#Neolithic

Queen Meave IRISH FOLKLORE

MeaveofConnaugh

To try to get an impression of how old Newgrange is: if we start from today and go back to the heyday of the Babylonian empire of King Nebuchadnezzar -

Just (Dr) Rena

justrena

#Archaeology31 is all about #reinterpretation today and that's an important one for the late Iron Age in Ireland and Scotland. Both are borders of the Roman empire ( its always

Miguel Angel Moreno

Miguel_preh

How much information can we extract from a fracture? When did it occur? How? Did it cause the death of the individual? Join me in this #THREAD about our new

Dan listens to the last days of the first days

danlistensto

this is a ranking of carbs, not by their culinary desirability, but by the evilness and power of the dark archonic spirit that motivates themtop 5 (in ascending order)https://twitter.com/the_aiju/status/1336740635659866112 5.

Steve Forden

mammuthus

A simple, uncomplicated shot here, but one that I like a lot. Taken last week at the Neolithic Meayll stone circle. Sunset over the Irish sea during a warm spell

Fehuwegaz

fehuwegaz

(Edited from M. Lurker's "Snakes" entry in "Encyclopedia of Religion")"It is likely that representations of serpents on monoliths from the Neolithic age France [or Iberia] were connected with the veneration

KamilCLST6

KamilCLST6

#CLST6 Here’s a sneak peak of my #Project4, in I which will explore the diachronic progression & historical/cultural/economic implications of marine #zoological motifs on ancient coins. My #LookCloser8 will overview

Ticia Verveer

ticiaverveer

At winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines down this 5,000 year old passage and hits the back wall. The Neolithic chambered

Dr Rachel Pope 💙

preshitorian

I’ve learned such a lot from colleagues in Neolithic studies on here over the last few days. Twitter can be a great source of learning, provided we defer to expertise.

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: This is the abandoned Nakovana village located near the tip of the Pelješac Peninsula in Southern Dalmatia, Croatia... The name Nakovana is related to the Slavic word "nakovanj", meaning

David Leask

LeaskyHT

We have a problem with fake history, folks. And it isn’t just internet idiots pushing false narratives. Sometimes it’s opinion columnists too. Beyond remedial training for overconfident partisan journalists, I’ve

Dr Dawn West Cansfield 💀

DawnCansfield

#Archaeology31 Short thread on #gender in prehistory.It is generally accepted that biological sex, which can be estimated from skeletal remains, may differ from gender which is a person's social identity

Irkutyanin

Irkutyanin1

Example of the debates of Tartessian, Celtiberian populations of Herodotus, the Non-IE questions in Paleospainish Atlantic zone and its influence or non influence on Atlantic Celtic. It is, in fact,

Alice Evans

_alice_evans

Why did the spread of Islam in India have a Northwest to Northeast orientation, rather than Northwest to South orientation? Why was Bengal so much more Muslim than Tamil Nadu?

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

I see that there is a lot of chat about ancestry and indigeneity, two complex and profoundly misunderstood concepts. Here’s a thread 1/N - I have written about these ideas

😃 unspinthespin 😃

unspinthespin

1. Fauci and Morens explain that although newly emerging infectious diseases have been threatening humans since the Neolithic Revolution some 12,000 years ago—when hunter-gatherers settled into villages to domesticate animals

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