☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙

☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙

@mariaoconnor.bsky.social

Avid reader captivated by human evolution, art, anthropology and sciences in general. Interested in fighting poverty & pseudo-science. I don't answer messages, except if I know the person. I block porn/adult content/nudity

8,502 Followers 16,226 Following 3,669 Posts Joined Sep 2024
20 hours ago
Porcelain amphora decorated with a painted scene. A diagram depicts the interior, filled with painted cups and sediment.

Amphora from the 150-year-old Yangzi Estuary II shipwreck, China, filled with porcelain cups for transport.
Analysis of the amphora's interior revealed surprising details, including the ship's final loading port and even the season in which it sank.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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“Memorias de Adriano” Marguerite Yourcenar. 🏛️🏺🤍

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20 hours ago

📣 Job Alert 🏺🧪

A great opportunity!

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This morning I was meeting with Hampshire County Council talking about how the management of their Palaeolithic record, now I'm on my way to Kent to talk about Neanderthal archaeology of the region. Four hours of meetings in between, It'll be a 260 miles 15 hour day but we're making an impact. 🏺🦣

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🏺💜 La UNED reivindica el liderazgo femenino en el Antiguo Egipto durante la semana del Día Internacional de la Mujer

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@robertosaezm.bsky.social @norabar.bsky.social @mjofiguerero.bsky.social @johnhawks.net

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Close-up on a light wooden bookshelf, showing parts of two shelves, with one row of books above another.

On the top shelf, near the centre, is a two-volume collection of Greek Myths (as referred to in the post).

I've had my Folio Edition of Grave's Greek Myths for over two decades.

It was part of a Folio order which made up my first 'grown up' purchase after moving into a student flat, and it still marks the start of my Mythology Section 📚📖🏛️🏺

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A stack of books in slipcases. Each book has gilt titles and decorations on the cloth spines; the slipcases match the cloth color. Fans of the Folio Society will recognize the style. Included are the 2-volume Greek Myths of Robert Graves, a set of histories about the Maya, Aztec, and Incan civilizations; a set of ancient Near East histories, about the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Persians, and the Hittites; The Normans by David C. Douglas; and The Phoenicians by Glenn Markoe. Not pictured: Chadwick's The Celts.

Some days it be like this

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9 hours ago
Two Native American clay pots sitting side-by-side against a plain beige background. The pot on the left is a wide, reddish-orange melon pot featuring deeply carved, swirling diagonal ribs. The pot on the right is a taller, multi-colored vase with a stepped rim, decorated with incised geometric patterns on the reddish top section, a smooth green band in the middle, and a matte tan base.

Few forms in contemporary Pueblo ceramics are as instantly recognizable—or as technically demanding—as the melon pot. 🏺✨ We are proud to showcase the exquisite work of Emma Yepa, a master artist from the Jemez Pueblo, in our latest blog post.

nativeskiesgallery.com/2026/03/12/d...

#NativeAmerican

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I painted this earlier this year 🏺🤗

Do tags still work??
#myart #illustration #originalart #darkart

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¡Explora la magia de nuestros MERCADOS CELTAS! 🎶✨ Una experiencia única con música en vivo, danza, artesanía y actividades que celebran la cultura celta. Ideal para ferias y fiestas. Más info aquí: https://f.mtr.cool/fqrdnqjhol 🍀🏺

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14 hours ago
Large, round, partially corroded metal pan.

Iron pan from 10th century AD York, England #IronworkThursday
Used by the Anglo-Scandinavian population, metal vessels such as this are rare and often fragmentary.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

📷 @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social / CC BY-NC 4.0

🏺 #Archaeology

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14 hours ago

I love this picture. This women sweet expression denotes tiredness, but with unmeasurable happiness because her dreams came true.

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3 days ago
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"I always wanted to do theatre because my parents were from the theatre. I remember when my mother first took me. It gave me such joy to experience a play that, at the end, made everyone stand up and applaud...”

Juliette Binoche #botd

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4 months ago
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'Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.'

C. G. Jung

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"A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word."

Jorge Luis Borges

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1 week ago

Saw another article today headlined, "The Real Paleo Diet". Is there any more hackneyed concept at this point? Do people still click on this?

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5 days ago
Boomerang made from mammoth tusk with 5 cm scale

A boomerang made from mammoth ivory, from Obłazowa Cave, Poland. Dating to around 40,000 years ago, the object was shaped and well-used, with signs of polish in the areas where a right-handed person would have handled and thrown it.

Photo: Sahra Talamo and coworkers (2025, scale=5cm)

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A look at the Neanderthal deep cave structures from Bruniquel Ten years after describing the site, new work details ancient access to the cave.

Early Neanderthals walked into this cave, went three football fields into the earth, created 15-foot-wide bubbles of rock, lit and tended small fires upon them. Then they left.

This unique find has implications for how we underestimate many past peoples.

www.johnhawks.net/p/a-look-at-...

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Chrysanthemums - 1878
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11318

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Landscape at Port-Villez - 1883
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9869

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Snow Effect at Limetz - 1885/1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10194

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1 day ago

I don't use my cell for banking. It is dangerous to keep giving away our information. I still use the teller, ocassionaĺy the ATM

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A Mother Always Knows by Diane Jeffrey @dianefjeffrey @HQstories Book Description: Diane Jeffrey returns with another suspenseful, twisty and brilliantly tense psychological crime thriller. How much can a parent ever truly know their child? When a young man is found murdered in a quiet rural village, it sends shock waves through the close-knit local community. But Carla is more concerned for her teenage daughter, Iris. When Joshua was alive, he humiliated Iris in the worst possible way, and now she’ll be the main suspect in his murder.

A Mother Always Knows by Diane Jeffrey @dianefjeffrey @HQstories

Book Description: Diane Jeffrey returns with another suspenseful, twisty and brilliantly tense psychological crime thriller. How much can a parent ever truly know their child? When a young man is found murdered in a quiet rural…

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Prophesies are supposed to happen without human intervention, if people try to force a prophecy it won't happen.
In addition, Sacred Books of any religion cannot be understood by literal reading. Sacred books are "symbolic truth"(myths, parables, legends & characters are archetypes not real people)

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Prophesies are supposed to happen without human intervention, if people try to force a prophecy it won't happen.
In addition, Sacred Books of any religion cannot be understood by literal reading. Sacred books are "symbolic truth" (myths, parables, legends, characters are archetypes not real people)

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Grandma Gatewood: The Ohio Woman Who Conquered the Appalachian Trail at 67 Emma Gatewood was a 67-year-old Ohio grandmother when she became the first woman to hike the entire AT alone, inspiring generations of hikers.

www.columbusnavigator.com/grandma-gate...

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Si esto lo implantamos en España, Feijóo no dura en su cargo ni dos telediarios.

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China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science Funding for national laboratories and important research projects would increase under the government’s plans.

Mientras tanto... China anuncia q aumentará (aún más) su inversión en ciencia. En los últimos 5 años, su presupuesto creció un 8% anual. En 2025, invirtió 567.000 mill de dólares. Hasta 2023, el gobierno chino fue el mayor inversor en CyT, según la OCDE
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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