Rolling Archaeology Thread

[Clinamenic]

First word from carbonised Herculaneum scroll discovered. There's every reason to believe the library was representative and contains many lost works.

https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1712470683207532906?s=20

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

What classical work are you looking forward to most? The lost works of Democritus, Diogenes and Plato would be mindblowing.

 

[version]

The beats from RZA's flooded basement.

 

[Mr. Tea]

This is pretty cool; a radiocarbon date of about 1500 for a rongorongo board from Rapa Nui/Easter Island pushes back the date for the invention of the script to well before European contact, and potentially increases the minimum number of times writing was independently invented from three to four:

Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization

A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that the Rapa Nui people invented their own script without European influence.

www.livescience.com

 

[mixed_biscuits]

This is pretty cool; a radiocarbon date of about 1500 for a rongorongo board from Rapa Nui/Easter Island pushes back the date for the invention of the script to well before European contact, and potentially increases the minimum number of times writing was independently invented from three to four:

Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization

A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that the Rapa Nui people invented their own script without European influence.

www.livescience.com

The more times it's done the less impressive it feels.

 

[WashYourHands]

Vindolanda’s tablets are worth seeking out, most have been translated

I like the ordinariness of certain sections - how shit the wine options available were, party invites and associated micro-anxieties whether they’re well stocked and not be made to look like pauper hosts, people who hadnt written back to previous letters and how rude such a slight was perceived as, how awful the weather was/is

Fuck all’s changed

 

[WashYourHands]

outstanding read if you want to dive into the British Isles and Gaul emerging out of rumour and myth with late Bronze Age Greek historians into the full glare of the Roman Empire, cannot recommend enough

The Celtic Heroic Age : edited by John T. Koch and John Carey : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe & Early Ireland & WalesFourth Edition Revised and ExpandedPart I: Ancient Celtic EuropePart II: Early Irish...

archive.org

 

[Mr. Tea]

Important HENGE news.

Archaeologists found an ancient henge hidden in England

An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site

qz.com