#eadays — Public Fediverse posts

C'est la fin de la journée ici, je vais laisser les archéos européens prendre le relais pour le reste du vendredi en Europe 😁
Demain, on visite Urasoe Gusuku !
#JEArchéo #JEA2026
That's the end of the day here, i'll let europeans archaeologists go on for the rest of the Friday in Europe 😁
Tomorrow, we visit Urasoe Gusuku !
#EADays #EAD2026

Bonjour, autre jouet : le drone de relevé et géopositionnement par laser. ça a pris 7 minutes 22 pour le relevé intégral de la muraille de l'enceinte Est de Katsuren Gusuku ♡
#JEArchéo #JEA2026 #Archéologie
Hello, other toy : the laser landsurvey drone. It took us 7 minutes 22 for the landsurvey of the integrality of the wall of the eastern enclosure of Katsuren Gusuku ♡
#EADays #EAD2026 #Archaeology

Mie #Gusuku is one of the forts defending the entrance of the harbour of Naha. Part of the stone wall on the river side is built atop an arch that straddles a crack on the bedrock. There are other cracks in the bedrock along the river and the wall just undulates to follow them, there is just this one place where no, it is necessary to build a straight wall, let's make an arch [...]
#EADays #EAD2026 #Okinawa #Archaeology

The hashtag of the #Archaeology Days clearly lacks #gusuku pictures. Here is #Katsuren Gusuku, seen from the Eastern Enclosure, while we were working on its stone wall. It will be the best photospot of the site when it will be opened to the public. In several years, obviously, we just started geopositionning it, we haven't even dug any hole yet.
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Some times, you come back from the field in the evening to find your office invaded by funerary urns and a colleague tells you "ah, we've got a delivery"...
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Notre nouveau jouet à imprimer des numéros de série sur les tessons ! (et les autres types de mobilier aussi)
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Our new toy that prints serial numbers on sherds ! (and other types of artefacts as well)
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En bord de mer à #Okinawa, on tombe sur des carrières de pierres (en usage jusqu'au début du XXè siècle). Celle-ci est à Kāmījī, là :
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=26.273705&mlon=127.708181#map=19/26.273705/127.708181
Sur la côte de Yomitan, on peut pas faire trois mètres sans prendre une photo...
#JEArchéo #JEA2026 #Archéologie
On the coast in Okinawa, you find stone quarries (in use until the beginning of 20th c.). This one is in Kāmījī. On the coast in Yomitan, you can't walk 3 metres without taking a picture...
#EADays #EAD2026 #Archaeology

Et puisqu'on est au Musée de #Chatan (j'ai dit qu'il était gratuit ?), ils ont la meilleure présentation pédagogique de l'évolution de la céram préhistorique de tous les musées de l'île. Et le diorama le plus choupi !
#JEArchéo #JEA2026 #Okinawa #Archéologie
And since we're in Chatan Museum (did I mention it was free?), they have the best easy-to-understand display for the prehistoric pottery of all the museums of the island. And the cutest diorama !
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#Chatan Museum (free, but they plan to get a fee for the parking lot if you stay more than an hour) has a bamboo basket of the Early Kaizuka Phase II from Ireibaru Site. The museum was built at the location of the site and in their park they still have the Kaizuka period spring, that still gives water. They set a copy of the bamboo basket in the stream.
#EADays #EAD2026 #Okinawa #Archaeology
Article Ireibaru (written by me 😁):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireibaru

On the way to the Bugeidō Cave, there are tombs in the cliffs on each side, structures that probably are WWII fortifications of the fissure and this (see pic. in french post above), which clearly look like a traditional wooden tomb (cf. live-tooting of the conference a few weeks ago, hashtag #RyukyuLT ).
#EADays #EAD2026 #Archaeology #Okinawa

Coffrage de pierres in situ dans la grotte de Bugeidō, qui correspond à une sépulture du Kaizuka Ancien Phase V (vers 2500 BP).
Rapport de fouilles dans le lien en bas
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Stone coffin in situ in the Bugeidō Cave, corresponding to a tomb of the Early Kaizuka Period Phase V (c. 2500 BP).
Excavation report :
https://sitereports.nabunken.go.jp/en/22519
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The Yongle tongbao (永楽通宝) coins have been copied in South-eastern and Eastern Asia from the 15th to the 16th century. The false coins are easily identifiable and were used as currency nevertheless, but with a value lower than the one of the real coins (with an exchange rate, like "ten false coins for a real coin"). The coin on top is a real one, all the others are bad copies, with different letters (1), deformed letters (2) or different size letters (3).
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Cooking pot with pointed bottom of the Ōyama pottery type, from the #Kaizuka Period, found on Ōyama Shell Mound in #Ginowan City, as displayed in Ginowan City Museum, that is still free.
Ōyama type is from the Early Kaizuka Period, Phase IV, and archaeologists in #Okinawa quite like it because it is very easily recognisable with its little squared patterns below the lip.
Description of the site here, article written by myself 😁 :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cyama_Shell_Mound
#EADays #EAD2026 #Archaeology

Lithic artefacts found on sites of the Kaizuka Period in Ginowan city as shown in Ginowan city museum, whose entrance is free and that you can find here :
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=26.269743&mlon=127.740687#map=19/26.269743/127.740687
Note the number of arrowheads (arrowheads are quite rare on Okinawan sites, even on very large sites we generally find one or two at most, if any).
#EADays #EAD2026 #Archaeology #Ginowan #Okinawa

