Poverty Point (ca. 1750-850 BC) trade material source locations adapted from Jon Gibson's 1996 figure for my recent talk. #archaeology#publicarchaeology
Was gone Thursday & Friday giving a talk to a Rotary Club venue, visiting friends & meeting curation people at Ft. Johnson.
Here is a poster I designed to help laypeople understand the depth of time of Indigenous history in the area. Except for my reproduction pots of certain cultures & our modern metate & mano, everything consists of provenienced artifacts.
Gave a few copies to the Ft. Johnson curation staff & the local archaeology society branch president. #archaeology#PublicArchaeology
An aerial view of the pyramid of Gaius Cestius in Rome, a tomb built in the late 1st century BC. It was incorporated into the Aurelian Walls in the late 3rd century AD. According to an inscription the tomb was completed in 330 days!
For #FindsFriday an elaborate Greek gold hairnet with garnet inlays, dating from the 3rd century BC, an older medallion of Medusa was reused in the centre.
From Taras (Tarento, Italy).
The Most Lavish Mesopotamian Tomb Ever Found Belongs to a Woman - And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright, by Sarah Durn February 10, 2022
"...Archeologist and textile expert Rita Wright, professor emerita of anthropology at New York University, is the first to ever study Pu-abi’s garments based on the only surviving image of her. Her findings have just been published in the new book Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World. Atlas Obscura spoke to Wright about the role of women in ancient Ur, what we know of Queen Pu-abi’s life, and why textiles are so often overlooked in archeology.."
Textiles are overlooked because they are "women's" handiwork, of course. The modern science of archaeology began in the days where the only things considered to be of value were gold and jewels, or weaponry. Anything women did was considered uninteresting, not important, or presumed to be part of a "fertility cult."
A bust of the #Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, hammered from a single sheet of gold. The bust (weight ca. 1590grams) was found in 1939 in a sewer in front of the so-called Sanctuaire du Cigognier in Aventicum (Avenches, Switzerland). Dating 170/180 AD.
Extraordinary fine-grained timescales in this analysis of #Neanderthal#fire pits from #Spain 52,000 years ago -- the life of groups moving in and out for more than 200 years.
'To date the Neanderthals’ time at El Salt more precisely, the researchers analysed magnetic minerals recovered from several hearths found within a few metres of each other. These minerals record the orientation of Earth’s fluctuating magnetic field at the time the fire was last extinguished.'
#knowledge#wissen#history#Geschichte#wissenschaft#science#archaeology
Researchers have named the specimen Douglassarachne acanthopoda, but it is unclear which living creatures it is most closely related to. “The fossil’s very spiny legs are reminiscent of some modern harvestmen, but its body plan is quite different,” said study co-author Jason Dunlop, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, in a statement.
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Next week I'm attending a conference in Brussels under the heading "Hobby #archaeology: from citizen science to heritage practice communities". It's going to be a little unusual, because most of the participants approach metal detecting as an object of sociological study, not as an instrument to gather data on archaeological objects. But I have very little interest in sociological aspects on archaeology, or meta-archaeology. 1/2
An Archaeologist demonstrates a pre-historic music 'Lithophone' :
Lithophone, originally a pre-historic musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock, granite, fossilized coral, petrified wood and other melodious stones, that are played by striking them. Sounding stones made of basalt, granite, marble and other minerals were used in many ancient cultures for ceremonial and religious purposes.