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#FrescoFriday painted Maya altar from Tikal 🇬🇹 made using the fresco secco technique. The imagery on the altar is similar to that from distant Teotihuacan 🇲🇽 indicating an active Teotihuacan presence at the lowland Maya centre. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

Ceramic figurines, known as Bolinas, have been found across Preclassic Central America #WorldDollDay Some have articulated heads, but they likely weren't toy dolls. Instead, they may have been positioned into 'tableaus', re-enacting ritual scenes. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

NEW When did the Maya start burying the dead? Excavation at a burial ground at Ceibal, Guatemala indicates the development of permanent cemeteries c.1000 BC could have been the catalyst that lead to permanent settlement and land ownership. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

Did enslaved people build the monumental agricultural earthworks of Early Islamic Iraq? #MedievalMonday Scientific #archaeology sheds light on the impact of the Zanj rebellion, Mongol invasion, plague and climate change on the Iraqi landscape. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

Map of the spread of rice farming across first millennium BC Japan. Rice farming was introduced to Japan by migrant communities from the Korean peninsula. This lead to a population boom, but rate of growth varied by region. 🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

Analysis of the stomach contents of a sea turtle recovered from Australia reveals it swallowed large quantities of plastic, including some of the millions of tonnes of PPE used during COVID. #WorldSeaTurtleDay 🐢 🔗 from 2021 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

The 10th World Archaeology Congress begins next week in Darwin, Australia so check out our collection of #OceaniaArchaeology like: 🇦🇺 Eating in colonial institutions 🇮🇩 The first humans in the Pacific 🇹🇴 Early Polynesian chiefdoms & more FREE! 🔗 buff.ly/3fffttt

Happy #IcelandicNationalDay! Where did Iceland's first settlers come from? Analysis of human remains suggests that the first Europeans in Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century AD were of mixed British, Irish and Scandinavian ancestry. 🔗 from 2023 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

NEW What can medieval English pottery teach us about capitalism? Small-scale pottery producers were instrumental in the transition to capitalism, highlighting the influence of individuals on large-scale economic change. 🆓doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2… 📷British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Features excavated at a garrison on Asia's Medieval Wall System, including a burial #TombTuesday Radiocarbon dating placed the burial as post-Mongol, after the garrison was abandoned, indicating the site remained important even after abandonment. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

Simple, roughly-made bowls from 4th millennium BC Shakhi Kora, Iraqi Kurdistan. They were used to provide large-scale communal meals, frequently hearty meat stews, potentially for the workers who built Mesopotamia's first state institutions. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…