Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

Rivers and lakes have always had a special place in beliefs and ritual. During the Bronze Age of southern Germany, in particular swords were frequently deposited in rivers. Swords found in the Danube and its tributaries, Historisches Museum Regensburg. #archaeology #museum #prehistory

"Ukrainian troops uncover ancient #Roman settlement while digging trenches in Kherson Oblast"

https://english.nv.ua/life/ukrainian-troops-uncover-ancient-roman-settlement-while-digging-trenches-in-kherson-50292279.html

#archaeology #Ukraine️ @archaeodons

Here's the deleted scene: https://youtu.be/hI55EKV8IiQ

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Émir Nur #Harar #Grave #Tomb #Islam #GreenBurial

#ArchaeologyAdventCalendar

Bryn Cader Faner, above Talsarnau, North Wales, a Bronze Age cairn with the most amazing kerb of upright stones.

#BronzeAge #YRhinogydd #Wales

Amazing photo of #Vancouver captured yesterday by astronaut Koichi Wakata from the International Space Station. The snow makes everything pop out. #SpacePhotos

I have rewritten a toot 5 times trying to explain how my lack of income prevents me from enjoying Xmass fully.

But instead of giving you a sob story about my life, I want to tell you this...

If you have someone in your life who is struggling financially, just take them aside and let them know that you love them, and that you understand. Let them know that their value is in who they are, not how much they can buy.

Ask them what you can do to help them have a merry Xmass.

It'll mean a lot.

#CfP #CallForPapers

Attention #Archaeodons I'm co-organising a session at the #BelfastEAA conference next september looking at narratives of #Kinship between #Archaeology and #AncientDNA.

If you're working in this area and want to submit an abstract please do! It's session No. 542 (abstract in the image - posted twice to fit the alt text) and submissions should be made before Thursday 9 February 2023.

Submissions can be made at submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2023

If you're not sure or want to know more please feel free to drop me a line here or email my ANU address :)

(Fellow archs please boost so this goes to the wider community)

GUYS, MY FIRST PAPER IS OUT!!!!
I'm so happy I got to publish this. It's based on my B.A. thesis which I put a lot of work and heart into.

S. Krienen, Archaeological University Collections and Cultural Heritage Protection. A Blind Spot?

Read it for free:
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/transfer/article/view/91529/87471

Happy #WinterSolstice!  The astronomical #winter starts today.
Therefore, a mosaic found in the Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra/Ravenna, depicting the dancing Genii of the four seasons. The Genius of #winter is wrapped in a heavy cloak. Dating 5th/6th c. AD.

#romanarchaeology #archaeology #solstice

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200 people and organizations now and counting. Take a look and find your tribe.

So I had a kind of thought-avanlanche in response to a tweet @FlintDibble posted over on the birdsite... and since I thought it might be of interest to #archaeology folks here, I'm stitching it together (with some minor edits for coherence and to fix typos) here:

Honestly, now that I think about it... it's totally unsurprising that the tinfoil-hat folks who are into #Atlantis would trust these old narratives more than modern research.

After all, one of the core unspoken assumptions that fuels most #Occult thinking is that older knowledge is "better".

As historian Wouter Hanegraaff notes, by Late Antiquity (if not before), "innumerable sources refer to the reigning idea that the most ancient 'barbarian' peoples possessed a pure and superior science and wisdom, derived not from reason but from direct mystical access to the divine and that all the important Greek philosophers up to and including Plato had received their 'philosophy'
from these sources" (Hanegraaff 2009, "The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism", p. 34).

So yeah, the idea that the age of a source of knowledge somehow increases its purity is itself an ancient one -- and the idea still fuels occult thinking right up to the present day.

That's probably a big part of the reason why so many of these new-age tinfoil-hat types who are obsessed with some idea that Atlantis was a "lost global civilization" are quick to denigrate contemporary science-based archaeology -- their whole paradigm assumes that when a modern source of knowledge contradicts a more ancient one, the more ancient is *inherently* better by definition. And that notion is itself a product of millennia of tradition within Western occult thinking, so it ALSO has the value of age to "recommend" it.

And it's ALSO probably a big part of the reason why Graham Hancock's bullshit has been so rapidly embraced by the #Neofascist #FarRight: tinfoil-hat types who are already primed to accept the idea that ancient knowledge is "pure" and "better" than modern science are an ideal target audience for propaganda by said neo-fascists, because the latter can appeal to all sorts of "ancient" ideas to back their bullshit claims. (And their ideology is ALL ABOUT "purity", as they choose to define it.)

The fact that neo-fascists are supporting all kinds of nonsense based on some putatively "ancient" origin, up to and including dubious early colonial narratives, thus makes perfect sense. It's a convenient means for them to get more people to reject ALL non-aligned modern scholarship as "revisionist woke trash".

In other words, these "harmless" New Age conspiracy theories are in fact an ideal recruiting ground for the neo-fascists because adherents are already halfway down the road of rejecting undesired realities as it is, and because these occult-tinged conspiracy theories have hard-wired within them the idea that older knowledge is inherently more "pure" or "better" than new knowledge.

I've just discovered that @AidanOSullivan is here on Mastodon. He discovered and interpreted this site. He has a terrific feed on Irish and experimental archaeology, and is a must for following.

Stunning survival of a 700-year old #medieval #fishing #weir in a vast landscape of mudbanks and water channels in the Fergus estuary, Co. Clare, Ireland, 1.5km from the nearest dryland. Fish dropping down with the ebbing tide were guided into the point of the weir, where they were trapped by baskets and nets. At low tide each day fisherman came by boat to build & repair the weirs and remove the catch.
Lots more detail at https://www.ucd.ie/news/2011/02FEB11/180211-Secrets-of-Irish-medieval-fishing-site-will-be-lost-to-the-tide.html.
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Hello everyone! Looking forward to meeting more folks interested in space archaeology, talking about our project, and promoting social science approaches to improving life in space. For more info, check out our website, in the bio. We've also published five articles so far on crew-created visual displays, ISS cargo processes, population distributions in various modules, machine learning techniques for using ISS photos as data, and, finally, on our methodology.

I was just sent a copy of this glorious oral history of the San Diego Comic Convention, as it grew from a tiny comic con to the International Event it is now. Fascinating stuff from people who were there. Big thumbs up.