Oscar Lozada
@oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Prehistoric archaeologist and hunter-gatherer of interestingness 🏹🌾 | Sharing my love of all things ancient 🏺🏛️ | PhD student at Cambridge studying the Neanderthals of Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
https://linktr.ee/oz_of_the_ancients
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I got to talk about #Neanderthals all weekend!
A great time at #CamFest speaking to the public about my PhD research at Shanidar Cave! But am fully wrecked now 😵☠️
Still on for a week, come say hi if you're near #Cambridge!
More pics below
#sciencecommunication #scicomm #archaeology #camfest2025🏺
A great time at #CamFest speaking to the public about my PhD research at Shanidar Cave! But am fully wrecked now 😵☠️
Still on for a week, come say hi if you're near #Cambridge!
More pics below
#sciencecommunication #scicomm #archaeology #camfest2025🏺
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Part of the interior of Unstan Neolithic Chambered Cairn on Orkney. Some 30 bowl fragments were discovered during excavation which gave rise to the pottery type ‘Unstan Ware’. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Part of the interior of Unstan Neolithic Chambered Cairn on Orkney. Some 30 bowl fragments were discovered during excavation which gave rise to the pottery type ‘Unstan Ware’. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The Nereid monument was shipped from Asia minor to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social The monument was probably built for Erbinna, ruler of Lycian Xanthos in modern-day south-west Turkey. It dates to 390-380 BC. It was influenced by the Ionic temples of the Acropolis of Athens #TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Nereid monument was shipped from Asia minor to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social The monument was probably built for Erbinna, ruler of Lycian Xanthos in modern-day south-west Turkey. It dates to 390-380 BC. It was influenced by the Ionic temples of the Acropolis of Athens #TombTuesday
#TombTuesday This overgrown pile of rocks is all that's left of a Neolithic tomb - Holm of Papay North in Orkney
Excavations in the 1980s found at least 18 red deer were placed here with the burials 5500 years ago!
Why?? 🤔
📸 Me
#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
Excavations in the 1980s found at least 18 red deer were placed here with the burials 5500 years ago!
Why?? 🤔
📸 Me
#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#TombTuesday This overgrown pile of rocks is all that's left of a Neolithic tomb - Holm of Papay North in Orkney
Excavations in the 1980s found at least 18 red deer were placed here with the burials 5500 years ago!
Why?? 🤔
📸 Me
#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
Excavations in the 1980s found at least 18 red deer were placed here with the burials 5500 years ago!
Why?? 🤔
📸 Me
#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
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What could this be? The label simply describes it as a ‘decorated part of an item of unknown function made of maple wood’.
A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What could this be? The label simply describes it as a ‘decorated part of an item of unknown function made of maple wood’.
A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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First revealed in spy photos, a #BronzeAge #city emerges from the steppe
An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
#archaeology #Kazakhstan
An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
#archaeology #Kazakhstan
First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe
An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.
arstechnica.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me.
Have some.
1/
Have some.
1/
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me.
Have some.
1/
Have some.
1/
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328/365. From the archives. Sunrise beside a section of north ditch, walking east in Wall mile 24. Portgate to Heavenfield section of Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
328/365. From the archives. Sunrise beside a section of north ditch, walking east in Wall mile 24. Portgate to Heavenfield section of Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn
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Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire has mainly 4th century mosaics. In 1864 the walls and mosaics were uncovered, in 2010 a mosaic floor running the length of the West Range and in 2014 a new mosaic floor in a reception hall were discovered. #MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire has mainly 4th century mosaics. In 1864 the walls and mosaics were uncovered, in 2010 a mosaic floor running the length of the West Range and in 2014 a new mosaic floor in a reception hall were discovered. #MosaicMonday
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We're used to seeing ancient Greek funerary stelae with gorgeous carved reliefs. However, during the Hellenistic era - particularly in Cyprus - steles were painted with the images of the deceased instead of carved. This pedimented stele shows a painted image of a youth holding a bird. 🏺 1/
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November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
We're used to seeing ancient Greek funerary stelae with gorgeous carved reliefs. However, during the Hellenistic era - particularly in Cyprus - steles were painted with the images of the deceased instead of carved. This pedimented stele shows a painted image of a youth holding a bird. 🏺 1/
📸 me
📸 me
November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
This oculus in the entrance hall brought light to any who were lucky enough to visit Emperor Diocletian in his magnificent Palace in Split, #Croatia
Dating from the late 3rd century AD, it's still fantastically preserved!
📸 Me
#archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺
This oculus in the entrance hall brought light to any who were lucky enough to visit Emperor Diocletian in his magnificent Palace in Split, #Croatia
Dating from the late 3rd century AD, it's still fantastically preserved!
