#Cathole cave at #ParcleBreos on the #GowerPeninsula Used as shelter for #Mesolithic hunters and first excavated back in 1864 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

It's so hard to smile these days... This little guy has been smiling for around 7,400 years - known as the world's oldest smile . The #Mesolithic figurine was found in Willemstad, The Netherlands. Its purpose isn't clear: Ritual? A doll? On display at @RM_Oudheden 📷 Me

🌟 Join us for the Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2024! 📆 Dec 5, 19:30 CET (online) 🎙️ Prof. Graeme Warren (UCD Archaeology, Dublin) on "Mesolithic Platforms? Mobile architecture in hunter-gatherer Ireland." 🆓 Free to attend via Zoom. Sign up on Eventbrite👉 shorturl.at/5iA3O

New article published: Underneath the Surface: Examining “Hidden Lesions” With Paleoimaging at Moita do Sebastião, Mesolithic Muge, Portugal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… a thread to highlight the key points^^

Free #Mesolithic talks? I got you. The next talk in support of Star Carr: Life after the Ice is at the Yorkshire Museum on Wednesday 4 December 2024, 6:00 pm-7:00 pm. Join Dr Sophy Charlton (University of York) for "Exploring Mesolithic lives using archaeological science" Info👇

This year, we uncovered a pestle-shaped lithic among Mesolithic tree roots at Bouldnor Clif, off the Isle of Wight. While most of the finds the site are flint, this tool is made of a rough green stone, which shows signs of grinding on one end. Stay tuned as research continues!

#FindsFriday Beautiful Mesolithic baskets so well-preserved they look modern rather than made by hunter-gatherers some 9,500 years ago! 🤯 A rare glimpse of ancient crafts used by people long ago that are still in use today! When they were found in the 19th century, inside the

Dr Antony Colombo Diego López Onaindia École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL Université Bordeaux Montaigne Alex Ireland Manchester Metropolitan Uni and it was great to present a poster on a child burial from Mesolithic Muge (Portugal), a work in collaboration between Research Centre for Anthropology and Health and ICArEHB

We are finds sorting again on Sunday mornings, still working through material from our Mesolithic shell midden dig of 2023. We are about two thirds of the way through washing and sorting our samples, so should get finished this winter!

This elm leaf from Windy Harbour, Lancashire 🇬🇧 is 6000 years old! #LancashireDay It is a rarely preserved indicator of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in England, as the arrival of farming in Britain corresponded with the decline of the elm tree. 🆓 buff.ly/3Vb4oxN

A great day yesterday with the writer James Canton looking at a 10,000 year old Mesolithic lake eroding onto the beach at Skipsea in North Yorkshire. Research for his new book. The lake deposits have a Bronze Age beaver dam overlying it.

NOVA PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 “Underneath the Surface: Examining “Hidden Lesions” With Paleoimaging at Moita do Sebastião, Mesolithic Muge, Portugal.” IN International Journal of Osteoarchaeology doi.org/10.1002/oa.3367

#FindsFriday #FlintFriday Late Mesolithic flints NE England, c 8000-3900 BCE. L narrow-blade microliths; Top R microliths & utilised blades; Bottom R core from which blades removed. Flint from NE beaches & glacial deposits, dragged from Denmark & chalk beds under the North Sea.

Sharp eyed Carol found this lovely cowrie shell bead while finds sorting from our Mesolithic shell midden dig last Sunday. It is similar to the one we found before but smaller and the holes are neater. Amazing to think someone was probably wearing this over 6000 years ago!

The people have spoken! 🙌 We dug into the data and found your 5 favourite artefacts of 2024… 🪮an Anglo-Saxon bone comb ⚱️some Iron Age pottery sherds 🪙a 16th century token found in a castle moat ⛏️a hefty Mesolithic pick 🪵...and a 3000 year old Bronze Age spade

Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals nature.com/articles/s4159…

#考古学のおやつ 2/2 ▶ Andrea Zupancich 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. (2024) Mesolithic plant processing unveiled: （副題省略）. 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒: 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠, Volume 61, February 2025, 104907. [ScienceDirect] doi.org/10.1016/j.jasr…

From a new paper: Mesolithic & Neolithic sites studied in the Iberian Peninsula and the Levant. Natufian, Mesolithic and pre-pottery site locations indicated with a lithic tool, & Neolithic site locations shown with a pottery amphora. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#考古学のおやつ 2/2 ▶ Per Möller 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. (2024) The Mesolithic Hunter–Gatherer Camp Site at Sammakko in Norrbotten, Northernmost Sweden（副題省略）. 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦, Volume 40, Issue 1. [Wiley Online Library] doi.org/10.1002/gea.22…

Did you know that the first activity at Stonehenge took place as far back as 8500–7000 BC? Mesolithic posts, like totem poles, were raised by hunter-gatherers to the north-west of the site 👷‍♀️🏗️ Discover the key stages of Stonehenge’s long history ➡️ brnw.ch/21wPKsp