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A graph showing life expectancy of males and females by age in England and Wales, 1700-2013. The graph shows that life expantancy has improved over time, but the difference is much greater at younger ages..   There are many curious misconceptions about life in the past, but a particularly...
Archaeology, Health, Society

Life ends at 40? Mythbusting ideas of age in the past

Author Alice Rose Date June 1, 2023
Alice Rose
Tagged age, archaeology, elderly, Health, life expectancy | Leave a comment |
  Every retelling of the past consists of a story, a narrator, and an...
Archaeology

The past is as old as the last story (re)told

Author Vana Orfanou Date March 22, 2023
Vana Orfanou
Tagged archaeology, storytelling | Leave a comment |
The archaeology of food and why bog butter is special We eat food every...
Archaeology

Why 4,000 year old butter is actually really cool

Author Karen O-Toole Date June 17, 2022
Karen O-Toole
Tagged archaeology, bog butter, Ireland, prehistory | Leave a comment |
  As a person living in England, the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21 meant a...
Archaeology, Health, Society

Eat out to help out or eat in to stay alive: how have modern and historical pandemics changed our eating habits?

Author Alice Rose Date April 27, 2022
Alice Rose
Tagged archaeology, Black Death, Covid-19, diet, food consumption, pandemics | Leave a comment |
How can a story connect a Goose God, a Ghost God with laser-blasting eyes...
Archaeology, Culture, Society

Death, chaos and geese in ancient Egypt

Author Elena Valianatou Date April 6, 2022
Elena Valianatou
Tagged #afterlife, #death, #egypt, #geese, #gods, archaeology, underworld | Leave a comment |
group of 7 beer glasses raised for a toast The self-proclaimed beer archaeologist of Avery Brewing Co., Travis Rupp, regrets that due to...
Archaeology, Chemistry

Walk Like An Egyptian, Drink Like A Viking

Author Maura Griffith Date March 4, 2022
Maura Griffith
Tagged archaeology, beer, history of beer | Leave a comment |
Cactus plant in brass pot. As the scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian goes, the Romans have given...
Archaeology, Chemistry

What have the Romans ever done for us? How about gold from stone!

Author Vana Orfanou Date June 15, 2021
Vana Orfanou
Tagged alchemy, archaeology, archaeometallurgy, brass, chemistry, copper, Romans, zinc | Leave a comment |
A series of punch cards in the foreground, gold and red patterned fabric in background. Coming in at a measly 2.39 MB, the 1993 videogame Doom has been played...
Archaeology

Threads of History: How a 28,000-year-old technology could run ‘Doom’

Author Maura Griffith Date June 7, 2021
Maura Griffith
Tagged archaeology, binary code, computers, technology, weaving | Leave a comment |
On August 7th, 2020, two cousins, a neighbour and their families decided to cook...
Archaeology, Chemistry

Ancient Sous-vide: is cooking in hot springs repeating the behaviour of our ancestors?

Author Jennifer Keute Date March 9, 2021
Jennifer Keute
Tagged archaeological science, archaeology, Olduvai Gorge, paleo-climate, Yellowstone National Park | Leave a comment |
An abandoned surgical mask on a Dublin pavement during my casual afternoon walk last...
Archaeology, Society

Archaeology from the future: The material culture of Covid-19

Author Vana Orfanou Date December 29, 2020
Vana Orfanou
Tagged archaeology, Covid-19, material culture, social crisis | Leave a comment |
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