Legananny Cromleac, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, by R Welch, 1898
Oscar Lozada
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Prehistoric archaeologist and hunter-gatherer of interestingness 🏹🌾 | Sharing my love of all things ancient 🏺🏛️ | PhD student at Cambridge studying the Neanderthals of Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
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The way out.
Crawling down this 6m-long passage is the only way out of Cuween Chambered Tomb in #Orkney
Built ~3000BC, but why make it so low and narrow?
Does the crawl represent a journey from the world of the dead back to the living?
#TombTuesday
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#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday🏺
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Bayeux Cathedral is a masterpiece of Gothic #architecture
Started in the 13th century after damage to the earlier Norman one, it was wasn't completed until the 19th!
The vaulted archways are now lined with portraits of saints
#MedievalMonday
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#churches #france #archaeology #photooftheday🏺
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#StandingStoneSunday Another view down the 83m-long Avenue to the Callanish Stones
Along here ceremonial processions would have walked to the central stones, 5000 years ago
Who knows what they were worshipping though? 🤔
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📍Isle of Lewis #Scotland
#archaeology #ancientbluesky #photooftheday🏺
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The Amphitheatre of Salona in #Croatia, built in the late 2nd century AD
Despite its small size it is estimated to have seated 15,000-18,000 people for gladiator fights!
#RomanSiteSaturday
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#archaeology #romanempire #ancientbluesky #photooftheday
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#FindsFriday An Iron Age weaving comb made from deer antler, found in the Broch of Borwick in the #Orkney islands, from ~2400 years ago
They are well-worn and polished so must have been used a lot!
Now in the Skara Brae #Museum
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#archaeology #museums #Scotland #photooftheday 🏺
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What can these ceramic 'puppets' tell us about ancient Central American societies? 'Bolinas' figurines from El Salvador likely served ritual purposes in Preclassic Mesoamerica, and indicate connections from Guatemala to Costa Rica 🏺 #Archaeology
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Yeah sorry if confusing. It was first built around 130 AD built was abandoned during the Antonine advance into Scotland around 140 AD, and it wasn't reoccupied until about 200 AD. But from then on it was occupied more or less continuously until about 400 AD when Roman rule in Britain was crumbling
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Hardknott Roman Fort on a misty morning #RomanFortThursday
After being abandoned in the mid-2nd century, it was re-occupied around 200 AD and helped to control Cumbria for the next 200 years until the Roman withdrawal from Britannia
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#archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺
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#TombTuesday Unstan Chambered Cairn in #Orkney is a hybrid - it has both stalls (big upright stones) and a side chamber (opening on the left)
It doesn't fit the usual classification for Neolithic tombs, but we don't know why it was built like this 🤔
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#archaeology #scotland #photooftheday 🏺
