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Jens Notroff

1 year

#PublicationDay ! 🥳 " #StaubSteineScherben . Wie Archäologen in der Vergangenheit graben und die Gegenwart finden", erschienen bei @hanserliteratur - #hanserblau - ab jetzt dann wohl überall wo's Bücher gibt! 📙😉

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2 years

Narrator: How they'd move such monuments remains a mystery forever. ☝️🧐 Ancient Egyptians: These? Pushed them here. 😏 Narrator: Not a trace of how they could have done this. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Ancient Egyptians: Haha. Pushing and pulling. 💪 Narrator: Baffling. 🤯 Ancient Egyptians: 🤨

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What to do with yet another grey autumn evening, you ask? How about a trip to #Egypt and a tour through the #GreatPyramid ? You don't even have to leave the sofa! 😉 🔗

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#HillsToDieOn , #71 : Not every ancient #theatre necessarily is an ' #AmphiTheatre '. 🤷🏻‍♂️😉

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So, let’s try again all together: Documentation is not preservation. Documentation is not preservation. Documentation is not preservation. Documentation is not preservation. Documentation is not preservation. Documentation is not preservation. Documentation is not preservation.

BBC News (World)

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Google's 3D scans aim to preserve historical sites

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#GobekliTepe ‘s monumental T-pillars are actually giant #anthropomorphic sculptures. Got to admit that in the beginning of my work there, more than 12 yrs ago, I found it quite ... challenging to recognize this likeness. Until we finally excavated the 'hands & loincloth' part ...

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Archaeologists, you know who you are. 😉

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" #Archaeology : Why #context matters." Pulling artifacts off the ground without documentation of the archaeological context … is like ripping an image from a book and tearing the rest if its pages into pieces. - You've got a nice picture, but miss the exciting actual story.

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It's a mystery how ancient Egyptians could have moved these stones. Archaeologists are still baffled. Or wait, are they? Is it?

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From the sketchbook: Istanbul's #HagiaSophia has seen quite some history through its many years.

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Statues aren‘t 'history'. Statues are negotiated memorials to *a* historic narrative put on public display. Removing these public displays means re-negotiating the narratives they represent. *That‘s* history.

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Maybe fuelled by recent claims that #Neolithic hunters were too "simple" and thus not capable of cultural achievements, there seems to be a misunderstanding about the " #pottery " part in #PrePotteryNeolithic (PPN). They actually *did* use vessels. Just other vessels. A short 🧵:

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In the mood for some more armchair #archaeology ? 😉 How about another virtual trip and a little tour strolling through the excavations at the early Neolithic site of #G öbekliTepe in southeastern #Turkey ?

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"Humans."

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This is a great idea! All too often we're thinking of "treasure" or spectacular monuments when it comes to #archaeology - but to this day one of my favourite finds remains this Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age mud brick from a site near Aqaba in Jordan, bearing s child's footprint.

Scott D. Haddow

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Archaeologists: what's the coolest thing you've ever excavated? Here's my candidate: a necklace made of interlocking bone beads and Columbella shells from the burial of an adult female ( #Neolithic Çatalhöyük, 2007) #FindsFriday #Archaeology (photos @jasonq )

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"My grandma, who passed away at almost 90 years, she never got the chance to see her ancestor," said governor Tarita Alarcón Rapu after meeting officials from the British Museum. "I am almost half a century alive and this is my first time." she added.

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Hey @AncientAliens . Yeah, me again. Regarding that "How the heck could they have moved this?" again ... Here’s an illustration from the tomb of #Djehutihotep (12th Dynasty) - showing how 172 men pull an alabaster statue (estimated to weigh 60 tons) of him. On a sledge. Humans.

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I‘m an archaeologist. Skills people think I have: - finding treasure - outsmart booby traps - battling undead creatures Skills I actually have: - saying "No, that‘s just a stone." in five languages - building a complex stratigraphy of 'to read' pdf print-outs

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I’m a geologist. Skills people think I have - Reading Ground Penetrating Radar - Knowing the oil market Skills I actually have - Identifying most common minerals by sight - Spotting new potential species in amber - Appraising diamonds and gemstones

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(Mural from the tomb of #Djehutihotep (12th Dynasty): 172 men pulling statue on a sledge.)

