Antiquity Journal

09/12/2025

Map of the area south east of Bolivia's Lake Titicaca, showing possible trade routes of the Tiwanaku State, complete with llamas! 🦙
A major Andean power long before the Inka, they influenced the wider area through trade, religion and politics.

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08/12/2025

Just one week to go until TAG 2025 at York 🚨
The Antiquity pub quiz will of course be making a return, so start studying now if you want to win a coveted Antiquity mug!

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08/12/2025

On Thursday, our editor Robin Skeates will give a lecture at The British Institute at Ankara on 's relevance to the modern world.

Sign up in-person or online to learn about public and current issues as covered in Robin's here: https://biaa.ac.uk/events/archaeologys-place-in-the-world-old-and-new-challenges/

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The first half deals with ‘public archaeology’, drawing on three examples with which the presenter has direct experience: a heritage battle fought by various stakeholders over the future of a Bronze Age monument in England; a project exploring what makes people say ‘wow!’ when visiting archa...

08/12/2025

📰 Digital reconstruction of a tower at sheds light on the top floors of buildings, revealing the 'lost' skyline of the ancient city

via CNN

Virtual reality is making these incredible 3D reconstructions more accessible than ever. In 2022, archaeologists used VR to rebuild the interior of a villa at Pompeii, exploring how ancient domestic spaces were used to display status and power.

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Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

08/12/2025

Was lard used to build ?
Lipid residues in pottery from the nearby Neolithic village of Durrington Walls suggested animal fats may have been used as lubricants, helping transport Stonehenge's megaliths on 'greased sleds'.

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08/12/2025

👀 Watch an interview with Cyprian Broodbank and Giulio Lucarini as they discuss their Antiquity Journal Prize-winning article on and the site's implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later : 🎬 https://cup.org/46UX3Iw

Cambridge Archaeology

08/12/2025

NEW Excavation at the Hatfield Neolithic Corduroy trackway in Lincolnshire, preserved by the peatland environment, but damaged due to peat extraction.
Peatlands are incredibly valuable for archaeologists, preserving organic materials that usually do not survive. However, this heritage is fragile and under threat. The latest Antiquity Debate argues urgent action must be taken now to save this rare archaeology.

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05/12/2025

How did early Christians bury the dead? Evidence for reuse and reduction (reorganisation to occupy less space in a grave) at the 5th-15th century CE Church of Mary in Ephesos indicates complex burial practices in the Middle and Late Byzantine periods.

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05/12/2025

Charlemagne became sole king of the Franks in AD 771, following the death of his brother Carloman. He centralised silver supply and standardised coinage, strengthening the Carolingian economy and influencing all of north-west Europe.

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05/12/2025

Adobe architecture from Paquimé 🇲🇽, the political and ritual centre of the pre-Columbian Mogollan culture during the 13th & 14th centuries AD. DNA analysis of a child burial suggests elites here practised close relative mating for ritual sacrifice.

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05/12/2025

figurines and statues from Tell Abraq in the UAE. Their styles are variously from South Arabia, the larger Arabian Peninsula, India, the Roman Levant and southern Mesopotamia, indicating extensive overland and maritime trade across Western Asia during the pre-Islamic period

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04/12/2025

Monument from the mountain Cerro Patlachique, south of Teotihuacan. It likely depicts a fire priest
Fire priests were religious and political authorities, indicating the sacred mountain was controlled by the Mesoamerican city-state.

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