#Archaeology

Scripps Polar Center

Scripps_Polar

.@Scripps_Polar is featured in today's @sdut: reporting on work by the Severinghaus lab & collaborators on finding Antarctica's oldest ice + interview with @helenafricker on the crucial climate records in

Dr Crom

DocCrom

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Liver of PiacenzaAn Etruscan life-size model of a sheep's liver, ca. 100 BC, used in the practice of hepatoscopy (divination through the inspection of

Judith Beyer 🇪🇺

JudithBeyer

"The editor let me know that Elsevier could not publish my manuscript as it stood because they were worried about getting sued for libel." Read this excellent new article by

Pontus Skoglund

pontus_skoglund

In this ancient dog DNA study by Anders Bergström et al., we show that already 11,000 years ago there were ≥5 different dog groups across the world. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/557We then trace

Pandeyji Speaks

malhar_pandey

Hey, Madarsachaap Nizami and @ThePrintIndia let us get your facts straight today. First, the monuments you mentioned in the news weren't built by your Mughal ancestors, but were rasied on

Jimbob Blinkhorn

palaeolicious

The paper led by @MMartinonT on Mtoto - the oldest known human burial in Africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03457-8 - is sensational in every sense and I'm grateful I got to play a

David #CancelAncientAliens Anderson

DSAArchaeology

Ancient Alien Theorists: That rock is too big for people to move. MuST Be AliENs!!!Archaeologists: Have you tried, because we tried and it wasn't that bad! Ancient Alien Theorists: BUT,

Dr Coralie Mills

Dendrochronicle

#museumsunlocked Some #Castles' fab old woods in #Scotland. First Caerlaverock Castle Wood studied for @HistEnvScot-complex medieval enclosures round both castles engulfed by trees now but mosaic of woodbanks & fields

Kate Ellenberger

precatlady

I'll be live-tweeting for this event from my account starting at 1 PM Pacific US time / 4 PM Eastern https://twitter.com/IndigArchs/status/1300950254863310848 Hey all! We are hearing @potatokitty acknowledge Indigenous communities

klarameyer

KlaraCLST6

In his lecture for the ASCSA, “Ötzi and Modern Mummy Research” (a), Albert Zink discusses the discovery of 5300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman, Ötzi. He assesses the findings from this remarkably well-preserved

Jens Notroff

jens2go

Human engagement with #death led to a variety of #mortuary practices. In #archaeology we're usually confronted with their final result, but often left with only vague ideas of underlying concepts.This

🅰ntiquity Journal

AntiquityJ

#archaeology: Hundreds of massive monuments over 7,000-years-old have been documented in NW Arabia, revealing the oldest known widespread tradition of monument building in the world.Here's an #AntiquityThread on the find,

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖

FlintDibble

[ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD] One of the most pernicious racisms I see regularly is the myth that Africa has been an unimportant place in human historyBut the archaeology of Africa is incredible.

🧢7️⃣Karalas

karalas

#YangGang and others I dont bring it up much but I am a deeply faith filled person. I occasionally preach at my local church and write sermons. I have decided

jessluci

CL0UTZA

thread of screenshots i got of philza reacting to the cave and cliffs update!!but first glowsquidza :D the lush cavern drop distracted me so this is the only one i

OpenGLAM

OpenGLAM

1/12 #openGLAM is often framed as a one way flow of data FROM an 'official' organisation TO the general public.However, a lot of cultural content is being captured in 3D