Amazing Ice Age art! The ‘Lady of Brassempouy’ is one of the earliest realistic representations of a human face! A tiny portrait head of a Paleolithic woman, skilfully sculpted from mammoth ivory some 28,0000 years ago! 📷 Musée d'Archéologie Nationale St Germain-en-Laye, Paris #Archaeology

One of my favorite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD. 📷️ Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

Fantastic. See ALT text for why this isn't a diver (head position), as was my initial thought. Very nice picture ‪@alisonfisk.bsky.social

Timeless art from Minoan Crete! Some 3,500 years ago, a Minoan sculptor transformed a piece of ivory into this dynamic and graceful figurine of a bull leaper! From Knossos Palace. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Ah, what nostalgia! I love this story, it was one of the first I just kept putting it there because I believed in it so much. And @kaleidotrope.bsky.social did, too.

Neolithic axe-heads from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney. One of the most iconic tools of Europe's first farmers, wear analysis reveals they were treated in diverse ways, used for cutting wood, chiselling stone, scraping hides and more. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Was there a few weeks ago and saw so many amazing depictions of bulls to go along with your bull leaper

Wonderful Minoans

Timeless art from Minoan Crete! Some 3,500 years ago, a Minoan sculptor transformed a piece of ivory into this dynamic and graceful figurine of a bull leaper! From Knossos Palace. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday! The architectural perfection of Timgad, Algeria, is consistently striking in aerial views. The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is Roman urban planning at its best. 📷 Georg Steinmetz 🏺 #archaeology

4th Century! Exquisite jewelry. #archaeology

Fabulous Roman gold body chain!🤩 A jewelled mount set with amethyst & garnets, and a rear clasp set with gold coin of emperor Gratian. Late 4th century AD. Part of the Hoxne Hoard, discovered by a metal detectorist in Suffolk in 1992. British Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

#FindsFriday Among treasures from recent excavations in Regio V #Pompeii was a woman's small chest of wood and metal. It held this lg #Roman selection of beads + amulets of crystal/faience/bone/amber/metal, in shapes eg phallus, scarab, amphorae to repel sickness, ill fortune, evil. Plus...see /2

Today’s #FindsFriday is something truly special – a whole Late Iron Age cremation cemetery that was recently discovered by the ASE team in Essex. The artefacts are stunning, especially those from a handful of high-status burial pits. youtube.com/shorts/gmMKy...

#FindsFriday 🪙 This Roman coin from the House of Constantine c.AD 347–8 depicts two winged Victories celebrating imperial victory. Alongside the Neolithic pits and Roman pottery we've already featured, it provides another snapshot into the thousands of years of human activity at Fordingbridge.

Fabulous Roman gold body chain!🤩 A jewelled mount set with amethyst & garnets, and a rear clasp set with gold coin of emperor Gratian. Late 4th century AD. Part of the Hoxne Hoard, discovered by a metal detectorist in Suffolk in 1992. British Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Is that awl you found? A Neolithic borer / piercer, a task-specific stone tool, primarily designed to make holes in wood, hides or antler, made of flint over 5,000 years ago Photographed as freshly excavated at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in June #Durotriges26 #FindsFriday #FlintFriday

Late Neolithic macehead which was found during 1839 at Dounby Farm in Sandwick on Orkney. Discovered in a burial cist, the macehead is now part of the collections at Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Orkney

For #FindsFriday I'm sharing a bit of my current research: late #Roman rigid heddles! I had the immense honour of being invited to view 1 of 9 known Roman heddles at the @londonmuseum.bsky.social/MOLA archives. This wee guy dates from about 63CE and was found at a villa site along the Thames. 1/4

#FindsFriday This little button brooch dates back to the Anglo-Saxon period. It was found not far from the Museum at Radley Barrow Hills, Radley - the site of an early Anglo- #Saxon settlement. This sort of characterful brooch is nearly always decorated with a human face looking outwards.

Ancient pottery with personality!🏺 Face pots from Roman Britain some 2,000 years ago! Museum of London 📷 by me #Archaeology

This is the most pokemon-like archaeological object I have seen in my life

Just imagining some potter's family all DO ME NEXT DO ME NEXT DO UNCLE QUINTUS TOO

Ancient pottery with personality!🏺 Face pots from Roman Britain some 2,000 years ago! Museum of London 📷 by me #Archaeology

A last look down by drone to Trench S with: Later Bronze Age / Early Iron Age features (top right) Post medieval quarry / dew pond (largely unexcavated centre) Iron Age pit (bottom left) and big old Iron Age boundary ditch (diagonal) surrounded by huts, marquee and spoil heaps #Durotriges26

The #Durotriges26 dig team at the end of the final day's site briefing A huge thank you to them and to everyone who participated and visited the dig this year We absolutely love you guys! 👋 Hope to see you out in the field next May for #Durotriges27 Only 10 months away!

