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Nina Willburger

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A complete pottery vessel, featuring repairs mid-body and a cord tied around its neck.

Found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC.
Multiple complete vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally...🧵 1/2

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A rounded pottery vessel with a narrow, slightly flared rim and a cord wrapped tightly around its neck. The surface is a muted gray-brown with subtle incised lines. A repaired area is clearly visible on the mid-body, where a patch of lighter material fills a damaged section. The vessel sits on display against a softly lit background.

November 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM

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Antiquity Journal

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Millet was domesticated in China, where it was boiled and steamed. This changed as it moved west, with Central Asian communities adapting millet to their bread-baking traditions instead of adopting East Asian cooking practices #NationalHomemadeBreadDay 🥖

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Diagrams showing variation in millet processing techniques. Left: grinding stone and oven for baking, from the Inner Asian mountain Corridor. Right: tripodal cooking pot over a fire for steaming/boiling, from Monsoonal China.

November 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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Dr Tess Machling

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I know many folks won't agree, but I'm less enamoured of Snettisham Great torc, than Netherurd torc terminal 😱

...but I did grow to love it a bit more when I carried out this piece of research: it's wayyyyy more complicated than it first appears!

#Archaeology

bigbookoftorcs.com/2022/05/29/p...

Pattern and purpose: a new story about the creation of the Snettisham Great torc.

by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10511411 The Snettisham Great torc is one of the most recogn…

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November 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Medievalist.net

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Viking Age Woman’s Grave with Mysterious Scallop Ritual Unearthed in Norway www.medievalists.net/2025/11/viki... #archaeology #Norway #Vikings

Viking Age Woman’s Grave with Mysterious Scallop Ritual Unearthed in Norway - Medievalists.net

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered a rare and well-preserved Viking Age grave containing the remains of a woman buried with jewellery, clothing accessories and an unexplained ritual involving…

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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Antiquity Journal

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The American sweet potato was introduced to Polynesia from South America, likely by seafarers crossing the Pacific. It can withstand harsher conditions than taro or uwhi (yam), so its introduction helped early migrants settle cooler southern Polynesia.

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Map of possible timings of American sweet potato (I. batatas) dispersal from South America across Polynesia, based on archaeological root and starch granule remains.

November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Kevin Wilbraham

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The Centurial Stone of Paulius Aper which was found near Brunton Turret on Hadrian’s Wall recording ‘From the ninth cohort the century of Paulius Aper (built this)’. Part of the collections at Chesters Roman Fort. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #ChestersRomanFort

November 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM

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Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP)

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🚩In our latest issue of the #BMSAP, discover the article by Elodie Caserta, Lola Bonnabel, and Gaëlle Granier @univ-amu.fr

“ #Funerarypractices of Second #IronAge populations in #Gaul: new research perspectives and preliminary studies of cases from Champagne and Normandy”

doi.org/10.4000/14ywm

The map shows the location of the six study sites in present-day France; the graph shows the chronology of their occupation. The sites in the Aisne-Marne culture are shown in orange, the sites in the Champagne region outside the Aisne-Marne culture are shown in green, and the sites in Normandy are shown in blue (E. Caserta)

Diagram showing the relationships between categories and sub-categories covered by the study protocol and the basic principle of the scoring system. Each of these categories is then subdivided into several items (E. Caserta)

November 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM

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Hannah Moots

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Excited to share that our cross-disciplinary conversation on ancient DNA and mobility is now published in Studies in Late Antiquity doi.org/10.1525/sla.... - and also out as an episode of the Byzantium & Friends podcast youtu.be/PdNeL6ika-k?... 🏺🧬

Human paleogenetics and late antique migration: a cross-discipline discussion

YouTube video by Medievalists

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November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM

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Gladius 🗡️ Hispaniensis

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#EpigraphyTuesday
Descubierto en la ciudad romana de Lucentum, Tozal de Manises, Alicante 🇪🇦 España.
Inscripción sobre un apoyo que hacía las funciones de banco en el vestuario de unas termas. Siglo II a.C.
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky

Descubierto en la ciudad romana de Lucentum, Tozal de Manises, Alicante 🇪🇦 España.
Inscripción sobre un apoyo que hacía las funciones de banco en el vestuario de unas termas. Siglo II a.C.
📷 A. M.

November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Alison Fisk

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For #EpigraphyTuesday

Roman pottery with Latin inscriptions, made for wine drinking! 🍷

‘Give us wine!’
‘Fill me up!’
‘Well be to you!’

Trier Region, Late 3rd-early 4th century AD. Landesmuseum Trier 📷 by me

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My photo collage shows three Roman black-slipped pottery vessels with white painted Latin inscriptions and white vine-like flowing decoration set against a rich pinky-purple display case background.

These so-called ‘motto beakers’, decorated with wine-themed Latin inscriptions painted in white slip, were produced in the Trier region during the mid 3rd century. They proved very popular and were exported to Britain and the Danube

Top image: cylindrical cup with straight sides with narrower base. The dark, almost black surface is decorated with large white letters V M N. The inscription around the cup reads VINIVM NOBIIS DA/ Give us wine! There is a band of rope-like white ornamentation near the rim. Beneath the lettering is a vinemotif with cluster of threeroundish ‘grape’ shapes. There are visible cracks where the cup has been restored. From Trier or surroundings, 280-315 AD.

Bottom left: elegant dark jug with a narrow base, rounded body, and long neck that flares outward to a broad lip. A single curved handle connects the neck to the upper body. The decoration includes the large white letters R E P and swirling white scroll ornamentation. The full inscription encircling the jug reads REPLE ME - Fill me up! From Trier, St. Matthias, 280-315 AD.

Bottom right: A cylindrical beaker with a narrower base. White lettering near the top reads E N E T I B. The full inscription around the beaker reads B[ENIE T[BI S]|[T] - Well be to you! Beneath the text is a continuous vine-scroll design with stylised leaves or grapes. From Trier, Louis-Lintz-Straße, 260-270 AD.

November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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Archaeology Magazine

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Archaeologists and designers were excited by the artistry of the 2,000-year-old garments found in a woman’s burial at a site in China—so they’ve re-created the outfits.

archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2025/digs-discoveries/ancient-look-book/

November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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Dr Crom

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#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺

Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...