Mastodawn

New research on El Argar pottery reveals a 4,000-year-old production network that linked specialized workshops and centralized elites across Bronze Age Iberia. Clay became an instrument of statecraft. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #ElArgar #Iberia https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-empire-of-clay-how-4000-year

The Empire of Clay: How 4,000-Year-Old Pottery Exposed the Power Structure of El Argar

A new geochemical investigation reveals El Argar pottery was not the handiwork of local households but the product of a coordinated, regional network that hints at one of Europe’s earliest economies.

Anthropology.net

PugJesus 4d ago

Imagining of the "Sea Peoples" of the Bronze Age in a boarding action on the high seas

The Dead And The Decaying 4d ago

The Forgotten Neighbors of #Ugarit

#Levant #AncientLevant #AncientNearEast #BronzeAge
https://youtu.be/mjD4TwgZ23Q

Forgotten Neighbors of Ugarit

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Nikolas Kozloff 6d ago

Read my piece, "#Earthquakes, #Evolution, and Darwin’s Exploits in #Chile" https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/11/05/earthquakes-evolution-and-darwins-exploits-in-chile/ #tectonics #concepcion #science #darwin #greenland #norway #bronzeage #santiago #geology #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #voltaire #candide #lisbon #tsunami #glaciers #landslides #tierradelfuego #mining #Aegean #Hittites #Mycenae

Earthquakes, Evolution, and Darwin’s Exploits in Chile - Nkoz Photo

Though earthquakes are certainly destructive, the geological process behind such fearsome events has provided favorable conditions for life on Earth, and particularly human life. Plate tectonics — which takes after the Greek word “tekton,” meaning builder — sustained life by grabbing rocks into the bowels of the Earth and then […]

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Martin Rundkvist 6d ago

When Evert Baudou surveyed Late Bronze Age stone axes (!) in the 1950s, he knew about 855 of them from the Nordic countries. One of them had been found in a dating context.

An artefact class of 855 members dated entirely on comparisons with overseas chronological schemes and a single domestic find combination.

#bronzeage #archaeology

grateful wolf Nov 5

Ancient Labyrinths of Europe: New Opportunities for Systemic Research [html, pdf 23pp] #labyrinths #mizmaze #neolithic #BronzeAge https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-96372-8_10

Ancient Labyrinths of Europe: New Opportunities for Systemic Research

This chapter shows the possibilities of rational (instrumental) interpretation of the primary functions of prehistoric cultural heritage sites using the example of stone labyrinths located on the shores of the White Sea in the Republic of Karelia. It is shown that...

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The Dead And The Decaying Oct 29

Lessons in #B2B #Sales from The #Illiad

#Divination #Augury #SacrificesToTheGods #Death #Classics #Fate #Destiny #Homer #Fatalism #BronzeAge
https://youtu.be/GLNe7Z-rQAA