the first successful Native American uprising in the continental US. This distinction results from the fact that Spaniards did not return to what would become southern Arizona for 150 years, although they would probe and settle other portions of the American Southwest later in the sixteenth century._"

    🔗 cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/1.

    #History #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Arizona #America

  7. **Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides**

    "_Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops_"

    🔗 doi.org/10.1126/science.z40wqi.

    #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Sumer

  8. 🇸🇪 **Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm**

    "_A preliminary analysis showed that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century. Some bear the text "KANUTUS," the Latin name for Knut, meaning they were minted during the reign of Swedish king Knut Eriksson, who ruled from 1173 to about 1195._"

    🔗 livescience.com/archaeology/up.

    #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges #Sweden

  9. **A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos**

    "_Biber Deresi is identified as a key site, facilitating hominin movement and communication between Asia and Europe, and providing a novel contribution to the Palaeolithic map of the Aegean._"

    Karahan, G. and Arslan, N. (2025) ‘A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos’, European Journal of Archaeology, 28(3), pp. 281–303. doi: doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2025.10.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #AcademicChatter @archaeodons @academicchatter

  10. 🧬 **Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs**

    "_Our data demonstrate large-scale population movement from Eastern Europe during the sixth to eighth centuries, replacing more than 80% of the local gene pool in Eastern Germany, Poland and Croatia. Yet, we also show substantial regional heterogeneity as well as a lack of sex-biased admixture, indicating varying degrees of cultural assimilation of the autochthonous populations._"

    Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-094.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Academia @archaeodons @science

  11. **‘Keseph’: The Use of Silver Money in the Southern Levant from the Middle Bronze Age to the End of the Iron Age (~ 2000–600 BC)**

    "_The Southern Levant saw significant use of silver during the final stages of the Middle Bronze Age, with the first silver-currency hoards appearing at Shiloh and Gezer (~ 1650/1600–1600/1550 BC), predating other regions. Although silver was temporarily replaced by gold in the Late Bronze Age, it re-emerged as the dominant form of money by the Late Bronze Age IIB, ~ 1300 BC, a status it retained until the end of the Iron Age (~ 600 BC), despite occasional shortages._"

    Eshel, T. ‘Keseph’: The Use of Silver Money in the Southern Levant from the Middle Bronze Age to the End of the Iron Age (~ 2000–600 BC). J World Prehist 38, 5 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-091.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #BronzeAge #IronAge #Sliver #Money #Levant #NearEast #Academia @archaeodons

  12. **Ancient 5,500 year old factory 'confirms key part of the Bible'**

    _The Canaanites were described in the Bible as people who lived in the area before the Israelites. The discovery is believed to be linked to the “Canaanite blade industry”._

    🔗 indy100.com/science-tech/israe.

    #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bible #Canaanites @archaeodons

  13. **Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic**

    "_This study provides the first genomic evidence of Y. pestis in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First Pandemic, linking archaeological findings with pathogen genomics near the origin point of the Plague of Justinian._"

    Adapa, S.R.; Hendrix, K.; Upadhyay, A.; Dutta, S.; Vianello, A.; O’Corry-Crowe, G.; Monroy, J.; Ferrer, T.; Remily-Wood, E.; Ferreira, G.C.; et al. Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic. Genes 2025, 16, 926. doi.org/10.3390/genes16080926.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #History #Pandemic #Plague #Academia @archaeodons @science

  14. 🇮🇳 **How researchers recreated faces of 2,500-year-old skulls found in India**

    "_The features also reveal traces of Middle-East Eurasian and Austro-Asiactic ancestries, hinting at global migration and the mixing of ancient population groups. But Prof Kumaresan says that more research is needed to properly establish the ancestries of Keeladi's residents._"

    🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d061.

    #Research #Academia #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #India @archaeodons @histodons

  15. 🇪🇬 **Oldest written reference to Moses may be etched into ancient Egyptian mine, claims researcher**

    "_The Proto-Sinaitic etchings date back centuries but a new interpretation has sparked controversy_"

    🔗 independent.co.uk/news/science.

    #Archaelogy #Archaeodons #Egypt #Sinai #BronzeAge #Controversy @archaeodons

  16. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset**

    "_Focusing primarily on a sub-adult female from Updown in Kent, the authors explore the societal and cultural contexts in which these individuals lived and died, and the widening geographic links indicated by their presence, pointing back to the Byzantine reconquest of North Africa in AD 533–534._"

    Sayer, D. et al. (2025) ‘West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset’, Antiquity, pp. 1–15. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.1013.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #DNA #Africa #Kent #Dorset #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #AngloSaxon #England #Medieval #Medievodons #Migration #Academia @archaeodons @medievodons

  17. 🇸🇪

    "_An archaeologist in Sweden spent three years traveling in vessels built like those from 1,000 years ago. He discovered lost sea routes, hidden trade harbors and new respect for Viking seamanship._"

    #History #Histodons #Maritime #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Sweden #GiftArticle #GiftLink @archaeodons @histodons

  18. 📖 **Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit**

    "_It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects._"

    Boyes, P.J. (2021) Script and Society : The Social context of writing practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Writing #BronzeAge #Levant #Ugarit @archaeodons @bookstodon

  19. **What did the Vikings really think about pregnant women?**

    "_Archaeologist Marianne Hem Eriksen has been searching for traces of pregnant women in the Viking Age. The fact that she found almost none tells its own story._"

    🔗 sciencenorway.no/viking-age-pr

    #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Women @archaeodons

  20. 🇭🇺 **Ancient Horse Bones Shatter Myths About Medieval Christian Diets**

    _“The assumption has always been that Christianity made eating horse taboo,” says Professor László Bartosiewicz of Stockholm University, one of the study’s lead authors. “But our findings show that horsemeat remained on the menu long after conversion. History is rarely as simple as it seems.”_

    🔗 sciencenewstoday.org/ancient-h.

    #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Hungary #Europe #Medieval #Christianity @medievodons @archaeodons

  21. 🇹🇯 **And more exciting news! A inscribed vessel discovered at the Halqajar site!**

    "_The inscription, written in the Bactrian script and language, appears on the body of the jug and represents a significant addition to our understanding of the region’s ancient heritage._"

    🔗 osorkhonaimilliidip.tj/en/and-.

    #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Tajikistan