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Content warning: Remember Ea Nasir, the bad quality copper guy from Mesopotamia? There's a new tablet! :D


220(!) authors work together to LIDAR the Amazonian rain forest and develop a predictive model for presence of earthworks. Astounding.

#archaeology #anthropology

Peripato et al., "More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia." Science382,103-109(2023).

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.ade2541


Stressed about your pile of unfinished projects? Samples of raw pigments from renovations in progress when Mt. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii. Photo by Dr Hannah Russ @Dr_Fishbones@twitter.com #archaeology #romanEmpire #traditionalArt


An ancient amber bear. Carved about 10,000 years ago, this magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 my own

Read more: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-mesolithic-period/magical-amber-animals/amber-from-submerged-

#Archaeology


Somewhat aggrieved that I hadn't discovered the #QGIS multiple map canvas panels sooner. Makes interpreting #LiDAR that much easier. Some interesting linear features interacting with Bran/Brent Ditch around #Cambridge, totally absent from historic maps. #archaeology #gis #prehistory #medieval


Astounding #IceAge art! A mammoth figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago! 🦣❤️

Sculpted using flint tools, this mammoth is one of mankind’s oldest works of figurative art. From the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. Photo my own.

#archaeology

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