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#idw #archaeology New evidence of long-distance travellers in #Seddin during the Bronze Age
Recent research suggests that many of the Bronze Age people buried in Seddin, Germany, were not locals but came from out…

I'm really enjoying #Archaeology for Idiots by a particularly fresh-faced Tony Robinson and Mick Aston. Although I have a degree in medieval archaeology and now work in environmental archaeology I've successfully avoided going in the field, strictly a PEX girl, and sometimes these days I notice the gaps in my knowledge so uncle T to the rescue.

Research Associate (PhD position) in #mineralogy at University of Hamburg #Germany #geochemistry #archaeology

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A statue from Egypt, 1069-664 BCE (about 3,090-2,690 years ago), in bronze and gold.
Currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, as part of their new "Made in Egypt" exhibition. #art #archaeology #ancienthistory

from my link log —
Thanet, Tanit and the Phoenicians: place-names, archaeology and pre-Roman trading settlements in eastern Kent?
https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html
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Thanet, Tanit and the Phoenicians: Place-Names, Archaeology and Pre-Roman Trading Settlements in Eastern Kent?
Recent work suggests that the name of the easternmost part of Kent, the Isle of Thanet, is one that is of considerable potential interest, b...

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08675 https://

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Precise stellar ages are fundamental to Galactic archaeology. However, obtaining reliable age estimates and uncertainties for field stars has been a long-standing challenge. We test the fidelity of ages from recent catalogs of giants and subgiants using wide binaries, whose components formed at the same time and thus should have consistent inferred ages. We find that subgiant ages based on spectroscopic metallicities from Xiang & Rix (2022) are generally consistent within their reported uncerta…

The chemodynamical memory of a major merger in a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue I: A golden thread through time and space
Sven Buder, Tobias Buck, \'Asa Sk\'ulad\'ottir, Melissa Ness, Madeleine McKenzie, Stephanie Monty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11284

The chemodynamical memory of a major merger in a NIHAO-UHD Milky Way analogue I: A golden thread through time and space
Understanding how the Milky Way's present-day structure was shaped by past major mergers is a key goal of Galactic archaeology. The chemical and dynamical structure of the Galaxy retains the imprint of such events, including a major accretion episode around 8-10 Gyr ago. Recent findings suggest that present-day orbital energy correlates with stellar chemistry and birth location within the merging progenitor galaxy. Using a high-resolution NIHAO-UHD cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way…

Cosmography via stellar archaeology of low-redshift early-type galaxies from SDSS
Carlos A. \'Alvarez, Marcos M. Cueli, Alessandro Bressan, Lumen Boco, Balakrishna S. Haridasu, Michele Bosi, Luigi Danese, Andrea Lapi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04224

Cosmography via stellar archaeology of low-redshift early-type galaxies from SDSS
Cosmic chronometers offer a model-independent way to trace the expansion history of the Universe via the dating of passively evolving objects. This enables testing the validity of cosmological models without concrete assumptions of their energy content. The main goal of this work is to derive model-independent constraints on the Hubble parameter up to $z \sim 0.4$ using stellar ages from the fitting of Lick index absorption lines in passively evolving galaxies. Contrary to recent related works …

#idw #Archaeology Farmers were already diversifying cereal cultivation in the early #Neolithic period.
Agricultural innovations made the food supply in the

Farmers were already diversifying cereal cultivation in the early Neolithic period

Raiders of my Lost Mind - A deep dive into the whacky world of #Pseudoarchaeology: https://www.bajr.org/raiders-of-my-lost-mind-a-deep-dive-into-the-whacky-world-of-pseudoarchaeology/ (long rant with a helpful guide to spot an archaeology story that isn't).

HI terminal velocity curves -- Lessons learned from N-body/hydrodynamic `surrogate' models of the Milky Way
Hillary Davis, Thor Tepper-Garcia, Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Oscar Agertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10845

HI terminal velocity curves -- Lessons learned from N-body/hydrodynamic `surrogate' models of the Milky Way
The development of an N-body/hydrodynamic `surrogate' model of the Milky Way (MW) - a model that resembles the MW in several key aspects after many Gyrs of evolution - would be extremely beneficial for Galactic Archaeology. Here we present four new `surrogate' models, all built with the Nexus framework. The simulations contain stars, dark matter and gas. Our most sophisticated model allows gas to evolve thermodynamically, and includes star formation, metal production, and stellar feedback. The …

Current view #archaeology
Today is a sorting day. I'm looking for snails, grains, bone, charcoal, that sort of thing 😵‍💫🐌🦴

[C/N] Ages for Red Giants and their Implications for Galactic Archaeology
John D. Roberts, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Jennifer A. Johnson, Liam O. Dubay, James W. Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25321

[C/N] Ages for Red Giants and their Implications for Galactic Archaeology
Red giants undergo the first dredge-up, a mixing event that creates a connection between their surface [C/N] and their mass and age. We derive a [C/N]-Age relationship for red giants calibrated on APOGEE DR17 abundances and APOKASC-3 asteroseismic ages. We find that we can use [C/N] to reliably recover asteroseismic ages between 1 and 10 Gyr with average uncertainties of 1.64 Gyr. We find that [C/N] yields concordant ages, with modest offsets, for stars in different evolutionary states. We also…

"Intensive indigenous farming in #Michigan ’s Upper Peninsula, USA" #archaeology #lidar

#Dehoarding is like archaeology?! That Dr Jan Eppingstall and I explained it way back in episode 103 of the pod

Oooh, Martyn Williams being introduced ahead of Helen Geake on the #TimeTeam podcast makes my blood boil. I'm sure he's a perfectly pleasant guy but I don't rate his presenting and in terms of #archaeology he's not fit to lick HG's boots. I wouldn't listen if it wasn't f…

The potential applications of muography to revealing sea shipwrecks
Anzori Sh. Georgadze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00164 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00164

The potential applications of muography to revealing sea shipwrecks
Muon imaging, a non-invasive technique leveraging naturally occurring cosmic muons, has emerged as a promising tool for exploring underwater objects, including shipwrecks. This article examines the potential of muon imaging to investigate the contents of wrecked ships in the Baltic Sea and other marine environments. By analyzing the principles of muon tomography, its applications in underwater archaeology, and its advantages over traditional methods, we highlight its potential to reveal hidden …

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Archaeologists to excavate #Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters | Skateboarding | The Guardian
#archaeology

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So today Dad & I visited a care home Mum will likely move to this week. The asst manager asked what I do for a living, so I told her environmental archaeology, and work for the family business. She said that she'd thought I was a teacher or solicitor by the way I spoke, and I've had that sort of thing said to me a few times. We'd been conveying medical info, clarity is important, so I think my @…

#idw #Archaeology The Dynamics of #BronzeAge Societies
A new study combining archaeological and #genetic research of…

The Dynamics of Bronze Age Societies

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Rutgers Global Affairs Conference now VIRTUAL - new CFP deadline Rutgers University…
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