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Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

Iron Age bronze needs copper and tin. Copper sources across ancient Africa were varied — traded, mixed, regional. The tin is different. A new study fingerprinted the metal in Iron Age artifacts across the continent. Almost all of it traces to one mountain valley. Smiths across centuries and thousands of miles, drawing from the same place. #archaeology #history #ironage

Archaeoethnologica: Complutum Nº 37/1 - 2026

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: A noble Gaulish residence - Book / Uma residência nobre gaulesa - Livro

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Archaeologists just found the grandparents’ room in a 2,700-year-old Israelite house. A cedar chair, a rare footbath, & a ground floor bedroom (the ladder to the 2nd floor being the giveaway). #Archaeology #IronAge #AncientIsrael https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-grandparents-room-finding-the

Archaeoethnologica: Clan & Palace in Ancient Levanta - Book / Clã e Paço no Levante Antigo - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: Clan & Palace in Ancient Levanta - Book / Clã e Paço no Levante Antigo - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: Clan & Palace in Ancient Levanta - Book / Clã e Paço no Levante Antigo - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: Ancient Iranian Studies Nº 4/13 - 2025

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Archaeoethnologica: Ancient Iranian Studies Nº 4/13 - 2025

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Archaeoethnologica: Ancient Iranian Studies Nº 4/13 - 2025

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Archaeoethnologica: Ancient Iranian Studies Nº 4/13 - 2025

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Archaeoethnologica: Ancient Iranian Studies Nº 4/13 - 2025

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Archaeoethnologica: Ancient Iranian Studies Nº 4/13 - 2025

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2,700-year-old kohl from Iran reveals first known use of graphite in ancient eye makeup

Researchers analyzed a sample of kohl, a traditional eye makeup used throughout the ancient Middle East, from an Iron Age burial site at Kani Koter in Iran’s Kurdistan Province...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/2700-year-old-kohl-from-iran-ancient-eye-makeup/

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Great @ConversationUS piece in which R. Pope not only discusses the recent #aDNA 🏺🧬 evidence of #IronAge #matrilocality in Dorset (SW England), but also the whole 165+ year old archaeological debate about #matriarchal societies:

https://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-study-shows-women-at-the-centre-of-societies-in-iron-age-britain-supporting-decades-of-archaeology-247810

Deconstructing the Walls of Jericho / Ze’ev Herzog for “Ha’aretz”. 1999

 Friday, October 29, 1999

Deconstructing the walls of Jericho
Following 70 years of intensive excavations in the ...

https://differx.noblogs.org/2024/09/03/deconstructing-the-walls-of-jericho-zeev-herzog-for-haaretz-1999/

#kritik #Palestina #ricostruzioni #ZinesAuthors #ActualFindings #ArchaeologicalFindings #archaeology #bible #BronzeAge #Canaan #Egypt #IronAge #Israel #Jericho #Judea #lies #myths #ZeevHerzog #Palestine

Inheriting status and power in the early #IronAge: The case of #Hallstatt #matrilineality (at least according latest #aDNA analyses at the burials from Eberdingen-Hochdorf and Asperg-Grafenbuhl, Germany:

https://www.science.org/content/article/graves-celtic-princes-suggest-powerful-role-women-ancient-germany by @spoke32 via @ScienceMagazine

Archaeoethnologica: Scotland in Early Medieval Europe - Book / Escócia na Europa Altomedieval - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: Scotland in Early Medieval Europe - Book / Escócia na Europa Altomedieval - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: Scotland in Early Medieval Europe - Book / Escócia na Europa Altomedieval - Livro

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