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So, next time someone asks "How in the world could ancient people move these huge stones without advanced technology or #AncientAliens ' help???" make sure to point out these carvings in the quarries of #Silsila , #Egypt . Because: maths and human power.

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Gentle reminder that digital optical media are not meant to endure. Long-term storage of information (as in: historically long) poses an interesting challenge now - in this case not only depending of survival of physical volumes - but also reading devices.

Valerie Love

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A DVD-R came to my desk today with disc rot, where the aluminum layer had oxidised and degraded. You can see the discolouration around the edge; it's bad enough you can even see it right through the sleeve. This disc was from 2008, so it wasn't even that old. #digipres #DVD

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This a huge! Seriously huge. Ever heard of the #Uluburn #shipwreck , discoverd in the 1980s in SW #Turkey , an amazing find shedding new light on a sea trade network in the Late #BronzeAge Mediterranean? THERE’S ANOTHER ONE! 😲😲😲

A new Bronze Age shipwreck with ingots in the west of Antalya—preliminary results

Archaeological underwater investigations in the coast of Mersin and Antalya districts of the Turkish Mediterranean have been carried out with the permission of the Ministry of Culture of Turkish Re...

www.tandfonline.com

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How the Egyptian #Pyramids were built, is a great mystery, they say. We have no idea how these ancient people could have done this. They say. If only we had an eye-witness account telling us about it. Oh, wait. There *is* one. A thread:

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But ... what about those ' #handbags ' these Neo-Assyrian eagle-headed temple-protectors are carrying around all the time? 🤔 Despite what popular TV shows want to make you believe, we actually do have an idea about these things - thanks to actual written historic sources ...

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The Egyptian #pyramids are now used to discredit protests against racism, colonialism, and slavery ... with the argument that they've been built exploiting forced #slave -labour?! They're not. Archaeologists actually got some idea about the responsible workforce ...

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And you thought there‘s no practical real-world use for an archaeologist‘s skills. Ha! 😉

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It's as easy as it is no mystery. 30 years of excavations also mean an enormous amount of finds and data to be sorted, processed, and finally published. Research did not at all stand still, archaeology actually means much more than "excavating stuff" …

Jimmy Corsetti

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Gobekli Tepe is a prime example of what’s wrong with Archaeology today. Dated 11,600yrs, it is the oldest, and perhaps most mysterious structure of Civilization. Despite starting 29yrs ago, excavations are now more or less at a stand still, ~90% remains buried! What answers

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From the archaeologist's #sketchbook : Fifty Shades of #Bronze .

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Most absurd take in this pseudoarchaeology set-up may be the accusation that "mainstream archaeology" is simply ignoring important sites and finds - while those narratives at the same time unashamedly exploit the year-long work and research of archaeologists at these very sites.

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Why #ContextMatters (not only, but particularly) in #archaeology : An archaeological artifact without its documented find context is … like an image ripped from a book (and the rest of the pages torn into shreds): something nice to look at, but missing the actual story about it.

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#SketchbookSunday : Leaving stuff since (at least) 2.5 million years …

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When you're dead already more than 1,900 years, but damnatio memoriae kicks in …

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I love that google street view has blurred out Emperor Trajan’s identity.

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Think twice before you ask an archaeologist to help decorating your #EasterEggs . 🤷🏻‍♂️

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#FieldWorkFriday #FindsFriday combo, an unexpected find: In 2010 we stumbled upon this little #vessel , hidden in a niche underneath the floor in the maze-like #Chalcolithic settlement of #HujayratAlGhuzlan (Jordan). Tightly sealed with a lid of clay, something rattling inside.

