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In today’s episode, we talk about Celtic faeries! We talk about Margot la Fée from Brittany, Joan the Wad from Cornwall, Nicnevin from Scotland, Aibell from Ireland, and the Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach from Wales.

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Goddess Uni, etruscan terracotta, Italy

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Armor plate, ca. late 8th–late 7th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Rogers Fund, 1957 Size: 7/8 × 7/16 × 1/8 in. (2.2 × 1.1 × 0.25 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324370

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from the Assyrian city of Nimrud

#bronze age #armor #weapons

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Terracotta statuette from Bronze Age Cyprus, depicting a woman with the face of a bird. Artist unknown; ca. 1450-1200 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Evidence of Neolithic people extracting salt from seawater 5,800 years ago

Archaeologist Stephen Sherlock, an independent scholar, has found evidence of Neolithic people extracting salt from seawater 5,800 years ago at Street House, Loftus, making it the oldest salt production facility ever discovered in Britain. He has published a paper outlining his findings on the Cambridge University Press site, Cambridge Core.

Archeologists have been working at the site, which is located near the town of Loftus, in the Yorkshire Moors, for many years, but it was Sherlock who made the connection between salt production and artifacts unearthed in trenches. In addition to charcoal deposits, there was a hazelnut shell and pottery, all of which was dated back approximately 5,800 years.

Salt was an important commodity for people in the Neolithic—it was used to preserve food and hides, both a necessity for making it through long, cold winters. Read more.