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An academical debate about burial mounds must be the ultimate 'hills I'd like to die on' battle.

#histodons #archaeology #academia
#histodons #archaeology #academia

This feeling never gets old 🥰 My new book is out in the world today! The Mute Goddess: Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths. And yes, it has that new book smell!

I am very excited, and very nervous. I put my heart and soul into researching these myths. Maybe because I am an archaeologist, but this one makes me more nervous about what people will think than any of my previous books 😬

#mythology #MythologyMonday #storytelling #archaeology #Classics #bookstodon
Photo of me (white woman, 30s, long red hair, glasses, blue eyes, sparkly makeup, toothy smile), holding a book with a blue cover, decorated with constellations and the stylized image of a Greek goddess with long flowing hair. Title (in Hungarian) reads The Mute Goddess: Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths.
#bookstodon #storytelling #mythologymonday #mythology #classics #archaeology

A book on early Germanic clothing is fundraising on Kickstarter https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/09/01/cross-post-book-on-early-germanic-clothing-fundraising/ #ironAge #kickstarter #archaeology #historicalClothing #antiquidons

Cross-Post: Book on Early Germanic Clothing Fundraising – Book and Sword

Thirty years ago, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood gave us a book of Patterns for Ancient Egyptian Clothing. Now a researcher in the UK wants to do...
Book and Sword
#archaeology #kickstarter #ironage #historicalClothing #antiquidons

A crematorium oven is paired with a grinder to produce the white powder seen in movies. Burning bone just causes it to shrink and warp a little, and big marrow cavities to rupture. There can easily be 25 cm pieces left of a human after burning.

#archaeology #death
#archaeology #death

So in honor of #PrideMonth

I am reading an article about how every time ancient art depicts a goddess as sexually alluring, they always get labeled a "goddess of fertility". Even when there is no indication of children, pregnancy, or anything fertile.

The article argues that some goddesses were deities of sex and pleasure, without the maternal fertility aspect.

I am like 🤯 🤯 I have a whole entire archaeology degree and we never addressed this...

#mythology #sex #religion #archaeology
#religion #mythology #archaeology #pridemonth #sex

Another Minoan seal design, because why the heck not 😄 Evans described it as "goddess reposing on the waves of the sea". Just chillin. It's one of my favorites. 🥰 The second pic is the original artifact.

#archaeology #Minoan #jewelry #Crete #seals #crafts #nature #image
An oval glass pendant on my palm, 2cm wide. It features the black line drawing of a stylized Minoan figure, a woman in a flounced skirt and bare breasts reclining against a blue and green background of stylized waves.
Black and white drawing of a Minoan seal impression, same design as the one before.
#Nature #crafts #minoan #archaeology #crete #jewelry #image #seals

I really enjoyed making the pendant in the previous post :) I am thinking about making some more from my favorite designs.

Which ones do you think are the best? :)

#archaeology #crafts #Minoan #jewelry #design
Drawing of a circular seal design with a very much stylized, derpy looking wild goat with googly eyes
Circular seal design with seven lions walking around the perimeter counterclockwise, and six spiders on the inside moving clockwise
Drawing of a circular seal design with a woman in a long skirt, and a griffin standing on its hind legs, seemingly dancing with (?) the woman
Circular seal design with a humanoid figure seemingly doing a back flip, turning into a bull from the waist up. (Or a partial depiction of bull leaping)
#crafts #minoan #archaeology #design #jewelry

I made a thing 😊 A medal for myself based on a Bronze Age Minoan seal. Original CMS IV 257, found in Malia. Dated LM I-II (so... roughly 3500 years old). It was red jasper so I used a red background. I think it's a crane, though the original publication just said "bird" 😅

Here's the thing, I'm not an artist or anything. But I love Minoan seal designs, and I think it is a travesty they're not more popular in souvenir terms, so I decided to get crafty 😄

#archaeology #Minoan #jewelry #crafts
A round, bronze colored pendant with an image under a glass lens in the middle. The image is a stylized bird in flight, on a red background. The pendant is in the palm of my hand, 3cm in diameter.
Drawing of a round Minoan seal. Stylized figures of a crane in flight, another one standing and looking up at it. And two symbols that look like a ship and a sun.
#crafts #minoan #archaeology #jewelry

I freaking love Minoan seal designs 😄 "Stylized wild goat." Mood.

