#Prehistoric

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

England has about 3,000 'lost' or deserted medieval villages.We have churches in a fair few of them. Like St Mary Magdalene, Caldecote: a weather-beaten majesty with embattled parapets, cinquefoil tracery

Dr Thomas Clements

Thomas_Clements

I bought a bag o' stamps that feature prehistoric beasts (mainly very cursed dinosaurs) from postal systems all around the world and I've picked the best ones to help put

Darth Vader 🕷🕸

forceofthesith

Mary Anning: a thread on who she wasMary Anning was a dealer, fossil collector on Palaeontologist who is known for her discoveries of fossils along the Jurassic coast in Dorset.Her

Filip Hráček

filiphracek

There's a hackathon called SillyHacks (http://sillyhacks.online ) that I hope to enter, despite not really being a hackathon person these past 3-4 years.What I like about this particular hackathon is that

mesopotamian speech and debate club

bellahadith

If you’re someone like me who sometimes has a difficult time picturing ancient history, here are some of my favorite and accurate artistic representations/photos of mesopotamia This drawing is my

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: Vessel from Tepe Hissar, a prehistoric site, continuously occupied between 5th to the 2nd millennium BC, Northeastern Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepe_Hissar It seems that these two animals had a special significance

Syed

gypsy_heart6

Fascinating observations on the Indus Valley Civilization: 1) It's a myth that IVC was a peaceful utopia. Trauma & disease were prevalent though more so near the end of the

imran

meemainseen

Vishnu & PrahladaA Ballad from History____Within the confines of Multan Fort, just beside Bahauddin Zakriya's tomb this the interior of what survives of Temple of PrahladaIts origin goes back to

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

The Dutch city of Roermond, as it might have looked on the morning of May 1st 1700 A.D., by Mr. Wim Luinge. A perfectly defined human scaled medieval city (site

Dr Lisa-Marie Shillito

ArchaeologyLisa

A popular #AskAnArchaeologist question is what is the most exciting thing you have found? My answer is always...ancient poop! I’ve found 10,000 yr old goat poop in Iran that showed

Shyam Bharadwaj

Herran_Ukkonen

English word Rice descends etymologically from Greek ὄρυζα(Óruza)- alternatively ὄρυζον(Óruzon)Greek ὄρυζα descends from Old Persian Vrinji/Brinji- Witzel considers this be from an Indus Valley Language,whilst Southworth suggests an origin from

Dr Rachel Pope

preshitorian

aDNA evidence now for Bronze Age continuity into the Early Iron Age - as archaeologist Maud Cunnington first argued in 1923, and in 1932 (against the young Christopher Hawkes).https://twitter.com/thierrygrange5/status/1265314026206175232 Sh

Sarah May

Sarah_May1

Between @DavidOlusoga fantastic 'Forgotten Slave Owners' based on the UCL research on compensation records, & @ColonialCountr1 working hard with @nationaltrust to present the slavery that built so many 'heritage sites'

Ummat

ummat_s

Hello everyone. I wrote this ideas paper on exaggerated sexually selected traits and energetics, out now in #BioEssays… Here is a short summary..a thread @AnimBehSociety @SSEgrad @EEOEvolution https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/b

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

Prehistoric remains of Cucuruzzu, in Corsica. The site belongs to the Torrean culture, also appellated as "Torrean civilization", although we can't speak of urban development, making the appellation "civlization" notapplicable

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

1) An ancient Roman-dinosaur-monster-bones thread! Yes you read that right - did you know the Romans were keen fossil hunters, fascinated by the bones of ancient "monsters". Augustus liked to