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Wow, simply … mindblowing. 🤯 An unmade bed. So what? - An unmade bed left 1,944 years ago in #Pompeii ! This is how #archaeology is about people, not things. (Thanks a lot for sharing these fantastic on site impressions, Sophie! 👏)

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I had the huge privilege of visiting the newly discovered room at villa Civita Giuliana and just the detail of the blanket left untidily on the bed was incredibly touching and elicited such a strong human connection to whoever it was who once occupied this room.

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Mysteries of the late Anthropocene. Future archaeologists baffled.

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Why are there so many monopoly houses and hotels in the sea? We found another washed up today. Where are they all coming from...

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Diktaturen zu verhindern ist keine Frage von Heldenmut, sondern eine rechtzeitigen Handelns.

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"And in his house at R'lyeh, dead #Cthulhu waits dreaming." (6th ct.Byzantine mosaic, Madaba / Jordan)

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Remember the sound of an old slide projector? A chewing gum machine? A coffee mill? #ConserveTheSound puts together a virtual audio #museum of (almost) lost everyday #sound :

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Well played, #Belgium . Very well played. 👌

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That escalated quickly. Don't have a Soundcloud & TED talks are why we're stuck where we are (as I learned from @brosandprose ), so: just do me a favour, don't let anyone tell you our ancestors were incapable, dumb, or boring. Archaeology is full of cool stories to prove this.

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"Your Majesty, there's nothing more permanent than a hole!", archaeologist Carl Schuchardt once explained the principle of the #posthole to Emperor Wilhelm II. Some more #SketchbookSunday #SundayArchaeology from the archaeologist's illustrated storybook: "A Hole's Tale" …

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Guess who's really uncovering all those "mysteries" ancient sites like #GobekliTepe are "hiding" (under millennia of dust and rubble)? Spoiler: Not an angry millionaire with a Netflix show, but e.g. these hardworking guys here, digging under the sun. #ThoseWhoShovel .

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Wait, that stone with the hole there looks … familiar. 🤔 Must've been 2007, my first season at the Tepe. Typical last-day-of-field-work-find: Part of that profile crumbled and: voilà. 🫢 Not a clue of what would be waiting half a metre deeper, though. 😂

DAI

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Unique discovery: At the UNESCO World Heritage Site of #G öbekliTepe in Türkiye the life-sized statue of a wild #boar , including remains of its original red, black & white colour, has been found during recent excavations by #Istanbul_DAI & @istanbuledutr :

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Gentle reminder that archaeology is a social science and thus can offer valuable comments on present social discourse.

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They didn‘t vanish. To this day there are still more than 6 million #Maya still living in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras. Pretending they don‘t exist any longer is separating #indigenous groups from their #history and means dispossessing their #heritage .

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You know it was just a question of time - and someone had to do it. 🤷🏻‍♂️😉 "Types of #Archaeology Paper" (Inspired by and with credit to @xkcd for the brilliant original idea.)

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Short list of popular responses archaeologists get when people learn of their job (tag yourself 😉): ⚪️ "Did you find gold yet?" 💰 ⚪️ "So, you‘re working in Egypt?" ⚪️ "You dig up dinosaurs?!" 🦕 ⚪️ "I too wanted to be an archaeologist ... when I was a kid." 👶

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Interesting paper on infectious #diseases in #prehistory here. Wait … is this Star Wars' Rey standing in as Pleistocene huntress? 🤔😲

Rebecca Sear

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Infectious disease in the Pleistocene: Old friends or old foes? "The package of infectious diseases experienced by our ancient ancestors may not be as dissimilar to modern infectious diseases as was once believed"

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Why am I telling all this? Because there is another find which early on helped me better seeing and understanding this human likeness. I am, of course, talking about the so-called #Kilisik -sculpture found near #Adiyaman in Turkey in the 1960s.

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#Archaeology . It’s about people.

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#MerryChristmas #SundayArchaeology : Scratched into the wall high above the floor of #NineMileCanyon in Utah, almost flying 😉, a row of deer and sheep and goat can be seen parading in what has become known as the " #SantaClausPanel ". #RockArt , Fremont Culture, 10th-13th century.

