Dave 🏴 Neolithic Nerd 🇵🇸 AuDHD
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Lover of all things ancient: history, wisdom, cultures, peoples, myself... trying to escape the politics and focus on my special interests & hyperfixations.
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Kites of the Kingdom of Saba were hunting traps formed by walls ranging from 100m to 8km length converging in a Vshape ending in a dead-end
Animals had to jump over the wall to escape falling into a pit
A single kite could capture approximately 150 animals
Photos CC GLOBALKITES research project ANR
Animals had to jump over the wall to escape falling into a pit
A single kite could capture approximately 150 animals
Photos CC GLOBALKITES research project ANR
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Kites of the Kingdom of Saba were hunting traps formed by walls ranging from 100m to 8km length converging in a Vshape ending in a dead-end
Animals had to jump over the wall to escape falling into a pit
A single kite could capture approximately 150 animals
Photos CC GLOBALKITES research project ANR
Animals had to jump over the wall to escape falling into a pit
A single kite could capture approximately 150 animals
Photos CC GLOBALKITES research project ANR
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Part of the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Orkney #Prehistory #Archaeology
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Part of the Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Orkney #Prehistory #Archaeology
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An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable.
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
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The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
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November 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable.
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
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The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2
🏺
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Its #HillfortsWednesday & as you may know, we're in the middle of a series on Hillforts 😊
We're working hard on a Somerset episode, but for now we're in North Wiltshire & Oxfordshire - and thought we could do a short thread on the forts in this episode
🧵👇
We're working hard on a Somerset episode, but for now we're in North Wiltshire & Oxfordshire - and thought we could do a short thread on the forts in this episode
🧵👇
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Its #HillfortsWednesday & as you may know, we're in the middle of a series on Hillforts 😊
We're working hard on a Somerset episode, but for now we're in North Wiltshire & Oxfordshire - and thought we could do a short thread on the forts in this episode
🧵👇
We're working hard on a Somerset episode, but for now we're in North Wiltshire & Oxfordshire - and thought we could do a short thread on the forts in this episode
🧵👇
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Rock art, encompassing a wide array of human-made markings on natural stone surfaces such as cave walls, rock shelters, and open-air boulders, represents one of the most enduring forms of cultural expression in human history.
blakandblack.com/2025/10/02/r...
blakandblack.com/2025/10/02/r...
Rock Art as a Means of Transmitting Lore and History Down the Generations
From Palaeolithic cultures to the modern world, rock art transmits spiritual and practical knowledge through time, preserving culture and history.
blakandblack.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Rock art, encompassing a wide array of human-made markings on natural stone surfaces such as cave walls, rock shelters, and open-air boulders, represents one of the most enduring forms of cultural expression in human history.
blakandblack.com/2025/10/02/r...
blakandblack.com/2025/10/02/r...
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Richborough Roman Fort located on the East Kent Marshes. It was the key connection between the northernmost Roman province and the rest of the Roman Empire. The site of Emperor Claudius's successful Roman invasion AD 43 was settled until around 410. #RomanFortThursday
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Richborough Roman Fort located on the East Kent Marshes. It was the key connection between the northernmost Roman province and the rest of the Roman Empire. The site of Emperor Claudius's successful Roman invasion AD 43 was settled until around 410. #RomanFortThursday
Tesco must be making meals for Homo Naledi because this BBQ pulled pork isn't feeding two Sapiens!!!
October 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Tesco must be making meals for Homo Naledi because this BBQ pulled pork isn't feeding two Sapiens!!!
Online News Outlets substituting the word 'porn' for 'corn' is ruining this documentary on ancient agriculture in the Americas. Those guys had a serious porn issue back then... it was everywhere!!!
August 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Online News Outlets substituting the word 'porn' for 'corn' is ruining this documentary on ancient agriculture in the Americas. Those guys had a serious porn issue back then... it was everywhere!!!
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7 internal autistic experiences I wish more people understood...
(These are not universal, but extremely common)
1. We rarely meet people with the same interests and struggle to find things to talk about with them
(These are not universal, but extremely common)
1. We rarely meet people with the same interests and struggle to find things to talk about with them
August 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
7 internal autistic experiences I wish more people understood...
(These are not universal, but extremely common)
1. We rarely meet people with the same interests and struggle to find things to talk about with them
(These are not universal, but extremely common)
1. We rarely meet people with the same interests and struggle to find things to talk about with them
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There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy.
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
August 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy.
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2
#archaeology 🏺
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Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
![Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm.
On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreidtz22s6cb7oltnetxyjuy7noamae7b6uvybuihgjltazydpivwfe@jpeg)
August 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
Looks similar to a modern-day set!
An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.
📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
#Archaeology
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11,000-Year-Old Dinner Party: Why Neolithic People Hauled Wild Boars Across Mountains scitechdaily.com/11000-year-o...
11,000-Year-Old Dinner Party: Why Neolithic People Hauled Wild Boars Across Mountains
Prehistoric communities in western Iran brought wild boars from far distances as symbolic gifts for a communal feast. While magnets and shot glasses make for lighthearted holiday keepsakes, food items...
scitechdaily.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
11,000-Year-Old Dinner Party: Why Neolithic People Hauled Wild Boars Across Mountains scitechdaily.com/11000-year-o...
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#TombTuesday Inside Quoyness Chambered Cairn on the island of Sanday in #Orkney
Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers!
📸 Mine
#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday
Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers!
📸 Mine
#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday
July 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#TombTuesday Inside Quoyness Chambered Cairn on the island of Sanday in #Orkney
Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers!
📸 Mine
#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday
Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers!
📸 Mine
#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday
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Wow, this intricate net bag is an extraordinary survival from ancient Egypt 3,600 years ago!
Made from linen string, it was used to suspend the ceramic flask from a wooden carrying pole.
Excavated at Qurna, near Thebes, in 1908. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Made from linen string, it was used to suspend the ceramic flask from a wooden carrying pole.
Excavated at Qurna, near Thebes, in 1908. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
July 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Wow, this intricate net bag is an extraordinary survival from ancient Egypt 3,600 years ago!
Made from linen string, it was used to suspend the ceramic flask from a wooden carrying pole.
Excavated at Qurna, near Thebes, in 1908. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Made from linen string, it was used to suspend the ceramic flask from a wooden carrying pole.
Excavated at Qurna, near Thebes, in 1908. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals
Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about cannibalism victims.
www.livescience.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Neanderthals just 70 km apart butchered the same prey in different ways. Local food traditions? New cut-mark analysis suggests cultural variation in prehistoric meat processing. #Neanderthal #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #ButcheryTraditions
How Neanderthals Butchered Their Dinner—and Why It Mattered
Regional traditions in animal processing hint at prehistoric food cultures in the Middle Paleolithic Levant
www.anthropology.net
July 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Neanderthals just 70 km apart butchered the same prey in different ways. Local food traditions? New cut-mark analysis suggests cultural variation in prehistoric meat processing. #Neanderthal #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #ButcheryTraditions
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Is It Time To Reconsider the Artistic Value of Ice Age Artifacts? news.artnet.com/art-world/ic...
Is It Time To Reconsider the Artistic Value of Ice Age Artifacts? | Artnet News
A trove of prehistoric Ice Age treasures are being exhibited alongside classic works of art to show why they deserve their place in the canon.
news.artnet.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Is It Time To Reconsider the Artistic Value of Ice Age Artifacts? news.artnet.com/art-world/ic...
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Roman wicker well with ladder found in Norfolk – The History Blog
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73540
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73540
Roman wicker well with ladder found in Norfolk – The History Blog
Archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved Roman well made of woven wicker that still contains what appears to be the remains of a rung ladder.
www.thehistoryblog.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Roman wicker well with ladder found in Norfolk – The History Blog
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73540
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️
www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73540
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The Olmecs weren’t primitive.
They were building pyramids, aligning with the stars, and carving 50-ton heads 3,000 years ago
before the Maya and Aztecs even existed.
They didn’t “disappear”
they were absorbed, erased, and never taught in school.
#AncientHistory
#Olmecs
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The Olmecs weren’t primitive.
They were building pyramids, aligning with the stars, and carving 50-ton heads 3,000 years ago
before the Maya and Aztecs even existed.
They didn’t “disappear”
they were absorbed, erased, and never taught in school.
#AncientHistory
#Olmecs
.
July 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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The Olmecs weren’t primitive.
They were building pyramids, aligning with the stars, and carving 50-ton heads 3,000 years ago
before the Maya and Aztecs even existed.
They didn’t “disappear”
they were absorbed, erased, and never taught in school.
#AncientHistory
#Olmecs
.
The Olmecs weren’t primitive.
They were building pyramids, aligning with the stars, and carving 50-ton heads 3,000 years ago
before the Maya and Aztecs even existed.
They didn’t “disappear”
they were absorbed, erased, and never taught in school.
#AncientHistory
#Olmecs
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Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i
June 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i
The more of these water management "greening the desert" videos, the more certain I become that ancient humans created the fertile crescent, rather than it being a quirk of nature. Overuse, and rulers that refused to listen to science, returned it to its natural state.
June 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The more of these water management "greening the desert" videos, the more certain I become that ancient humans created the fertile crescent, rather than it being a quirk of nature. Overuse, and rulers that refused to listen to science, returned it to its natural state.
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*takes notes*
"Scientists have long wondered how female bonobos maintain their matriarchies...Females, they found, form coalitions against males to tip the balance of power in their favor."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...
"Scientists have long wondered how female bonobos maintain their matriarchies...Females, they found, form coalitions against males to tip the balance of power in their favor."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...
These Apes Are Matriarchal, but It Doesn’t Mean They’re Peaceful (Gift Article)
Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
*takes notes*
"Scientists have long wondered how female bonobos maintain their matriarchies...Females, they found, form coalitions against males to tip the balance of power in their favor."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...
"Scientists have long wondered how female bonobos maintain their matriarchies...Females, they found, form coalitions against males to tip the balance of power in their favor."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...