📰 Traces of lead in children's teeth from medieval England indicate people were growing up in a heavily polluted environment as early as c. AD 750.
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Traces of lead in children's teeth from medieval England indicate people were growing up in a heavily polluted environment as early as c. AD 750.
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@oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.socialWas this Neanderthal murdered?? 😱
Major #archaeologynews from my team at Shanidar Cave in Iraq!
The team found this shoulder blade with a circular hole, likely made by a wooden spear!
Do you think it's just a hunting accident? Or was it murder? 😬
@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Archaeologists have discovered a new contender for the the world's oldest shipwreck! Dating back 4,400-4,700 years to the Early Bronze Age, it likely sank transporting distinctive amphorae across the Mediterranean.
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News
@drcraigb.bsky.social‘Pomegranates in Cyprus: a symbol spanning ancient tombs and family traditions’
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@drcraigb.bsky.social‘'World's oldest known' shipwreck revealed off coast of Türkiye with Sydney professor's help’
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Great feature on recent work by Karin Sowada as part of the team behind today’s exciting maritime archaeology announcement
@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Why did people in Iron Age Scotland remove the brain of a woman and fashion her bones into tools?
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Renowned for planned streets and sophisticated drainage systems, the Indus city of Mohenjo-daro was remarkably egalitarian, and new research indicates inequality declined as it developed!
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Pigeons were once revered, so how did they become society's "rats with wings"?
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via National Geographic
@drcraigb.bsky.social'New drone digital archaeology uncovers ancient sites in Australia'
Great work @jbongers.bsky.social and lovely to see Amy and Wayne featured as well! Archaeology @sydney.edu.au!
#archaeologynews 🏺(what a way to discover there is no official drone emoji!)
@drcraigb.bsky.social‘Polish researchers uncover clues to lost Roman temple in Cyprus’
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@drcraigb.bsky.social‘Burned Flowers in Ancient Cyprus Tombs Reveal 3,400-Year-Old Rituals’
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@antiquity.ac.ukTemple dedicated to Mars unexpectedly discovered at a Roman fort in Germany, on the Empire's frontier.
@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Archaeologists uncover a "thriving centre of worship, craft, and learning" in Scotland that may have rivalled the best-known monasteries in early medieval Britain
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Fractured skulls of ancient Egyptian servants may confirm the century-old theory that retainers were sacrificed to be buried with their ruler when they died.
@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Was a giant petroglyph, possibly depicting a Kushite ruler, a marker of an ancient Nubian borderland?
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@feenavan2099.bsky.social@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Discovery of an early medieval monastery of “international importance” in Argyll, Scotland sheds light on the influence of Christian networks in the region during the first millennium AD.
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ 6th-century-AD monastery shed light on the spread of Christianity in Scotland
@drcraigb.bsky.social‘Ancient Cypriot jewellery reveals stories of status and craft’
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 1,700-year-old tomb discovered in Roman Egypt contains a poem in ancient Greek, likely from a son lamenting his father's death
