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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16h

#HillfortsWednesday 👇👇👇

Haydyn Williams @tine119.bsky.social · 1d

A #TwoFer since I was unable to post for #TombTuesday
For #HillfortWednesday and #TombTuesday.....

Stroanfreggan Hillfort and circular Cairn, Dumfries and Galloway.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-n...

Archaeology project investigates historic Galloway fortress and circular cairn

Carsphairn Heritage Initiative carried out the excavation at Stroanfreggan hill fortress.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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#IndoeuropeanStudies #HistoryofReligions #Indoeuropean #Indoeuropeanreligion #gods #ritual #mythology #paleolinguistics #books #AncientBlueSky

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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#IndoeuropeanStudies #HistoryofReligions #Indoeuropean #Indoeuropeanreligion #gods #ritual #mythology #paleolinguistics #books #AncientBlueSky

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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#IndoeuropeanStudies #HistoryofReligions #Indoeuropean #Indoeuropeanreligion #gods #ritual #mythology #paleolinguistics #books #AncientBlueSky

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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#IndoeuropeanStudies #HistoryofReligions #Indoeuropean #Indoeuropeanreligion #gods #ritual #mythology #paleolinguistics #books #AncientBlueSky

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras

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#Linguistic #Indoeuropeanstudies #philology #greek #homeric #online #talks #AncientBlueSky

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 1d

This month in Archaeology Magazine‘s Digs & Discoveries: Dog teeth decorated bags of the Corded Ware Culture from Central Germany. #archaeology

archaeology.org/issues/novem...

Digs & Discoveries - Canine Couture - Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2025

A decorated bag used to carry something particular, or for a special occasion such as […]

archaeology.org

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

Relief of the sun god Sol from Roman Corbridge (Coria). The relief is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Corbridge

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Gladius 🗡️ Hispaniensis @gladiushispania.bsky.social · 23h

#ReliefWednesday
Ceres y Hera (aprox. 190 d. C.)
🏛️ Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Massimo, Roma 🇮🇹 Italia.
#History #Roma
#Archaelogy
#AncientBluesky

Ceres y Hera (aprox. 190 d. C.)
🏛️ Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Massimo, Roma 🇮🇹 Italia.
📷 A. M.

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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 17h

Ancient DNA from Neolithic chewing gum reveals how Europe’s first farmers lived, worked, and ate. Birch tar preserves the intimacy of their daily lives in astonishing molecular detail. #Archaeology #Neolithic #AncientDNA #Anthropology www.anthropology.net/p/the-resin-...

The Resin That Remembered: How Ancient Birch Tar Is Rewriting the Story of Neolithic Life

New biomolecular evidence from prehistoric chewing gum reveals the intimate daily habits, diets, and toolmaking ingenuity of Europe’s first farmers.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 14h

#ReliefWednesday - From the tomb of Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius at Porta Stabia, Pompeii (SG6) comes this relief with a series of arena scenes, reflecting the deceased's role as a sponsor of Games. #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum Naples (6704)

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Indo-european Religion - Book/ A Religião Indo-Europeia - Livro

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#IndoeuropeanStudies #HistoryofReligions #Indoeuropean #Indoeuropeanreligion #gods #ritual #mythology #paleolinguistics #books #AncientBlueSky

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras

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Archaeoethnologica (Marcial Tenreiro) @archaeoten.bsky.social · 21h

Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras

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David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · Sep 13

I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver The Tanner Lectures on Human Values next Spring. My topic: ‘The elementary forms of human freedom.’
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 9d

David Wengrow to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values for 2026 @utah.edu entitled 'The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom.'

More here:

📱 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Image: @davidwengrow.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology (Image credit: Tom Jamieson)

#LocalAndGlobal

David Wengrow to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values for 2026

David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of Utah in March 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 9d

#inktober2025 6)pierce. Ok confession: I’m a massive coward. Hate needles. So am full of wonder for my friends that have been pierced for tattoos. Going back to prehistory & the most astonishing Scythian Iron Age tattoos: mythical beasts preserved by permafrost in human skin at Pazyryk. #archaeology

A sketch of mythical beasts on the form of tattoos

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 8d

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

📷 me

🏺#archaeology

A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.

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Gladius 🗡️ Hispaniensis @gladiushispania.bsky.social · 8d

#EpigraphyTuesday
Lápida romana. Siglo II
🏛️ Museo Provincial de Badajoz 🇪🇦 España.
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky

Lápida romana. Siglo II
🏛️ Museo Provincial de Badajoz 🇪🇦 España.
📷 A. M.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 8d

#HillfortsWednesday

Monkodonja/Moncodogno is a hill fort occupied about 1800–1200 BC during the Bronze Age,located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria.

#Archaeology #History #Croatia

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 8d

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

📷 (Historic England Photo Library

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