Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

This week the Archaeological Museum in Poznań is organizing a one day symposium with Ukrainian archaeologists to talk about the challenges they faced as museologists during the first year of the war: https://tinyurl.com/3v2dt4dd
The talks are to have English translations.
Since the first days of war the museum has been involved in supporting our colleagues with humanitarian aid and providing supplies for researchers turned soldiers: https://pomagam.pl/archeoaid
#archaeology #heritage #warinUkraine

This week in #LabProtocols: microwave-assisted extractions (MAE). We will use this for our total lipid extractions from archaeological and geological samples. I’ve always used similar equipment to MAE, like ASE/PSE or Soxhlet, so I’m excited to get to know this system and train students in biomarker analysis. #archaeology #biomarkers #science

Henderson phase (ca. AD 600-900) sand-tempered Henderson Punctated rim sherd from Lowndes Co., AL (Dickens 1971, Plate 19). The punctations on this sherd appear to have been made with the proximal end of a catfish pectoral spine. #ceramics #archaeology

Ruins of 5,000-year-old tavern with oven, fridge and ancient beer recipe unearthed in Iraq | The Independent
#archaeology
#Iraq
#Beer

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/sumerian-tavern-oven-beer-recipe-iraq-b2283354.html

One of my photos from 2011, of the Monastery in Simat de Valldigna, Pais Valencia, has just been put into Flickr's Explore. #photography #spain #valencia #mediaevalarchitecture

Just to put the word out for folks: the new Mastodon 4.1 update allows you to add alt text to images you've already posted. It has been frustrating up until now to be unable to fix mistakes.

So if you made an image post and forgot to add the alt text, you can now go back and fix that, which is, as we all know, the right and upstanding thing to do. Spread the word. #AltText

The 'Archaeology' of Plastics Is an Exercise in Nostalgia and Dread

An Italian naturalist and guide has turned beach trash and memory into a commentary on our age.
The 'Archaeology' of Plastics Is an Exercise in Nostalgia and Dread

Recently I was interviewed for an episode of the (Canadian) national radio show CBC Ideas, which finally aired last night! The episode spawned from *that* Netflix show and broadly discusses #archaeology and #pseudoarchaeology, featuring interviews from myself and several additional folks (Brent Lee's comments toward the end of the episode are especially interesting). You can listen to the episode at the link below!

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15964892-atlantis-apocalypse-the-world-pseudo-archaeology

ORNATELY FASHIONED GOLD BEAD FOUND IN JERUSALEM PARK

#archaeology #archaeologynews #archaeologist #archaeologist

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/ornately-fashioned-gold-bead-found-in-jerusalem-park/146153

The complete chariot from the Oxus Treasure an Achaemenid (?) temple treasure from Afghanistan, now in the British Museum #archaeology #silkroad #Persians. #histodon

Excavations at Elcho took place in late 60s & early 70s w/ majority women archaeologists leading the dig. Dr Margaret Stewart & Dorothy Lye spent many seasons at Elcho & were instrumental getting Elcho classified as a scheduled monument. #Archaeology
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📷 PMAG, Elcho Archive

Here are the trenches from those early excavations compared to Google satellite imagery from summer 2022. It shows the areas of excavation around what we think is the convent church/ church buttresses. #Archaeology #medievaltwitter

📷PMAG, Elcho Archive

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Elcho has some of the best small finds assemblage of a women religious community showing evidence of literacy, book ownership. Here are book clasps, bindings. There was an oil lamp found, too. #nuntastic #Archaeology
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📷PMAG, Elcho Archive

STUDY SUGGESTS THAT COLLAPSE OF HITTITE EMPIRE WAS ACCELERATED BY DROUGHT

#archaeology #archaeologynews #archaeologist #archaeologist

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/study-suggests-that-collapse-of-hittite-empire-was-accelerated-by-drought/146170

Victoria's Secret? A #Roman leather #brief/#bikini bottom with a cut-out design, tied on each side of the hips with leather laces. Made of goat leather, from Trier, dating 2nd c. AD.
So far, seven differently cut leather briefs are known. It's unclear whether they were used as underwear or whether they were worn by female acrobats.

📷 Landesmuseum Trier

#archaeology #FindsFriday

Shipwreck of Gribshunden (1495), flagship of King Hans of Denmark and Norway, have revealed diverse artifacts including exotic spices imported from far distant origins: saffron, ginger, clove, peppercorns, and almond.
https://bit.ly/3YAVA4o #maritime
#Archaeology

What is #archaeology? And … "What Do Archaeologists Do?"

A @SAPIENS_org essay by Peter Nelson & Sara Gonzalez:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/what-do-archaeologists-do

Portion of an animal skin bag & pieces of leather or sinew cordage from the ca. AD 1605-1620 Terminal Woodland site of Dumaw Creek (20OA5) in Oceana Co., MI (Quimby 1966, Fig. 26). #archaeology #culture

My new article has been published in Public Archaeology. The Role of Experiences in Valuing Metal-Detecting Finds among Finnish Hobbyists. I can share 50 free copies, so let me know if you are interested in reading it:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2022.2158617

#metaldetectorist #MetalDetecting #archaeology