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Cassana 🍻

"Evidence reveals that people reached Malta 8,500 years ago. Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived."
Humans have lived on the mediterranean coasts for thousands of years, so why not eventually use knowledge of currents to see if it could be crossed or explored? So I'm not that surprised by this. It's awesome we have evidence now though. As always I admire the skill/courage.
#Archaeology #Prehistory #History #Research
independent.com.mt/articles/20

www.independent.com.mtGroundbreaking research shows Maltese prehistory begins 1,000 years earlier, before first farmers - The Malta Independent    Malta's history has been pushed back by 1,000 years in a discovery that is rewriting the islands' pre-history, as scientists have found new evidence that shows that
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STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa

Isotopic data reveal a localist Roman population in late Roman Albintimilium (modern Ventimiglia), Liguria

New paper is out in Scientific Reports and it's a first for this kind of approach in Roman archaeology of this area #Liguria #archaeology #IsotopeAnalysis

nature.com/articles/s41598-025

NatureIsotopic data reveal a localist Roman population in late Roman Albintimilium, Liguria - Scientific ReportsThis study investigates human diet and mobility to understand the socio-economic organisation of a Late Roman community in Liguria, a transitional region between Italy and Gaul, during the 3rd–5th century CE. By combining archaeological, historical, osteological, and isotopic data with novel Bayesian modelling of multi-isotope data (collagen δ13C, δ15N, bioapatite 87Sr/86Sr) from human and animal skeletal remains, as well as modern plant samples, we provide new insights into this hitherto under-researched region. Our findings suggest the community followed a C3-based diet, heavily reliant on plant resources and carbohydrates, supplemented by animal protein, likely from omnivorous pigs. This characteristically Roman diet contrasts with ancient written sources that claimed Ligurians had a “barbarian” diet and lifestyle. We also identified significant sex-based dietary differences, with men consuming more animal-derived protein than women, reflecting traditional Graeco-Roman societal ideals. Although the overall dietary pattern aligns with Roman norms, there is no isotopic evidence of long-distance migration or consumption of significant amounts of imported food. This indicates that the community may have been more localist, prioritising locally available resources over long-distance imports, which is unexpected given the prevalent idea of a large-scale interconnected food network within the Roman Empire.
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James Green

2 hearth features in a 1x2 m unit at Site 22PR533 in south Mississippi. We had a lot of primarily fired clay hearth features, but Lynn's (aqua shirt) unit had 1 composed almost entirely of ferruginous sandstone & hematite (furthest feature).

IMO, it was for a sweat lodge. #archaeology

1x2 unit with a near & far hearth feature
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3,000-year-old Bronze Age daggers unearthed in a German cornfield

Two well-preserved daggers from the Bronze Age have been discovered in a field in the municipality of Kutenholz, Lower Saxony, Germany. These over 3,000-year-old artifacts are among the earliest Bronze Age findings in the region...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/bro

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3,000-year-old Bronze Age daggers unearthed in a German cornfield Two well-preserved daggers from the Bronze Age have been discovered in a field in the municipality of Kutenholz, Lower Saxony, Germany. These over 3,000-year-old artifacts are among the earliest Bronze Age findings in the region. Their discovery has provided new insights into the ritual practices of ancient communities in the eastern part of Central Europe. The initial sign of the finding came in 2017 when metal detectorist Frank Hoferichter detected bronze pieces in the field. Researchers from the University of Hamburg have been conducting geomagnetic surveys of the field since 2023, allowing them to detect subterranean anomalies without digging. The surveys indicated the presence of large buried objects and therefore, the archaeologists dug further...
#archaeology#archeology#archaeologynews
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New study suggests King Tut’s tomb artifacts are linked to mysterious Osiris ritual

A new study by Egyptologist Nicholas Brown of Yale University suggests that Tutankhamun was the first pharaoh to have taken part in an unusual funeral ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris which would ensure his resurrection in the afterlife...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/kin

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New study suggests King Tut’s tomb artifacts are linked to mysterious Osiris ritual A new study by Egyptologist Nicholas Brown of Yale University suggests that Tutankhamun was the first pharaoh to have taken part in an unusual funeral ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris which would ensure his resurrection in the afterlife. Brown’s study, published in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, presents compelling evidence for the association of Tutankhamun’s tomb artifacts with this rite...
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Isabel Richards

A bit of what we’re working on at the moment 😊

“The Overland Telegraph Line was an organising principle for other infrastructures including the railway, roads, micro-wave, radio towers and even the NBN (National Broadband Network)” and thus “a system which has deeply impacted the ways in which Australian identity is and continues to be articulated.”

