New study identifies what may be the first stenciled rock art in southern Africa, hiding in plain sight. What’s more, the two figures were made using a mini-template, a technique that is rare worldwide. #Archaeology #SouthAfrica archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/hidi...

Hiding in Plain Sight: Southern Africa’s First Stenciled Rock Art Found in a Shelter Used as a Church — Archaeology Teahouse

First Stenciled Rock Art in Southern Africa Found in La Rochelle Shelter, Mpumalanga

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Scientists in Fujian, China, found an odd flightless 149-million-year-old bird with stubby wings, raptor-like claw. Had it not yet evolved to fly, or had it reverted to life on the ground? #Paleontology #China archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/chin...

China's Jurassic Phoenix: New Fossil Suggests One of the Earliest Birds May Never Have Taken to the Sky — Archaeology Teahouse

A New Study Finds One of the Earliest Birds Was a Flightless Ground Hunter

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Ich glaube die Vorlesung "Heroes, Mummies, and Treasure. Cinematic Archaeology" am 30.11. werde ich mir via Zoom anschauen.😬

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Archäologie fasziniert die Menschen: Wie wichtig ist der Öffentlichkeit dabei die historische Authentizität? Diese und weitere Fragen widmet sich die Ringvorlesung des Netzwerks „Archäologie Diagonal“ und des Centrums für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums.

75,000 years ago in Shanidar Cave, a Neanderthal survived a facial injury that split a tooth in half, and kept chewing on it. Later, a spear, probably wooden, went through their shoulder blade. A hunting accident, or murder? #Archaeology 🧪 archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/murd...

Happy International Archaeology Day! 🌍 Archaeology connects us to the people who came long before us. It reveals what they ate and believed, how they mourned their dead, and more! Here’s to archaeology in all its forms! ⛏️ #ArchaeologyDay #IAD2026 #Archaeology #History archaeologyteahouse.com

In 1925, the graves around Egypt’s first kings were called sacrifices, with no injuries. For years, the claim was repeated, the bones unchecked. Now, modern methods reveal possibly lethal blows on 18 of 46 skulls. Showing the value in rechecking old finds. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/kill...

Killed for the King? A Century-Old Debate Over Egypt’s First Human Sacrifices Gets New Evidence — Archaeology Teahouse

New study re-examines 46 century-old skulls from Abydos and finds that 39% show potentially lethal head injuries, likely from a broad, flat object, around the time of death.

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In 1955, a skull tumbled down a Kent chalk quarry, revealing an Iron Age cemetery. Its bones were written off as lost. Then Michael Legge at @york.ac.uk and colleagues found them. But what can written-off bones still tell us? #History #Kent #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/skul...

Skull in the Quarry: What Happened to the Highsted Cemetery, and Who Was Buried There? — Archaeology Teahouse

Radiocarbon dating, osteology, isotope and ancient DNA analysis of commingled remains from a 1955 rescue excavation show a local Late Iron Age to Romano-British population, with diets shifting under R...

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In 1909, an Iraqi dealer posted 4 sample tablets to the British Museum from a ‘new site’: Kish, supposedly unexcavated since 1880. Iraqis were digging there, but why were they erased from their own history? @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #Archaeology #Iraq archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/brib...

Bribes, Whips and Smuggled Tablets: Why Were the Iraqis Who Dug Kish Erased From Their Own History? — Archaeology Teahouse

New study examines century-old dealers’ letters showing Iraqi teams excavated Kish between 1909 and 1913, while the ‘legal’ French mission smuggled its finds out through Baghdad.

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928 fragments of human bone lie scattered across Göbeklitepe. A skull cult? Its first 2 intact graves, dug under house floors, suggest many were washed downhill by landslides. So why do some bear cut marks? @plosone.org #Archaeology #Türkiye archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/not-...

Not Just a Skull Cult: What Göbeklitepe's First Intact Burials Reveal About Its Scattered Dead — Archaeology Teahouse

Taphonomic analysis of two Pre-Pottery Neolithic B burials (8,700–8,000 BCE) suggests many of the 928 human bone fragments at Göbeklitepe came from domestic subfloor graves displaced by landslides and...

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Random thought: 🤔I know this would be a bad idea, but I want to pet it... Maybe it's a good thing they are extinct 😅

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South America's sabre-toothed thylacosmilids were thought extinct by the mid-to-late Pliocene. But bones found in Argentina show a new species, larger than a jaguar, lived on, long enough to encounter predators moving in from the north. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/wres...

South America's sabre-toothed thylacosmilids were thought extinct by the mid-to-late Pliocene. But bones found in Argentina show a new species, larger than a jaguar, lived on, long enough to encounter predators moving in from the north. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/wres...

Wrestler of the Pampas: South America's Saber-Toothed Predator That Outlived Its Own Supposed Extinction — Archaeology Teahouse

Postcranial remains from Miramar, Argentina, extend the thylacosmilid record into the early Pleistocene and suggest overlap with North American carnivores arriving in South America.

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In 1946, 13 jar stoppers turned up in a First Dynasty tomb at Saqqara. They're lost, but an enhanced photo suggests two name Meretneith, long called a king's wife, in a serekh, a frame reserved for rulers. Was she a king after all? #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/not-...

Not Just the King's Wife: Was First Dynasty Egypt Ruled by a Woman Named Meretneith? — Archaeology Teahouse

New study proposes that Meretneith may have ruled in stages, possibly as co-ruler and later regent, but the evidence remains debated.

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The Herculaneum scrolls are famous, yet too fragile to unroll and too charred to read. Seiler and co. had an idea: what if the ink contained lead? So they baked their own with lead ink. On X-ray, the ink glowed up to 25 times brighter. #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/star...

