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A 2nd-3rd century AD sample of red cinnabar pigment was recovered from the Chervony Mayak burial ground, Ukraine. The site is attributed to the Late Scythian culture, who may have used the pigment as a germicide or for more symbolic purposes 🏺 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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#FlintFriday 2 bifaces from Eyvanekey, Iran 🏺 The diversity of toolmaking techniques suggest that hominins occupied the area for a long time, supporting the idea that the northern Iranian Central Desert was a key route for Pleistocene hominin dispersal. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Check out our Museums & Display collection, with FREE and #OpenAccess research such as: How digital museums place sovereignty in the hands of descendent communities The ethics of displaying human remains Restitution and repatriation & more! 🏺 MuseumsBluesky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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School pupil examining archaeological insect remains under a microscope at Wessex Archaeology's stand at New Scientist Live, where ~5000 young people from London came to experience science and its practical application in the workplace 🏺 1/3

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Giant handaxes are just that, giant! Measuring over 22cm in length, they would have been impractical to use. It is possible they fulfilled more symbolic or aesthetic functions, indicating cognitive development of early hominins #FolkloreThursday 🏺 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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This ceramic vessel contains a hoard of bronze bracelets from ~1450–1300 BC Kerouarn (🇫🇷) It was found in a semi-circular enclosure which contained no evidence of domestic or funerary remains, suggesting that the site had ritual or social purposes 🏺 🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Happy #MayDay! 🏺🌸 The festival has its origins in ancient festivals such as Roman Floralia, which celebrated the Roman goddess of flowers, Flora. However, the celebration of fertility goes back much further than that. 1/2 📷 Floralia by Antonio María Reyna Manescau (1888)

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This copper alloy and enamel penannular brooch is a reconstruction based on a fragment of a mould from Dinas Powys hillfort 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ornamental metalwork such as this is unknown from the Iron Age, indicating the hillfort is post-Roman #HillfortsWednesday 🏺 Learn more 🆓 buff.ly/PpbCfhG

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Excavation of storage and food preparation buildings at the Ptolemaic mining village of Ghozza, in Egypt's Eastern Desert. A pair of iron shackles designed for humans was uncovered here, revealing the harsh reality of being a miner in Hellenistic Egypt 🏺 Learn more 🆓 buff.ly/kXQVpbm

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Interested in the #archaeology of the Middle East & North Africa? Check out our MENA collection, with tons of FREE and #OpenAccess research such as: 🇲🇦 The earliest farming settlement west of the Nile 🇮🇶 The rejection of early urbanisation 🇹🇷 Dyed textiles in Anatolia & more! 🏺 buff.ly/9LTcKXA

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This is the Venus of Willendorf, a c. 30,000-year-old figurine depicting a woman. It and other Upper Palaeolithic 'Venus figurines' have been interpreted as fertility symbols, self-portraits, depictions of a goddess and more 🏺 PrehistoryBluesky 📷 @nhmwien.bsky.social, Oke / CC BY-SA 3.0

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Neolithic mudbrick houses at Mehrgarh, Indus River basin, Pakistan. By comparing house sizes, researchers are able to calculate wealth inequality in the past 🏺 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 Catherine Jarrige © Mission Archéologique de l'Indus

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Digital imaging, highlighting features of a denarii from the Roman Nietulisko Małe Hoard, Poland. Researchers were able to digitise and document 2848 coins in total, showing how the technology is incredibly useful for numismatic research 🏺 Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Despite possible lack of direct contact between coastal Phoenician settlements and inland Indigenous communities in c.600BC Iberia, material culture shows borrowing of Phoenician styles. This may have been due to mobility of women across the peninsula 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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What is a #ProjectGallery? Short, online, FREE articles showcasing new results, fieldwork discoveries and innovative applications of technology, in particular from underrepresented regions! Check out recent ones: cambridge.org/core/journal... Submit your own: antiquity.ac.uk/submit

