Tales of collapse may be imperial propaganda.
Grandmother Spider is a well-known figure in both North and South American Indigenous communities.
Arts and crafts that honor your spiritual path don't have to be public or for sale - you can just make them for yourself.
Often I make prototypes for myself and if I like them, I will offer to make bespoke copies.
Either way, your spiritual guides will be happy, lol.
Link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/great-goddess-mural-tetitla-teotihuacan
Archaeoethnologica: Ritual Boundaries in Late Antiquity / Fonteiras Rituais na Tardo-Antiguidade
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/fonteiras-rituais-na-tardo-antiguidade.html
FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor in Classical Studies [Tenure-Track] Department of History, Cultures, & Ideas - Utah State University
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68911/utah-state-university-assistant-professor-classical-studies
Rise of Mesopotamian Cities
Mesopotamia, often called the “cradle of civilization,” saw the birth of the world’s first cities in the land of Sumer. Here, people built not just homes, but temples dedicated to their gods, symbolizing the conquest of chaos by divine order. These early cities emerged in challenging environments, like Eridu near marshes and shifting waterways, showing remarkable human adaptation and organization.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/678/mesopotamia-the-rise-of-the-cities/
Very cool
Early #Hawaiian #petroglyphs on a beach are visible again with changing tides & shifting sands
#Hawaii #AncientHistory
https://apnews.com/article/hawaiian-petroglyphs-tides-ocean-86faf50ab7da41acabda15ec09829f93?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-25-Hawaii
This infographic illustrates the Epic Cycle (Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος), a lost collection of ancient Greek epic poems that once narrated the full arc of the Trojan War and its aftermath, from the origins of the conflict to the heroes' returns. Though only fragments survive today, the Cycle was once seen as a comprehensive mytho-historical narrative surrounding Troy. Likely composed between the 7th and 6th centuries.
Hello world! Still working on the migration of followers from our prior host, but meantime we're now up and running at hcommons.social.
#introduction
This is the official status and updates account of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. It is operated by the Pleiades Managing Editor.
AO THROWBACK - Here we share all the articles which really caught our readers’ interest this year - the top 10 most popular articles Ancient Origins published in 2022. https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/most-popular-articles-2022-0017731
@evawolfangel Die Erinnerung ist verschwommen. Hint: Am Ende des Praktikums war eine große Fete in Bonn, weil ein neuer Kanzler gewählt war, der nicht mehr Kohl hieß. #ancienthistory
An experiment with using AI to help visualize ancient buildings reveals some interesting weaknesses and problems with machine learning!
#prehistory #AncientHistory #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzroQAJb6gg
DONE! My translation is just a wee bit different than Fagles and Lombardo.
"Next, [Bellerophon] fought against the renowned Solymi, who were renowed in battle in the past. Thus, at any rate, it was said to be the strongest battle he had ever entered into. And thus furthermore, lastly, he slew the Amazons, who were a match for men."
And yes, if my translation sounds FORMAL, that's because Homeric Greek is FORMAL!
#Classics #Histodon #AncientGreece #BronzeAge #WarriorWomen #AncientHistory
#WomenInTheAncientWorld
Another passion of mine is the history of #Çatalhöyük site - and whether or not it had a #MatriachalSociety!
Ancient city possibly ruled by females living in a "matriarchal society" more than 9,000 years ago, researchers say
By Cara Tabachnick
June 28, 2025
Excerpt: "We need to move away from our Western bias that assumes all societies are #patrilineal. Many cultures, including some #IndigenousAustralian groups, pass identity, land rights, and responsibilities through the mother's line — a #matrilineal system,' study co-author Dr. Eline Schotsmans, a research fellow at Australia's University of Wollongong's School of Science, said in a statement.
"These findings come several months after researchers studying social networks in #CelticSociety in Britain before the #RomanInvasion gathered genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery and found that women were closely related, while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage.
"Using an examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in #Dorset in southwest England, their study, published in the journal Nature, shows that two-thirds of the individuals were descended from a single maternal lineage. This suggests that women had some control of land and property, as well as strong social support, researchers said.
"Researchers said upon the release of their findings, 'It is possible that maternal ancestry was the primary shaper of group identities.' "
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-city-ruled-by-females-catalhoyuk/
Original paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr2915
I'll be doing my own translation of this passage...
"καρτίστην δὴ τήν γε μάχην φάτο δύμεναι ἀνδρῶν.
τὸ τρίτον αὖ κατέπεφνεν Ἀμαζόνας ἀντιανείρας."
#Classics #Histodon #AncientGreece #BronzeAge #WarriorWomen #AncientHistory
#WomenInTheAncientWorld
I am well-armed with all of my notes from class as well as my trusty Duckworth Homeric Dictionary! And, of course, there's Perseus Hopper to the rescue! (Thank the gods that website is still working!)
#Classics #Histodon #AncientGreece #BronzeAge #WarriorWomen #AncientHistory
#WomenInTheAncientWorld
[Thread] So, my "homework" assignment has to do with #Amazons -- one of my favorite topics to focus on (since I was 11 years old). I was recently gifted a new book about Amazons, and also had one that I picked up for myself years ago, but hadn't gotten around to reading yet. The books are: "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across The Ancient World" by Adrienne Mayor (2014), and "Amazons: The History Behind the Legend" by David Braund. Both of them are Classics scholars, but they seem to have completely different takes on Amazons (from what I've read in the reviews). And yes, I am planning on diving into both books, but first, I'm going to work on my own translations of certain passages in #TheIlliad and #Herodotus' "Histories"!
40,000-year-old mammoth tusk boomerang found in Poland may be the oldest in the world
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/mammoth-tusk-boomerang-found-in-poland/
"In modern Rome, boars knock over trash bins, wolves roam the urban fringes, raptors nest atop marble pillars, and ducks tend to their eggs inside world-renowned art museums."
Krista Langlois for bioGraphic: https://www.biographic.com/the-wild-within-the-walls/