Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

Quick reminder that not every torc is #gold and shiny!! 😉

These, from Snettisham, are simple and made from copper alloy (Bronze) and baser gold alloy.

📷 The British Museum

#Archaeology #torcs #prehistory

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

So, the European Union has set up its own Mastodon instance, EU Voice, as an official channel/platform for all its many institutions - what a great initiative https://social.network.europa.eu/about
#TwitterMigration #europe #Diplomacy #Transparency

#StandingStoneSunday Drombeg Stone Circle, County Cork, Ireland. Also known as "The Druids' Altar." (Photo by me.)

LiDAR revealing a lynchetted prehistoric field system beneath the woodland canopy of the medieval Lantyan Wood, above the Fowey River, south Cornwall. The plot also shows post medieval trackways and charcoal burning platforms both overlying the older earthworks.

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For decades, not digging an archaeological site was considered a best practice for preserving it. Climate change, however, is changing this calculus -

Sharing forward a useful new publication on the range of climate impacts on archaeology and what they mean for heritage management- #climateheritage

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/climate-change-and-the-loss-of-archaeological-sites-and-landscapes-a-global-perspective/3D44BAC0D4676FEEFDDA14905BEA779E

New discovery: 15 burials of the early #medieval period discovered during excavations in Kleinbasel. The pictures show a gold disk fibula (decorative pin to fasten garments/brooch) found in a woman's grave and a silver inlaid belt fitting from a child's grave. Dating 7th century AD.

https://www.archaeologie.bs.ch/ueber-uns/medienmitteilungen/goldene-gewandschliesse.html

#archaeology

Silver inlaid #runes on an early #medieval iron spearhead, found in a burial at Wurmlingen, dating late 6th century AD. The inscription reads DORIH - Dorich, a male name, probably the name of the owner or the blacksmith.

Photo: Landesmuseum Württemberg

#Archaeology

I found this link to a tour through the Pergamonmuseum during the exhibition Uruk - 5000 Years of a Megacity while cleaning out my bookmarks.
Enjoy!

https://storage.smb.museum/Virtueller_Rundgang/Uruk_5000/

#museum #exhibition #Pergamonmuseum #Uruk #archaeology #history

Copper oil lamp one of over 110 items donated by Dr Lindsay Rogers in 1947. From Samarra, one of the 1st town-states in the Near East dating back to the 5th century BC.
Day 25: Candle #Museum30
📷 OMNZ E47.125
#Lamps #Archaeology #Museum #Ancient

Gold memento mori ring uncovered from the Jamestown Historic Site in Virginia. Date: c. 1611 - 1617. #Archaeology

Looking across Hawson Harbour to Hermanus. This cave was occupied by Middle Stone Age hunter gatherers between 50 and 80,000 years ago, and more recently by the Khoi-San peoples- 1,000-2,000 years ago. It is the site of an archaeological excavation by the Iziko South African Museum. #photography #archaeology

1/2 #Archaeology #preprint recommended by @PCI_Archaeo: Annemieke Milks, Lehmann, J., Böhner, U., Leder, D., Koddenberg, T., Sietz, M., Vogel, M. and Terberger, T. (2022) Wood technology: a Glossary and Code for analysis of archaeological wood from stone tool cultures. OSF Preprints, x8m4j, ver. 7 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer community in Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/x8m4j

The longer I work as a historian the more I keep reconfirming that one of the top rules of history should be: "Always look up everybody's mom."

*So much* that doesn't quite make sense makes more sense when you look up mothers and sisters and the connections that get left out! #histodons #histodon #women #genderhistory

Here’s to all of the archaeologists who are going to have to field questions about the Netflix Ancient Apocalypse show from extended family members this holiday season. I feel your pain! We can debrief at the next archaeological conspiracy strategic planning meeting. #archaeology

Photos I took 1968-70 in Algeria. Tipasa, inspiration for Camus' Noces à Tipasa; amphitheatre in Timgad (not sure who the people are, could be son plus wife); Cardo Maximus Road Djemila. I imagine it was once full of cisia, esseda and carpenta. (Love the introduction to the topic here: "Transportation during Ancient Roman times was way different than what we have today. There were no cars, planes or even trains during this time" No iphones, either!) #archaeology #history #Roman #Algeria