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And ... before you start, I‘m really sorry, but all #Alien #Xenomorph jokes already had been made. 🤷🏻‍♂️😉

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#WorldToiletDay , how's it going? 😉 (Roman latrine in form of a chariot, marble, 2nd-3rd century CE, Baths of Caracalla, Rome / Training potty in form of a racing car, plastic, 21st century CE.)

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Depreciating past or indigenous people‘s achievements, their ingeniosity, innovation, and intentness simply means underestimating our own potential. We literally still *are* these people.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

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Sorry Erich von Däniken—you don’t need aliens to explain the Pyramids and Easter Island…just very determined and ingenious Homo sapiens.

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Become an archaeologist they said ... Make money! Be popular! Have fun! Everybody can bean archaeologist. 👍🤷🏻‍♂️ (h/t to @ticiaverveer for sharing this gem with me!)

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Some #SundayArchaeology #Paleolithic haute couture: These ab. 25-30k y/o so-called #Venus figurines have been discussed a lot as religious, health & fertility symbols, & mother goddesses. But some of them offer s glimpse at another interesting, often overlooked details …

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#TrowelThursday : Much more than Fedora or bullwhip, the trowel could be (one of) the archaeologists most iconic "tool of trade". The Swiss Army Knife of archaeology:

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Archaeologists don't bite, neither do they conspire (tbh, we even can't agree on a single citation style). Lots of colleagues here who bring said cool archaeology stories to you, check out e.g. @Cult_Archaeo , @I_VG @DSAArchaeology , @FlintDibble , @KUHoopes & many, many more.

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Sorry, couldn‘t resist. 😬😉

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Human curiosity about the #Past ™ goes back a long time - some would even (a bit tongue-in-cheek) go so far naming an ancient Mesopotamian king history's first #archaeologist . 🤔😉

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Is ... is this #10YearChallenge still a thing? 🤔 #AskingForAFriend

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For #WorldTheatreDay , a gentle reminder. 🤷🏻‍♂️😉 #petpeeve

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And here we go! 👏

UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳

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🔴 BREAKING! Just inscribed as @UNESCO #WorldHeritage Site: Göbekli Tepe #Turkey 🇹🇷. Congratulations! 👏 ℹ️ #42whc

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From the archaeologist‘s sketchbook: The #LepenskiVir 'River Gods' (c. 7,000 BC), but let’s be honest and just call them #DeepOnes , okay? 🤷🏻‍♂️😉

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Shapes: archaeological #typologies sometimes can be a burden, but these neat lines of development can also help us recognizing, understanding, and dating #change and #progress in #MaterialCultural .

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Very niche archaeology bubble one. You know who you are. 🤷🏻‍♂️😉

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"Before the flint club, or flint butcher’s tools, The first tool of all was a sling for the baby to keep our hands free." ( @neilhimself , The Mushroom Hunters: )

The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Subversive Feminist Celebration of Science and the Human Hunger...

A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love.

www.themarginalian.org

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#SketchbookSunday , from the archaeologist's field sketchbook: A busy day on site. Main excavation area at #GobekliTepe , view from "Wish Tree" southwest.

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"Since the first little girl ever existed. There have been #dolls . But the dolls were always and forever ... baby dolls." Wait, wait, wait, #Barbie . A 5 or 6 y/o #Roman girl's ivory doll (3rd/4th century, today in @MNATTGN ) would like to have a word ...

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"Since the first little girl ever existed. There have been dolls." Check out the first teaser trailer for Barbie.

