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The bread peel is light brownish-gray wood, with visible wood grain and texture, and dark-brown or black markings suggesting charring. The bread peel's head is broad, and the handle extends down from the center of the wide head. The background is completely black, making the wooden tool stand out as the sole subject. The lighting is even and highlights the tool's shape and surface details without casting deep shadows.

The bread peel during the excavation. It is lying in the mud.

A 4,900-year-old bread peel. It was found in the pile dwelling site of Olzreute-Enzisholz and is made of maple. Dating around 2897 BC.
The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the preservation of the peel and other organic finds

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Back in 2021, I collaborated with watercolorist extraordinaire Aaron Alfano to produce this amazing reconstruction of the support area of the Later Classic Maya palace of La Corona, Guatemala. I still love this piece very much.
#archaeology #watercolor #ancientmaya #palace #reconstruction

9,000-year-old non-stick trays was used to make Neolithic focaccia Husking trays not only baked bread but also fostered human connection across an area spanning 2,000 km (~1,243 miles)

No Teflon required 🏺⚱️

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Now in its fifth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll look at SO MANY pretty packages from our Henry Probasco collection. For instance, this stunning 18th c. fore-edge binding I didn't know we had...

December 1 (1/24)

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A fancy wooden cabinet with glass sides. At the centre, a strip of skeletal papyrus is partially unrolled, suspended from the ceiling of the cabinet.

Looks like a piece of papyrus is being tortured? Threads attached to the top of it rise up to wind around brass fixings. To be honest it’s pretty hard to figure out what is going on!

Papyrus unrolling machine designed by Fr Antonio Piaggio, the Vatican’s curator of manuscripts in the 18th century. First devised in 1756, his machines remained in use until the early twentieth century. But look rather like papyrus scroll torture devices…

Fragments of gold thread recovered from archaeology excavation

Some of the amazing early medieval gold thread recovered by our Durham University/ DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

A photo taken during the excavation, showing weapons

A photo taken during excavations showing the chainmail

New discovery: Archaeologists have made a sensational discovery northwest of Hedensted, Denmark: a massive and exceptionally well-preserved weapon hoard consisting of more than a hundred lances, spears, and swords, as well as a chainmail.

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We are looking at a close up of a timber framed roof.

Just our medieval roof gracing your timeline.

Many of the roof timbers come from trees that were felled in 1358 - over 700 of them!

Blast from the past: Researchers discover oldest US gun dating back almost 500 years Researchers in Arizona say they have discovered the oldest gun in the U.S., a cannon used during the first European expedition across the Southeast.

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Today’s projectile point illustration is a Susquehanna Broadspear, from around the same time in New England, as the last few, the later archaic. These are some of my favorites with their cool flared bases. 🏺🧪🐡

A pair of beautiful #Roman glass cups, in a bluey-green glass with white & gold 'snaking' decoration. Found near Köln (Germany), they're a lovely example of the glassware made by skilled craftsmen on the Rhine - and absolutely do not look their 1700+ years of age! AncientBlueSky

Fascinating thread!

And don’t forget about the freshwater crabs who live in the sewers of Rome!

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A Wapanucket point from Massachusetts, quite a rare type dated somewhat tentatively at around 4,000 years old. Big Larurentian-style blades similar to vosburg and brewerton types. #Archaeology 🧪🏺🐡

Being a gamer in your 30s means you get all the games you always wanted but finish maybe 3 of them and replay your favorite ones over and over

One feature I would like Bluesky to add:

Please let me block someone directly from their post

I don't want to have to go to the profiles of a dozen bigots in a row when I stumble across a gaggle of Twitter interlopers getting their jokes off

Well, their one joke. Ain't like they got jokes plural

Discovery of an early Christian basilica in Aquileia The church building in Italy reveals the connections between the Roman metropolis of Aquileia and the architecture of the Eastern Roman Empire under the famous Emperor Justinian I. The basilica is the...

News today from Austrian Archaeological Institute, with discovery at Aquileia of 4th century basilica expanded under Justinian www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/medi...

An ancient Egyptian statuette of a standing blue hippopotamus made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material coated with bright blue glaze. The hippo is viewed from the side profile. It is decorated with black outlines of lotus plants. A little bird is perched on the stem of one lotus flower

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I’ll often post photos of artefacts I’ve seen in museums. Here’s a favourite from a trip to Cairo … an amazing ancient Egyptian blue hippo made of faience almost 4,000 years ago!

Enjoy!

two men are standing next to each other in a room and one of them is pointing at the other 's forehead . Alt: The scene from There Will Be Blood where Daniel Day-Lewis tells Paul Dano "I drink your milkshake" and then flicks his nose

What I picture in my head every time I see Bluesky gain another million followers from Twitter

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Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur."

I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

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Emulation in the browser is BACK at @archive.org - 250,000 programs playable with a click.

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This thread is your guide to #archaeology sky for a deep dive into mysterious ruins, ancient artifacts, cutting-edge science, and the history of us all

A bone rosary bead with a skull on one side and a woman on the other. A reminder of the fragility of earthly success and status. c. early 16th century. From London Museum - used to appear as a large image in the medieval gallery!

An image of the front cover of "The Joy of Cooking" by Irma S. Rombauer. It shows a dark-haired white woman with a halo, wearing a blue dress and black girdle, raising a broom with which to hit a green dragon.

The medievalism of the cover design of the first edition of "Joy of Cooking" (1931) is so charming to me: a colour-blocked Martha of Bethany, patron saint of cooks, vanquishes the dread dragon of dinnertime.

Pink and Rose (1890)

I do not know a better way of getting at these reasons than for each of us to suppose himself to be in the room in which he will have to pass a good part of his life, the said room being quite bare of ornament, and to be there that he may consider what he can do to make the bare walls pleasant and helpful to him; I say the walls, because, after all, the widest use of pattern-designing is the clothing of the walls of a room, hall, church, or what building you will. Doubtless there will be some, in these days at least, who will say, "'Tis most helpful to me to let the bare walls alone." So also there would be some who, when asked with what manner of books they will furnish their room, would answer, "With none." But I think you will agree with me in thinking that both these sets of people would be in an unhelathy state of mind, and probably of body also; in which case we need not trouble ourselves about their whims, since it is with healthy and sane people only that art has dealings.

This morning’s pattern is Pink and Rose (1890) served with some apex William Morris shitposting

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Graham Taylor of Potted History, standing behind two of his replica Roman Amphorae. He is resting his elbow on the rim of the larger of the two which stands at one point two metres tall,

1/8 I'm often asked "Why do amphorae have pointed bases?" and as a potter who has now made hundreds of them, I have to say that it's something that I have thought about a lot. For a start they'd be a lot easier to make if they had a flat base. As it is you start throwing from..

Another great #archaeology starter pack with a focus on climate change and environment by @adammarkham.bsky.social

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Where the streets are paved with…bones! An example of animal bone (cattle & sheep) flooring from Park End Street in Oxford - 12 examples of bone flooring have been found in the county of Oxfordshire! 17th cent. On display at Museum of Oxford!