#telegraphy #cybernetics #archaeology #strangwayssprings #innovation #technology #australianhistory #history

cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/20

ANU School of Cybernetics · What can telegraphy teach us about technology?Like many researchers, cyberneticians seek to better understand our world, looking for and at evidence of the past, present and future to build these understandings. Recently researchers from the School of Cybernetics have published their findings of the tools and technologies found at Strangways Springs/Pangki Warruna, the site of a repeater station along the Overland Telegraph Line. Map of Australia's telegraph lines. The Overland Telegraph Line which ran from Darwin to Adelaide and connected Australia to the global telegraph network is shown in orange. Image Credit: Bell, Richards, Meares, Traw, Paterson in collaboration with John Firth, 2024. Telegraphy in Australia, particularly that of the Overland Telegraph Line, is a pretty big deal in our technological and societal history. This ‘electric chain’ of telegraphy was our first digital system, and it has shaped all following digital systems including our computer data banks, mobile phone technologies, and the internet. As for shaping our societal history, once completed the Overland Telegraph line eliminated the ‘tyranny of distance’ from our communication system – overseas messages went from taking months to deliver by boat to mere minutes of electric delivery via the telegraph system. So, though telegraphy currently seems largely irrelevant and invisible, there is much we can learn now about our current (and future) technologies and societies through studying our telegraphic past. The first of these two papers argues that Australian telegraph systems, particularly the Overland Telegraph Line, offer unique research potential to marry industrial archaeology and cybernetics. Industrial archeology is a field that is critically interested in the industrial era as the source for many many aspects of our current modern world – including climate change, globalisation, social legacies of colonisations, colonialism and empire, and also a shift in the way humans and societies engage with technology. Landscape analysis described in this paper reveals that Strangways Springs, a telegraph repeater station in the South Australian colony, can be described as a site of cross-cultural action in the colonial world. The Overland Telegraph Line was an organising principle for other infrastructures including the railway, electricity roads, micro-wave, radio towers and even the NBN (National Broadband Network). This research ultimately reveals the interdependencies of technological, ecological and human systems that were necessary to support the system that is the Overland Telegraph Line, a system which has deeply impacted the ways in which Australian identity is and continues to be articulated. Strangways Springs Telegraph Repeater Station, mid-1880s. Image Credit: “Strangways Springs Station” Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 11945. In their second paper our cyberneticians look deeper at one specific ‘node’ in this telegraphy system and explore the technologies of Strangways Springs. Strangways Springs existed for the purpose of technology, that is, it was established to support the repeating of messages along the telegraph line. It is perhaps both a surprise and not to discover through reading this research the number of emerging technologies that sprang from this ‘strange’ place. The telegraph wires that ran through Strangways Springs carried not just electricity but information. It is fitting then that it was the son of early computer pioneer Charles Babbage who identified the site for Strangways Springs during early surveying for potential telegraph station sites. This paper highlights how telegraphy and agricultural innovations shaped Australia through trade, economy, technology systems, societal systems, and so much more. “this paper traces the evolution of Strangways from a pastoral property to telegraph station and then railway stop, as well as the technologies that were designed, deployed, and decommissioned there.“ As much as we would love to dive in deeper to all that these research papers uncover, we must leave some things for you to read yourself. Despite all the technologies and innovations, all the change brought by this little town, Strangways Springs is now all but forgotten. These days the Strangway Springs telegraph station resembles a pile of stones, the evidence of its past as a technological hub only appears when you look deeper for those cybernetic connections. Strangways Springs station remains 2023. Image Credit: Andrew Meares. This research is a fascinating deep dive into what telegraphy can teach us about technology, particularly when we take a systems perspective. Explore the research: Wool, Wires and Water: Technological Transitions at Strangways Springs (2025) One complete system? Telegraphy, cybernetics and industrial archaeology (2024) Meet the researchers: Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell Professor Andrew Meares Dr Alistair Paterson Isabel Richards Distingushed Professor Brendan Traw
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oatmeal

Digging for power / Israeli archaeology conference canceled after government attempts to silence critic

Israel's major archaeology conference was canceled after Heritage Minister Eliyahu demanded the removal of Prof. Raphael Greenberg, who has spoken out against Israel's archaeological practices in occupied territories.

Prof. Greenberg, chair of NGO Emek Shaveh, argues that Israel weaponizes archaeology to dispossess Palestinians and violates international conventions on cultural heritage protection. He also believes that Israel Exploits excavations to justify settler expansion in the West Bank, while excluding Palestinian voices from archaeological discourse about their own heritage, and uses selective archaeology to create political narratives about land ownership.

The academic community united in support of Greenberg's right to speak, even among those who disagree with his views, forcing the conference's cancellation rather than comply with political censorship.

[…] the plans were suspended when Raphael Greenberg [pictured], Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and chairman of Emek Shaveh, the Israeli NGO which seeks to prevent the politicisation of archaeology in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, raised fundamental objections to the conference in an open letter to intending participants. Rather than allow Professor Greenberg to attend and air these objections, the Ministry hastily cancelled the conference.

bricup.org.uk/news-2/israel-ca [#BRICUP British Committee for the Universities of Palestine]

haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-0 or archive.is/sxI5o

See also

Netanyahu Coalition Advances Bill Allowing Israel's Antiquities Authority to Operate in West Bank haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-0 or archive.is/ajycL

@palestine
@israel
@academicchatter
#AcademicFreedom
#Archaeology #Palestine​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
#Israel #WestBank

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