I'm somcak, a #librarian currently in #Connecticut. I have 2 mini #dachshunds and 2 #cats. I enjoy all sorts of music, yes, even death metal on occasion! :bugcat_wiggle:
I've been on Mastodon since October, and this is my 3rd server. I finally found the folks I want to hang with!!
I use content warnings for all sorts of stuff, just trying to be considerate! I always make sure there's #AltText and #CamelCase for my own posts as well as those I boost. #Accessibility matters.
#Neolithic textile production: a charred skein of linen thread, dating around 3200 BC, from the pile dwelling settlement of Nußdorf-Maurach, Überlingen, Lake Constance. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition.
The largest collection of standing stones in the world, and utterly haunting and awe-inspiring: les alignements de Carnac in Brittany. Over 3,000 of them, perhaps as much as 7,000 years old. These photos are from a trip there yesterday. I’ve wanted to see them for a long time and had my tiny mind blown. What a spectacularly beautiful and mysterious place it is.
And then, suddenly, there's a row of stones in the forest. What was on the minds of these #neolithic people when they built their megalithic burials? Seen on the #Baltic Coast, Everstorfer Forst (there is a whole series of structures there, large and small). What's in 5000 years?
A #Neolithic arrowhead made of rock crystal, found in the pile dwelling settlement in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the region, it came from the Alps.
En vogue around 6,000 years ago: an amazing #Neolithic three-row necklace consisting of more than 500 (!) beads made from limestone and jet.
From Sachsenheim, dating around 4,000 BC.
A 10 mile, 6000 year bimble along the Cotswolds escarpment between Stroud and Dursley today. Three Neolithic long barrows, including the wondrous Hetty Pegler's Tump, a Bronze Age cairn and an Iron Age hillfort, with 4 hills (Tumps) thrown in for added exertion and heat.
A #Neolithic arrowhead made of rock crystal, found in the pile-dwelling settlement in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating around 3500 B.C. The raw material was not available in the region, it came from the Alps.
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of moderate means and questionable taste
I've been around for a long, long year
I've seen too much and I've lost faith
Apologies to the Rolling Stones but I've updated it for the general malaise that is #GenX life in the early 21st century. General #introduction post here as I've just migrated from mastodon.social. I'm the homebody type who's very content to just curl up with a good #book. I enjoy #movies and most types of #music. Love good #food but I have a lifelong hatred of olives. I'm mostly here to meet fun, funny people and have a good time while taking the serious stuff in small doses for the preservation of whatever sanity I have left. I imagine I'll update this as more things occur to me to add. Below are some more specific interest. Glad to be here and beige bless!
Capel Garmon Burial Chamber, a well preserved Neollithic chamber near Betws Y Coed North Wales. " A 16ft/5mt passageway leads to a triple burial chamber with a large capstone over the western compartment. Surrounding the structure is a ring of stones marking the outline of an early 100ft/30mt earthen mound which originally covered it". #TombTuesday#PreHistory#Neolithic
For #FindsFriday#Neolithic knives found in the pile dwelling settlement in Niederwil, Switzerland (3900-3500 BC). The blades are made of flint.They were fastened with birch tar in the handles made of poplar wood. Knives like these were presumably mainly used for harvesting.
The magical Stones of Stenness circle and henge on Orkney's West Mainland, with the mountains of Hoy in the distance. The stones you see today are part of a ring of 12 tall stones and a surrounding ditch from between 3000BC and 2500BC. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/stennessstones/index.html
The Corrimony chambered cairn and some of its surrounding standing stones. This unusually well preserved passage grave can be found some four miles east of Cannich, close to the road to Drumnadrochit, and was built some 4,000 years ago. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/drumnadrochit/corrimony/index.html
Ormaig rock carvings near Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, ca. 5000 years old.
Kilmartin Glen is described as #Scotland’s richest prehistoric landscape. There is an incredible concentration of #Neolithic and #BronzeAge rock carvings in and around Kilmartin Glen. The most common motifs are cups, surrounded by up to seven rings, but there are also zig-zags, lines and an unusual horned spiral. #archaeology
These might not look like much, but they're the oldest man-made things I''ve featured so far. They're cup and ring marks carved into rocks on the hills around Cochno on the outskirts of Glasgow. Dating from the Neolithic period between four and six thousand years ago, similar petroglyphs can be along the Celtic fringe of Europe. However, it's not known why they were made.
I'm somcak, a #librarian currently in #Ohio. I have 2 mini #dachshunds and 2 #cats. I enjoy all sorts of music, yes, even death metal on occasion!
I've been on Mastodon since October 2022, and this is my 5th server.
I use content warnings for all sorts of stuff, just trying to be considerate! I always make sure there's #AltText and #CamelCase for my own posts as well as those I boost. #Accessibility matters.
I enjoy learning about #history and #archeology, particularly the #neolithic. I'm also interested in #UrbanPlanning and how we can make communities greener. I have an #ebike and care about #CompleteStreets.
Off to Wiltshire and a Neolithic chambered tomb for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Devil's Den below Fyfield Down is a reconstructed chamber, originally it would have been covered by an earthen mound. It's a lovely walk here from Avebury or The Ridgeway, taking in the stone river of the Mother's Jam.
The magnificent Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae in Orkney. Here you find a magical window through which it's possible to see the detail of the day-to-day lives of our ancestors who lived here 5,000 years ago. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/skarabrae/index.html
#Neolithic textile production: an amazing find! A charred spindle with a charred ball of flax thread.
Found in the pile dwelling settlement of Sipplingen-Osthafen, Lake Constance, dating 3316-3306 BC. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition.
A stone axe in an antler sleeve and a wooden handle, found in the #Neolithic lake-dwelling at Hornstaad-Hörnle at Lake Constance.
The sleeve absorbed energy from the blow.
Dating 3918-3902 BC.