#Neolithic

John Lubbock

jwsal

Simon Heffer, writing in the Telegraph, eggs on the culture secretary Oliver Dowden to remove the charitable status of heritage bodies which are “hijacked by activist sentiment”. This may be

Kenny Brophy

urbanprehisto

1/ Hi we're Kenny & @AJ_Watson_. We are presenting a Twitter paper on 'analogue cremations in a digital age'. In this age, where anything is possible, why are more &

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

OwsWills

Said to be an ancient gateway to the land of the Tylwyth Teg (the fairy race), Pentre Ifan's magnificent standing stones make it one of the grandest, and most mysterious,

Dr Tess Machling 💙

Tess_Machling

I thought it might be useful to look at Ch*ddar Man as it appears so often in archaeological groups and is like catnip for the far right and white supremacists.Long

Women's Voices

WomenReadWomen

This is Saulė, the Latvian and Lithuanian goddess of the sun, patroness of orphaned children, in a sleigh led by female reindeer.The winter solstice was celebrated as her return; she

isaac Samuel

rhaplord

Mega threadSculpture in African art (ex-north)-Colossal -Life-size -Miniature-Realism, etcThe oldest are from the kerma kingdom (2500-1500BC)The meroites of kerma (kush) had perfected life-size sculptures by the napatan era (900-300BC)statu

🗨️Saline & District Heritage Society

salineheritage

We've recently had a mystery to solve concerning a peculiar looking donut-shaped site near West Lethans on the NW side of Knock HillWhat could it be? There were several suggestions

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Sci-Hub gives access to this paper on Roman DNA:https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/708 Roman region had two major shifts in ancestry composition - arrival of EEFs & farming, then later the Indo-European invasion. By

Reb Ellis

MattockInHand

After recent events I’d like to share, from the view of a PhD researcher, the importance of reporting finds which may not immediately be seen as ‘treasure’ because they are

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: Today on the Winter Solstice, one of the oldest traditions on the planet is played out at Newgrange, Ireland. Newgrange is older than the Pyramids & Stonehenge & was

Rhiannon Grant

bookgeekrelg

someone: 'How's the book going?' me: 'Which book?'aka a writing and publications update thread 'Telling the Truth about God', a short book about how #Quakers balance different needs in their

Claire Hosking

hoskingc

Ok as someone who taught architectural history from neolithic to the 20th century I have thoughts on this and my thoughts are mainly: this is racisthttps://twitter.com/andrewfeinberg/status/1341061088729845765 This only namechecks styles

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: This mask currently held in the British museum depicts the grim face of Humbaba (Huwawa), legendary guardian of the Cedar Forest from Sumerian mythology. It is rendered in clay

foone

Foone

Bob Jones University? Oh, no, you misheard me. I went to Bog Jones University, where we studied under the tutelage of the 2400-year-old mummified corpse of Tollund Man, found in

Avnish K. Singh । अवनीश‌ कु. सिंह

AvnishKSingh2

In a previous tweet, I had talked about how @CMOfficeAssam and @himantabiswa are doing a great job at handling the Covid-19 pandemic in their state. As destiny would have it,

manasataramgini

blog_supplement

Few comments since this topic is as perennial as the AIT issue among internet H -- of course you may not like it, so don't @ me. The domesticated Bos

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