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Three trench sections, annotated based on stratigraphic layers separated by period/culture.

NEW Central to the origins of rice agriculture, paddy fields underpinned the formation of complex societies in East Asia.
Stratigraphy reveals the evolution of the earliest paddy fields, showing how agricultural societies in eastern China developed.

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🏺 #Archaeology

The Museum's Curator of World Archaeology places a pit within the display case. Within the case are numerous pots shaped like animals or birds.

One of our displays has had a makeover! Previously a visible storage case - now, thanks to our Archaeology Collections and Workshop teams, it explores the impact of the natural world on Moche pottery and brings you face to face with portraits of individuals from this ancient Andean civilisation.

Archaeology isn't just digging. Sometimes, to understand the past, you have to recreate it. ⚒️

Experimental archaeology involves making replica tools and using them (butchery, woodworking) to study microscopic use-wear patterns. It’s how we move from guessing to knowing. 🔬

#Paleoanthropology

Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset Kinship can be difficult to discern in the archaeological record, but the study of ancient DNA offers a useful window into one form of kinship: biological relatedness. Here, the authors explore possible kin connections at the post-Roman site of Worth Matravers in south-west England.

In early medieval England, kinship was central to social organisation, determining your social position and possibilities for marriage #SpousesDay 👫
However, ancient DNA suggests social relationships were often prioritised over biological relatedness.

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Large Roman cemetery excavation at Brougham reveals diverse burial practices on Britain's northern frontier Archaeologists from Oxford Cotswold Archaeology completed a large-scale excavation of a Roman cemetery linked to the fort and settlement at Brougham in Cumbria. The work formed part of the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project and focused on burial activity close to...

Large Roman cemetery excavation at Brougham reveals diverse burial practices on Britain's northern frontier
->Archaeology Magazine | More on "Roman cemetery burial practices Britain" at BigEarthData.ai

Gloved hand holding figurine found from a dig in a Roman cemetery near the A66 by Cotswold Archaeology.

‘How often do you think about the Roman Empire?’ is so 2024.

What I want to know is how often did the Roman Empire think about Warhammer.

Pictured is a figurine found from a dig in a Roman cemetery near the A66 by Cotswold Archaeology.

It’s 28mm and on a round base ready for 40k or AOS

Just in case any new arrivals are keen to follow archaeology folks:

Close encounters of the racist kind The modern far right is crisscrossed with pseudo-scientific research into lost Aryan super-civilizations, biblical giants, ancient astronauts and the occasional inter-dimensional alien.

Pseudo-archaeology, pseudo-history and various strains of UFO belief can get … extremely racist and it’s something that doesn’t get covered competently in the mainstream press. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

I've been mostly offline today and I saw Erik Von Daniken died. He was a virulent racist and bigot and a convicted felon, and his alien archaeology "theories"
did incalculable harm to the field of archaeology. Those are his legacies.

Are you at the SHA annual meeting in Detroit? Stop on by our table in the exhibit hall and say hello to our Executive Director, Michael O'Toole!

🪨A collection of flint debitage or waste flakes created during the production of flint tools. These are from a Neolithic occupation site.
Read more 📖👀👉🏻 prehistoricwirral.com/tool-making....
#Archaeology #Lithics #Flint #Prehistory #Wirral

Energy of the Lion
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
#lion #archaeology #vienna #austria #europe #museum #kunsthistorischesmuseumwien #khmwien #art #culture #history

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My photo shows a Roman bronze dragon’s head from a military standard carried by Roman cavalry. The head is elongated with open jaws. The top and bottom jaws are lined with sharp triangular teeth. The top of the snout has diagonal ridges. It has a single round eye socket. The rear of the head and neck is textured with scales. At the top of the head there is a short, jagged, fin-like, upright crest. The bronze surface is weathered with greenish and gold patches. It is mounted on a dark stand in a museum display case.

Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260.

Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked!

Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology

Simple Red Relief model (the higher the elevation, the redder the colour) showing topography under forest cover. Structures are visible, revealing an ancient city in the jungle.

#ThrowbackThursday to last year, when researchers discovered an unknown #Maya city in the dense jungle of Campeche, Mexico.
They published their findings in Antiquity and it is one of our most-read articles ever! Find out what all the fuss is about 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

A photo of part of a Roman mosaic. On the left is part of the leg and arm of a person. On the right is a jellyfish. Trust us. It's a jellyfish. Honest.

#WorldJellyfishDay ✅
#MosaicMonday ✅

Never let it be said that we don't give The People what they want.

Just in case you are still in a spooky mood....⚛️🧑‍🔬🧠🩻🧪

Memento Mori: A mosaic that predates Mount Vesuvius' eruption in Pompeii and reminds us that we will all die A famous mosaic from Pompeii holds lessons for today.

This week’s astonishing artifact headlined the intro to HBO’s Rome - can you identify all the symbols in the mosaic? 🏺🧪

A carved stone with two lines of an inscription sits on a shelf in a museum. The first line of the inscription reads 'C DVR[O]TR[I]G'. Red lettering on the plinth reads: 'Record of building work by the civitas of the Durotrigian people of Lindinis (Ilchester).' At bottom left is the word 'Cawfields' [where this piece was found]. At top right is 'RIB 1672' and at bottom right is 'B263' and 'CH267'.

A certain site in Dorset has been in the news this week for its imminent TV appearance, so for #EpigraphyTuesday here is evidence that those Durotriges got everywhere! In the wonderful museum at Chesters on Hadrian's Wall, recording their building work. 1/3

A haunted house but for archaeologists 👻⛏️

Members

The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Comm. I'd holding a hearing on the S106 process on Wednesday, October 29th. Call your senators on the committee and pledge support for the S106 process. #archaeology🏺 #historicpreservation www.energy.senate.gov/members

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A red and white roadwork warning sign with a silhouette figure, set against a clear blue sky.

Some lessons are only won through experience as Rigden Glaab MA RPA of Westwood Professional Services will tell in Top 10 “Field Safety Topics” to consider during your next project. 

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A worker cleans the area in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt under a clear sky.

The RPA field school certification committee is working to re-imagine how we certify archaeological field schools. This process will streamline application and approval, ensure ethical practice, and expand to reflect a growing diversity of field experiences and skills.

Stay tuned for updates!

An ancient Roman coin with nicks missing around the edge and the profile of a man in the centre.

Have you ever heard of the emperor Domitianus?

This remarkable coin discovered on farmland near Chalgrove in 2003 provides proof that a man named Domitianus claimed to be emperor in the early 270s CE. It was fused in a mass of nearly five thousand coins within a partially intact Roman jar.