Anthropology

I’m just about to start my degree and want a place to post interesting stuff

[pukicho]

I don't know if you would be at the bottom or top of the evolution scale.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[thatshowthingstarted]

White Horse of Uffington, Uffington, Oxfordshire, England,

The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure 110 m (360 ft) long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.

The figure has long been presumed to date to “the later prehistory” – the Iron Age (800 BC–AD 100) or the late Bronze Age (1000–700 BC). 

[ancientegyptianmemes]

Archaeologists unearthed 27 sarcophagi in an ancient Egyptian city of the dead. They've been sealed for more than 2,500 years.

Egyptians buried their dead in Saqqara for thousands of years. The ancient city has yielded countless discoveries, including human and animal mummies.

[elsinore-snores]

some really beautiful african architecture because honestly this site is so western-centric

mako

unknown

cameroon

burkina faso

mali

Ndebele

burkina faso

please add more if you can!

[ayeshapoptropica]

these are SO BEAUTIFUL

[musinvenusian]

MALI IS MY FAVORITE. I LOVE THE COLORS 😍😍😍😍😍

[misshoneywheeler]

The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia

The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt

The Nubian Pyramids at Meroe, Sudan

Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, a commemoration of the destroyed Library at Alexandria

Bosjes Chapel, South Africa

The Gando School by Diébédo Francis Kéré, Gando, Burkina Faso

The Dyeji Building, Luanda, Angola

[archaeologychannel-deactivated2]

This week in FREE Audio News from Archaeologica (2/4): Discovered burial remains in a Red Sea trading port indicate Romans imported monkeys from India as pets. 

Listen to it along with more stories on The Archaeology Channel website (link in bio). Or find us on your favorite podcast service, like Spotify,Google Play, Stitcher & Apple Podcasts. #freecontent #audionews #archaeologicalnews #ancientrome #lovedpets #archaeology #animalburials #ancientpets

[undertalethingems]

Yup, here it is–my extremely basic tips for drawing skeletons of any sort! 

This isn’t meant to be a full tutorial–the animal kingdom is far too diverse for one casual tumblr post with sketchy art to cover. Instead, it’s meant to highlight some of the patterns you can use to make drawing skeletons easier for yourself, and help combat some of the common mistakes I’ve seen.

As always, looking up references–photos of real skeletons and anatomical diagrams alike–will be your best means of improving your understanding, but maybe this guide will help you know where to start. I can only hope it helps!

[architectureofdoom]

Teatro Comunale (where asbestos was found circa 10 years ago), Alessandria, 1969-78

[neapolis-neapolis]

Ninfeo imperiale di Punta Epitaffio (I sec.), Parco Archeologico sommerso di Baia, Bacoli, Napoli.

[itscolossal]

Archaeologists Excavate a Stunning Roman Mosaic That’s Untarnished From an Italian Vineyard

[ziraseal]

[greek-museums]

Archaeological Museum of Patra:

Four crowned skulls of two little girls, and two women, from the North Cemetery in Patras, from the Hellenistic Period. 

The first skull bears a wreath of gilded myrtle fruits. The deceased wore golden earrings. (300-275 B.C)

The second skull bears a wreath of fruits and myrtle flowers. The flowers are earthen, some gilded and others in a variety of colors. (late 4th-3rd cent. B.C)

The third skull bears a gilded myrtle wreath, where apart from the leaves, some of the small fruits have survived as well.

The fourth skull is also decorated with a gilded myrtle wreath. The shaft is made of lead and has been also perforated. Gilded bronze leaves and earthen fruits were attached to the small holes.

A detail from the heads of the two little girls. Damages to the skulls might have occured posthumously- it was not specified in the tags.

I have seen many luxurious funerary wreaths, made of gold, with extraordinary craftmanship, they are a particular trait of the burials of the Hellenistic period, and these burials were of particularly wealthy, aristocrats of the (Greek) Macedonian elite, usually families of soldiers associated with the campaigns of Alexander the Great. They were discovered either in ornately painted built tombs, under raised mounds, or well built cist graves, who often would also be decorated with painting.

But these burials of commoners, those wreaths of painted, clay flowers are the most touching of them all. It just shows you the exceptional love and care that existed in those ancient families.  

[pre-hispanic]

[dailyhistorymemes]

This actually happened(via)

[whattolearntoday]

A bit of July 31st history…

30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Anthony achieves minor victory over Octavian, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to Octavian’s invasion of Egypt

1792 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US Government building - US Mint in Philadelphia

1989 - The Game Boy handheld video game was released in US (pictured)

1991 - Russia and US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact

1991 - US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft

2012 - Michael Phelps becomes greatest medal winner in Olympic history (overall career: 28 medals, 23 of them gold)

[sixpenceee]

A group of archaeologists discovered a claw of a bird (flesh and muscles still attached to it) while digging down in a cave in New Zealand. Later, the archaeologists confirmed that it is a foot of extinct bird moa which disappeared from earth some 700 - 800 years ago.

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[anthro-as]

@waerrann on Picrew, very cool!

[peashooter85]

Balled headed war club, Eastern Sioux, circa 1860′s-1870′s

from Cowan’s Auction