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Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Dec 2
Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as:

🔵 The oldest blue mineral pigment use in Europe
⛰️ Mesoamerican mountain monuments and water worship
🐚 Playing the shell trumpets of Neolithic Catalonia

& much more! 🏺
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Cover of the December 2025 issue of Antiquity, featuring a photogrammetric image of an ancient quarry, with evidence for the quarrying of stone and a partially complete humanoid statue lying on its back.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Hatshepsut, one of Ancient Egypt's few female pharaohs, possibly died #OnThisDay in 1458 BC. She was succeeded by her nephew, Thutmose III, who allegedly destroyed her statuary as an act of political persecution. The reality, however, is more complex.

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🏺 #Archaeology
Black-and-white photo of a fragmented limestone statue. One piece is the face of a pharaoh (Hatshepsut) with a crack running across the left eye (photograph by Harry Burton, 1929; © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives (M10C 71)).
January 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Happy #BookPublishersDay to all who celebrate 📚
If you're looking for some new #archaeology books, check out our website, where we review tons of the latest publications and list all the books we receive! 🏺

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Books and reviews
Read the latest (and archived) book reviews, review articles and New Book Chronicle, and find out how to submit your book for review.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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📰 Isotope analysis finds Neolithic people at Wadi Nafūn, Oman were regularly eating proteins from the top of the marine food chain, suggesting that prehistoric people in Arabia were hunting and eating sharks!

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social

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Neolithic Peoples of Arabia Fed on Shark Hunting 7,000 Years Ago
A team of researchers from the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague has made a discovery of monumental proportions in the arid territory of Oman, specifically at the…
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January 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Calling all sherd nerds! This week's #FindsFriday, we give you potsherds from Bronze Age Tapeh Tyalineh, western Iran.
Belonging to several different pottery traditions, they indicate the site was involved in extensive, organised commercial exchange.

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19 potsherds overlaid onto illustrations of the vessels they came from, in different styles: 1–6) Yanik Gray Wares; 7–9 & 12) proto-Elamite Wares; 10, 11 & 13–19) Jamdat Nasr style.
January 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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See our new paper in @antiquity.ac.uk on interactions between Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer in the borderland of Central Europe #Archaeology @hpiezonka.bsky.social @oliverdietrich.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social
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January 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Rewilding the archaeological imagination. Yes to this
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Avebury is known for its Neolithic & Bronze Age monuments, but its use ebbed and flowed over time and it has been massively altered by farming, grazing and erosion.
Can contemporary rewilding projects help us better-imagine prehistoric landscapes?

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🏺 #Archaeology
Topographic map of the Avebury landscape annotated with Neolithic sites, such as Avebury Henge and Silbury Hill.
January 16, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, found they were massacred, butchered, and partly consumed.
It may have been a way to dehumanise them, showcasing a level of violence unseen before in Bronze Age Britain.

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Map showing the location of Charterhouse Warren, Mendip, Somerset.
January 16, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Fragments of ceramic 'keru' cups, used by the pre-Inca Tiwanaku state for the consumption of the fermented maize beverage Chicha.
Often drunk during communal feasts, the ceremonies emphasised hierarchy, contributing to Tiwanaku political expansion.

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Eight fragments of orange-brown ceramics decorated with black, orange and red painted patterns and overlaid onto diagrams indicating which section of a cup they came from. On the right, an orange-coloured 3D model depicts a complete keru cup: a cup with a narrow base and tall body that begins to flare outwards from the middle upwards.
January 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Avebury is known for its Neolithic & Bronze Age monuments, but its use ebbed and flowed over time and it has been massively altered by farming, grazing and erosion.
Can contemporary rewilding projects help us better-imagine prehistoric landscapes?

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Topographic map of the Avebury landscape annotated with Neolithic sites, such as Avebury Henge and Silbury Hill.
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Windowpane fragments from the Roman fort and caravanserai of Khirbet al-Khalde, Jordan #RomanFortThursday
The glass was Egyptian, not Syro-Palestinian as was common for the region, suggesting the economy was less centrally organised than first thought.

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20 fragments of flat pieces of glass, ranging in colour from pale grey-green to brown.
January 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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This outfit was all made from tree bark, including the hat! #NationalHatDay
In Island Southeast Asia, barkcloth has been used to make clothes for thousands of years, produced by soaking and beating the fibrous inner bark of (typically) mulberry trees.