#archaeology #Minoan #Crete #seals
Drawing of a circular seal design with a very stylized animal shape with large surprised googly eyes.
#minoan #archaeology #crete #seals

Today's #MythologyMonday is celebrating #InternationalMuseumDay with talk about mythological art in museums :)

One of my favorite museums in the world is the Villa Giulia in Rome. It houses the National Etruscan Museum. It falls outside most quick tour routes, and it is a lovely, peaceful, elegant museum with a very rich collection.

See the pretty vases below, with various mythological scenes :) Recongize them?

#Rome #Museum #mythology #Etruscan #Archaeology
Black figure vase with the god Dionysos sitting on a stool in the shade of vines heavy with grapes.
Black figure vase painting depicting four men holding a large spit, poking out the eye of Polyphemus the Cyclops.
Black figure vase with Herakles fighting the Hydra
#mythologymonday #mythology #archaeology #museum #Rome #internationalmuseumday #etruscan

Had a fun day at the Roman festival of Floralia at the Aquincum Museum in Budapest.

The Roman-Barbarian ball game devolved into a friendly brawl when fans invaded the field.

Barbarians cheered for gladiators by bouncing and chanting "IF YOU DON'T JUMP YOU'RE ROMANIZED", soccer fan style.

My toddler followed the gladiator fights with enthusiastic cheering and then in the end asked me "do they have booboos?" 🤣

#Aquincum #reenactment #Romans #archaeology #gladiators
Photo of a lot of half-naked men in a field, some in barbarian trousers and some in Roman kilts, having a free-for-all, surrounded by spectators. The trees of the museum garden are in the background.
Green field in the museum gardens, with a lapidarium building in the background. On the slopes there are hundreds of spectators. In the fieldnare gladiators waiting for the emperor's decision, facing the stands where the emperor sits in a purple toga. In yhe foreground there are half naked men dressed as barbarians, with the letters OSZTARK painted on their backs, imitating sports fans.
#archaeology #romans #aquincum #reenactment #gladiators

Christmas book orders also trickling in. 😊

#AmReading #books #bookstodon #poetry #archaeology
The Penguin Classics edition of Dorothy Parker's Complete Poems
Art and religion in Thera, by Dr. Nanno Marinatos. Subtitle "reconstructing a bronze age society" A photo of a Theran fresco is on the cover
#books #bookstodon #Poetry #amreading #archaeology

Fun fact for my #archaeology peeps:

In last year's census, 2439 people in Hungary declared they were Scythians, and they speak Scythian at home.

🤷‍♀️ 😄 🏹

#history #histodons #Scythian
#history #histodons #archaeology #scythian

Doing some #storytelling today at the Aquincum Amphitheater in Budapest 😊 Two-day Roman festival, gladiators, battles, living history, all kinds of fun.

I have two sets of stories, one of little known Greek and Roman myths (such as an alternate version of Achilles' heel), and one of Caucasian Nart sagas (since we have Sarmatian reenactors on site). My little archeologist heart is happy 😊

#Rome #Romans #LivingHistory #reenactment #Budapest #Aquincum #archaeology #histodons
Selfie with the ruins of the Amphitheater in the background. I (30s white woman, red hair, glasses) am wearing white and blue Roman garb. Behind me in the arena there are tents and yurts for the reenactors, and a large square of sand for the upcoming gladiator fights.
#histodons #storytelling #archaeology #budapest #romans #Rome #aquincum #livinghistory #reenactment

Topic 10: Hoaxes and secrets

Book:
Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, And The Forging Of History, by Kenneth Lapatin

This book delves into the questionable origins of the Boston Snake Goddess figurine. To provide background, it also deals with the long history of Minoan forgeries, and Sir Arthur Evans' track record of creating Minoan history and art from excavated artifacts. Good context for Bronze Age Crete and our view of what it was like.

#archaeology #history #histodons #Minoan
#history #histodons #minoan #archaeology

#ArcheoMail

This would be a curated subscription to receive short reprorts from various ongoing excavations from around the world. What's happening, what's being found, but really, how is the life of the dig going. Some science, some anecdotes, whatever is interesting to share.

#archaeology #archaeologists #archaeodons #archaeologist #histodons

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#histodons #archaeology #archeomail #archaeologists #archaeodons #archaeologist

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