For #TombTuesday... The scant remains of Dunteige Court Tomb, Antrim, Ireland
Image: 2026
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #Landscape #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Antrim
A photograph of Pentre Ifan burial chamber with daffodils in the foreground and blue sky and white clouds in the background. A
A seasonally-based scene at Pentre Ifan Chambered Tomb last week.
๐ท 06.03.26
#TombTuesday #Scape
#RockinTuesday #photography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A chalk white horse figure on a hillside.
This is Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire.
Best estimates suggest it was created some time between 1380 BC and 550 BC, making it by far Britain's oldest white horse figure.
It's inspired 16 'copies' across the country - is there a white horse near you?
Stone at Shehy Beg, Kealkill, Co. Cork, Ireland. March 2026. With @drclairenolan.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday
A round stone plaque engraved with a sun motif.
How did prehistoric people respond to natural disasters? Some of 2025's most-read research suggested a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun caused people in Neolithic Denmark to ritually sacrifice 'sun stones' to ensure a good harvest.
Read it ๐ doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
๐บ #Archaeology
Reconstruction of the impressive Bronze Age Dover boat (at half scale) at the Maitres du Feu Bronze Age exhibition at the Musรฉe dโArchรฉologie Nationale at Saint Germain-en-Laye ๐ฃโโ๏ธ ๐ซ๐ท
Great day at MAN Saint Germain yesterday discussing the different Bronze Age exhibitions of the past years during the APRAB thematic day.
Human form or shape
The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!
This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.
Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start
Length: 5.6 cm
๐ท Landesmuseum Wรผrttemberg ๐บ
For #FindsFriday this beautiful anthropomorphic hammer for metalworking from la petite Laugรจre Saรดne-er-Loire ๐ซ๐ท spotted at the magnificent Maรฎtres du Feu exhibition at the Musรฉe dโArchรฉologie Nationale ร Saint-Germain.
Mooi eerbetoon!!! Wat een toffe collega toch en bij afgestudeerd! ๐ชhttps://www.mareonline.nl/achtergrond/hoe-een-pionierende-prof-opbokste-tegen-mannen-mijn-houding-was-altijd-ik-zal-je-krijgen
๐ชจNeolithic small pointed end flint axehead/elongate chisel tool 80mmx51mm. In the style of the Michelsberg Culture most probably used for small scale wood working. The earliest farmers would have been wealthy people, trading their knowledge & tools #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
Another piece of history disintegrates. Ethically this is not acceptable.
โThey were bought by the same anonymous collector from the United States.
All the auctioned coins were sold, but Licence and the landowner chose to keep a single stater each.โ
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New paper! Led by ลukasz Kowalski, on drinking milk in the Funnel Beaker Culture, arguing for the complex interplay between gender, burial rites, and potentially ritual drinking of dairy products.
Open Access in Praehistorische Zeitschrift www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The findings that come from an DNA studies fascinate me. The fact that DNA can even be extracted from ancient bones (and sometimes teeth) is amazing.
Ancient DNA Reveals Europeโs Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected share.google/WJYszOE4b4PE...
๐ชจLarge Neolithic black flint core. The flake removal is in the style of Central Continental Europe, indicative of the Michelsberg Culture. Evidence of the first farmers migrating from Europe and settling in the interior of Wirral #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic
Goed bezig! Tijd dat ik ook weer eens ga! Eind mei @rmoudheden.bsky.social strandstruindag
In der Arabischen Wรผste existieren teils kilometerlange Trockenmauer-Strukturen, die aus der Luft wie Drachen aussehen. Die Doku "Rรคtselhafte Wรผstendrachen" begleitet das South-Eastern Badia Archaeological Project bei der Untersuchung des Phรคnomens. Jetzt in der @zdfde.bsky.social-Mediathek ๐ (1/2)
Vanmorgen gevonden op de Zandmotor, tussen Monster en Den Haag. Een vuurstenen kern uit het Mesolithicum! Blijft toch enorm gaaf dat je de eerste mens bent, die dit in handen heeft, nadat hij er klaar mee was in de steentijd!
Mooie vondst Gerard!
A new study suggests the โNeanderthal desertsโ on the human X chromosome may be from mate preference rather than natural selection acting on deleterious genes. ๐งช๐บ
Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Hereโs the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Where do I start?! 1/4
Cool News!
But that is not counting the Homo erectus engraved shell in the Dubois collection!
Terribly misleading headline. I suspect the cost is more to do with "Technical challenges in uncovering the River Sheaf have been the other main reason for the programme extensions and cost increases"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ๐บ #archaeology
A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales.
#envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot ๐
press.museum.wales/news/rare-ro...
