Drizzlecombe, Dartmoor
An area of Bronze Age stone rows, cairns and menhirs. There are three principal stone rows, each with its barrow and terminal menhir. Nearby (in pic 3) is the large but damaged cairn known as Giant's Basin.
Drizzlecombe, Dartmoor
An area of Bronze Age stone rows, cairns and menhirs. There are three principal stone rows, each with its barrow and terminal menhir. Nearby (in pic 3) is the large but damaged cairn known as Giant's Basin.
Just wanted to share these really cool early #BronzeAge flint daggers from the #HuntMuseum in #Limerick. They look like they were never used and if I made something that nice I wouldn’t want to use it either! #archaeology
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: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/bronze-age-daggers-in-german-cornfield/
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A mossy little stone in a big landscape for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Lower Neuadd standing stone in the upper reaches of the Taf valley. Further up towards the head of the valley is a group of Bronze Age ring cairns, and above that the highest Bronze Age cemetery in Southern Britain on the summits of Pen y Fan and Corn Du. The stone may have been a marker to point the way.
This visit on a day of sleety snow, April 2012.
Blackabrook Cist East, Dartmoor
Easternmost cist in a group of three situated to the north of Blackabrook River at SX 605 738. A fine example dating from early Neolithic to late Bronze Age (4000-701 BC). Capstone missing. May once have been surrounded by a cairn.
And it has arrived!
Bog Fashion - recreating Bronze Age and Iron Age clothes by Nicole de Rushie
https://chronocopia.se/books/bog-fashion/
#bronzeage #bronzeagetextiles #ironage #ironagetextiles
I took these cairns at Bellever in 2008, couldn’t walk up there now of course but good to see them again #Dartmoor #Devon #bronzeage #cairns #photography
Bronze Age pottery reveals El Argar’s economic and political frontiers
A trailblazing study conducted by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology mapped out the economic and political borders of the territory of El Argar, the Bronze Age site credited with being the first state-level society in the Iberian Peninsula...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/bronze-age-pottery-reveals-el-argar-frontiers/
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An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC.
Further information (in German):
https://www.landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/sammlung/sammlung-online/dk-details/?dk_object_id=10139&s=09
Photo: Landesmuseum Württemberg
First Bronze Age settlement in Maghreb predates Phoenicians
An archaeology team led by Hamza Benattia Melgarejo, a researcher from the University of Barcelona, proposes that their discovery of the remains of a settlement at Kach Kouch, along the Lau River, about 10 kilometers inland from the coast and 30 kilometers southeast of Tétouan, dating as far back as 2200 BCE...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/first-bronze-age-settlement-in-maghreb/
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Does anyone really have any clue how palace economies were actually supposed to work? Any source or discussion about the subject only talks about it in the most general and abstract terms.
Archaeoethnologica: KO-RO-NO-WE-SA - Book / KO-RO-NO-WE-SA - Livro
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Archaeoethnologica: KO-RO-NO-WE-SA - Book / KO-RO-NO-WE-SA - Livro
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Archaeoethnologica: HASANLU V
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Daga de cuarzo y mango de marfil del ajuar de la "señora del marfil" en el tholos de Montelirio, procedente del calcolítico (2900-2650 a.C.).Grupo de investigación ATLAS (Universidad de Sevilla) #edaddelbronce #bronzeage #armas #weapons
Die neue Archäologie Österreichs ist da und wir lieben das Cover!
Doch nicht nur die Hülle ist ansprechend. Es werden viele spannende archäologische Projekte der letzten Jahre vorgestellt. Unser Highlight ist der Artikel "Der #Goldfundkomplex von #Ebreichsdorf #niederösterreich Zeugnis rituelles Praktiken in der #Urnenfelderzeit." für den wir mit Alexandra Krenn-Leeb von der @univienna und Karina Grömer vom #NHMWien zusammenarbeiten durften.
#Archäologie #bronzeage #austria #ÖGUF @archaeodons
Where does your character live? Where do they want to live?
(Reconstruction of Nero's palace from around 64CE by JR. Casals)
#Pompeii, again ... but a bit earlier than you might think:
Archaeologists have discovered #BronzeAge footprints near the ancient Roman site, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption millennia before *the* infamous one 79 C.E.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-footprints-people-fleeing-vesuvius-eruption-2605713
Archaeoethnologica: Ritual in Late Bronze Ireland - Book / Ritual na Irlanda do Bronze Final - Livro
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Archaeoethnologica: GERMANIA Nº 101 - 2023
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