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Girl wearing a hat, shirt and skirt made from barkcloth (bast), decorated with many multicoloured motifs.
January 15, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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📰 Newly-discovered medieval cargo ship in Denmark is the largest of its kind yet found ⛵
It could carry ~300 tonnes of cargo, indicating a greater scale of trade across medieval Europe than previously observed.

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @the-independent.com

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Archaeologists find largest-ever medieval ‘super ship’ longer than two school buses
Archaeologists say ship was built with timber from modern-day Poland and the Netherlands
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January 15, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England #OnThisDay in AD 1559. Did you know she had her very own court astrologer, who used an obsidian mirror for occult experiments!

The mirror is Aztec in origin, brought to Europe after the Spanish conquest.

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A flat, circular piece of black obsidian, with a protrusion extending from the top with a hole in it, likely as a means to hang the mirror. Viewed from both sides.
January 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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📰 Discovery of traces of plant toxins on 60,000-year-old arrows from South Africa marks the earliest known evidence of humans using poisons to hunt, pushing back evidence tens of thousands of years.

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

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Archaeologists Just Discovered the Oldest Known Evidence of Poison Arrows, Which Hunters Used to Slow Down Their Prey 60,000 Years Ago
New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of thousands of years earlier than scientists thought
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January 14, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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The health of a mother during pregnancy has a profound effect on their child's health. By examining mother and infant skeletons from Iron Age & Roman Britain, Rebecca Pitt explores the long-term impact of Roman occupation on health #WaybackWednesday

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Bar chart showing percentage prevalence rates of palaeopathological changes, such as dental enamel hypoplasia and bone infections, in non-adult skeletons from southern Britain, separated into three datasets based on whether the skeletons were found in Iron Age, rural Roman or urban Roman contexts.
January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Do you want to publish on a fieldwork discovery, innovative use of technology, or ongoing project?

Project Galleries are 1500 words, online only, and free to read, making them perfect for showcasing research of broad relevance 🏺 #Archaeology

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Person looking into a stereomicroscope, holding a stone axe under its lens.
January 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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The 9th-century BC burial mound of Tunnug 1, Siberia

Human and horse remains were found in the kurgan, alongside animal-style art, weapons, and horse gear, suggesting it was a royal burial.

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Oblique aerial photograph of a circular burial mound in a grassland, with mountains in the background.
January 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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You've likely heard of aerial archaeology using planes, but what about kites? #InternationalKiteDay 🪁
By mounting a camera onto a kite, archaeologists mapped 100 Chalcolithic-to-medieval sites in Azerbaijan's Qaraçay River Basin from the sky.

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Grassy landscape with several pale-coloured earthen mounds. On one mound, two people stand flying a red kite.
January 14, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Archaeologists uncover evidence for interaction between the first Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic foragers in Central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer never-before observed.

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January 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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The #AIASCS annual meeting from the Archaeological Institute of America & @scsclassics.bsky.social may be over for this year, but don't forget to check out our collection of classical archaeology, which is still completely FREE:

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Classical, white-marble, pillared buildings overlaid with the text 'Classical Archaeology, Antiquity'.
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Bronze Age burials containing ochre from Ban Non Wat, Thailand #TombTuesday
Used in elaborate funerary rituals, ochre vanished from burials during the Iron Age, indicating a possible shift in mortuary ideology due to changing cosmological beliefs.

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Eight excavated burials containing human remains, ceramic vessels, shells and copper artefacts.
January 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Melted marbles from Moria, the largest migrant camp in Europe, which burnt down in 2020.
The material culture of border crossings is often intentionally erased. Preserving and studying it is essential to understanding this contemporary #archaeology 🏺

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Glass marbles in various colours, deformed and melted into clusters by fire.
January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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The Nika Riots broke out at the Hippodrome #OnThisDay in AD 532, as a result of discontent with the rule of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Often regarded as the most violent riots in Constantinople's history, nearly half of the city was burned or destroyed 🏺 1/2
Black-and-white photograph of the Hippodrome: a rectangular space with roads around its edges and obelisks positioned in a straight line through its centre.
January 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 12:33 PM