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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

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🗿 Archaeologists of Mastodon 🔬 (stark1tty.github.io)
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Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist (blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com)
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💎 Diamond Archaeology: Open venues for publishing, reviewing and curating archaeological research (diamond.open-archaeo.info)
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Resource collection for the sidebar! (mander.xyz)
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Please post any relevant links you would like to add to the resource collection on the sidebar! :) Eventually I will go through my bookmarks too!

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Largest single-burial assemblage of beads confirmed at ancient Montelirio grave site (phys.org)
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7,000-Year-Old Poison Arrowheads Found Embedded In An Antelope Bone Uncovered Inside A South African Cave (allthatsinteresting.com)
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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal Paper of the Month - An Anarchist Archaeology of Equality: Pasts and Futures Against Hierarchy (Open Access) (www.cambridge.org)
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Secret Passageways Recorded in Leonardo da Vinci's Sketches Discovered Beneath a Medieval Castle in Milan (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Early Neolithic Hunters in Israel Likely Ate Small Carnivores (archaeology.org)
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Marble Head Uncovered in Egypt at Taposiris Magna (archaeology.org)
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Experts reveal fragments from rare Iron Age helmet (www.bbc.com)
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Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal (www.science.org)
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2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes

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'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals spectacular luxury of Pompeii (www.bbc.com)
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Archaeologists have discovered a sumptuous private bathhouse - potentially the largest ever found there - complete with hot, warm and cold rooms, exquisite artwork, and a huge plunge pool.

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Ancient, engraved stones may have been buried to summon the sun (www.sciencenews.org)
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Archaeologists Unearth Early Medieval Sword Engraved With Mysterious Runes in a Cemetery in England (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women (www.sciencedaily.com)
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4,100-year-old tomb of doctor who treated pharaohs discovered at Saqqara (www.livescience.com)
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Medieval crowns of Eastern European royalty hidden in cathedral wall since World War II finally recovered (www.livescience.com)
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Divers Recover 2,600 Year Old Shipwreck Beneath Spanish Waters (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
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Dubbed Mazarron II, she was extracted from the sea in twenty parts and taken to the laboratories of the Cartagena National Museum of Underwater Archaeology for reconstruction. Laden with a cargo of lead ingots, she will not only offer an insight into the shipbuilding techniques of the Phoenicians but also their metallurgical sophistication.

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Quarry Shaft Yields Red-Painted Canine Baculum (archaeology.org)
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Bioarchaeologist Ellen Green of the University of Reading identified a dog’s baculum, or penis bone

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First medieval female burial with weapons discovered in Hungary (phys.org)
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Researchers finally uncover how to play the 4,000-year-old Shahr-i Sokhta board game (archaeologymag.com)
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Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins (phys.org)
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Findings indicate that Spanish, French and Italian populations received steppe ancestry from Bell Beaker groups, while Greek and Armenian groups acquired ancestry directly from Yamnaya populations. Their results are consistent with the Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian linguistic models.

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