Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

Does anyone feel like sitting down in front of the computer and playing around with their notes a bit?

I just wrote down how I set up and try to maintain my (academic) reading list in #Obsidian using the #Projects plugin by @marcusolsson and #Zotero. Might post it again after the holidays, but for now, here's the description of my approach for those who asked. Thus, fulfilling my promise from this thread: https://hcommons.social/@natalie/109557676423033978

https://nataliekraneiss.com/your-academic-reading-list-in-obsidian/

@obsidianmd @phdlife @phdstudents #phd #literaturereview #studying #readinglist #organization #planning #tracking

#EAA2023 🚨 Call for Papers: With our friends in the Netherlands, the UK and Germany, 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 are thrilled to announce a CfP for Session 482: 'Megaprojects and Historic Environments: A Sustainable Road Map to Mega Legacy?'

Closing date for abstracts: Thursday 9th February | @EAAarchaeology | https://e-a-a.org/eaa2023

Main organiser: Emily Plunkett

Co-organisers: Kenneth Aitchison | Enda O Flaherty | Karin Wink | Holger Schweitzer

One of the things I really like here is the varying levels of visibility. It takes a while to get used to but it really helps modulate the experience.

If you want a conversation with people outside your followers, using hashtags is great.

Thread 1/? (About to demo a thing, too.)

6,000-year-old #ChewingGum! Pieces of birch pitch found in the Late #Neolithic pile dwelling settlement of Hornstaad, dating 3917-3909 BC. You can still see the toothmarks!
Birch pitch was used as a prehistoric glue for attaching stone tools to handles. Finds very often contain toothmarks. There a several reasons why people would have chewed it: to make it malleable, to ease toothaches because it’s mildly antiseptic, to clean teeth, or just for fun - it has a slightly intoxicating effect! 1/2

Tepe Gawra, kurdish for “the great mound”, is situated in #Iraq. The site offers an almost continuous sequence of occupation from the 5th to the 2nd millennium BCE. The “Round House” itself dates to around 4000 BCE.

Our architectural reconstruction is based upon analyses, the excavation reports, and related literature. Since the reconstruction is, of course, only tentative, we decided to illustrate the level of certainty in the model through colour coding.

🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/the-round-house-in-tepe-gawra/

"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record"

"The eight warmest years on record have now occurred since 2014"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/earth-hottest-years.html

#égyptologie

Un ravissant œil-oudjat en or

https://egyptophile.blogspot.com/2020/07/un-ravissant-il-oudjat-en-or.html

Come to the #Belfast @EAAarchaeology #conference this late summer, and if you likee, present a paper at the session I'm one of the chairs of, on #experimental #archaeology. If the info in the picture is appealing, and you'd like to come along, have a chat with me! I can even drag you to the coolest places in my hometown - it's gonna be awesome!

#EpigraphyTuesday; a bronze legal tablet describing a transfer of property as a debt guarantee (mancipatio fiduciae causa). Dated to the early 1st century CE. Found in the area of Bonanza, now in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in #Madrid.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Spain

BYZANTINE MONK CHAINED WITH IRON RINGS UNCOVERED

#archaeology #archaeologist #archeology #archeologist #heritagedaily

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/01/byzantine-monk-chained-with-iron-rings-uncovered/145717

🚨Welsh academic Mastodon - I'm looking for an expert to write an article on the Red Lady of Paviland. Please boost! #archaeology #Wales

#JewelryOnSculptures
Gold earring "probably a Urartian work based on Assyrian models", h: 5.8 cm; diam. of arms 3.2 cm. On the ends of arms "there is a large cell rosette, which was originally probably filled with multicolored paste".

Relief is from Khorsabad #Assyria 710–705 BCE

The relief is in the British Museum https://britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1847-0702-9 Wery similar is in The Met https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322896

The earring photo by Artokoloro https://alamy.com/earrings-gold-forged-pressed-welded-granulated-electron-gold-silver-alloy-total-height-58-cm-diameter-32-cm-arms-weight-15-g-body-jewelry-antique-the-earring-consists-of-a-boat-shaped-body-with-radially-arranged-conical-arms-of-the-original-three-attachments-only-two-are-preserved-the-third-was-added-while-the-body-was-modelled-over-a-core-and-pressed-together-at-the-ends-the-arms-are-formed-by-rolled-up-sheet-metal-funnels-and-separately-produced-and-welded-on-end-shells-image392063269.html
The longer description >> https://imageselect.eu/en/image-details/Balb5143054.html

Wir wünschen ein gutes und gesundes neues Jahr!
Zwei kleine Tonschweine, ca. 5000 Jahre alt. Sie wurden zusammen mit Keramik- und Axtfragmenten in einer Grube der neolithischen Siedlung Scheiplitz gefunden und könnten Teil eines Rituals gewesen sein. Foto © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták.

#archäologie #SachsenAnhalt #Museum #MuseumHalle

A piece that is quite directly based on ancient Hellenistic and Roman glass bead necklaces, featuring apotropaic "eye beads". Eye beads are still being made today in places like Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, though mainly as tourist souvenirs. LINK: https://www.etsy.com/listing/917500556/handmade-lampwork-glass-eye-bead-bead?click_key=929e9241624cbc1d864a6f7fe24f41872ad3c3ea%3A917500556&click_sum=5b4d5b99&ref=shop_home_active_1&clickFromShopCard=1&frs=1 #glass #glassbeads #GlassArt #GlassArtist #ArtHistory #etsy

The interior of the House of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii, Italy, with its splendid 'cave canem' ('beware of the dog') mosaic. Read more about the house here:
http://pompeiisites.org/en/archaeological-site/house-of-paquius-proculus/
📷 Milena Boeva / Alamy Stock Photo

Remarkable ancient Egyptian fibre sandals still looking as good as the day they were made some 3,400 years ago!

From the Tomb of Yuya and Tjuya in the Valley of the Kings. Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 📷 my own.

#Archaeology

Bedouin Women, Jerusalem ⁣ c. 1880⁣ ⁣ Photo- Félix Bonfils⁣

Annum novum faustum felicem vobis - I wish you a happy and prosperous #NewYear!

The Romans exchanged New Year's gifts to wish a prosperous and happy new year, e. g. coins or coin banks.

Roman coin banks found in Rottweil, dating 2nd/3rd century AD

#archaeology #RomanArchaeology