I wish a joyous Christmas to all who celebrate. May you have a truly wonderful time 🎄🎅.This #Roman glass spherical bottle would make great #Christmas bauble, but it was used to hold perfume and loose powder. The contents were sealed inside the delicate cosmetic container, and a small knob at the top had to be broken off to remove the oil/powder. Dating 1st/2nd century AD.On display at Altes Museum Berlin 📷 me#archaeology
Perhaps as a child you were fascinated by what trackers can deduce from footprints. But what if those footprints are over 60 million years old?In Bolivia, scientists are investigating a world-record-breaking animal trail: theropods, a group of dinosaur species, left behind 16,000 footprints. Text + video:https://apnews.com/article/dinosaur-tracks-footprints-bolivia-toro-toro-tyrannosaurus-rex-theropods-e2d3b2b5867b9a2ea4f9c86d6302a3f7The study: https://phys.org/news/2025-12-dinosaur-footprints-bolivian-shoreline.html#dinosaurs #fossilFriday #palaeontology #paleontology #archaeology #dino #footprints #Bolivia #theropods #NatureMatchCuts
It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse!A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp.From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD.On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.Have a lovely #weekend!📷 me#archaeology
What a charming #Egyptian bronze figure of a shrew! Since shrews are animals that find their way in the dark they were connected to the descending phase of the sun’s nocturnal journey. Late Period (746-332 B.C). On display at Museum Hohentübingen. 📷 me#archaeology
Calling on Scotland folks who know the geology and/pre-historic past. I saw an unusual rock picked up on the beach in Scotland and have the area listed. Ayershire and Inverclyde. Not usual for me to be this stumped on an ID. Ideas? I’ll go back there in Reddit to pass along any ideas. #Geology #Geologist #Scotland #Mineral #Rock #Archaeology #Reddit@FaithfullJohn https://www.reddit.com/r/Minerals/s/gYTNwL3dTo
This Tom Björklund painting touches me much more than I could say. He made it to illustrate a paper in Science that relates the finding of the first ever known father-daughter pair of Neandertals, in a siberian cave.https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-genomes-offer-rare-glimpse-neanderthal-family-groups#prehistory #archaeology #neandertal
Early South Americans weren’t just occasional hunters of giant sloths and mastodons—they depended on them. New evidence shows megafauna were dietary staples, sharpening debate over human-driven extinctions. #Archaeology #Anthropology #IceAge #Megafauna https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-giant-sloths-were-dinner-the
2,500 years ago, Iberians carved myth into stone. At dawn on the solstice, a monolith’s shadow entered a rock womb—enacting a cosmic union of sun & earth. Fertility, power & time aligned. #Archaeology #Iberians #Anthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/stones-of-sun-and-shadow-a-solstice
The week just started, and we already need a timeline cleanse....A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep). Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD. 📷 Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum #archaeology #RomanArchaeology
@gemsofindology wait, wait, buttons as in “we are reasonably sure that they were used to fasten garments”?or “they look like buttons, and they could have been used to fasten garments, or they may have been beads, or whatever else”?
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