#archaology

[ancienthistoryart]

The Library of Celsus in Ephesos Ἔφεσος (Éphesos)

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of present day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

[archaeologicalnews]

Sprawling 5,000-year-old cemetery and fortress discovered in Poland

A gigantic, 5,000-year-old complex of long barrows and stone-lined tombs has been unearthed in Poland, after archaeologists investigated lines in crops in a field that they'd seen in a satellite photograph.

Archaeologists began to excavate the rural site near the town of Dębiany, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Kraków, more than two years ago. They've now unearthed seven Neolithic tombs, as well as the remains of an early medieval fortress and a Bronze Age burial of two horses. But the full extent of the ancient cemetery isn't yet known.

The archaeologists now think it consists of a dozen barrow mounds, each between 130 feet and 160 feet (40 meters and 50 meters) long, made from earthworks, stones and palisades of wooden poles that have now rotted away. They think it's a relic of the prehistoric settlement of the area by the Neolithic Funnel Beaker people, who are named after the distinctive pottery vessels they made and are thought to have been the first farmers in Europe. Read more.

[leahbasavraham]

Mosaic floor in a synagogue from the 1500s located at Beit Alpha in northern Israel. Re-discovered in 1928.

[grupaok]

Excavation of Oseberg Viking longship from a burial mound in Norway, 1904–05

[julieschulerart]

200 million years ago, a creature we call Cheirotherium stepped in some mud in the place we now call Germany. That is everything we know about it. No remains have ever been found.

[novascotiaducktoller]

I think one of the biggest travesties of my existence and my number one beef with g-d is that i was born in the 21st century, where everything is shitty and i have to hear about it all the time, and not in the stone age, where i could have befriended, fallen in love with, and married a beautiful and wise neanderthal woman and i would be mauled to death defending her from a rampaging sabretooth tiger, we would be buried next to each other surrounded by beautiful jewellery, and archaeologists would misidentify us as a heterosexual couple until a dashing young scientist re-examines our remains and publishes her findings in what is called ‘the controversy of the decade’ in the scientific community. She is emailed by a TA at a university, praising the paper and asking shyly if she could be permitted to see the bones. After obtaining permission, the two women stand hand in hand over our bones, and realise that they have, somehow, met before. They are me and my neanderthal wife, reincarnated. We have found each other again.

[universitybookstore]

New from University of Washington Press, Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village, by Ruth Kirk. The book  is a comprehensive and highly readable account of this world-famous archaeological site and the hydraulic excavation of the mudslide that both demolished the houses and protected the objects inside from decay. Ruth Kirk was present, documenting the archaeological work from its beginning, and her firsthand knowledge of the people and efforts involved enrich her compelling story of discovery, fieldwork, and deepen our understanding of Makah cultural heritage.

[stoneagefairy]

If you’re curious how does it feel if you accidentally hurt yourself with a flint tool, DON’T BE. It hurts like motherfucker + it’s really difficult to stop bleeding. Yeah, it just happened to me.