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A young woolly mammoth from Chauvet Cave, painted about 35,000 years ago, showing the hairy foot pads. From “Les Mammouths de la grotte Chauvet” by Bernard Gély and Marc Azéma

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Wow, a rare example of a Neolithic axe with its original ash wood handle still preserved! Resembling a modern felling axe, it was probably used to clear forest some 5,200 years ago. From Borum, eastern Jutland, Denmark. Moesgaard Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

Gonna miss you Star Trek Lower Decks ❤️🖖

submitted 66 days ago • 28 comments

Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History. 🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bones some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

submitted 67 days ago • 21 comments

Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994. 30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe. Here are four of my highlights. archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en #AncientSky 🦣🏺

submitted 67 days ago • 20 comments

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

A rare and delicate survival from Bronze Age Denmark! A 3,400 year-old woollen bonnet made using the ancient ‘språng’ technique which produces a textile with natural elasticity. From Bredmose bog, Jutland. National Museum, Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology #AncientBluesky🏺

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

Springer wrapped just dropped. My top artist is "log in via an institution to check access."

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

Beautiful and ancient #IceAge art! Small figurine of a horse, realistically sculpted from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886, in a rock fissure in the Espélugues cave, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me #Archaeology

submitted 81 days ago • 12 comments

Another remarkable little sculpture in mammoth ivory from Vogelherd Cave in the Swabian Jura: probably a chunky cave lion (photo: Don Hitchcock)

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

Now look at those sweeping lines and brilliant hues - and say that these same Paleolithic artists couldn't have easily stirred up the expressionist art scene of the Roaring Twenties as well ... 😌🤩

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900-3300BC. The thread measures a total of ca. 10m in length. 📷Laténium 🏺 #archaeology

submitted 87 days ago • 11 comments