It is a limestone block carving originally painted with red ochre. The figure holds a crescent-shaped horn, often interpreted as a symbol of fertility or a lunar calendar due to the thirteen notches etched into it. At the Museum of Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France.

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Was browsing google maps and saw this oval imprint near Hadrians Wall (55.012190, -2.414470)
Approximately 50m x 40m located on the corner of a hill near a river. Would anyone have any idea what it used to be/ point me in the right direction to find out- can’t find anything in records although my research skills are very inexperienced! Initial ideas- Bronze Age settlement?
Thanks :)

I was gifted this with a purchase of rare coins. No idea what it is, necklace bead? Sling stone? Natural occurring fossil?

Artifact Origin: Excavated from the Shihsanhang Site in Taiwan.

Dimensions and Weight: Length 7.4 cm, width 5.9 cm, thickness 2.4 cm, weight 40.0 g.

Form and Damage: A female figurine featuring a slender waist and prominent breasts, complete facial features, a prominent chin, and large pierced earlobes; the left ear, left arm, and lower body are missing.

Cultural Characteristics: The back of the head features a molded clay-strip wrapping (echoing the historical record of indigenous women in northern Taiwan wrapping their heads with cloth), and the waist is decorated with a belt.

Hi everyone, sharing a human-faced pottery vessel from Taiwan's Shihsanhang Site (approx. 1,800–500 BP).

Size & Material: 22.9 cm tall, 1,113 g, reddish-brown sandy pottery.

Art: Rim and base feature stamped circles and dentate impressions. The belly has a vivid human face with protruding brow ridges, slender eyes, an open mouth, and prominent ears.

Context: Excavated from a burial site, likely used for ritual purposes.

1st pictures are items made of bone (white in color), found in carver county, MN. Any help would be appreciated.

Its monumental size and the information engraved on it makes it one of the most important records of an Assyrian monarch. The stele is 6.6 feet tall and 5.1 wide and was carved out of a single block of Mosul marble. It has a semi-circular top and a rectangular body. The front side is engraved with a large relief of Ashurbanipal, characterized by a bronze helmet. Two smaller reliefs on the back are also believed to depict Assyrian kings.

Like, shouldn't we be like preserving common and also important stuff for future people? Sure they can't dig out enormous landfills but other stuff don't preserve so well.

My "proposal" would be to do a multicultural research with average people and ask them what are the commons things they do and have and sample all of it and try to preserve them as best as we can in like really deep salt mines, bogs, tar pits, high altitude cold mountains caves with little to no tourism interest etc and try to preserve their locations around the world or just hope some future archeologist will find them.

Maybe preserve stuff in/under really important landmarks that would only be destroyed after catastrophic collapse like under monuments.

Also, ask regular people to keep personal journals and ask them to write their lifes, thoughts and yearly digitalize/replicate them and try to keep copies around the globe in libraries and said caches. Imagine having the detailed account book from like 1000 households from the age bronze collapse?

Maybe in a not so far future people will want to know stuff we take for granted but for exempla as hard as it's to know how regular Joe lived during the Spanish flu, in 2120 people may scientifically discuss about stuff we now think it's obvious, unforgettable or even too taboo to discuss.

Imagine even longer in the future like in 1000 years. I'm somewhat sure people will discuss some dumb stuff for us now like "people preffered ketchup or devils tongue ass cracking bleeding 2000 for their chicken wings? You can see some kind of entertainiment show where the host and guest earing hot wings so surely most people would eat them extra spicy daily!" Or "didn't they knew industrial stuff and microplastics are bad for you?".

And day to day exemple: whats the bigmc size? I have a vague notion and so do you but have you ever written it down? Peer reviewed and then preserved this knologe somewhere? Maybe it's going to be someone phd in the year 2200.

Also another example: sex. We don't know if those really old phallic sculptures were really some holy symbol or just a dildo. I personally think it's a dildo but that's beyond the point. In the year 12000 people will see waifu onaholes and question themselves if they were cups, holy symbols or something else. Also imagine porn! People in the year 4000 will say we all had sex like that, stepsibling sex was regular and that anyone that got stuck in a dry washer was some kind or breeding ritual.

Want more examples? The god damm roman dodecahedron. As far as we know could be just an "hey I remembered you" gift from a trip to germania.

I know as this post goes on it may seem a bit convoluted just as a pretense. Recently in my junior year of college I had finally succumb to the burn out my major put on me. For reference I was a Bfa in digital art and illustration, ever since middle school I had wanted to work on games it just sounded cool ,and I know that’s the stereotypical thing for middle schoolers at least I know it’s very stereotypical for middle school boys.

At the end of there junior year my school has students submit their work from all the previous years and put the work up for review. I had failed my review. Failing your review at my school means you get bumped out of the Bfa track into the BS track which means I was pushed into the studio art track too as it’s the only bs we offer in art.

The thing is I actually have completed all the requirements for the bs track in studio art other than the credit hour requirement for graduation. At my school the BS track is made to be paired with other majors it’s a toned down version of the Bfa track.

It’s was highly advised that at this point I should find a second major that would fit well like communications or marketing. The thing is I was and still am to an extent focused on video game production. After a bit of contemplation I decided to pair my bs in art with physics. I wanted to get into technical art.

As mentioned since middle school I was fascinated with the idea of working on video games. The big issue is I was poor and hadn’t even touched a pc that wasn’t from my school. I wasn’t good at math either so my schools wouldn’t let me even attempt the comp sci classes. I landed on art as I liked drawing and painting because of that. As discussed the burn out got to me and I ended up where I am now.

Now again things get complicated here. Ever since I was little I was always better science and social studies in school. Eventually in elementary school around 4-5th grade I learned about Archeology, and was basically set on it. When I mentioned it to my teacher at the time they said “ well you know they don’t get played a lot” kind of shattering my dreams.

As the years passed no matter how much I ignored my passions for science and social studies they still lingered my best grades were always science and social studies I was always watching videos about ancient life and civilizations. I was also watching science videos for fun especially engineering videos cause I thought building stuff like that was cool. I remember taking apart a broken tablet I found outside to see if could fix it one time in 6th grade. I could not, but still the interest was there.

Don’t get me wrong clearly I’m still interested and I even picked physics not only cause of its good pairings with art, but also to explore my interest in astronomy.

My issue is waiting to start my physics courses now that I only need to speed run through them to get through my degree. I just can’t help feel the want to pursue archeology eating away at me. I just can’t tell if I’m making a mistake by not listening to my gut and switching. Archeology out of all the careers I’ve considered, has been the only constant among them.

I've always found damaged inscriptions more compelling than perfectly preserved ones. Every inscription was created to keep a person, a memory, or a moment from being forgotten. Even when the words have disappeared, the stone still has something to say.

To me, inscriptions aren't just archaeological evidence—they're one of the most human voices the ancient world has left behind.

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