"They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentional—as opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game."
My "favourite" thing about this study is the part where achaeologists who found hunting tools/weapons in women's graves assumed they were kitchen implements.
Like, "well Hans, in this woman's grave, we found what inscriptions at the time have named the Flail of Vengeance. As of right now, we are not sure to what culinary task this tool was turned, but conjecture that it was possibly the preparation of small pies."
Analysis of mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather....
I'm in awe: holding a 40,000-year-old #IceAge masterpiece in your hand is something you don't get to do every day!
The amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth is carved in mammoth ivory. It will be on display at Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg from Saturday.
Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.
"Sistine Chapel of the Ancients." Deep within the dense Amazon rainforest in modern-day Colombia, archaeologists recently discovered an 8-mile-long "canvas" filled with ice age drawings of giant sloths, mastodons and other extinct beasts, dating back to between 11,800 years and 12,600 ago.
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Help! I need an archaeologist to explain briefly to kiddos how you make sure not to harm the stuff you’re digging up. (Prerecorded snippet vid anytime, or an interactive call at 12.15-13.00 GMT on 8th July). It’s for a kids track of an adult’s conference where we try to educate them about cool stuff.
I'm a #bisexual :v_bi: #ambiamorous :v_amam: boy who lives in Katowice, Poland - I also am a CompSci graduate who has been working in IT for the past 5 years 😊
My main obsessions are #goth and #vaporwave#music. I also enjoy #anime & video #games (as many people do :blobfox3c:) and I'm learning to play the #bass guitar. Among my other interests are #retro computing, #tarot, craft #beer, #archaeology, and #astronomy. I love chatting about all of my interests - do not hesitate to DM me if you wanna talk about any of them 💗
I also have 2 beautiful #cats :)
I love going on nerd rants about various micro-interests of mine, posting dumb memes, and also being very gay on main, you have been warned :blobcatevil: :Fire_Bisexual: I occasionally boost CW'd NSFW posts. 🔞
I've absolutely fallen in love with Fedi - I'm very happy that I found this lovely instance and was able to settle in here with all the wonderful people :blobCatComfySoff:
See you around 🥰
I am reading an article about how every time ancient art depicts a goddess as sexually alluring, they always get labeled a "goddess of fertility". Even when there is no indication of children, pregnancy, or anything fertile.
The article argues that some goddesses were deities of sex and pleasure, without the maternal fertility aspect.
I am like 🤯 🤯 I have a whole entire archaeology degree and we never addressed this...
Too good not to share: I just came across this photo of a wooden floor of a neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700BC
📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg
Decided to be more active here, so let me reintroduce myself! I'm a zooarchaeologist researching #Farming and #Food of the past. I study animal and plant remains 🐐🌾, apply biochemical analyses 🧪, and want to use this knowledge of the past to contribute to #Sustainability today 🚜 #Archaeology#SciComm#WomenInScience#Animals
Attempted #Introduction. Interests and things I post:
I’m the world’s most boring archaeologist. I boost #archaeology stuff but rarely post my own.
Immigrant and dual citizen :US:/ 🇧🇪.
TV obsessions: #TheExpanse, #Babylon5, #TwinPeaks. Have a lot to say about #StarTrek also.
Video #games: wide variety, but biggest obsessions have been rpgs and city builders.
Food pics, flower pics, selfies.
Love custom emoji. I am :bisexual_flag:, kinda :aromantic_flag:, kinda :ace:, and :autism:.
An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 my own
A solar developer sent a state lands archaeologist a string of urgent text messages, which we obtained through a public records request, insisting that she keep her findings private and not share them with tribes.
But when his texts reached the state lands archaeologist, she was already at Badger Mountain --- showing her findings to a tribal representative.
Visiting National Museum Copenhagen today! So many amazing objects, one of my favourites: a bear carved from amber 10,000 to 8,000 years ago. Found on the west coast of Fanø, from a submerged settlement of the Mesolithic period.
Bears played an important role in the life of hunters, the figurines such as this were worn as pendants.
Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta #horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved #toy which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife.
Huge ancient city found in the Amazon challenges the Eurocentric view of civilisation and shows that ancient people lived in sophisticated urban societies in the Amazon, not just in small nomadic groups.
The city consisted of thousands of rectangular platforms arranged around plazas, connected by straight roads and canals2. Some of the features are unprecedented in South America.
Over the past decade or so, researchers have found genetic evidence for contact between people in eastern Polynesia and those in coastal Peru and Colombia. Now archeologists studying the oldest settlement on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have found physical evidence that islanders traveled to South America at least once and returned with food crops not known in Polynesia.
Archaeological evidence shatters the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers (phys.org)
Analysis of mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather....