NEW Archaeologists uncover evidence for sacrificial funerary rituals at the Iron Age burial mound of Tunnug 1 in Tuva, Siberia, indicating that the horse-riding Scythians, best-known from Eastern Europe, originated far to the east. Saddle up for this #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵

Here we go, this 26-year-old man was fined £462.30 at Cheshire Magistrates' in September after he bought an 'anytime' ticket and used it before 10am. NORTHERN 🚆 brought this case in a private prosecution. Their own app will tell you this ticket can be used any time of day.

🦴 #FossilFriday is back! After a summer break and some exciting excavation work, I’m thrilled to share a new series focusing on the Mesolithic sites from Muge, Portugal. Beginning with Cabeço da Amoreira! 🔍

📢 Excited to announce our latest publication: "Alteration by natural processes or anthropogenic manipulation? Assessing human skull breakage through machine learning algorithms". ☠️ link.springer.com/article/10.100… #Archaeology #Taphonomy palmira saladie Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo Asier Gómez Olivencia

New article out 🔝 I want to thank the colleagues that involved me in this research! Dental evidence of textile-related task activities in the Bronze Age s... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

NEW Were people mixing human remains in the past? Analysis of a burial in a Roman-period cemetery found the majority of the bones, arranged like one person, were from multiple individuals, the majority dating to the Neolithic! Find out why 🆓 buff.ly/4hbexVz

Earlier this month I visited the CBA Yorkshire’s autumn symposium

Queer ancient Egypt? Run your peepers over our latest from Maya Hampton... workingclassicists.com/zine/we-were-a…

Never thought I’d find tiny animal bones so interesting, any reading recommendations on microfauna and environment/climate?

Remains of man whose death was recorded in 1197 saga uncovered in Norway. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

Our study on ancient Anatolian sheep 🐑 genomes 🧬 is finally out!!! Tons of insights into the early domestication processes in Anatolia and some interesting bits to look into with further research across Eurasia. Check the paper by Damla Kaptan et al: doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Happy #Halloween! Here's some skeletal archaeology to celebrate: At Neolithic Dingsishan 🇨🇳 people cut up bodies before burial. Was this some kind of ritual? New research suggests there was a more pragmatic reason: to save space in graves! (£) buff.ly/3Nz0pb1

A rare Roman knife handle depicting a gladiator has been discovered at Corbridge Roman Town on Hadrian’s Wall. ⚔ The handle provides new proof that gladiators’ celebrity status reached the very edge of the Empire. #GladiatorII

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bbc.com/news/articles/… Pretty big news, yes, but to clarify, this is NOT "the first pharaoh's tomb discovered in Egypt since Tutankhamun's." It is, though, the first such royal tomb to be discovered in the vicinity of the Valley of the Kings since Carter discovered Tut’s tomb.