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  1. There's a dramatic break in the expansion of Medieval European population and agricultural land, initiating the multi-century Late Medieval Crisis / LMC.

    #History and #archaeology are now riding the coat tails of well-funded #climate history research. And it turns out that the LMC starts in the 1200s due to cumulative volcanic eruptions that set off the Little Ice Age (then worst in 1560–1710).

    We were unlucky to also get hit by the Black Death c. 1350. But it didn't *start* the LMC.

  2. What drove the Tasmanian devil out of northern WA?
    By Amy Rossbach

    Researchers say Tasmanian devils lived alongside humans in WA's arid Pilbara for tens of thousands of years, and the arrival of the dingo may have disrupted that relationship.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/din

    #Archaeology #Animals #IndigenousCulture #History #AmyRossbach

  3. Incredible talk for those interested in #ceramics, #archaeology (specifically provenance analysis), #WildClay, #MataOrtiz #pottery & culture and/or #IndigenousArt. If you’re interested in receiving a summary of the presentation, I’m happy to email it to you. There may also be a recording available. (See upthread for details & link.)

  4. Fascinating—not new, but tidily presented. Two caveats: probably a little too tidy, and certainly not comprehensive, though pretty good for a shortish video. Also, listen to the audio and try to ignore the AI-generated parts of the video, which range from bad to unintentionally hilarious.

    youtube.com/watch?v=8chdmNKxxk4

    #lanseauxmeadows #vikings #newfoundland #canada #history #archaeology

  5. Two Ice Age skeletons from Sulawesi show teeth ground into deep grooves by decades of sucking raw betel nuts, no lime needed. It pushes the record of human drug use back to 25,000 years ago, long before farming. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology anthropology.net/p/betel-nut-s

  6. 2,000-year-old Roman lead fishing weights reveal how people fished in ancient Spain

    Ancient Mellaria in southern Spain was known for mining, but nearby rivers also helped support daily life. A new study of 17 lead fishing weights points to small-scale river fishing as part of the local economy. The objects were found during excavations at the Mellaria site near Fuente Obejuna, Córdoba...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/rom

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    #archaeology #fishing #romanempire

  7. Researchers have discovered evidence that early human foragers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi habitually consumed betel nuts for their psychoactive properties up to 25,000 years ago.
    #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #Biochemistry #Pharmacology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/arch0910260

  8. DNA traces on medieval parchment reveal 3,700-year history of deadly sheeppox virus

    Medieval manuscripts preserve genetic traces of a sheep disease that has threatened herds across Eurasia for more than 3,700 years, according to a new study. Researchers recovered ancient DNA from sheeppox virus, or SPPV, in animal skins used to make parchment...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/med

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #sheeppox #bronzeage #medieval

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    Sotgia A. (2026) ‒Sketching Sherds: A comic handbook for pottery drawing and typology, BAR Publishing  

    fulcrum.org/concern/monographs

    #pottery #archaeology #céramique

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    Sotgia A. (2026) ‒Sketching Sherds: A comic handbook for pottery drawing and typology, BAR Publishing  

    fulcrum.org/concern/monographs

    #pottery #archaeology #céramique

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    Sotgia A. (2026) ‒Sketching Sherds: A comic handbook for pottery drawing and typology, BAR Publishing  

    fulcrum.org/concern/monographs

    #pottery #archaeology #céramique

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    Sotgia A. (2026) ‒Sketching Sherds: A comic handbook for pottery drawing and typology, BAR Publishing  

    fulcrum.org/concern/monographs

    #pottery #archaeology #céramique

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    Sotgia A. (2026) ‒Sketching Sherds: A comic handbook for pottery drawing and typology, BAR Publishing  

    fulcrum.org/concern/monographs

    #pottery #archaeology #céramique

  14. A woman buried in Bronze Age Poland has teeth that say wheat and bones that say millet, decades apart. New isotope work pushes Europe’s earliest millet consumption back over a century. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Bioarchaeology anthropology.net/p/millet-reac

  15. A war memorial in Yorkshire turns out to be carved from a missing Neolithic megalith. Zircon dating just proved a 19th-century antiquary’s forgotten guess right, 150+ years later. #Archaeology #DevilsArrows #Neolithic anthropology.net/p/devils-arro