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Jul 10 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
"Look Klaus Bey, that stone's got ears!"

Sometimes, starting excavations in a new area, you only got a vague idea about what's really waiting below topsoil.

This is how innocent the now famous so-called #TotemPole from #GöbekliTepe peeked out upon its very first appearance.
Oliver put together a nice little thread here telling how the story of this discovery continued on after that first glimpse:
This find (calling it a #CompositeSculpture may be the more appropriate archaeological terminology) is of special interest since it represents a special type of early #Neolithic sculpture in the region also known from other sites:
And thus allowing us to address (and better understand) other, seemingly odd, examples of art and sculptures from that period and region - like one of my favourite objects among these: the #KilisikSculpture:
Or other new finds as e.g. those amazing new examples which were unearthed recently at #KarahanTepe:

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Jul 8
Office with a view, or: Yet another day at the #excavation.

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Apr 15
It's #GoodFriday, commemorating the #crucifixion of #Jesus which, according Christian tradition, took place in 1st ct. AD Judea (then a #Roman province).

While there are historic sources about this punishment method, archaeological evidence is scarce.

Some #EasterArchaeology:
(Content warning: Images of human remains and some possibly rather explicit details of death and torture.)
#Crucifixion as punishment is predating Roman times and goes back as far as to the Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Persians.

In ancient Rome it was mostly imposed on slaves or exercised as political punishment e.g. for insurrectionist - but usually not against Roman citizens.
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Mar 13
Some #SundayArchaeology #Paleolithic haute couture:

These ab. 25-30k y/o so-called #Venus figurines have been discussed a lot as religious, health & fertility symbols, & mother goddesses.

But some of them offer s glimpse at another interesting, often overlooked details …
A number of these figures also show a couple of details which might be interpreted as headdress - and even #clothing from the Upper #Paleolithic #Gravettian (of which we have little evidence otherwise).
There has been, however, some interesting research on such #iconographic evidence for #clothing, e.g. by O. Soffer et al. in Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 1(1), 2000:

researchgate.net/profile/David-…
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Mar 12
In einem neuen Video gehen #funk & @Kurz_Gesagt der Frage nach, ob es in der langen #Erdgeschichte schon einmal höher entwickelte #Kulturen vor uns gegeben haben könnte - und werfen auch einen Blick darauf, was wir womöglich einmal hinterlassen werden:

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Ein interessantes Gedankenexperiment, das u.a. auch auf die sog. #SilurianHypothesis zurückgeht, wie sie z.B. 2018 von @ClimateOfGavin und @AdamFrank4 in einem im International Journal of Astrobiology (18(2)) veröffentlichten Aufsatz diskutiert wurde:

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Ich gebe ehrlich zu, in dieser Frage weniger optimistisch zu sein.

Warum ein solches Szenario (bzw. dessen Nachweis) aus gegenwärtiger archäologischer Sicht sehr unwahrscheinlich ist, durften @drspacejunk und ich mit z.B. @JamieSeidel hier diskutieren:

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Jan 28
The Past and the Curious:

Studying the remains of past lives - (re-) constructing narratives of past events and people.

Who's going to claim the title of "#HistoryFirsrArchaeologist"?

Choose your player …
Is it #Khaemweset, the ancient Egyptian crown prince (1281-1225 BC) who uncovered and restored ancient monuments of past rulers and renewed their funerary cults?

Or do you choose #Nabonidus, king of Babylon (c. 609 - c. 539 BC) who excavated the foundations of ancient temples to properly rebuild them - and who tried his hands on building an archaeological chronology?

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Jan 27
1.3 million people were sent to #Auschwitz extermination camp.

1.1  million people, among them 960,000 Jews (865,000 gassed on arrival), were murdered at Auschwitz.

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On 27 January 1945, #Auschwitz concentration camp was #liberated by the #RedArmy.

Most remaining prisoners had been forced onto death marches before, about 7,000 had been left behind.

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Between 1933-1945, Nazi Germany operated ab. 1,000 concentration camps on its own and in occupied territories in Europe.

The total number of victims remains in the dark, more than 6 million jews alone were murdered in the holocaust.

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