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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 1d

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Museums + Heritage @museumsandheritage.com · 2d

News | Bronze age gold stolen from display case at St Fagans National Museum of History

Bronze age gold stolen from display case at St Fagans National Museum of History - Museums + Heritage

Two suspects forced entry into the main building in the early hours of Monday morning, with staff on duty overnight uninjured.

museumsandheritage.com

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Welmoed Out @welmoedo.bsky.social · 3d

Good news! The Foundation for Anthropology and Prehistory in the Netherlands (SNMAP) has provided a grant for new radiocarbon dates from the prehistoric wetland site of Bergschenhoek, a site excavated by the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in 1978. With @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

Desk with archive folders and drawings of wooden artefacts (copyrigth National Museum of Antiquities)

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4d

Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr): This fantastic ring of around 30 stones #StandingStoneSunday stands on the headland of Penmaenmawr above Conwy, close to a prehistoric trackway and three other stone circles.

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 5d

Correct. Crossed my mind you might not have been serious, but it is good never to miss an opportunity correcting the Viking horn myth ;-)

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 5d

There are no horns on Viking helmets

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Signs of artificial cranial modification in a Late Upper Palaeolithic individual (AC12) from Arene Candide Cave, Italy (ca. 12,620–12,190 Cal BP)

Virtual reconstruction of AC12 V1 with landmarks and semilandmarks. (a,b) frontal and left lateral views of full reconstruction of AC12 V1; (c–e) anterior oblique and inferior views of AC12 V1 showing landmarks (red dots) and semilandmarks (small green dots).

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 6d

#archaeobirds 🪶

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 6d

Goniatite fossil shell - like an eye peering out of the shale.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Albumism @albumism.com · 6d

The Cranberries released ‘No Need To Argue’ 31 years ago on October 3, 1994 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/cranberriesN...

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 6d

For #FindsFriday the stunning iron Gjermundbu helmet I saw this week at the KHM in Oslo 🇳🇴. It is the best preserved Viking helmet around with a cool visor. Found in 1943 in Ringerike in a ship-shaped burial mound, it dates to the 900s.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 6d

Capricorn, the sea goat, was mascot to the II Augusta legion being the favoured astrological sign of #Roman emperor Augustus

This splendid copper alloy figurine was found in 2012 at Burrington #Somerset

Now in the excellent @museumofsomerset.bsky.social

📷 July 2021

#FindsFriday

Bronze figurine of a Capricorn with head and front legs of a goat and tail of a fish

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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 6d

A rare 13th century gravoir, used for styling hair, has been acquired by National Museums Scotland after being discovered during archaeological excavations at Eilean Donan castle in the Highlands.

media.nms.ac.uk/news/evidenc...

The utterly beautiful gravoir was carved from local red deer antler and shaped into a human figure wearing a hood and holding a book.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 6d

Standing Stone • Bronze Age • Waterford

The stone stands sentinel overlooking the Nire Valley, as it has for thousands of years.

And as it hopefully will continue to stand for thousands more years still to come.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology

A tapering standing stone on a rise overlooking a valley in County Waterford, Ireland.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 7d

We have lost an absolute trailblazer and heroine of science www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 8d

Ever wondered what students at medieval universitites got up to? Wonder no more and learn all about this from @amwillemsen.bsky.social next Tuesday at 1pm for a free lunchtime lecture! www.sal.org.uk/event/back-i...

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 9d

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

30,000-year-old Gravettian-associated people, moving and mixing over considerable distances, plus a dollop of further discoveries from sedimentary DNA. 1.15 billion reads for 16,000 human SNPs though...eeeeeessh.

www.biorxiv.org

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 9d

The Ekeberg Mesolithic rock carvings of Sjømannskolen on the rocky outskirts of Oslo. At the time, more than 6000 yrs ago the sea 🌊 was 50 m higher, so the site could be reached by canoe 🛶. This image is of a female elk or deer.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10d

Amazing new research!
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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 10d

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.

Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 11d

Serieus? Een adder?!

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 13d

Sliabh Liag cliffs, County Donegal, Ireland.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 12d

Ok. Use wear analysis might indicate whether it was used and for what. It might look fresh if it got buried relatively quickly

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 12d

The Certosa situla (end 7th/early 6th century BC). This wine vessel depicts scenes of military processions and (ritual) feasts. Central is a banquet scene (guys with hats). It was a century old before used to hold cremation remains in the Early Iron Age. It is in the Bologna archaeological museum.

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