Star Wars on Papyrus: Why Scientists Baked Their Own Herculaneum Scrolls to Help Read the Real Ones — Archaeology Teahouse

New study shows lead-spiked ink on replica carbonized scrolls glows up to 25 times brighter under X-rays, offering a way to find Herculaneum scrolls most likely to be read

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The Herculaneum scrolls are famous, yet too fragile to unroll and too charred to read. Seiler and co. had an idea: what if the ink contained lead? So they baked their own with lead ink. On X-ray, the ink glowed up to 25 times brighter. #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/star...

Star Wars on Papyrus: Why Scientists Baked Their Own Herculaneum Scrolls to Help Read the Real Ones — Archaeology Teahouse

New study shows lead-spiked ink on replica carbonized scrolls glows up to 25 times brighter under X-rays, offering a way to find Herculaneum scrolls most likely to be read

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Tea Break is my monthly roundup of new studies, just for supporters ☕ The second is out 🧪🐍 Could a snake handle point to the cult of Sabazios in Roman Spain? And why do 82 looted copper snakes in Iran look like they came from Early Iron Age Oman? archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/tea-...

Tea Break September: A Cult Snake in a Bread Oven and The Mystery of 82 Looted Copper Snakes — Archaeology Teahouse

A New Study Suggests the Cult of Sabazios Reached a Rural Roman Villa in Spain, While a Second Traces 82 Looted Copper Snakes Back to Early Iron Age Oman

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The smallest things are sometimes the most incredible things to find when excavating. Here a small microlith of the Maglemosian culture some 9000 years ago. Archaeology is fun #denmark #archaelogy #mesolithic 🏺

Archaeologists in China found a 700-year-old woman buried face down, most of her nose gone. Disease? Accident? She may be China's first skeletal evidence of punitive nose-cutting. Yet she survived the ordeal 🧪 archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/she-... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

She Survived Losing Her Nose: 700-Year-Old Skull May Be the First Physical Evidence of a Brutal Chinese Punishment — Archaeology Teahouse

A 14th-century woman lost her nose, most likely as punishment for a crime, yet with medical care she survived for years afterwards.

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In the 90s, the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was blamed for flat head syndrome. But a recent study found it in Iron Age Italy, nearly 3,000 years earlier. So how did Iron Age babies end up with flat heads? 🧪 #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/befo... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Me telling my classmates in the 80s/90s that pterosaurs aren't the same as dinosaurs, and that Paleontology isn't Archaeology.

Archaeology Teahouse is 1 month old🎉. 30 stories live, 493 of you read them & 25 nerds signed up for more. Sharing archaeology is what I love most & I am so happy to do it with all of you. Thank you!🤗 archaeologyteahouse.com #Archaeology #history #science #writing 🧪

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Field notes, finds, and long reads on archaeology — served warm.

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Realistic. #archaeology

John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past. theconversation.com/six-reasons-...

Six reasons to save archaeology from funding cuts

The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.

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Archaeology Teahouse is 1 month old🎉. 30 stories live, 493 of you read them & 25 nerds signed up for more. Sharing archaeology is what I love most & I am so happy to do it with all of you. Thank you!🤗 archaeologyteahouse.com #Archaeology #history #science #writing 🧪

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Field notes, finds, and long reads on archaeology — served warm.

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what a cool website you've got! archaeology teahouse, i love it. thanks for connecting here.

for all the archaeology nerds in Bluesky land : )

SandeeOster@sandeeoster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Archaeology Teahouse is launching Tea Breaks, a monthly round-up of the archaeological discoveries that slipped past the headlines, plus my honest takes on the mainstream stories. The blogs stay free, but Tea Breaks are my thank-you to monthly subscribers archaeologyteahouse.com/notes

🔬Spotlight Meet Prof. Justin Bradfield (UJ), specialising in use-wear on bone tools—revealing how tools were made and used. A powerful method uncovering past human behaviour 🔍 🔗 www.saassarchaeology.com/specialities...

In 1967, a Malawi farmer dug up 8 copper crosses beneath a tree. Sloppy copies, recast in damp sand from metal mined 800 km away. Who made them, how did they get there, and why was the hoard never reclaimed? #Archaeology #Malawi archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/neve...

Never Reclaimed: Why Was a Hoard of Copper Crosses Buried Beneath a Tree in Malawi? — Archaeology Teahouse

New study finds a hoard of copycat copper ingots in Malawi was cast from metal mined over 800 km away

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New study finds that laser scans of a temple wall at Kition, Cyprus reveal 23 hidden ship carvings, one on a block added ~150 years after the rest, suggesting people kept carving ships for ~300 years, through the Bronze Age collapse archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/a-fl... #Archaeology #Science

A Fleet Hiding in Plain Sight: Laser Scans Find 23 New Ships on a Cypriot Temple Wall — Archaeology Teahouse

New high-resolution laser scanning at Kition Kathari, Cyprus, reveals 23 previously unrecorded ship graffiti and indicates the carvings accumulated continuously from Late Cypriot IIIA into the Cypro-G...

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Insect remains from a burial cave on Gran Canaria reveal how Indigenous people reused it over time. The cave was first used to store grain before being turned into a burial site in the 7th to 9th centuries AD. #Archaeology #CanaryIslands archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/buri...

Buried in a Granary: Why Did the People of Gran Canaria Bury Their Dead in an Old Grain Store? — Archaeology Teahouse

Study Suggests a Pre-Hispanic Burial Cave on Gran Canaria Was Repurposed From an Earlier Grain Store

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