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Dig For Archaeology

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Archaeology matters. It really matters. Because it belongs to all of us. Because it is not just for those who can afford it. And it is not just ABOUT those who COULD afford it. It is yours, ours, theirs, everybody’s. United we stand. #SaveSheffieldArchaeology #Dig4Arch

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This ... this is ... wow. If I‘m not responding to e-mails the coming weeks, I might be busy otherwise. 😲😉

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If you found that #Pompeii "pizza" (well, focaccia) fresco fascinating, you've got to see this! 😉 A builder just called it a day 79 CE, left roof tiles and bricks and measurement notes written in charcoal, intending to resume work the next day …

Gabriel Zuchtriegel

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#Excavations continue in #pompeii : this house in regio IX was being restructured when #Vesuvius erupted as tiles and bricks stored in the atrium show …

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We also have to consider a variety of other vessels made from material simply not preserved, e.g. leather containers or wood and bark #vessels - like the exceptional examples found with Late Neolithic/Chalcolihtic #Ötzi or the Bronze Age #Egtved Girl's burial in Denmark:

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Gentle reminder that, indeed, the past is made of people.

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" I thought I wanted to die. I did not realise that I just wanted to kill the emotion that was slowly killing me." See how depression goes back thousands of years. By: @Moudhy

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Woher wissen Archäolog:innen eigentlich, wo sie graben sollen? Was passiert auf so einer #Ausgrabung ? Und was danach mit den Funden? 🤔 Hab ich aufgeschrieben - und @hanserliteratur hat's gedruckt. 🫢 Ab Herbst nachzulesen (aber schon vorbestellbar 😉):

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"In #Ireland archaeologists found the skeleton of a baby with #DownSyndrome who died nearly 4,000 years ago - the oldest confirmed case of Down syndrome." Fascinating report by @spoke32 on "How Long Ago Humans Cared For The Vulnerable": via @NPR

Ancient Bones Offer Clues To How Long Ago Humans Cared For The Vulnerable

The field of bioarchaeology look to skeletons that are thousands of years old for insights into the nature of long ago societies.

www.npr.org

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Even stuck at home (and remember: it‘s for a reason - which is our all health) you can visit some really fascinating places. Like e.g. ... the #excavations and early #Neolithic monuments at #GobekliTepe in Turkey: (h/t @dutpekmezi3 )

Explore in 3D

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Unironically that's exactly what's wrong with #archaeology : Digging without publicising what we're actually doing and finding.

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This. So much more of this! If we're asking for understanding why digging up nice collectible things is causing such harm and loss in information, we also need to make clear why its indeed not about objects …

Paul Barford

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@lootplunder I'd make the point however that what is important is not an object-centred what was taken, but the damage done to the archaeological record digging blindly to get the "nice collectable things" out and discarding the (less collectable) rest of the disturbed contents of the site.

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#Archaeology is not a #conspiracy . Despite what that apparently currently quite popular You Tube video tries to suggest, the World Economic Forum is neither one single organization holding together all threads nor is it, at all, controlling any single archaeological excavation.

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#SketchbookSunday : Archaeologists are essential to an excavation site for sure. Anthropologists, zoologists, botanists, and architects are needed too. But it is the many local workmen doing the actual digging, who keep the whole thing running. Here‘s to them. ✊

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Another day in the office? - Ever wondered what we’re doing on such an #excavation day out there in the field? Here‘s a "Tale from a Tell", some little thread from the #archaeologist ‘s field #journal and #sketchbook :

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It's #WorldSoilDay by the way. Göbekli Tepe's excavation dog Kurt really appreciates all our effort on site to just provide him with a fine cosy heap of softly sieved sediment. 😉

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Oh, imagine the debate this will spark once it‘s excavated again in 10,000 years! 😲😄😉 "Ritual!" "Administrative center!" "Aliens!"

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#FindsFriday : Hollow crane bone from the #Mesolithic burial (c. 9,000 years ago) of the so-called #Shamaness from #BadD ürrenberg - a container for #microliths (tiny precise stone blades), put in & taken out through a small opening. Yes, that’s your prehistoric @xacto knife. 😉

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This is the degree of "historical accuracy in that new Napoleon film" debate I'm here for. 😂👍

Fossil Locator

@FossilLocator

11 months

I don’t know if they filmed in Morocco but those certainly look like the Devonian trilobite layers of Morocco

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EvD: "Ancient Egyptians had no idea who built the pyramids." 🤷🏻‍♂️ Merer, actual ancient Egyptian construction inspector working at Giza, in his diary: "Another day of stone-dragging in the quarries. Tomorrow back to Cheops’ pyramid. So. Much. Fun."

