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#AYearInSketches started 2022 with an archaeological anniversary: The 200th birthday of #HeinrichSchliemann in January.
The #crossover that never was. I for one regret this missed opportunity …
"Canceled #Batman/#IndianaJones Crossover is DC’s Biggest Missed Opportunity" via @screenrant:
https://t.co/54ncLiQXRi
One more #MerryChristmas #SundayArchaeology, this time in a #SketchbookSunday combo:
The Late #Magdalenian (11,000 BCE) "Swimming (or flying? 😉) #Reindeer" from Montastruc (France), carved from mammoth ivory. Evocative.
Today in @britishmuseum: https://t.co/Mxu3RRq68W
#SketchbookSunday, from the archaeologist's field sketchbook:
A busy day on site. Main excavation area at #GobekliTepe, view from "Wish Tree" southwest.
Or yeah, maybe we're just overinterpreting. 🤷♂️😜 https://t.co/gu85oOTXnz
With the difference that in #CatalHöyük a group of people is depicted w/ an apparently *slain* #aurochs.
Its characteristic features (note the head: not any longer presenting horns (and danger), legs bend, tongue out) also known from #GobekliTepe's P66:
https://t.co/6y9q074WnN
@PrehiStorytellr It's an older photo though, to be honest (2018-ish?). Silex was probably somewhere around the Tepe, looking for trouble. 😉