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The early medieval burial from Gammertingen, 6th century AD.
The high-ranking warrior died in his early 30s and was buried with a Byzantine helmet (a so-called Spangenhelm), his weapons, and his mail armour, which consisted of about 45,000 iron rings!
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The early medieval burial from Gammertingen, 6th century AD.
The high-ranking warrior died in his early 30s and was buried with a Byzantine helmet (a so-called Spangenhelm), his weapons, and his mail armour, which consisted of about 45,000 iron rings!
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Oh, you're into 4,800-year-old Egyptian pyramids? That's cool, that's cool. I was into old pyramids, too, before they got so mainstream. I've moved on now to 5,200-year-old canoes dragged from a Wisconsin lake, but you probably haven't heard of them
The claim is rather extraordinary:
existence of writing during the Middle Paleolithic.
The claim is based on statistical analysis.
Now, "more than 3,000 characters on 260 objects" means an average of just 12 characters per object, but the BBC article doesn't mention even the range of character counts per object, never mind the variance.
BBC Article:
Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgknj7yyv2o>
The claim is rather extraordinary:
existence of writing during the Middle Paleolithic.
The claim is based on statistical analysis.
Now, "more than 3,000 characters on 260 objects" means an average of just 12 characters per object, but the BBC article doesn't mention even the range of character counts per object, never mind the variance.
BBC Article:
Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgknj7yyv2o>
Barrier Canyon Style Fremont "ghost" panel. These nearly human sized pictographs are between 1500-4000 years old.
Of course, I'm not of the culture that produced this imagery, but I do wonder why they chose such an irregular surface for the images when nearby there were perfectly good flat surfaces?
(Note: I isolated the images using a parametric mask in the rgb primaries module in Darktable & upped the saturation of the red ochre pigment used.)
Barrier Canyon Style Fremont "ghost" panel. These nearly human sized pictographs are between 1500-4000 years old.
Of course, I'm not of the culture that produced this imagery, but I do wonder why they chose such an irregular surface for the images when nearby there were perfectly good flat surfaces?
(Note: I isolated the images using a parametric mask in the rgb primaries module in Darktable & upped the saturation of the red ochre pigment used.)
Barrier Canyon Style Fremont "ghost" panel. These human sized pictographs are between 1500 to 4000 years old.
(Note: I isolated the images using a parametric mask in the rgb primaries module in Darktable and upped the saturation of the red ochre pigment used. I also removed about a dozen bullet holes.)
#RockImagery #Travel #Roadtrip #Hiking #Canyon #Desert #Archaeology #Photography #Darktable
Barrier Canyon Style Fremont "ghost" panel. These human sized pictographs are between 1500 to 4000 years old.
(Note: I isolated the images using a parametric mask in the rgb primaries module in Darktable and upped the saturation of the red ochre pigment used. I also removed about a dozen bullet holes.)
#RockImagery #Travel #Roadtrip #Hiking #Canyon #Desert #Archaeology #Photography #Darktable
As I'm attending a conference in T眉bingen today for #findsfriday an #IceAge masterpiece that is on display at the University museum: a tiny (4.8 cm lenght) but most splendid figurine from the Swabian Jura - a #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse.
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As I'm attending a conference in T眉bingen today for #findsfriday an #IceAge masterpiece that is on display at the University museum: a tiny (4.8 cm lenght) but most splendid figurine from the Swabian Jura - a #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse.
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Perhaps you know nothing about early porcelain? (you should read "The white road" by Edmund De Waal), or celadon ceramics that travelled across much of the known world from China to Europe?
Anyway, the images in this paper about underwater #archaeology are striking for the variety of products that were found at this shipwreck site in Singapore
The Temasek Wreck ceramics cargo: Yuan blue-and-white porcelain, celadon and other ceramics found in Singapore waters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050997125000132?via%3Dihub
Academia: There's no job for you in eight countries.
Also Academia: Here's a new book chapter that cites one of your books and two of your journal papers!
Academia: There's no job for you in eight countries.
Also Academia: Here's a new book chapter that cites one of your books and two of your journal papers!
A #Roman wooden bucket with a spout. While many such buckets probably once existed, this is the only one known to have survived from that period.
On display at Castellum Hoge Woerd, The Netherlands.
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A #Roman wooden bucket with a spout. While many such buckets probably once existed, this is the only one known to have survived from that period.
On display at Castellum Hoge Woerd, The Netherlands.
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This is an unusual canyon country structure. The kiva, below the cliff house, is above ground rather than underground.
#Canyon #Hiking #Desert #Landscape #Archaeology #Photography #Darktable
This is an unusual canyon country structure. The kiva, below the cliff house, is above ground rather than underground.
#Canyon #Hiking #Desert #Landscape #Archaeology #Photography #Darktable
Oh, you're into 4,800-year-old Egyptian pyramids? That's cool, that's cool. I was into old pyramids, too, before they got so mainstream. I've moved on now to 5,200-year-old canoes dragged from a Wisconsin lake, but you probably haven't heard of them
This ca. 5,000-year-old Neolithic polished flint axe with its original ash wood handle is remarkable well preserved.
During the Neolithic period in Denmark, as agriculture began to expand, farmers had to clear the forests, which involved felling trees and burning away brushwood in preparation for cultivation. They used polished flint axes for both tree felling and timber work.
Fount at Sigerslev bog, Denmark, dating 3,100-3,000 BC.
On display National Museum Copenhagen
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#archaeology