Erich von Däniken

@vonDaeniken

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Vor 2000 Jahren schrieb Diodor von Sizilien über Ägypten. Er kannte auch die Werke aller Historiker, die bereits v o r ihm darüber geschrieben hatten. „Keiner weiss, wer die Pyramiden gebaut hat“. So ist es: die alten Ägypter wussten n i c h t,wer der Bauherr der Pyramiden war.

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Yes, shelter construction is completed. And yes, #G öbekliTepe is accessible to the public again.

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The "Diary of #Merer " ( #PapyrusJarf A & B, found in 2013 by a French expedition under direction of Sorbonne University's Pierre Tallet in a cave in Wadi al-Jarf) includes the logbooks of workers who took part in the construction of the Great #Pyramid of #Giza .

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Well, don't say these early #Neolithic #TasTepeler sites in SE #Turkey won't offer a surprise anymore. #Karahantepe just comes with yet another new #sculpture variation of familiar #iconography . 🙌

Aktüel Arkeoloji

@AktuelArkeoloji

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Tarihin Sıfır Noktasında Heyecan Yaratan Keşif Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı'nca yapılan açıklamada; Karahantepe’de sürdürülen arkeolojik kazılarda gerçekçi bir insan heykeli ve Göbeklitepe’deki kazılarda yaban domuzu heykeli açığa çıkartıldı. Detaylar⬇️

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Of course #NevaliCori ‘s pillars were already known for some time, complete with hands and stola-like garments. But their abstracted and stylised appearance (still impressively expressionistic to me, by the way) made it a bit of a challenge to easily accept their human shape.

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The point is: They could - and *did* make vessels. Just not pottery vessels. Probably because of the fragility of this material - which may not be the most practical thing for highly mobile people repeatedly packing up all their stuff and moving on to the next place.

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Well, the boar's out of the bag: There's yet *another* great recent discovery from Pre-Pottery #Neolithic Anatolia!🙌 A, with 130 cm life-sized (!), #boar sculpture 🐗, including traces of former painting (!!) 🧑‍🎨 with red, black, and white pigments from #G öbekliTepe.

Hürriyet Daily News

@HDNER

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‘Göbeklitepe discoveries never end,’ says head of excavations

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4 years

It‘s a girl! 👩💪

The Siberian Times

@siberian_times

4 years

Ancient girl Amazon warrior no older than 13 is confirmed by modern scientific techniques. Warrior’s grave found in 1988 was identified as male - yet now the 2,600-year-old teenager is revealed to be female

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Since we're all still here ... how about a little tour through the #Neolithic exhibition of Urfa's new archaeological museum? Well, at least the part I'm somehow familiar with ... which means the Pre-Pottery Neolithic #GobekliTepe finds on display there.

Jens Notroff

@jens2go

4 years

And hey, once you‘re finished (virtually) exploring #GobekliTepe ... how about another (virtual) excursion through @SMuzesi , the archaeological #museum in #Sanliurfa (exhibiting quite a number of our finds from the site ... and much more)? 😉

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Well known and clearly associated with #PrePotteryNeolithic contexts are e.g. #StoneVessels from different places like #K örtikTepe in Turkey or #JerfElAhmar and #TellAbr in Syria as well as (often fragmented though) many more related sites (including Göbekli Tepe by the way).

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Building a pyramid, how hard can that be? Let's find out. 😂😉

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This is another great example why #archaeology is so careful about what and when and where to excavate - and to resist complete excavation: To not only leave such delicate finds for improved future analytical but also conservational treatment!

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

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This photograph was taken in 1974 and shows the freshly excavated pit with 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors still showing the original color scheme before the rapid deterioration that made them as we know them today.

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To boldly go where no human has gone before? Oldest (yet known) human #footprints from Germany, left by #HomoHeidelbergensis about 300,000 years ago, found among elephant tracks at the #Paleolithic site of #Sch öningen in Lower Saxony: via @uni_tue

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