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#AncientSky is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 5 people shared 42 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is up 0% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 2 with 4 posts.

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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
As we approach Midwinter, here's The Black Stag from the cave of Lascaux. Considered to be either a creature of Ice Age myth, or a rendering of an extinct Megaloceros. Deep in the ground it was drawn above geometric symbols, including 13 circles, the meaning of which is now lost. #AncientSky 🌙🦌🦣🏺
Black rendering on white limestone of a stag with a very delicate face, pin-point eye and elegant outstretched neck extending back to a long back sketched in feathered strokes. On the head is a set of extremely ornate antlers, with many tines and palmate lobes. Around the muzzle of the deer is red ochre. Below is a clear square and 13 dots. Also in black
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
As we approach mid-winter, an illustration of cave art showing two Reindeer; from Font de Gaume cave, France. One is licking or smelling the other who appears to be sleeping? giving birth? dead or dying?. Originally rendered by someone of the Magdalenian culture, 16,000 years ago. #AncientSky 🦣🏺
Drawing of two Reindeer, outlined in black and unfilled with light brown colouring. One, large, bodly coloured with elaborate, forward facing antlers is, bending their neck down to sniff or lick the other. The other is large and appears to be laying down, head on one side?
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994. 30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe. Here are four of my highlights. archeologie.culture.gouv.… #AncientSky 🦣🏺
For cat lovers everywhere, no less than 15 big cats, cave lions?, lionesses?, in black outline on the beige limestone rock. All are looking left, their attention utterly caught by the bison and bear drawn there. There is so much energy in their attentiveness, as if about to move. Some close superimposition of cat profiles hints at animation
A large pendant of stalactite drops down from the cave roof. On it is drawn the lower half of a female figure taking in the wider part of the stal as her belly, black charcoal outlines sketching her tapering legs and pubic hair. From the right, also in black, a bison in profile is superimposed on the left flank of the female, by its leg appears to merge with her leg. the single eye of the bison appear coincident with the position of the belly button of the female. Ambiguity in showing human forms directly does seem to be a part of Aurignacian and later European cave art.
At least 10 Woolly Rhinos, in black outline on the beige limestone rock. At the top four look closely superimposed giving an impression of animated movement.
Finally the famous, beautiful image of four horses, all facing left drawn in black outline on the beige limestone with yellow ochre paint to the rear. The person, or people, who drew these, captured something so essential in the nature of the horse, as with so many Chauvet animals there is empathy/sympathy here.
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
The document on scheduling (legal protection) of monuments & sites for Historic Environment Scotland is really valuable. It also contains this stunning image of Habchester Fort showing the impact of different landuse histories and how fragile our prehistory is. #HillfortsWednesday #AncientSky 🏺
Aerial image of a hillfort showing two rings of defences, one half has been ploughed as shows barely a trace of the monument, the otherside hasn't and is very well defined.
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Jesse Locker
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
I’ve been fascinated by the “Dama de Elche” since I first learned about her, a mysterious statue from the 4th century BC discovered by a 19th-century farmer in a field in Valencia. Finally saw it in person today #ancientsky
A limestones bust representing a lady, richly attired and wearing a headdress composed of a tiara covered by a veil, a diadem on the forehead and, on the sides, wheel-like coils (rodetes) that frame the face in which the hair would have been gathered.
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Good morning everyone! And good morning from The King Stone, an outlying Menhir at the Rollrights. I'm not alone in thinking stones have a personhood and this one has a very strong presence. Seen here in sunlight but with stone clouds behind #StandingStoneSunday #Ancientsky 🏺
A light grey stove 2m high hand a metre wide stands in a grassy field surrounded by iron railings under a grey sky
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
A little nest of waste flakes left behind from the making of a handaxe 480,000 years ago at Boxgrove. It took minutes for an early Neanderthal to make the tool, but hours for us to piece back together the shards. The tool was never found, where was it taken to? #FlintFriday #AncientSky 🏺
Grey and honey coloured flint flakes clued together to form an irregular nest of stone about 20cm across. On a black background
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
The Ossuary, Jersey, with extra lens flare. A small Cist-in-Circle tomb The remains of 20 people were interred in this little chamber of pink & grey granite during the Chalcolithic. Built amidst coastal woodland before sand dunes inundated it. @jerseyheritage.bsky.social #TombTuesday #AncientSky 🏺
Two granite pillars 1m high and a round capstone 1m across face a high dune, with sun behind
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Really looking forward to watching along with everyone as we share the archaeology of the Violet Bank with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #DiggingForBritain. Great to join Alice and @jerseyheritage.bsky.social 's own Olga Finch in the Finds Tent. #AncientSky 🏺🦣

TONIGHT! Catch ASE on #DiggingForBritain, BBC2 at 8pm! Join us hunting Neanderthal archaeology in Jersey, funded by the brilliant Jersey Heritage. Star finds are discussed in the finds tent with Prof Alice Roberts. ASE’s @mattpope.bsky.social Pope will be watching live and answering Qs on BlueSky!
Three people stand behind a table covered in flint tools on a velvet cloth. Professor Alice Roberts stand in the centre holding up one of the objects as they all smile at the camera
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Jesse Locker
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Shops built into the ancient Theater of Marcellus, Rome, 1914. It looks like they're selling charcoal and horse bridles(?) #ancientsky #Rome
A sepia photograph showing part of the Theater of Marcellus in Rome. Two men are in an archway with a sign reading "Grande Magazzino di Carbone di Legno," the other with a man seated with bridles (?) hanging over the entryway
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Dr Matt Pope
@mattpope.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
As we approach Midwinter the imagination drifts to the dark places of the Ice Age & the representations of animals, people & spirits within. Here is the famous Sorcerer of Les Trois-Frères cave. A fabulous & terrifying mythical creature or maybe a transformed human. #AncientSky 🦣🏺
Recent photographic capture of the side of the cave showing honey coloured limestone engraved with indistinct figures and a polychrome painting of a figure with human legs, horse like body and paw-like hands, the head is indistinct
A black and white drawing by the Abbe Breuil of the same figure showing detail visible at the time? Human legs and feet, male genitals to the rear, a horse's tail, horse like belly, short arms with clawed paws, a long beard, owl like face the ears and antlers of Reindeer.
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