📸 Me
#archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
This oculus in the entrance hall brought light to any who were lucky enough to visit Emperor Diocletian in his magnificent Palace in Split, #Croatia
Dating from the late 3rd century AD, it's still fantastically preserved!
📸 Me
#archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺
This oculus in the entrance hall brought light to any who were lucky enough to visit Emperor Diocletian in his magnificent Palace in Split, #Croatia
Dating from the late 3rd century AD, it's still fantastically preserved!
📸 Me
#archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺
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Lithics from the site of Cueva Grande in the central Iberian Meseta, thought uninhabited during the Upper Palaeolithic #FlintFriday
They indicate the inhospitable Iberian highlands were in fact occupied during the Late Pleistocene.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
They indicate the inhospitable Iberian highlands were in fact occupied during the Late Pleistocene.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Lithics from the site of Cueva Grande in the central Iberian Meseta, thought uninhabited during the Upper Palaeolithic #FlintFriday
They indicate the inhospitable Iberian highlands were in fact occupied during the Late Pleistocene.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
They indicate the inhospitable Iberian highlands were in fact occupied during the Late Pleistocene.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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A die made from animal bones, found in Burgstein Castle, dating 11th century.
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
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Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
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November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A die made from animal bones, found in Burgstein Castle, dating 11th century.
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
📷 me
🏺
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
📷 me
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#TombTuesday This zigzag pattern is thought to have been carved 5000 years ago by Neolithic farmers on the wall of a tomb... 👀
What was this for? 🤔
📍 Holm of Papay South tomb, Orkney, Scotland
📸 Me
#archaeology #photooftheday
What was this for? 🤔
📍 Holm of Papay South tomb, Orkney, Scotland
📸 Me
#archaeology #photooftheday
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#TombTuesday This zigzag pattern is thought to have been carved 5000 years ago by Neolithic farmers on the wall of a tomb... 👀
What was this for? 🤔
📍 Holm of Papay South tomb, Orkney, Scotland
📸 Me
#archaeology #photooftheday
What was this for? 🤔
📍 Holm of Papay South tomb, Orkney, Scotland
📸 Me
#archaeology #photooftheday
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Tile fragment from Roman Cirencester with graffiti depicting a house. The fragment is part of the collections at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum #Cirecenster
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Tile fragment from Roman Cirencester with graffiti depicting a house. The fragment is part of the collections at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum #Cirecenster
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Two 10th century hogback tombs - Part of the wonderful collection of early medieval sculpture at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Hogbacks are generally considered as grave markers or stylised 'houses' for the dead. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #TheGovanStones #GovanHeritageTrust
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Two 10th century hogback tombs - Part of the wonderful collection of early medieval sculpture at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Hogbacks are generally considered as grave markers or stylised 'houses' for the dead. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #TheGovanStones #GovanHeritageTrust
#MedievalMonday Another curious animal carving on the archway of St Bene't's Church in Cambridge, from the early 11th century
I can't tell what it is though 🤔
#archaeology #photooftheday
I can't tell what it is though 🤔
#archaeology #photooftheday
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#MedievalMonday Another curious animal carving on the archway of St Bene't's Church in Cambridge, from the early 11th century
I can't tell what it is though 🤔
#archaeology #photooftheday
I can't tell what it is though 🤔
#archaeology #photooftheday
#StandingStoneSunday The western arm of the fabulous Callanish Stones
📍 Isle of Lewis, Scotland
📸 Mine
#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
📍 Isle of Lewis, Scotland
📸 Mine
#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#StandingStoneSunday The western arm of the fabulous Callanish Stones
📍 Isle of Lewis, Scotland
📸 Mine
#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
📍 Isle of Lewis, Scotland
📸 Mine
#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
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The Iron Age ‘Battersea Shield’ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Iron Age ‘Battersea Shield’ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge
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Several minute piece on the BBC.
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
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#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
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On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
📷 me
🏺 me
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
📷 me
🏺 me
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
📷 me
🏺 me
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At Upper Palaeolithic Helong Dadong 🇨🇳 they loved their obsidian tools! From over 800 27,300-24,100-year-old microblades, 94.7% were made from obsidian, indicating close ties to the obsidian-rich environment of the Changbaishan Mountains.
🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
At Upper Palaeolithic Helong Dadong 🇨🇳 they loved their obsidian tools! From over 800 27,300-24,100-year-old microblades, 94.7% were made from obsidian, indicating close ties to the obsidian-rich environment of the Changbaishan Mountains.
🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology