Some #SundayArchaeology news from my old work place:
Right in time for the visit of Princess Akiko of Mikasa of Japan, the find of a human sculpture at #GöbekliTepe, incorporated into the base of a wall between monumental buildings B and D, has been announced:
Some nice #SundayArchaeology musings by Mary-Ann Ochota in @guardian on how #archaeology is not just an eccentric interest in old things, but a pathway connecting past people and present day communities:
#SundayArchaeology: #Vikings in #Constantinople?
Or: How one day's graffiti vandalism can become the next day's fascinating historic document. 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe fuelled by outdated ideas regarding #Neolithic hunter-gatherers, there seems kind of a misunderstanding about the "#pottery" part in #PrePotteryNeolithic (PPN).
They actually *did* use vessels. Just other vessels.
A short #SundayArchaeology thread:
Some #SundayArchaeology: Who left these markings in a #cave in #LaRocheCotard in France's Loire valley?
Well, since they're created at least 57,000 years ago as recent analyses suggest, all odds point to 👉 #neanderthals:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/engravings-french-cave-oldest-known-neanderthals-scientists by Ian Sample via @guardian
"Ruins collapse temporalities."
For today's #SundayArchaeology: Kevin C. Pyle's brilliant #GraphicEssay on "The #Future of #Ruins", the remains of our present, and some thoughts along Paul Virilio's #BunkerArchaeology.
"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" …
Naughty boy, this is not your chew bone! 🐶🦴
Among the many fascinating finds from the so-called #Shaman of #BadDürrenberg's burial, a large #BoneAwl may tell a little #SundayArchaeology story of a #Mesolithic #dog ... who was not a good boy.
#SundayArchaeology: Can't touch this?
Did you know that on the back of the #Paleolithic so-called #Venus of #DolniVestonice (today Czech Republic), made from fired clay, a 25-29,000 y/o #fingerprint has been preserved? 😲😀
In their 2002 paper (Anthropologie XL/2), M. Králík et al. concluded that it must have belonged to a 7-15 y/o (!) person - however also pointing out "that the maker of the fingerprint may not be identical with the creator of the artifact."
http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/downloads/articles/2002/Kralik_2002_p107-113.pdf
Jens Notroff
