When the quick bright fox jumps over the colourful scorpion … you've got some wonderful friends sending you the latest #GöbekliTepe merch from Turkey. 😉 Çok teşekkürler! 🙏
For #StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic female stela with a diadem and a veil, made of marble. Found in Arco, Trentino-South Tyrol (#Italy). Dating 3000-2500 BC.
In the late neolithic period several cultures living between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caucasus erected human-shaped stone sculptures showing clothing, weapons and jewellery. The stelae were symbols of power and status and were used for ancestor worship and rituals.
Maybe fuelled by outdated ideas regarding #Neolithic hunter-gatherers, there seems kind of a misunderstanding about the "#pottery" part in #PrePotteryNeolithic (PPN).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.
Even more: Already in their seminal works on #Neolithic#lime and #gypsum plasters, Kingery et al. (quite fittingly) described this technology as "The Beginnings of #Pyrotechnology" (J. Field Arch. 2(1/2), 1975 + J. Field Arch. 15, 1988):
The term #PrePotteryNeolithic was coined by K. Kenyon at the type site of #Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) to distinguish #Neolithic layers lacking any pottery from those with such implements.
It thus is a technical classification applying to this specific region - not a cultural stage.
Megaliths of Dartmoor's south for today's #StandingStoneSunday - A mix of Neolithic chambered tombs (a rarity on Dartmoor) and Bronze Age stone rows:
Clockwise from top left:
-Cuckoo Ball chambered tomb
-Glasscombe Corner stone row
-Corringdon Ball stone row - remains of the terminal cairn circle
-Corringdon Ball chambered long barrow
Visited on a glorious walk from Ivybridge railway station, August Bank Holiday 2010
Le menhir de la Thiemblais just outside the town of St-Samson-sur-Rance in Ille-et-Villaine in Brittany. It has relief carvings all over it, although they’re quite difficult to see except in certain lights. In my fourth picture, you can just make out a carving of a looped cross. It’s a very impressive stone weighing around 150 tonnes and at around 8 metres in length—despite the 45 degree angle!
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.
Excavation of a small part of a 1 kilometer long Neolithic cursus monument has just been completed for another season on the Isle of Arran & established its remains are better preserved than first thought.
The project was delivered by archaeologist from University of Glasgow, Archaeology Scotland, and many other institutions, as student field training but also with participation of local volunteers.
This cluster of passage tombs in south County #Sligo, #Ireland was built in the 4th millennium b. Chr, during the #Neolithic era. The monuments are on the Brickleave Hills (An Bricshliabh, 'the speckled hills'), overlooking Lough Arrow.
The Carrowkeel tombs are considered one of the "big four" passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland, along with Carrowmore, Brú na Boínne and Loughcrew.
Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic dragon figure made of mussel shells at the Caitaopo Site in Chifeng, in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Archaeologists have discovered a rare"polishing boulder" in the Valley of the Stones near Dorchester, UK. The stone was used to make stone axe heads more than 5,000 years ago. Scientists say the discovery was unexpected.
Rare Neolithic polishing stone unearthed in Dorset
Archaeologists have discovered a polishing boulder known as a polissoir, dating back over 5,000 years, in the Valley of Stones National Nature Reserve, Dorset, England.
It features a distinctively glossy, dished surface that indicates its use for polishing stone axe heads during the Neolithic period.
Céide Fields visitors centre is a top tier visitors centre, and I've visited some centres. Kids could hardly be convinced to leave and there was tons of interesting stuff for the adults.
“An excavation is underway at Drumadoon on the Isle of Arran after the site of a possible #Neolithic cursus monument was earlier detected by an aerial laser scan.
The monuments are believed to have been used for processions, possibly linked to the honouring of the dead, with the possible Drumadoon cursus reaching a vantage point over the Machrie Moor stone circle.” #archaeology
Neolithic mussel shell dragon unearthed in Inner Mongolia (www.thehistoryblog.com)
Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic dragon figure made of mussel shells at the Caitaopo Site in Chifeng, in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Rare 'Polishing Boulder' Used By Stone Age People Found In Dorset, UK - Ancient Pages (www.ancientpages.com)
Archaeologists have discovered a rare"polishing boulder" in the Valley of the Stones near Dorchester, UK. The stone was used to make stone axe heads more than 5,000 years ago. Scientists say the discovery was unexpected.