#HillfortsWednesday The stonking Breiddin hillfort in Montgomeryshire, has commanded the lowlands from a volcanic hill since Late Bronze Age times 😮 The hillfort (closest ridge, with tower) continues to be quarried for its granite 😥 📷 Yesterday on @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial survey

#HillfortsWednesday A reconstruction of the late Iron Age hillfort in Heuneburg, #Germany   . Heuneburg was first fortified in the 16th Century BC, but was abandoned in the Late Bronze Age. Heuneburg was again fortified in the 6th Century BC with a mud brick wall. #Archaeology

An intramural passage at Gurness Broch on the west mainland of Orkney. The Iron Age broch was built around 200-100BC, and then abandoned around AD100. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #GurnessBroch #Prehistory #Orkney

Today, I am visiting the remarkable Pompejanum in Aschaffenburg, an idealized replica of a #Roman villa, constructed in the 1840s by Ludwig I of Bavaria, and it is modeled after the Casa dei Dioscuri in #Pompeii.

Ancient Egyptian hedgehog shaped pottery vessel 🦔❤️ Dated c. 1539-1292 BC. Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Welcome to the Bluesky account of the Young Archaeologists' Club! 💙 We're looking forward to sharing the latest updates from the YAC network including news, blogs posts, resources, competitions and ways to get involved! Find out more about YAC at www.yac-uk.org #archaeology #history #heritage

NEW Thousands of prehistoric standing stones have been found across Iberia, but their functions are unknown. The chance discovery of three new examples suggests they served both as grave markers and territorial landmarks, facilitating cultural exchange. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

This block of metal artefacts is part of The Melsonby Hoards, one of Britain's largest Iron Age hoards. Bundled in textiles before deposition, the objects are so fused together that CT scans were needed to identify the contents. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #TextileTuesday 🏺 #Archaeology

Please see this beautiful fat hedgehog pot. I love it an inordinate amount, it is SO ROUND.

Ancient Egyptian hedgehog shaped pottery vessel 🦔❤️ Dated c. 1539-1292 BC. Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

The 'Whispering Knights' of Rollright in Oxfordshire are the remains of a 'portal dolmen' burial chamber consisting of four upright stones and a fallen capstone. Its name refers to a legend that the Rollright Stones were a king and his army who were turned to stone by a witch. #TombTuesday

#TombTuesday The little known simple passage grave in the side of the chambered long cairn of Carneddau Hengwm ('cairns of the old valley'), in the hills high above Llanaber on the west coast of Gwynedd Quite a place to visit 😮 📷 A 1980s snap discovered in my old megalith photo album 🥰

The interior of Isbister Chambered Cairn on South Ronaldsay, Orkney. The Neolithic cairn is also known as the ‘Tomb of the Eagles’ on account of the bones and talons of sea eagles which were found alongside human bones. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Orkney

One of the stars of the recent exhibition about the #Etruscans in San Francisco is this gilded silver lebes (cauldron) with snake protomes. The rows of engraved figures depict a flight of geese, a royal hunting party, and military processions. 😍 🏺 1/ Praeneste, 7th c. BCE. 📸 me

Neolithic flint dagger blades from various sites around Lake Constance. The wooden handles haven't survived. The flint material was sourced from the Southern Alpine region, highlighting early trade networks and cultural connections between the Alpine Foreland and... 🧵1/2 📷️ @almbawue.bsky.social

Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a #Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

The dragon head of Skidbladner - a replica of the famous 9th century Viking Gokstad ship which was found in a burial mound at Vestfold in Norway in 1880. Skidblander can be found at Haroldswick on Unst in Shetland. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Unst #Shetland

‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Orkney #Prehistory

Under the expert guidance of experimental archaeologist Vanessa Bunton, we have two fantastic workshops taking place in July - opportunities to step inside the mind of ancient 'makers': 🔥 18 Jul - Amber Pendant Workshop tinyurl.com/mryh7ffy 🦴 19 Jul - Net Making Workshop tinyurl.com/3af63zed

Immerse yourself in living history with our time-travelling weekends this summer! ✨🌙 Normal entrance prices apply - and annual pass holders can enjoy them all for FREE! Explore our season of living history weekends now, and book your next adventure: tinyurl.com/upjwsm5r

July workshops are live! ✨ Spend a summer day learning an ancient craft, from making your own amber pendant and string, to crafting one of humanity’s oldest instruments. Browse & book online through our website 🔥 www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...

If you're not familiar with us, hello! We're a UK experimental archaeology site with reconstructed buildings from the Stone Age to the Early Medieval. We run experiments, host reenactments, teach heritage crafts, and set things on fire. Like, a lot 😅

An imaginative reconstruction of one of the halls excavated at Sutton Courtenay in the Thames valley, on display in the brilliant @oxonmuseumservice.bsky.social Woodstock Museum. It's early medieval collections are small but very mighty!

#MosaicMonday Mosaic from Victoria Road, Cirencester. This fragment of a much larger mosaic pavement was excavated in 1947 from the Lock's Timber Yard site in Victoria Road, Cirencester. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #History #Art #Archaeology