📖 **Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent**

"_Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world._"

🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691273334/surviving-rome.

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #History #Histodons #Rome #Economy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

Surviving Rome

A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy

🇧🇬 **Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?**

"_Treasure found in prehistoric graves in Bulgaria is the first evidence of social hierarchy, but no one knows what caused the civilization’s decline_"

🔗 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/varna-bulgaria-gold-graves-social-hierarchy-prehistoric-archaelogy-smithsonian-journeys-travel-quarterly-180958733/.

#History #Histodons #Chalcolithic #Gold #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bulgaria #Europe

Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?

Treasure found in prehistoric graves in Bulgaria is the first evidence of social hierarchy, but no one knows what caused the civilization's decline

Smithsonian Magazine

🇳🇴 **Over a span of 150 years, a billion Islamic silver coins may have flowed into the Viking world**

_"Here you see part of the driving force behind the Viking Age," says a Norwegian coin expert._

🔗 https://www.sciencenorway.no/viking-age-archaeology-natural-science/over-a-span-of-150-years-a-billion-islamic-silver-coins-may-have-flowed-into-the-viking-world/2577163.

#History #HIstodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Numismatics #Silver #Coins #Norway #Scandinavia

Over a span of 150 years, a billion Islamic silver coins may have flowed into the Viking world

'Here you see part of the driving force behind the Viking Age,' says a Norwegian coin expert.

ScienceNorway

🇰🇿 **A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy**

"_Occupied from around 1600 BC and linked to the Cherkaskul and Alekseevka-Sargary cultures, Semiyarka is a newly identified 140ha Late Bronze Age settlement in north-eastern Kazakhstan._"

Radivojević, M. et al. (2025) ‘A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy’, Antiquity, pp. 1–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10244.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Asia #Kazakhstan #BronzeAge #Research #Academia

A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy

Cambridge Core

**Oldest coin ever found in Saxony: 2,200-year-old Celtic gold “Rainbow Cup” unearthed near Leipzig**

"_It is classified as a Celtic quarter stater, dated to the 3rd century BCE, and was likely minted in northern Bohemia, one of the main Celtic centers at that time._"

🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/oldest-coin-ever-found-in-saxony/.

#History #Celtic #Gold #Coin #Saxony #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics

🧐 Sabe o que é um archeotipista? Nesta entrevista, Carlos Batista explica!

📷 Podem também ficar a conhecer mais sobre história dos primórdios da #fotografia, sobre #cianotipia e sobre o projecto de arte e ciência implementado na #FigueiraDaFoz por este doutorando do IHC.

O vídeo é da ESECTV e está disponível no RTP Play e aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgQ5wHCiw4

#Histodons #Archaeodons #Photography #Cyanotype #CyanotypeExperiments #HistoryOfPhotography #ArtAndScience #HistóriaDaFotografia #IHCTalent

Carlos Batista | Archeotipista

YouTube

  **Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest**

"_At Suya there is evidence for a pitched battle, consistent with documentary accounts. This marks this conflict as the first successful Native American uprising in the continental US. This distinction results from the fact that Spaniards did not return to what would become southern Arizona for 150 years, although they would probe and settle other portions of the American Southwest later in the sixteenth century._"

🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/29/arizona-marks-the-spot-locating-the-first-european-settlement-in-the-american-southwest/.

#History #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Arizona #America

Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

Recent Coronado Expedition (1539-1542) research has produced abundant and rich evidence pointing to the surprising interpretation that the first European settlement in the American Southwest was established in southern Arizona in 1541. The first European settlement was established in the western US in 1541 as part of the 1539-1542 Coronado expedition. The Spanish settlement of

Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest | Cambridge Core Blog | Recent Coronado Expedition (1539-1542) research has produced abundant and rich evidence pointing to the surprising interpretation that the first European settlement in the American Southwest was established in southern Arizona in 1541. The first European settlement was established in the western US in 1541 as part of the 1539-1542 Coronado expedition. The Spanish settlement of
Early Byzantine Marbles in the Levant

I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately. I’ve been too focused on writing and keeping ahead of a seemingly endless array of (possibly pointless) administrative tasks that I’ve struggled to slow down an…

Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

**Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides**

"_Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops_"

🔗 https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.z40wqit.

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Sumer

🇹🇷 **Six New Aramaic Inscriptions Unearthed at Ancient City of Zernaki Tepe in Eastern Türkiye**

🔗 https://arkeonews.net/six-new-aramaic-inscriptions-unearthed-at-ancient-city-of-zernaki-tepe-in-eastern-turkiye/.

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Türkiye #Aramaic

Six New Aramaic Inscriptions Unearthed at Ancient City of Zernaki Tepe in Eastern Türkiye - Arkeonews

Archaeologists have discovered six new Aramaic inscriptions at Zernaki Tepe, a 3,000-year-old ancient city in eastern Türkiye’s Van Province.

Arkeonews