Happy #CarnivalDay! At Early Modern carnivals, animal baiting (the pitting of dogs against animals such as bulls and bears) was extremely popular. We hope it stays in the past, but its archaeology provides an important look into past entertainment. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Coins from the Nietulisko Małe Hoard, one of the largest hoards of Roman coins found in Poland. Using reflectance transformation imaging, researchers digitally documented almost 3000 denarii from the hoard. 🔗 from 2025 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

NEW In the past, sensory experiences have often been used to shape and maintain power structures. By investigating the material culture of the senses in medieval and Early Modern Europe, a new study explores these 'sensory regimes'. A sensitive #AntiquityThread 1/11 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology #medievalsky

Stukeley documented many ancient monuments across Britain in unprecedented detail, such as this illustration of the linear earthwork monument of Wansdyke, Wiltshire, crossed by a Roman road. Learn more about Britain's linear earthworks and antiquarian legacy in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

📰 Bronze Age mines discovered in Spain may have been the source of Scandinavia's bronze, highlighting long-distance connections across later prehistoric Europe. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via the University of Gothenburg www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Why did the Romans build so many forts on the eastern frontier? #RomanFortThursday First thought to defend against Persian and Arab incursion, their distribution suggests they were better-suited to facilitate trade and movement across the Syrian steppe. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Projectile points from the highland wetlands (bofedales) and salt flats of the Dry Puna of northern Chile. Vital sources of food and raw materials for both hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, the wetlands were occupied over 12,000 years ago. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

How did people cope with food scarcity in prehistoric Japan? Skeletal evidence suggests Jōmon populations shared food in times of ecological stress, increasing prevalence of scurvy but reducing mortality from nutritional deficiency #LetsAllEatRightDay 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

If you can't wait until this evening (we can't!) you can read the article right now in preparation for the talk 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Italy's hundreds of hillforts have sometimes been described as 'proto-towns' #HillfortsWednesday However, geophysics, pedestrian survey and remote sensing indicate they were largely empty, questioning the idea that they were permanently occupied. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 Analysis of geometric signs engraved on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory artefacts suggests early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

How did social inequality really affect past people? Isotope analysis of different social groups in medieval Cambridge, England indicates diet varied greatly based on status, offering a rare "whole-town" view of medieval life. #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵 📷 S. Leggett 🏺 #Archaeology

Khosrow II, considered the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavadh II #OnThisDay in AD 628. Over the next decades, Sasanian power declined due to internal conflict and expansion of the newly-united Arab Muslims 1/2 📷 HistoryofIran / CC BY-SA 4.0 🏺 #Archaeology

What did fashion look like in Ice Age Europe? Blue pigments are absent in Palaeolithic art, but traces were recently discovered on this stone 'paint palette' from Germany, suggesting they were used for body decoration or dyeing clothes #TextileTuesday 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Map of the 'first wave' of Neolithic settlement in Central Europe, associated with the Linear Pottery Culture. Evidence for both conflict and exchange in the borderland indicates complex interactions between local hunter-gatherers and incoming farmers. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 'Return to Serpent Mountain' 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews #AntiquityResearch features in the latest issue of @archaeologymag.bsky.social, presenting a new interpretation of the enigmatic Andean monument Monte Sierpe (Band of Holes) archaeology.org/issues/march...

This is a great reflective discussion on #archaeology that also is proactive. Delighted to have been able to join the conversation on this! @ucc.ie @radhumslab.bsky.social

Show some love to your local museum this #MuseumsAdvocacyDay! If you'll allow us our own museums advocacy, our 'Museums and Display' collection highlights the importance of museums for #archaeology research, heritage protection, cultural exchange & much more! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW In the 1920s, a Swedish-Chinese team excavated over 50 prehistoric sites in north-west China. Little is known about the sites and Chinese team members now, so a new project is reconnecting discoveries with their original contexts and excavators. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Lead was integral to Roman urban infrastructure, used in everything from plumbing to cookware and even medicines! Evidence from Roman Britain indicates this harmed health, with those in the new towns significantly less healthy than rural communities. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

The Paper of the Month from Antiquity @antiquity.ac.uk is "Voyage to Kitsissut: a new perspective on Early Paleo-Inuit watercraft and maritime lifeways at a High Arctic polynya" by Matthew Walls et al., available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4rPWCst #Antiquity #Archaeology #PaperOfTheMonth

First documented in Europe during the Middle Ages, blocking games are board games where the goal is to block the opponent from moving #MedievalMonday New evidence points to their play as early as the Roman period, indicating centuries of play not observed. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 4,000-to-8,000-year-old petroglyph complex discovered in northeastern Venezuela may reflect the cosmology of the region’s earliest inhabitants 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via ArkeoNews arkeonews.net/archaeologis...

