Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

Extraordinary new discovery: a gold hoard hidden some 800 years ago found near Haithabu.The hoard consists of coins and jewellery such as a pair of gold earrings. The hoard was found during a trainee course for metal detectorists run by heritage authorities in Schleswig-Holstein.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Haithabu-Goldschatz-zufaellig-gefunden,haithabu628.html

#archaeology

During the construction of a new Greek Orthodox church in 1884, in the city of Madaba, Jordan, a mosaic was discovered on the floor of the old church. It was called The Madaba Map and it dates back to the 6th century CE, which displays Jerusalem and the Holy Land. #Archaeology

A stunning pair of Germanic fibulae, found in a woman's burial at Untersiebenbrunn, Austria. Luxurious fibulae such as this pair were worn by eastern Germanic women of high social status. They were used to gather the garment on each shoulder.
Gold plated silver, inlaid with garnet, glass, enamel. Dating early 5th century AD.

On display at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

#archaeology

#Exchange of knowledge and expertise, bartering and wooing. #Kirkhellaren Cave on Sanna in #Træna is #Norway’s oldest meeting place, having first been used about 10,000 years ago."

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/10860

#History #Archaeology #Science #Ancestry

ROYAL SUMERIAN PALACE AND TEMPLE UNCOVERED IN ANCIENT GIRSU

#archaeology #archaeologist #archeology #archeologist

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/royal-sumerian-palace-and-temple-uncovered-in-ancient-girsu/146226

For #RomanFortThursday let’s go to Qasr Bashir, #Jordan, located 15km northwest of Lejjun. An inscription dates the construction of the Castra Praetorium Mobeni to AD 293-305. It was occupied throughout the 4th and into the 5th century. Umayyad pottery indicates re-occupation in the 7th century. Qasr Bashir is considered the best-preserved #Roman fort in the Middle East. The 1.5m thick walls still stand several metres high.

#archaeology #RomanArchaeology

From 15 Feb: Archaeologists found evidence of trepanation on medieval woman’s skull - Enlarge / This skull of a 50-year-old-ish medieval woman, circa 6th to 8th century, shows ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/t-is-for-trepanation-this-medieval-woman-had-two-brain-surgeries-skull-shows/ #archaeology #bio-archaeology #ct-scanning #gaming-&-culture #history-of-medicine #osteoarchaeology #paleopathology #scanning-electron-microscopy #science #trepanation

Reconstructed Lake Jackson Plain jar with pinching along the rim-body juncture from excavations at the Spanish Franciscan mission San Joseph de Ocuya (1600-1703) in Jefferson Co., Florida (Jones 1973, Plate 9i). #ceramics #archaeology

Some toots on #NegativeHeritage coming soon. For those who are curious about such a strange concept, you can start with Lynn Meskell's article "Negative Heritage and Past Mastering in Archaeology": "a conflictual site that becomes the repository of negative memory in the collective imaginary".
You can read it at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236716737_Negative_Heritage_and_Past_Mastering_in_Archaeology
#Heritage #Archaeology @histodons @academicchatter @anthropology @Denying_History

The Roman gems of the British Museum. We often notice the craftship but not the many unknown hands who would have cradled these sublime gems over the centuries.

Sardonyx depicting a poet, piper and woman (1st century BCE - 1st century CE) and sardonyx depicting Jupiter with laurel wreath
(1st - 2nd century CE). Truly exquisite pieces of art.

#AncientHistory #archaeology #art

More arrows made for my experimental research. This time Late Mesolithic style! #archaeology #history #experimental #ExperimentalArchaeology #prehistory #mesolithic #scotland #ancientcraft #flintknapping

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