Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

Mastodon muss gar nicht besser werden, es reicht, dass Twitter schlechter wird.

If you're in the Woodstock area on April 1st I'll be interviewed by Alisa Kwitney for the Woodstock Book Festival. (Not an April Fool's. This will actually happen.) Tickets and info at https://woodstockbookfest.com/

I have been searching for the best way to connect with all of you on a deeper level. To find a place where we can have meaningful discussions about what matters.

Enter: The Big Picture! My first piece will be released tomorrow, but first I’ve written a special letter for friends and fans all over the world. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/my-future-with-all-of-you

An incredible Iron Age shield is to go on public display for the first time.

#GoodNews #IronAge #Shield #archaeology #Museum

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-64733701

Here's to all the diggers, ladies or not, glamorous or not. It's a tough job, unattractive by many conventional metrics, and generally they're not enjoying it half as much as those outside the profession assume they are.
Re-reproduced from Leicestershire Historian.
#archaeology

Newgrange neolithic burial chamber #CountyMeath #Ireland #neolithic #neolithicireland ##burialchamber #history ##archaeology #StoneAge #PassageTomb #Newgrange #BrúNaBóinne

Children of the Ice Age

"For more than 200 years, children have been neglected by archaeologists. It was part of a disciplinary bias towards adult men in archaeological interpretations. This began to change in the 1970s and ’80s with the rise of feminist archaeology and the archaeology of gender..." cgc373 posted Aeon Magazine's article by April Nowell.

https://www.metafilter.com/198352/Children-of-the-Ice-Age

#archaeology #history #science #anthropology #paleolithic #IceAge #children #youth #AeonMagazine #AprilNowell

RARE EMBROIDERED DEISIS DEPICTING JESUS CHRIST FOUND IN MEDIEVAL BURIAL GROUND

#archaeology #archaeologist #archeology #archaeologist

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/rare-embroidered-deisis-depicting-jesus-christ-found-in-medieval-burial-ground/146293

COPTIC-ERA TOMBS UNCOVERED IN UPPER EGYPT’S MINYA

#archaeology #archaeologist #archeology #archaeologist

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/coptic-era-tombs-uncovered-in-upper-egypts-minya/146289

Want to know how to add a #Mastodon share button to your website? Check out how I accomplished it using a little bit of #HTML and #Javascript.

Boosts are welcomed for maximum reach! 🙏🏼

https://www.kylereddoch.me/2023/02/20/creating-mastodon-share-button.html

#Development #Coding #Developer #Developers

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

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