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JBinnacle @[email protected] · 2026-09-05 · 06:52 UTC

🆕 4th April 2026: Chinese Bronzes in Guadalajara (Spain) https://jbinnacle.com/2026/09/05/4th-april-2026-chinese-bronzes-in-guadalajara-spain/ #archaeology #ChineseArchaeology #Prehistory #Guadalajara #GuadalajaraSpain #Spain #travel #JBinnacle #中国西南地区青铜文明

#archaeology #chinesearchaeology #prehistory #guadalajara #guadalajaraspain #spain

Joe Roe @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 19:24 UTC

New preprint on EcoEvoRxiv: 'Human Settlement and Water Availability at the Qa’ Shubayqa during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Comparing Hydrological Models and Archaeological Data', https://doi.org/10.32942/X25T1T

#Archaeology #Prehistory #ComputationalArchaeology

#archaeology #prehistory #computationalarchaeology

Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 15:06 UTC

«grave goods are overrated»

That is exactly the term indeed,
but they are not overrated.
A very big part of our knowledge about prehistory comes from grave goods.
Of course, nothing compares to finding grave goods as they emerge from the ground, but if you ever find yourself in Varna, Bulgaria (on the Black Sea), the oldest gold artefacts in the world are exhibited in the Regional Museum of History there:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis>

#Chalcolithic
#CopperAge
#Eneolithic
#FifthMillennium
#Prehistory
#VarnaCemetery
#VarnaCulture
#VarnaNecropolis

@AmenZwa @penryu @dougmerritt @hackaday

#chalcolithic #copperage #eneolithic #fifthmillennium #prehistory #varnacemetery

Online Marketing Scoops @[email protected] · 2026-08-28 · 19:13 UTC

Gene That Differs Between Humans and Neanderthals Could Shed Light On The Species Disappearance Mouse Study Suggests

Allan Henderson (CC BY 2.0) A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished. A protein that helps synthesize DNA is different in modern humans than it is in Neanderthals and Denisovans our closest extinct relatives and new experiments in mice genetically modified to express the modern human version hint that this may have made us behave differently…….Continue […]

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/28/gene-that-differs-between-humans-and-neanderthals-could-shed-light-on-the-species-disappearance-mouse-study-suggests/

#ancientdna #ancienthumans #anthropology #archaeology #cavedwelling #culturalheritage

Christina Dongowski @[email protected] · 2026-08-14 · 20:56 UTC

Super spannende Rezension zu einem Buch, das erstmals die Geschichte Skandinaviens als Region am Rande des Imperiums rekonstruiert. Man erfährt die coolsten Dinge & wird schlauer was Methodologie für so prä-schreibende Kulturen angeht. Und ja: Eisbären im Kolosseum.
#history #antiquity #prehistory #scandinavia #romanempire #books #Review

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/michael-kulikowski/polar-bears-in-rome

#history #antiquity #prehistory #scandinavia #romanempire #books

The Ghost Monk @[email protected] · 2026-08-14 · 14:58 UTC

An Ichthyosaur by Hermann Post, 1930s.
#fossilfriday #prehistory #prehistoric #dinosaur

#fossilfriday #prehistory #prehistoric #dinosaur

The Ghost Monk @[email protected] · 2026-08-10 · 11:35 UTC

As Britain enters its fifth heatwave this year, here is an illustration called 'Bronze Age Sun Worship' by Adolf Lehmann, 1920.
#BronzeAge #prehistory #ritual #pagan #heatwave

#bronzeage #prehistory #ritual #pagan #heatwave