"Our project is revealing a new perspective on how these sites, contrary to previous assumptions, seem to have played a significant role in the configuration and evolution of trading networks throughout the Roman period."
Cost-cutting in academia is currently endangering the future of the last remaining archaeology programmes in #Leipzig and #Saxony as a whole. So students started a petition: https://chng.it/gTHf8fgbJT
@ladyofvix@archaeodons There's an object in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, a mezuzah found in Austria that antedates Christianity by several hundred years. Maybe the Germans would rather stuff like that not be found. They might have to give their own land back...
"We argue that the site of Tainiaro was most likely, although not certainly, a large Stone Age cemetery of the fifth millennium BC. If correct, it would be among the largest such sites to date to this period known in northern Europe."
"Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record of over half a millennium within the entire northern littoral of the Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence."
"Our approach consists of a pipeline with two components: a sign detector and a wedge detector. The sign detector uses a RepPoints model with a ResNet18 backbone to locate individual cuneiform characters in the tablet segment image. The signs are then cropped based on the sign locations and fed into the wedge detector. The wedge detector is based on the idea of Point RCNN approach. It uses a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) and RoI Align to predict the positions and classes of the wedges. The method is evaluated using different hyperparameters, and post-processing techniques such as Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) are applied for refinement."
On this day in 1690, Rose Carthy Gerreaghty died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ross Abbey, Co. Galway, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/ger1690
On this day in 1813, May Dwyre Connor died aged 77. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Stradbally, Co. Waterford, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/connor1813
Muhammad 'Ako' Lashkri, MA, is an archaeologist and well-known colleague from Iraq. He has been doing exemplary work for decades despite losing one of his hands in a childhood accident with ammunition from an old war.
We are currently fundraising to provide him with a bionic prosthesis to replace his lost hand.