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A beautiful selection of colourful #Roman glass vessels, including bowls, flasks, & pots. all made 1700-2000 years ago - they have survived in remarkable condition! On display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientGlass @drjeball.bsky.social
Ancient garden found at Jesus Christ’s burial site, verifying biblical account
Archaeologists digging beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have unearthed a finding that provides strong evidence for a significant detail of the New Testament: the presence of a garden near the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/ancient-garden-found-at-jesus-burial-site/
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"Based on the composition of marine invertebrates found attached to it, the fossil was dated to the Pleistocene era. But exactly which species of early human ancestor it belonged to remained a mystery."
https://apnews.com/article/denisovan-human-ancestor-taiwan-bea8556942c2d73370e2c2a6406e66f5
It's been known for 150 years that this one kitchen garden on the island of Gotland yields amazing finds from the period AD 375 to 540. Nobody's done much about it. In the past three days, members of the Swedish Metal Detector Association have covered EIGHT HECTARES intensively, including the garden. Now we know that it's a well-to-do but not regionally extreme manorial farm from c. AD 100 onwards that enjoys one particularly affluent century when they deposit a lot of metalwork.
7k-Year-Old Skeletons from the Green Sahara Reveal a Mysterious Human Lineage
I listened to a talk on ungunteria, loom weight and lamp finds from the sanctuary of Artemis Lycoateia in Greece, beamed from Stockholm #Archaeology
During the closing session of the Kiel Conference on the 28 March Ella Quante won the poster award. She works with geoanthropology at the @mpi_gea and gave us some interesting inside into her research and what is shown on her poster. #KielScales25 #Archaeology
For more informations: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/kielscales25-posteraward
For #WorldArtDay some Paleolithic art, an #IceAge masterpiece from the Swabian Jura: a tiny (4.8 cm lenght) #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse.
On display at Museum Universität Tübingen.
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Because of their slim scientific potential in plough soil, their abundance and the cost of conserving and administering them in the museum, we rebury on the spot almost everything we can date from AD 1600 to 1849. A team member just came up with an official term for this: Catch And Release.
Timeline cleanse!
Ancient baby bottle: A marvellous baby feeding vessel in the shape of a mouse.
Campanian, 4th century BC.
On display at Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe.
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Inequality isn’t inevitable, according to ‘unprecedented’ archeology study https://www.popsci.com/science/inequality-archeology-study/
Popular Science · Inequality isn’t inevitable, according to ‘unprecedented’ archeology studyResearchers analyzed 50,000 ancient homes across six continents.
Archaeologists, I need your help! Seeking advice on preserving an old cobblestone I have
Just hitting the news is information about a Medieval bathhouse that has been discovered in Spain. The bathhouse is indicative of the spread of the bathing culture through Islamic Spain. Bathouses were not just for health and hygiene but a method of socialising and spirituality. A museum is now planned at the site to enable tourists to view the excavations.
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/04/medieval-bathhouse-discovered-in-spain/
Medievalists.net · Medieval Bathhouse Discovered in Spain - Medievalists.netArchaeologists in Orihuela, Spain, have uncovered an 11th-century Arab bathhouse beneath the Rubalcava Palace garden. The well-preserved remains shed light on the city’s Andalusian past and will be conserved for future public display.
Cave paintings discovered in Rio de Janeiro park
#politics #brazil #history #archaeology #art #GoodNews
https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/educacao/noticia/2025-04/cave-paintings-discovered-rio-de-janeiro-park
Agência Brasil · Cave paintings discovered in Rio de Janeiro parkThe cave concealed traces of native peoples in Itatiaia National Park, which are now being studied by researchers.
Here is a list with all our Vimeo recordings for last term (Jan-Mar 2025)
Enjoy!
Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting, architecture
Jan 14 Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 'When Eve Laughed'
https://vimeo.com/1047955270
Jan 21 Camilla Power 'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’'
https://vimeo.com/1050011589
Jan 28 Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
https://vimeo.com/1053040279?share=copy
Feb 4 Paulina Michnowska 'Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'
https://vimeo.com/1055179553
Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth 'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth'
https://vimeo.com/1057043706?share=copy#t=0
Feb 18 Chris Knight 'How we got stuck: the hunter Monmaneki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
https://vimeo.com/1061208125?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-email&utm_campaign=44349
Feb 25 Erica Lagalisse and Chris Knight in conversation 'On anarchist anthropology'
https://vimeo.com/1063172694?share=copy
Mar 4 Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: a red RAG to patriarchy'
https://vimeo.com/1074465398
Mar 11 Chris Knight 'On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
https://vimeo.com/1073597720
Mar 18 Kit Opie 'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'
https://vimeo.com/1075096840
Mar 25 Ivan Tacey 'Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'
https://vimeo.com/1075098313
Stippled/textured glass container bases date ca. post-1940. The pattern allows for the dispersal of air trapped underneath & provides better traction on smooth surfaces. #Archaeology
One of the large #ancient dining courts in the imperial palace the domus Augustana on the Palatine Hill, #rome. #archaeology #ancientrome #ancienthistory #romanhistory
Fascinating world of early medieval glass! An absolutely gorgeous drinking horn made of blue glass, with white trailing around the body, length 23cm.
Drinking horns made of glass were popular among the early medieval Germanic elite in various regions of Europe, they reflect the high status of the owner.
Found in a burial at Sutri (Italy), dating late 6th century AD.
Photo: British Museum
