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Some #SundayArchaeology news from my old work place:
Right in time for the visit of Princess Akiko of Mikasa of Japan, the find of a human sculpture at #GöbekliTepe, incorporated into the base of a wall between monumental buildings B and D, has been announced:
Some nice #SundayArchaeology musings by Mary-Ann Ochota in @guardian on how #archaeology is not just an eccentric interest in old things, but a pathway connecting past people and present day communities:
#SundayArchaeology: #Vikings in #Constantinople?
Or: How one day's graffiti vandalism can become the next day's fascinating historic document. 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe fuelled by outdated ideas regarding #Neolithic hunter-gatherers, there seems kind of a misunderstanding about the "#pottery" part in #PrePotteryNeolithic (PPN).
They actually *did* use vessels. Just other vessels.
A short #SundayArchaeology thread:
Some #SundayArchaeology: Who left these markings in a #cave in #LaRocheCotard in France's Loire valley?
Well, since they're created at least 57,000 years ago as recent analyses suggest, all odds point to 👉 #neanderthals:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/engravings-french-cave-oldest-known-neanderthals-scientists by Ian Sample via @guardian
"Ruins collapse temporalities."
For today's #SundayArchaeology: Kevin C. Pyle's brilliant #GraphicEssay on "The #Future of #Ruins", the remains of our present, and some thoughts along Paul Virilio's #BunkerArchaeology.
"Your Majesty, there's nothing more permanent than a hole!", archaeologist Carl Schuchardt once explained the principle of the #posthole to Emperor Wilhelm II.
Some more #SketchbookSunday #SundayArchaeology from the archaeologist's illustrated storybook: "A Hole's Tale" …
Naughty boy, this is not your chew bone! 🐶🦴
Among the many fascinating finds from the so-called #Shaman of #BadDürrenberg's burial, a large #BoneAwl may tell a little #SundayArchaeology story of a #Mesolithic #dog ... who was not a good boy.
#SundayArchaeology: Can't touch this?
Did you know that on the back of the #Paleolithic so-called #Venus of #DolniVestonice (today Czech Republic), made from fired clay, a 25-29,000 y/o #fingerprint has been preserved? 😲😀
In their 2002 paper (Anthropologie XL/2), M. Králík et al. concluded that it must have belonged to a 7-15 y/o (!) person - however also pointing out "that the maker of the fingerprint may not be identical with the creator of the artifact."
http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/downloads/articles/2002/Kralik_2002_p107-113.pdf
#SundayArchaeology-#SketchbookSunday combo:
#Archaeology. It’s about people.
#SundayArchaeology: Die Milch macht's. Käse, Joghurt und Quark aber auch …
#Laktoseinteloranz im #Neolithikum - und Weiterverarbeitung verschiedener #Milchprodukte zur Reduzierung des #Laktosegehalts:
https://aid-magazin.de/2023/03/16/neolithische-keramik-offenbart-verarbeitung-verschiedener-arten-von-milch via Archäologie in Deutschland
#Raubgrabungen & #Kulturgutzerstörung? Das sind Nachrichten mehr oder weniger ferner Krisenherde und Konfliktregionen - aber doch nicht vor der eigenen Haustür.
Oder doch?
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/politik/sondengaenger-limes-roemer-antiquitaeten-ebay-e055900 via Süddeutsche Zeitung 🔐💶
#SundayArchaeology: Metalldetektorkurs mit Erfolgsgarantie - #Sondengänger entdeckt bei Übungseinsatz 800 Jahre alten #Goldhort (Schmuck und Münzen aus dem 13. Jh.) in der Nähe von #Haithabu.
https://www.ndr.de/Haithabu-Goldschatz-zufaellig-gefunden,haithabu628.html via NDR
#SundayArchaeology: Coordination, cooperation, and organisation: How some 3,400 #Elephant bones found at a 125,000 y/o butchering site in #Germany offer new insight into #Neanderthal large-scale hunting and #social organisation:
https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-lived-groups-big-enough-eat-giant-elephants by @spoke32 via @sciencemagazine
#SundayArchaeology: How could one not be impressed by the incredible #VisualLanguage of Pre-Pottery #Neolithic #iconography?
"Give me a strong, dangerous #aurochs, horns full frontal. Make it run!" - "And ow about a slain ox? Obviously: tongue out, legs stretched. Totally dead."
One more #MerryChristmas #SundayArchaeology, this time in a #SketchbookSunday combo:
The Late #Magdalenian (11,000 BCE) "Swimming (or flying? 😉) #Reindeer" from Montastruc (France), carved from mammoth ivory. Evocative.
Today in @[email protected]: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_Palart-550
#MerryChristmas #SundayArchaeology: Scratched into the wall high above the floor of #NineMileCanyon in Utah, almost flying 😉, a row of deer and sheep and goat can be seen parading in what has become known as the "#SantaClausPanel".
#RockArt, Fremont Culture, 10th-13th century.
A little story of early #archaeology for today's #SundayArchaeology …
Among the colourful frescos in #Zöbingen chapel (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), one is particularly fascinating:
Depicting the 13th century discovery of an even then old (i.e. 6th century) #Germanic burial.
Why not, upon finally finishing it, have a closer look at this #LEGO "Great #Pyramid of #Giza" set - and the real archaeological features behind it for a little #SundayArchaeology thread? 😉