The European Archaeology Days ! From #Okinawa because why not ? Generally on the friday I live-toot my day on the dig, but since I don't have a dig currently, I'll share pictures (sometimes vaguely) related to archaeology that I can find in my phone or PC. Here is first a pic of the wall of Katsuren Gusuku's eastern enclosure before we clean it for geopositionning.
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What I plan for #Okinawa ! No fieldwork for me currently so no live report of my archaeo-life on the friday...
On saturday, guided tour on the fediverse of #Urasoe #Gusuku !
And on sunday, if it is not raining cats and dogs (which might unfortunately very well happen...), the great challenge "how many historical wells and springs of the kingdom period can you visit in one day on bicycle around my flat ?". I mapped 101 of them, I shall be busy.
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The European (and Ryukyuan) Days of Archaeology start in two days !
#EADays #EAD2026
https://journeesarcheologie.culture.gouv.fr/
Friday is focused on children with animations in schools and visits of digs for pupils. The list of the events for the week-end is here :
https://journeesarcheologie.culture.gouv.fr/en/program#/[email protected],1.5362513,4.66
(language can be changed to German, Spanish or Italian as well)
There are 1964 events listed (why less than on the french website ? No idea.), probably something to see close to your place !
#Archaeology

À l’occasion des Journées Européennes de l’Archéologie, le département de l’Isère organise une journée de rencontres dédiées à l’actualité archéologique du territoire, qui se tiendra le 11 juin 2026 à Grenoble. #JEArcheo #EADays

https://www.archeodunum.com/event/rencontre-archeologique-de-lisere/

Another nice path of Yanbaru. I think this will conclude this collaborative thread #FootpathFriday / #EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025. I have more photographs of Yanbaru paths of course, but I fear I am becoming a little bit redundant… There are some parts of Yanbaru easily accessible to the public (even children) for instance in the park around Nangusuku (Nago Gusuku). They even have charcoal kilns ! I’d recommend to wait for november though, when the habu season is over.

Ah, bamboo! Another plant you’ll learn to hate really quickly when surveying Yanbaru… They invade the ridge paths like the ferns. Of course they don’t look terrible in this picture. When they are terrible, I’m too busy cutting my way through to take any pictur And they cut holes in your waterproof boots! All things considered, ridge paths are quite a bit of hell, better stick in the valley and walk the streams.If your boots are still all right.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootpathFriday

In fact when the horse paths became too deep, they made another one 1 metre on the right or the left. Generally there is a human footpath just next to the horse paths (on top of it you would say) because that’s not easy to pass a horse going the opposite way on such narrow paths, so humans would better walk elsewhere. So you can find two horse paths (different depth) + one human path going the same way. Yanbaru’s highways.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootpathFriday

Another horse path, please appreciate the height of the walls. Or maybe their depth, since they were dug...A lot of the paths were cut after the Japanese annexation, at the end of the 19th century : the Ryūkyū Kingdom was really strict about access to Yanbaru. But even limited, there was access and so, necessarily, paths. I mean we found paths with the kingdom’s landsurvey markers along them, so obviously, some date back to the kingdom.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootpathFriday

This is another ridge path, same area, no horse, for comparison. Very well conserved, probably used until more recently. Most of Yanbaru’s paths have been used till WWII. Then the US put their jungle warfare training thing there and access was denied. Also, Okinawa’s population drastically decreased with the war so people just concentrated on the good valley fields on the coast and even the parts that were outside the fences were abandoned.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootpathFriday

Another survey, even older, february 2018, where we had horse paths ! Lots of them. Please appreciate this first one, that is not very deep indeed, but whose symmetry is vaguely satisfying. As you can see this is a ridge path, but instead of being flat, the repeated passage of horses (to carry bamboo and firewood) has dug it, giving it a nice U shape (it’s currently being filled a bit by almost 80 years of forest deposits…)
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootpathFriday

OK, that’s not a path, that’s a stream. But you can’t make a thread about a Yanbaru survey without putting one or two photographs of gorgeous streams, whether it is Footpath Friday or not. Moreover, it answers the question “why the hell would you walk in a stream ?” : as you can see, absolutely no vegetation to clear to be able to progress ! You can just walk and look for historical remains while appreciating the landscape.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa

Another slope path, after clearing, quite weathered. As you can see the hills in Yanbaru might not be very high, but they are very steep, we’re always very happy to find an old path. Not only because archaeological remains concentrate along old paths, but also just because it eases the progression so much. There is much difference between cutting your way in the vegetation in the wild and cutting your way in the vegetation on an ancient path…
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We also walk a lot in the stream beds. In fact, we generally start by walking in the stream beds and look for paths that go up from the stream bed. The easiest way to find a path in Yanbaru. Moreover, ancient people used to do the same (use the stream beds as path) so that you can find quite a lot of archaeological vestiges along the streams before you even find a path. Charcoal kilns. Lots of charcoal kilns.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootPathFriday

We also have horse paths, recognisable because the hooves of the horses gradually dug the path, so that now, they look like ditches, sometimes with walls more than 1.5 m high.
The one in this photograph is just another slope path. Before clearing, but it is not too much invaded by vegetation, a lucky path ♡ You can see a second cut slope below the path on the left : that’s the start of terraced fields that go down the valley.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootPathFriday

This one is more recognizable as a path I’d say, it’s practically a highway. There are many types of paths in Yanbaru, mainly slope paths with the hill-side of the path cut to create a vertical wall, as in the two photos I just posted, and ridge paths. Ridge paths are more difficult to identify since there is no cut slope and some are very invaded by vegetation. You feel it in your feet, the ground is different where there used to be a path.
#EADays #JEArchéo #JEA2025 #Okinawa #FootPathFriday

If you're interested in what Yanbaru surveys are like, I made a thread last year for the #EuropeanArchaeologyDays :
https://archaeo.social/@berangere444/112611986368406048
detailing what we do and what we find.
Et en français :
https://archaeo.social/@berangere444/112611997095374546
#JEArchéo #JEA2025 #EADays
#Okinawa @archaeodons