@jens2go@mastodon.social cover
@jens2go@mastodon.social avatar

jens2go

@[email protected]

#Archaeologist, got a hat (no whip though). Once known as "Yunus" among Bedouins. Demanding a revival of the venerable profession of the #ExpeditionPainter.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

@jens2go@mastodon.social avatar jens2go , to random

All roads lead to Rome, they say. - And finally you too can find out if that's true! 😉

With "The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads", -e, a high-resolution dataset and detailed map created in a collaborative ongoing project:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2503325-digital-map-lets-you-explore-the-roman-empires-vast-road-network via @NewScientist

@jens2go@mastodon.social avatar jens2go , to random

As long as we've been excavating at early , one of the key points when showing visitors around was that - in contrast to the naturalistic life-sized human sculptures - the larger T-pillars, although clearly anthropomorphic, never had faces.

😲 Turns out, at nearby some of these pillars do have faces now:

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/12000-year-old-human-faced-pillar-unearthed-in-karahantepe-marks-a-new-chapter-in-arc-3208024

@jens2go@mastodon.social avatar jens2go , to random

Okay, this is big. Really.

New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, , Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper ... 9,000 years ago!

Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-anatolias-last-hunter-gatherers-pioneered-copper-metallurgy-9000-years-ago-133075