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Sometimes interpretations say more about the person making such statements than the object being interpreted. On the other hand there is always a grain of truth even in psychotic fantasies!
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Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition
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Det är det som ju kallas för curling
I sometimes wonder whether Matisse found some inspiration from black on white Roman mosaics for his cut-out art, esp of the human body -,eg the Triton’s legs remind me of his work
2/ one reasonable hypothesis would be hat it has to do with working through fears/anxieties of mutilation and castration, some need to eulogise the male body in its threatening sense which I think was important for male bonding in hunting. social theories don’t really get to the heart of the matter
The phallic imagery and symbolism of GT and Karahan T etc has to be taken seriously and its psychological meaning. As a clinical psychologist it’s so obvious what is one glaring layer of underlying meaning but archaeologists (exc Hodder eg) shy away from Freudian ideas (their own defences?)…….
Where were your hands?!😉
Verstanden
Ich glaube daß ich diese Ausstellung unbedingt besuchen muss. Würdest du sie empfehlen?
Ja genau 2007, im Sommer, in August oder September
Ich habe irgendwo zu Hause viele Fotos und noch ein Foto vom ganzen Team gemacht. Ich muss versuchen, sie zu finden!
Wunderbar! ☺️
Und dann beschloss ich, im Sommer nach Sanliurfa zu fahren (via Aleppo!), und GT zu besuchen, dort traf ich Klaus Schmidt. Ich verbrachte einen Nachmittag ganz allein in GT, nur mit dem türkischen Wachmann. Magisch!
* über GT und….das goldene Dreieck!
Katalogen „die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit „
Ich erinnere mich daran dass ich in 2007 besonders nach Karlsruhe gereist bin (ich wohne in Stockholm), um die erste Ausstellung über Göbekli Tepe zu sehen, und war völlig erstaunt
This is such exciting news for the prehistory & early history of western Britain & the wider European seaways, providing further firm evidence for the tin trade documented by classical authors 👇
#Classics/Ancient World
I suppose most kings and rulers in ancient city states were really only mafiosi who murdered their way to power
Forgot to post link. The sign dates from the oldest known library from antiquity from Thebes in Egypt where Ramses Ii (1279-1213 BC) founded a library of papyrus scrolls. It was made immortal by the historian Diodorod whose fitting translation it is
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Photo taken from the article where the source is mentioned. Baroque splendour Credit 📷 Mike MacEacheran
This photo from an article on bbbc.com caught my eye. It could translate as Psychiatric clinic but belongs to the entrance of the medieval Stiftsbibliothek in St Gallen, Switzerland which is a treasure house of old medieval manuscripts and books some over a 1000 yrs old. Fitting sign!
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I agree with John Clarke in his Looking at Laughter that the double take phenomenon is ignored in many figural mosaics and its playful effects. He also sees laughter as an inverted apotropaic reaction (defence mechanism)
La Roche-à-Pierrot is the oldest known jewelry workshop in western Europe; the pierced shells and pigment traces found there are at least 42,000 years old. The question: Did Neanderthals or Homo sapiens make the jewelry?
archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2026/world/?location=france-2
And also Sinop seems an exciting place as regards early figural mosaics
avesis.uludag.edu.tr/yayin/650a28...
The oldest known pebble mosaic was found in Uşakli Höyük, the Hittite Zippolanda, in 2018 and is from the late Bronze Age ca 1500bc. Quite amazing
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What about too much Greece or Chile?
Looks like an acanthus scroll border, quite soberly elegant!
John Clarke in his book Looking at Laughter dedicates a chapter to these mosaics showing pygmies. Very readable!
Almost but where’s his erection?!?
Did he score?