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Did communal dancing help create communities during the Bronze Age? #InternationalDanceDay Shared cultural traditions, such as music and dancing, between 3rd millennium BC Arabia, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley likely connected people around the Gulf 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Still mourning the end of the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting? #SAA2025 may be temporary, but Antiquity is forever! Our collection of North American #archaeology is still completely FREE, so get your hands on some great research now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷 was the most significant entry point of enslaved Africans in the Americas. Excavation here included the direct involvement of local Black communities, who had a huge impact on how fieldwork was conducted and finds were interpreted 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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This is a mosaic of a watermill from the Great Palace of Constantinople. #MosaicMonday It was the only known depiction of a watermill in Roman art at the time of its discovery, over 80 years ago. 🔗 from 1939 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Did ancient Britons scatter their ashes in rivers? Lack of burial evidence from the Iron Age until the 5th century AD suggests alternative funerary customs persisted throughout Roman occupation 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 Meghan Mattsson McGinnis @ecbrownlee.bsky.social

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#Roman Emperor Constantius II arrived in Rome #OnThisDay in AD 357. Its was his first (and only!) visit to the city in his entire life 🏺 📷 Classical Numismatic Group / CC BY-SA 2.5

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3D rendering of an Avar-style belt fitting, depicting a snake eating a frog #SaveTheFrogsDay The presence of nearly 40 such examples at the early Slavic settlement of Lány, modern Czechia, indicates contact between early Slavs and nomadic Avars during the 9th century AD 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Today is the final day of the SAA annual meeting in Denver, it has absolutely flown by! Thanks so much to everyone who organised and ran the conference, it was great to meet so many authors (and future authors!) Find out how to submit your research: buff.ly/3h1quPd

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Goodbye Denver! We’ve had a great time meeting everyone at #SAA2025 and we are looking forward to San Francisco 2026 already!

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A pleasure to see Antiquity author @giacomoarchaeo.bsky.social at #SAA2025! Here he is with the December 2024 issue of Antiquity, which features an image from his article on 'Italy's empty hillforts' on the cover. Check it out FREE: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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How's everyone at #SAA2025 enjoying Denver? We think you'd enjoy it even more if you had some some #Archaeoswag! Come on over to the Antiquity stand to grab some and find out how you can get your research in front of a global audience 🌏

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The recreated head and reconstructed skull of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal originally buried in Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan around 75,000 years ago. The crushed skull was rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge 🏺

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Tombstone from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, bearing Bishop Teodomiro's 9th century AD death date. Analysis suggests that the remains in the burial are the bishop's, making him the oldest identified historical figure in Spain. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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It's always great to meet Antiquity authors! Check out Jakob Sedig's article on ancient DNA from a unique child burial at Paquimé, Mexico FREE: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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#FindsFriday Pair of copper alloy cymbals from 3rd millennium BC Dahwa, Oman. Despite being produced in Oman, they are stylistically similar to known examples from the Indus Valley. Did music connect Arabia and the Indus Valley during the Bronze Age? 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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New #Archaeoswag alert! For the first time ever, you can get your hands on a stylish book of Antiquity sticky notes 😎 Come over to grab some and find out how you could get your research published in Antiquity 📕 #SAA2025

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Happy #NationalDNADay 🧬 DNA analysis is very useful for archaeology. In AD 1200-1450 Mexico, ancient DNA revealed evidence for child sacrifice and close relative mating among elites! Was close relative mating a means to consolidate social standing? 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Enjoying #SAA2025? Or are you simply a fan of North American #archaeology? Either way, our collection of the latest archaeological research in North America is sure to have something for you! 🏺 Check it out FREE: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Lidar of 5 cursus monuments at Baltinglass 🇮🇪 It is one of the largest cursus clusters found in Ireland or Britain, indicating Baltinglass was intensively settled from the Neolithic to Bronze Age #FridayLidar 🏺 🔗 to research published #OnThisDay in 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Today is #NationalBucketListDay, so what's on your bucket list? Maybe it's publishing with Antiquity? 😉 If so, we could help make that dream reality! Find out how you can get your research in front of a global audience: antiquity.ac.uk/submit

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Just bumped into Antiquity author Jan Szymański! His article on ceramic 'puppets' from El Salvador is available completely free, so check it out here: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Image of a shackled man on a kylix (ancient Greek drinking cup) from 490–480 BC Naples. This is one of very few representations of a person with fettered feet in the Greek world. 📷 National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, inv. K 1894/9.15 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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The Antiquity stand at #SAA2025 is up and running! Come visit us for all sorts of #Archaeoswag

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The theatre at the fortified Graeco-Roman port of Apollonia, in Libya #RomanFortThursday 🏺 AncientBluesky Its coastal location makes it vulnerable to erosion and sea level rise. Large parts of the settlement are already submerged. 📷 joepyrek / CC BY-SA 2.0

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