The Archaeology Society of Youngstown

11/29/2025

Always keep your history in mind, including the history under your feet.

Modern London rises above a remnant of the ancient city.

This is a section of London's Roman/medieval city wall by Tower Hill Tube Station. It's a surviving remnant of a wall that was first built in c. AD 200 by the Romans. This wall stretched for over 2 miles around Londinium. It was about 20 feet (6 metres) high and about 8 feet (over 2 metres) thick.

In the medieval period, the city wall was buiIt taller, reaching heights of over 32 feet (10 metres).

📷 Jamzze

11/29/2025

Moundbuilders Octogon, an ancient astronomical calendar in Columbus, Ohio, finally getting the archaeological and anthropological recognition it deserves.

On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath a golf course in Ohio. It is a ...

11/29/2025

Artists don't need management. 😂😳

Model shows monuments arose from numerous independent working groups.

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Early evidence of symbolic art By Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mon, Nov 17, 2025 SHARE ON: TwitterFacebook Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—Researchers report* a clay figurine from around 12,000 years ago, showing early advances in symbolic representation. Despite...

11/29/2025

Art in archaeology. 😊

Every scar, nail head, and bowed plank on the 900-year-old door of St Helen’s Church (Yorkshire, England) is a line of text in a story that never stopped. Likely Norman/early Gothic in date, the oak leaves its clues in the iron strap hinges, hand-driven fixings, and a threshold polished by generations of shoes. Doors like this weren’t just entrances—they were boundaries and promises: between weather and worship, daily noise and sacred quiet. Stand close and you’ll see the craft that kept it working for centuries—balanced hardware, deep rails, honest joinery—and the patience of a parish that repaired rather than replaced. It’s not just old wood and iron; it’s continuity you can touch.

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You (usually) never know what's underground until you dig. 😏

Call your local utility companies FIRST...

But your backyard is an excavating grounds!!

Always fun to find a nicely Embossed local Medicine. This one checked 2 boxes with it being pictorial. The sword/large knife has the slogan “The cutter” embossed on the blade. After 20 years of digging this is the only one I’ve ever dug complete.

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Logging in European Antiquity By Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mon, Nov 24, 2025 SHARE ON: TwitterFacebook Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—A study* uncovers evidence of the rise and fall of the wood economy under the Roman Empire in Central-Western Europe. The exp...

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Humans took two routes to reach the ancient landmass Sahul around 60,000 years ago By American Association for the Advancement of Science Fri, Nov 28, 2025 SHARE ON: TwitterFacebook American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)—Humans settled in the ancient landmass, Sahul, that birt...

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This is a day I’ll never forget! Miranda and I were digging in a 1880-1910 City Dump site when she spotted the side to a Mini Jug! I had found one the day before from Kentucky so we were shocked there was a 2nd one in the same hole. As she cleaned it off the stenciling revealed it was a 3 red Barrels Whiskey from Birmingham Alabama! This is now front and center of our Birmingham Collection!

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This medieval skull—still sheathed in chain mail—belonged to a fallen fighter from the Battle of Visby (1361) on the island of Gotland. After the brutal clash, the dead were interred together with their armor and weapons, creating one of Northern Europe’s most revealing archaeological mass graves. The mail coif, iron rings, and bone tell a stark story of hastily raised militias facing a professional invading force—and how the battlefield became a time capsule. Finds from Visby preserve not just the hardware of war, but the human cost, giving historians rare, direct evidence of wounds, equipment, and life in the late Middle Ages.