Emma the Curious 🧐 · @UnconventionalEmma
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“Imagine you go to Dartmoor and want to find a picnic spot. The chances are you will be choosing a spot that is very similar in nature to the spots in the landscape our hunter-gatherer communities chose."

theguardian.com/science/2023/a

#mesolithic #dartmoor

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Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 · @bibliolater
444 followers · 1712 posts · Server qoto.org

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pickard, C., & Bonsall, C. (2022). Reassessing Neolithic Diets in Western Scotland. Humans, 2(4), 226–250. MDPI AG. Retrieved from dx.doi.org/10.3390/humans20400 @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

#oa #scotland #diet #history #histodon #openaccess #article #europe #neolithic #mesolithic #archaeology #histodons

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Bibliolater 📚📜🖋📐 · @bibliolater
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MITHEN, S. (2022). How Long was the Mesolithic–Neolithic Overlap in Western Scotland? Evidence from the 4th Millennium bc on the Isle of Islay and the Evaluation of Three Scenarios for Mesolithic–Neolithic Interaction. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 88, 53-77. doi: doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2022.3 @archaeodons @science

#openaccess #oa #article #neolithic #Neomesolithic #scotland #dna #archaeology #science #journal #mesolithic #academic #academia #academics #archaeodons #history #europe

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haq · @haq
133 followers · 2212 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Found three treasures while litterpicking, including another Mesolithic worked flint - 7 from the same area so far (2 x blades and 2 x points/barbs were notably close finds). This one is the same grey flint, and it's been worked as a core, but only about a third remains because it broke from intense heating. Archaeologists sometimes record these heated flints as "potboilers" but I'm not convinced that applies to this artifact. It seems to be part of a core with usable flint that was put beyond use either intentionally or in a natural wildfire. I was already beginning to wonder if a tool - spear/harpoon - was mislaid and I've been finding some of the pieces. Now I'm wondering if a campsite was lost or even a human life: landslip, wildfire, hunting accident? Impossible to know but I can't help speculating.

#archaeology #mesolithic #lithics #larking #litterpicking

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haq · @haq
131 followers · 2133 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Two tiny worked Mesolithic flints, probably used as barbs on spears. The smallest, which I found yesterday while litterpicking, is 11x6mm. Apart from me, you're the first people to see the one on the left for over 8,000 years.

#lithics #mesolithic #archaeology #larking #litterpicking

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haq · @haq
129 followers · 2128 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Guess who just found the teeniest Mesolithic microlith while litterpicking on a sunset walk? Me! Strange to be the first person for over 8,000 years to see this human manufactured tool.

#larking #lithics #mesolithic #litterpicking

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Carl · @carl
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300 ish words on "a moment in time" for a writing prompt. Also, an attempt at laying it out on a postcard!

#writing #mesolithic #fantasy

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Mythology & History · @mythologyandhistory
497 followers · 476 posts · Server home.social

Did you ever wonder how people handled a diet suddenly consisting of largely ?

The people were surrounded by large forested areas, so their diet featured a lot of .
The later people were focusing on .
How did they physiologically handle the change?

The answer was (likely) hazelnuts!

Large amounts of shells have been found around sites in Duvensee, & .
They were processed extensively by roasting.

#stoneage #grain #mesolithic #meat #neolithic #grains #germany #scotland #prehistory #nutella

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Kate · @pettypierrot
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Miro Collas · @Miro_Collas
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Soil block grave from oldest burial ground in Germany excavated – The History Blog
thehistoryblog.com/archives/66

"Radiocarbon analysis of the remains dates the burial ground to approximately 8,000 years ago in the era, just on the cusp of the Neolithic Revolution that saw the arrival of the first farmers in Brandenburg."

#mesolithic #history #archeology #germany

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Bob Harvey · @BobHarvey
68 followers · 855 posts · Server twit.social

This is fascinating.

In particular the discovery that our ancient hunter-gathering ancestors had ritual practices we cannot comprehend:

manchester.ac.uk/discover/news

Featured in "Digging for Britain, Series 10: 5. Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons": www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dm80y4 via @bbciplayer

#archaeology #mesolithic #huntergatherers #yorkshire

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Carrie · @WarYarnSpinner
725 followers · 2984 posts · Server mas.to

So my current read is the absolutely fascinating “The Gathering Night” by Margaret Elphinstone. Set in Scotland. Story is told by multiple narrators, as if everyone is seated around a campfire taking turns.

#bookstodon #amreading #mesolithic

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Kate · @pettypierrot
163 followers · 89 posts · Server mastodon.scot

A couple of things I’ve been working on as part of a commission for a friend! Including:

2x small leather coin pouches (one with wooden beads, one with bone beads)

1x roe deer hide pouch/satchel for a glasses case

1x Mesolithic style amber pendant

#huntergatherers #deer #nature #leathercraft #art #prehistory #mesolithic #medieval #history #archaeology #craft #leatherwork #ancientcraft

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Will · @ThePointyEndUk
28 followers · 15 posts · Server archaeology.social

A pack.

Alongside working on & supervising the of Mesolithic sites, replicating some of the types of the period can be a great way to further engage with the .

can fill in some of the gaps left by patchy preservation and the loss of perishable materials, and can provide a tactile, tangible component of everything from archaeological experimentation through to and .

#mesolithic #replica #variety #excavation #artefact #archaeology #replicas #outreach #publicengagement

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DW English - Deutsche Welle · @dw
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Will · @ThePointyEndUk
28 followers · 15 posts · Server archaeology.social

The finale of the latest season of features an incredible Hebridean early site I've been lucky enough to work on & co-supervise for the University of Reading.

The preservation is incredible, with stratified occupation deposits, thousands of chipped stone artefacts lying where they were dropped just after the enigmatic stone-lined pits, hearths and even delicate charred hazelnut shells.

If that sounds like your jam, check it out on

#diggingforbritain #holocene #mesolithic #iceage #bbc #iplayer

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PhotArchGit · @PhotArchGit
52 followers · 99 posts · Server mastodon.social

Pecked and ground siltstone axe. Collected from the surface of a late Mesolithic site on the bank of the R. Barrow, Co. Laois, Ireland, 1991, along with numerous chipped stone tools. Estimated ca 6000 years old.

#ireland #archaeology #mesolithic #laois #riverbarrow

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Boduos · @N3m0
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Fred Heller · @keltos
22 followers · 186 posts · Server mastodon.scot

RT @jens2go@twitter.com

: Hollow crane bone from the burial (c. 9,000 years ago) of the so-called from - a container for (tiny precise stone blades), put in & taken out through a small opening.

Yes, that’s your prehistoric @xacto@twitter.com knife. 😉

🐦🔗: twitter.com/jens2go/status/159

#microliths #baddurrenberg #shamaness #mesolithic #findsfriday

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Fred · @Fredatron
89 followers · 681 posts · Server mastodon.social