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Researchers find 2 new fossils suggesting Longipteryx, a 121-million-year-old bird, may have had no tail feathers, making it unlike any living bird. Its wings and shoulders hint it flew differently too. @universitypress.cambridge.org #Paleontology #China archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/a-bi...

New study uses Bayesian modelling of 79 fingerprints from China’s Terracotta Army to try and figure out who built it. The results suggest both women and children helped build the famous statues, not just men as had long been assumed. #Archaeology #China archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/not-...

New study identifies what may be the first stenciled rock art in southern Africa, hiding in plain sight. What’s more, the two figures were made using a mini-template, a technique that is rare worldwide. #Archaeology #SouthAfrica archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/hidi...

Scientists in Fujian, China, found an odd flightless 149-million-year-old bird with stubby wings, raptor-like claw. Had it not yet evolved to fly, or had it reverted to life on the ground? #Paleontology #China archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/chin...

75,000 years ago in Shanidar Cave, a Neanderthal survived a facial injury that split a tooth in half, and kept chewing on it. Later, a spear, probably wooden, went through their shoulder blade. A hunting accident, or murder? #Archaeology 🧪 archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/murd...

Happy International Archaeology Day! 🌍 Archaeology connects us to the people who came long before us. It reveals what they ate and believed, how they mourned their dead, and more! Here’s to archaeology in all its forms! ⛏️ #ArchaeologyDay #IAD2026 #Archaeology #History archaeologyteahouse.com

In 1925, the graves around Egypt’s first kings were called sacrifices, with no injuries. For years, the claim was repeated, the bones unchecked. Now, modern methods reveal possibly lethal blows on 18 of 46 skulls. Showing the value in rechecking old finds. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/kill...

In 1955, a skull tumbled down a Kent chalk quarry, revealing an Iron Age cemetery. Its bones were written off as lost. Then Michael Legge at @york.ac.uk and colleagues found them. But what can written-off bones still tell us? #History #Kent #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/skul...

In 1909, an Iraqi dealer posted 4 sample tablets to the British Museum from a ‘new site’: Kish, supposedly unexcavated since 1880. Iraqis were digging there, but why were they erased from their own history? @uclarchaeology.bsky.social #Archaeology #Iraq archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/brib...

928 fragments of human bone lie scattered across Göbeklitepe. A skull cult? Its first 2 intact graves, dug under house floors, suggest many were washed downhill by landslides. So why do some bear cut marks? @plosone.org #Archaeology #Türkiye archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/not-...

Random thought: 🤔I know this would be a bad idea, but I want to pet it... Maybe it's a good thing they are extinct 😅

South America's sabre-toothed thylacosmilids were thought extinct by the mid-to-late Pliocene. But bones found in Argentina show a new species, larger than a jaguar, lived on, long enough to encounter predators moving in from the north. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/wres...

In 1946, 13 jar stoppers turned up in a First Dynasty tomb at Saqqara. They're lost, but an enhanced photo suggests two name Meretneith, long called a king's wife, in a serekh, a frame reserved for rulers. Was she a king after all? #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/not-...

The Herculaneum scrolls are famous, yet too fragile to unroll and too charred to read. Seiler and co. had an idea: what if the ink contained lead? So they baked their own with lead ink. On X-ray, the ink glowed up to 25 times brighter. #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/star...

The Herculaneum scrolls are famous, yet too fragile to unroll and too charred to read. Seiler and co. had an idea: what if the ink contained lead? So they baked their own with lead ink. On X-ray, the ink glowed up to 25 times brighter. #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/star...

Tea Break is my monthly roundup of new studies, just for supporters ☕ The second is out 🧪🐍 Could a snake handle point to the cult of Sabazios in Roman Spain? And why do 82 looted copper snakes in Iran look like they came from Early Iron Age Oman? archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/tea-...

The smallest things are sometimes the most incredible things to find when excavating. Here a small microlith of the Maglemosian culture some 9000 years ago. Archaeology is fun #denmark #archaelogy #mesolithic 🏺

Archaeologists in China found a 700-year-old woman buried face down, most of her nose gone. Disease? Accident? She may be China's first skeletal evidence of punitive nose-cutting. Yet she survived the ordeal 🧪 archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/she-... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

In the 90s, the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was blamed for flat head syndrome. But a recent study found it in Iron Age Italy, nearly 3,000 years earlier. So how did Iron Age babies end up with flat heads? 🧪 #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/befo... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Me telling my classmates in the 80s/90s that pterosaurs aren't the same as dinosaurs, and that Paleontology isn't Archaeology.

Archaeology Teahouse is 1 month old🎉. 30 stories live, 493 of you read them & 25 nerds signed up for more. Sharing archaeology is what I love most & I am so happy to do it with all of you. Thank you!🤗 archaeologyteahouse.com #Archaeology #history #science #writing 🧪

Realistic. #archaeology

John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past. theconversation.com/six-reasons-...

Archaeology Teahouse is 1 month old🎉. 30 stories live, 493 of you read them & 25 nerds signed up for more. Sharing archaeology is what I love most & I am so happy to do it with all of you. Thank you!🤗 archaeologyteahouse.com #Archaeology #history #science #writing 🧪

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🔬Spotlight Meet Prof. Justin Bradfield (UJ), specialising in use-wear on bone tools—revealing how tools were made and used. A powerful method uncovering past human behaviour 🔍 🔗 www.saassarchaeology.com/specialities...

In 1967, a Malawi farmer dug up 8 copper crosses beneath a tree. Sloppy copies, recast in damp sand from metal mined 800 km away. Who made them, how did they get there, and why was the hoard never reclaimed? #Archaeology #Malawi archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/neve...

New study finds that laser scans of a temple wall at Kition, Cyprus reveal 23 hidden ship carvings, one on a block added ~150 years after the rest, suggesting people kept carving ships for ~300 years, through the Bronze Age collapse archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/a-fl... #Archaeology #Science

Insect remains from a burial cave on Gran Canaria reveal how Indigenous people reused it over time. The cave was first used to store grain before being turned into a burial site in the 7th to 9th centuries AD. #Archaeology #CanaryIslands archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/buri...

Coca leaves stuck in the wool of sacrificed llamas at Tambo Viejo, Peru, reveal how the Inka offered this sacred plant to the spirits. Long before cocaine, coca was a gift for the gods. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/befo... #Archaeology #Inka

Coca leaves stuck in the wool of sacrificed llamas at Tambo Viejo, Peru, reveal how the Inka offered this sacred plant to the spirits. Long before cocaine, coca was a gift for the gods. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/befo... #Archaeology #Inka

Insect remains from a burial cave on Gran Canaria reveal how Indigenous people reused it over time. The cave was first used to store grain before being turned into a burial site in the 7th to 9th centuries AD. #Archaeology #CanaryIslands archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/buri...

Study argues two cases of San rock art were misread: at Mokhali Cave the "dinosaur" was ǁKhwai-hemm, a personified veld fire, and at RSA LBF1 the "tusked" dicynodont fossil-inspired animal has no tusks, it was just a smear of paint. #archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/not-...

Two hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi wore grooves into their teeth by sucking on betel nuts, one of them as early as 16,000–25,000 years ago. That could make it the oldest known evidence of habitual psychoactive plant drug use. #Archaeology #AncientHistory archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/the-...

Two hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi wore grooves into their teeth by sucking on betel nuts, one of them as early as 16,000–25,000 years ago. That could make it the oldest known evidence of habitual psychoactive plant drug use. #Archaeology #AncientHistory archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/the-...

New study finds that laser scans of a temple wall at Kition, Cyprus reveal 23 hidden ship carvings, one on a block added ~150 years after the rest, suggesting people kept carving ships for ~300 years, through the Bronze Age collapse archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/a-fl... #Archaeology #Science

Study argues two cases of San rock art were misread: at Mokhali Cave the "dinosaur" was ǁKhwai-hemm, a personified veld fire, and at RSA LBF1 the "tusked" dicynodont fossil-inspired animal has no tusks, it was just a smear of paint. #archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/not-...

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New luminescence dating suggests South Dakota's Mammoth Site sinkhole trapped Columbian mammoths 232,000-160,000 years ago, way older than the 42-23k radiocarbon dates once suggested. #Archaeology #Paleontology #Mammoths #Science #SouthDakota archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/mamm...

The thylacine wasn't a wolf mimic: its skull was a unique mix of canine and marsupial traits, plus features that echo crocs and Spinosaurus. Built for fast, high-impact bites on small prey. medium.com/science-spec... #Paleontology #Science #Evolution #Tasmania

Archaeologists identified a 17th-century Polish grave as a rare "vampire" burial of a young woman. Her body was found with a sickle laid across her throat and a padlock locked around her toe to stop her from returning. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/the-... #Archaeology #History #Poland

Archaeologists identified a 17th-century Polish grave as a rare "vampire" burial of a young woman. Her body was found with a sickle laid across her throat and a padlock locked around her toe to stop her from returning. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/the-... #Archaeology #History #Poland

Study finds twelve wallaby teeth from a Cape York rockshelter, still tipped with grass-tree resin, were ornaments rather than food scraps. At roughly 1,200 years old, they're the first of their kind found outside a burial in northeast Australia #archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/wear...

New isotope work shows Iron Age Botswana pulling copper from African sources up to 950km apart, yet its tin came from a single valley every time #Archaeology #Africa #Science #history #Botswana #IronAge archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/copp...

New isotope work shows Iron Age Botswana pulling copper from African sources up to 950km apart, yet its tin came from a single valley every time #Archaeology #Africa #Science #history #Botswana #IronAge archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/copp...

Study finds twelve wallaby teeth from a Cape York rockshelter, still tipped with grass-tree resin, were ornaments rather than food scraps. At roughly 1,200 years old, they're the first of their kind found outside a burial in northeast Australia #archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/wear...

New study finds Aboriginal artists in Arnhem Land responded to European colonization by painting ever-bigger rainbow serpents, some over 6 meters long, reasserting cultural authority through sheer scale. #RockArt #Archaeology archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/pain...