If you are involved in any way in helping to organize a conference in the US at this time, it is imperative that you offer online attendance and speaker options.
And not just because it's the right thing to do for environmental and accessibility reasons (but you should do it for those reasons, anyway).
Take, for example, the rich Viking Period graves of Birka. They are absolutely essential for research into that period. But Stolpe excavated and documented them in the 1870s and 1880s. Then the finds and bones and paper archive were not very well curated in a museum until the 1930s, when Arbman collated the information, and published it in the 1940s. Finally both versions of what these graves were like was put online ten years ago.
Now and then people from data science suggest to me that they should be able to do something interesting with big archaeological data. But there's a naïveté in their concept of "data". I always sigh and tell them that they have no idea how unstandardised our data are. Even if you could scan it all from the paper media it's on, any pattern-seeking algorithm would primarily catch the history of changing archaeological documentation practices.
#bigdata #datascience #archaeology
Roman poo 
- nearly 2000 year-old! Found in a latrine in Eschenz, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld.
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Strange Wood Found on Beach by Fisherman Turns Out to Be Polynesian Canoe of Great Significance
Archaeoethnologica: Social Dynamics and Palaeogenomics in Neolithic Anatolia - Video / Dinâmicas Sociais e Genética no Anatolia Neolítica - Vídeo
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Archaeoethnologica: Social Dynamics and Palaeogenomics in Neolithic Anatolia - Video / Dinâmicas Sociais e Genética no Anatolia Neolítica - Vídeo
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Archaeoethnologica: Social Dynamics and Palaeogenomics in Neolithic Anatolia - Video / Dinâmicas Sociais e Genética no Anatolia Neolítica - Vídeo
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Of puppets and puppeteers: Preclassic clay figurines from San Isidro, El Salvador
(14 Mar) Apollo gold ring with ’healing serpent’ found in 2,000-year-old tomb in Greece
Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a monumental ancient tomb that was used as a burial spot fo...
The Scent of Veneration: Study shows Ancient Statues were Perfumed ~ New research suggests that ancient statues were not only painted and adorned but also covered with oils and perfumed.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/the-scent-of-veneration-study-shows-ancient-statues-were-perfumed.html
Archaeologists uncover rock-cut cellars and historic quarry beneath Paderborn’s historic center
An excavation led by archaeologists from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association in Germany has unearthed a series of basement rooms and a former quarry beneath the historic center of Paderborn...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/rock-cut-cellars-and-historic-quarry-beneath-paderborn/
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A statue of a Roman sea God had its head ritually cut off before it was buried. The artefact was found a little distance from the old Roman road known as Watling Street. Archaeologists found it during a dig along with other items such as a Roman coin, but historians are baffled as to why the statue was ritually decapitated and then buried.
After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a64176054/ancient-buddha-statue-torso/ #Science #Archaeology #Buddhism
For #MosaicMonday a #Roman mosaic panel with a mesmerising three dimensional cube pattern. Dating 1 century BC
On display at Glyptothek München
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Ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were scented, study reveals
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/ancient-sculptures-were-scented-study-reveals/
The text for the published journal paper about the temple to Mithras at Inveresk is available free to read thanks to the author on Edinburgh University's Research Explorer website at https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/mithras-in-scotland-a-mithraeum-at-inveresk-east-lothian #Mithras #RomanBritain #AncientRome #Scotland #EastLothian #Inveresk #Archaeology
Watching a recorded Treadwells bookshop talk about the Mithras cult in London. And remembering the fairly recent find of an altar to Mithras at Inveresk in Scotland. Many pics viewable in free to read supplementary material for the paywall-locked journal article. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/abs/mithras-in-scotland-a-mithraeum-at-inveresk-east-lothian/544B6233F7F06415EE049C60A827C3C0#supplementary-materials #Mithras #RomanBritain #AncientRome #Scotland #EastLothian #Inveresk #Archaeology
#869 John G. Evans - The Environment of Early Man in the British Isles. Elek Books Ltd, London, 1976, 1st edition, reprint. #JohnGEvans #ElekBooks #Archaeology #StandingStoneSunday #BookOfTheDay