High-resolution digital image of a tattoo on an 'ice mummy' from the Iron Age Pazyryk culture of Siberia. A cut made when preparing the individual for burial runs through the tattoos, indicating tattoos did not play a specific role in funerary rituals. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Fancy a swim? 🏊️ Check out our collection of maritime and underwater #archaeology, with exciting research on everything from Mediterranean shipwrecks to Maya salt production! 🏺 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#NationalTileDay is on #MosaicMonday this year, an opportunity to share this unique snapshot into ancient mosaic laying! After an earthquake, the 'House of the Tesserae' in Early Islamic Jerash, Jordan was abandoned, leaving pieces for mosaic construction behind. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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NEW Archaeologists often claim they can contribute to modern 'global challenges' such as climate change, but rarely get a space at the policymaking table The latest #AntiquityDebate proposes an approach to ensure archaeology's relevance and impact 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

How do you like your sweet potato? #NationalCookaSweetPotatoDay 🍠 Introduced to the South Pacific from South America, kūmara likely helped early migrants settle cooler southern Polynesia, since it withstands harsher conditions than taro or uwhi (yam). 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

The first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix periodical was published #OnThisDay in AD 1828. It was the first newspaper published in the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system invented in the early 19th century by Cherokee polymath Sequoyah 1/2 📷 Glicrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Greenstone pendant plaque from a burial at Maya Ucanal, Guatemala. The rich burial was likely that of royalty, but evidence for a burning event could signify a public act of desecration by a political rival. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 C. Halperin 🏺 #Archaeology

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📰 Elephant foot bone found in southern Spain may be evidence of war elephants used during the Punic wars 🐘 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Orkney and Shetland, part of the Kingdom of Norway since 875, were absorbed into the Kingdom of Scotland #OnThisDay in AD 1472, given in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark's marriage to King James III. They have been part of Scotland ever since 1/2

One of the prehistoric galleries at Grime’s Graves - a Neolithic flint mine, near Thetford in Norfolk. Under the care of English Heritage, visitors can descend nine metres into one of the prehistoric mine shafts! 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #GrimesGraves #Norfolk

How do archaeologists tell the story of our past? How can we study stories that were told in the past? Explore windswept islands, tales told on pottery, the Ark of the Covenant & more in the latest #NewBookChronicle on 'storytelling in archaeology' 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Rice is the staple of over half of the world's population 🍚 Research at one of the earliest & largest paddy fields in China sheds light on how the development of rice agriculture underpinned the formation of complex societies in Asia #FarmingFriday (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 Innovative new approach to calculate the ruleset of an ancient Roman board game could help work out the rules of other "lost" games from the past 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @sciencenews.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-r...

Happy #WorldAnthropologyDay! 🏺 In 2018, anthropologist Alan Barnard explored the growing divide between #archaeology and #anthropology and efforts to bridge it in a #ReviewArticle. Were these attempts successful? (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Archaeologist and trumpet player Miquel López-Garcia carefully plays a shell trumpet from Neolithic Catalonia. The high-intensity sound would have been useful for long-distance communication, and they may have also been effective musical instruments. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Large clump of mail from the settlement (vicus) near the legionary fortress of Bonn 🇩🇪 #RomanFortThursday Its discovery outside the fortress indicates there was a close relationship between Roman military installations and civilian settlements. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nikolaus Copernicus was born #OnThisDay in AD 1473. He is best known for his model of heliocentrism (the theory that the Sun is at the centre of the universe rather than Earth), a controversial idea at the time 1/2

NEW Remains of the Yangzi Estuary II shipwreck: a cargo ship from the Tongzhi period (同治, AD 1862–1875) of the Qing Dynasty. Sediment analysis of an amphora in the wreck tells the story of the ship before, during and after its fateful last voyage. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

NEW How did the diverse cities of the past form, function, evolve and adapt? By compiling datasets from cities across time and space, the new URBank database enables us to address fundamental questions about ancient urbanism. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

The Phoenicians used wine for more than drinking! #WineWednesday #DrinkWineDay Traces of wine in ceramic bottles used for oils and resins suggests wine was used in aromatics or ritual preparations in the Eastern Mediterranean. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

In North America's Western Great Lakes, thousands of 17th-century glass beads have been found. Introduced by European traders, they quickly reached further than the colonists themselves, emphasising Indigenous participation in emergent global trade. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

📰 Chemical signatures preserved in human bones show how social inequality in medieval England could be "measured at the dinner table" 🍽️ 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @medievalists.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/02/medi...

#Objectoftheday is this #Archaic #Greek #kylix with black-figure #centaur decoration and painted eyes, dated to the mid-6th century BCE. ‘Eye-cups’ such as this would act as a practical joke – when the cup was lifted to the mouth, the eyes would give the drinker a funny face . C.650

1959 research suggested Dover Castle, where the Pharos is located, began as an Iron Age hillfort! #HillfortsWednesday The earthworks conform to neither Norman nor Plantagenet standards, so may have been a holdover from the ancient defences. (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000... 📷 Chensiyuan / CC BY-SA 4.0

How can ash can be useful to archaeologists? #AshWednesday Excavation at Bronze Age Tapeh Tyalineh, Iran found the pits were filled with ash from waste burning. This aided preservation, enabling the discovery of thousands of administrative artefacts! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology