The foot of an ancient marble statue now embedded in a wall with other bits of spolia next to the church of Santa Sabina. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome
The foot of an ancient marble statue now embedded in a wall with other bits of spolia next to the church of Santa Sabina. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome
The site of Athribis in Upper Egypt has revealed more than 43,000 ostraca (pot sherds uses for with writing and drawing), offering remarkable insights into a thousand years of daily life in ancient Egypt.
One of my favourites shows a drawing of a shrew, the sacred animal of the god Haroeris.
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/record-breaking-trove-of-information-upper-egypt-site-has-now-yielded-over-43000-inscribed-pot-sherds/
Behind is modern plaster is the brickwork of part of an ancient wall of the baths of Nero, rebuilt by emperor Alexander Severus, now apartments. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientrome #romanhistory
Behind is modern plaster is the brickwork of part of an ancient wall of the baths of Nero, rebuilt by emperor Alexander Severus, now apartments. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientrome #romanhistory
The site of Athribis in Upper Egypt has revealed more than 43,000 ostraca (pot sherds uses for with writing and drawing), offering remarkable insights into a thousand years of daily life in ancient Egypt.
One of my favourites shows a drawing of a shrew, the sacred animal of the god Haroeris.
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/record-breaking-trove-of-information-upper-egypt-site-has-now-yielded-over-43000-inscribed-pot-sherds/
What to do in the face of climate change? A new paper by me and colleagues shows that you head to high ground (stable upland water sources) and double down on resources that are predictable and can be managed (likely with fire and tillage).
Open Access Article "Technological and Dietary Responses to Holocene Climate Events in the Northern Great Basin" here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1947461X.2024.2405352
DM for pdf version. #archaeology #paleoethnobotany #anthropology #precontact #starchanaysis #california
Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 15 new and 41 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 10 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at an update to a place resource originally derived from a Barrington Atlas feature. Tom Elliott has recently worked on the entry for the Chabina river, a tributary of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey whose course incorporated portions of three drainages that are differently named today: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658430
Among the updates: detailed modern geometry from OpenStreetMap and modern toponyms sourced from the BAtlas directory and other sources. References have been cleaned, and a link added for the IGLSyr reference to the digitized copy at Persée, whence the Latin name. A connection has also been made to the record for the Cendere Bridge, findspot of the inscriptions.
#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS
Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 15 new and 41 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 10 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at an update to a place resource originally derived from a Barrington Atlas feature. Tom Elliott has recently worked on the entry for the Chabina river, a tributary of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey whose course incorporated portions of three drainages that are differently named today: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658430
Among the updates: detailed modern geometry from OpenStreetMap and modern toponyms sourced from the BAtlas directory and other sources. References have been cleaned, and a link added for the IGLSyr reference to the digitized copy at Persée, whence the Latin name. A connection has also been made to the record for the Cendere Bridge, findspot of the inscriptions.
#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS