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Archaeoethnologica

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"Love or Hate" ... roman magic figurines

#romanarchaeology #classicalarchaeology #archaeologyofmagic #ancientamagic #materialculture #AncientBlueSky

January 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Statue of Arthemis of Ephesus, II BC. National Archaeological Museum, Naples

#Archaeology #AncientSculpture #AncientArt #ClassicalArchaeology #ArthemisEphesia #AncientBlueSky

January 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Scythian influenced Amazon, by Epiktetos, 520-510 BCE, British Museum, London

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #GreekArt #Art #Greekpottery #redfiguresware #scythian #amazon #AncientBlueSky

January 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Archaeoethnologica: Women & Society in Roman West / Mulheres e Sociedad no Ocidente Romano

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/mulh...

#Archaeology #Antiquity #ClassicalArchaeology #AncientHistory #gender #Rome #epigraphy #dailylife #socialhistory #books #AncientBlueSky

September 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Dan Stewart

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The other neat thing about my return to Crete was visiting Gortyn during a Saharan sand storm. Look at that light! #ClassicalArchaeology #RomanCrete #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

The Roman odeon at Gortyn, in the orange light of a sand storm.

Part of the Gortyn Law Code built in to the Roman Odeon retaining wall, with a beautiful orange glow

June 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM

Archaeoethnologica

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Archaeoethnologica: Conversing with Chaos in Antiquity - Book / Conversando com o Caos na Antiguidade - Livro

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/conv...

#AncientHistory #Enviroment #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #chaos #Greece #Rome #HistoryofReligions #books #AncientBlueSky

April 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM

Archaeoethnologica

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An ostracon showing a pair copulating, dating between the 19th-20th Dynasties, from Deir el-Medina (workman artisan’s village). British Museum

#Antiquity #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #art #eroticscene #AncientEgypt #eroticinart #AncientBlueSky

December 29, 2024 at 8:18 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Spartan bass relief

#Archaeology #Art #ClassicalArchaeology #Sparta #AncientSculpture #materialculture #AncientArt #AncientBlueSky

December 31, 2024 at 1:01 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Scythian archer blowing a trumpet, from a Greek black-figured pinax, attributed to Psiax, 520-500 BCE, British Museum

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #GreekArt #Art #greekpottery #blackfigureware #Antiquity #scythians #AncientBlueSky

January 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Scythian with axe, bow, and spear relief, 400-101 BCE, via Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #GreekArt #Art #sculture #Antiquity #scythians #AncientBlueSky

January 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Archaeoethnologica: Strategies of of Remembering - Book / Estrategias da Lembrança - Livro

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/estr...

#Archaeology #AncientHistory #Greece #greeks #Identity #Rome #culturalmemory #politics #Antiquity #ClassicalArchaeology #AncientBlueSky

December 2, 2024 at 9:55 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Statue of the goddess Cybele depicted enthroned with a lion cub in her lap and in the right hand holding a ritual plate called phyale (gr) or patera (lat). Dated ca 400-350 BC. Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, Germany

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #Art #AncientArt #Cybele #gooddess #AncientBlueSky

January 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Archaeoethnologica: MATERIA MAGICA, Archaeology of Roman Magic / MATERIA MAGICA, Arqueologia da Magia Romana

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/mate...

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #magic #romans #materialculture #books #openaccess #Egypt #Cyprus #Iberia #AncientBlueSky

January 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Archaeoethnologica: Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History / Arreios de Cavalos da Pré-história à História

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/arre...

#Archaeology #Prehistory #MedievalArchaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #horses #domestication#Asia #Europe #books #Openaccess

June 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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Archaeoethnologica: The Music of Gods in Greek Art - Book / A Música dos Deuses na Arte Grega - Livro

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-mu...

#Archaeology #ClassicalStudies #ClassicalArchaeology #Antiquity #greeks #Art #GreekArt #music #sensoriality #books #AncientBlueSky

January 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Brepols

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Portraying the Individual in the #RomanEast
Local–Imperial Entanglements in #Sculpture, #Mosaics, and #Paintings (1st–4th Centuries AD)

Edited by Rubina Raja

Info: bit.ly/4nhunBa

#Classics #Antiquity #ClassicalArchaeology #Art #ArtHistory #RomanHistory #RomanArchaeology #RomanEmpire #ClassicsSky

May 11, 2026 at 11:45 AM

Archaeoethnologica

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Archaeoethnologica: Icon, Cult, and Context. Sacred Spaces and Objects / Ícone, Culto e Contexto

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/icon...

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #Art #iconography #ArchaeologyofCult #sanctuaries #books #Rome #Greece #Egypt #OpenAccess #AncientBlueSky

April 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM

Betsy Bevis

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I was a first-gen undergraduate from a financially precarious background, and I feel this article in my bones.

Even though this is about university demographics in general, considering the class and economic hurdles of #ClassicalArchaeology and #Classics, it feels especially important for us. 🏺

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 18

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

www.nber.org/system/files...

The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price
NBER Working Paper No. 33164
November 2024
JEL No. 123, 124, N32
ABSTRACT
We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.

November 18, 2024 at 1:17 PM

Archaeoethnologica

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Archaeoethnologica: Wine Cultures, Gandhāra & beyond Culturas do Vino, Gandhāra e Além - Livro

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/11/cult...

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #AncientIndia #hellenistic #symposium #books #feast #wine #wineconsumption #Caucasus #AncientBlueSky

November 19, 2024 at 4:18 AM

Antiquity Journal

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Last chance to access our collection of #ClassicalArchaeology completely free!
To be honest, most of the articles are #OpenAccess anyway, but you should definitely still take the opportunity to learn about the latest Classical research 🏺
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...