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is a carved, circular Aztec stone, depicting the dismembered body of the Aztec moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, who was vanquished by her brother, the sun god Huitzilopochtli. It was discovered by utility workers in 1978 while digging near the Zócalo. Originally, the stone was situated at the base of the stairs of the Templo Mayor, the main temple of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.

It was a settlement which contained goddess figures, dwellings made of mammoth bones, and many flint tools and bone implements. Actually it is not a single site but really an area on the right bank of the Don River in the region of the villages of Kostenki and Borshevo, consisting of more than twenty site locations, all dating to the Paleolithic.

So I was working on a dig in Tharros Sardinia last year and found this ivory pendant while I was digging. It looks to be some sort of hieroglyphic but asked everyone and they have no idea. The zig zags are a symbol of water and then under it is some sort of eye with a backwards door handle to my looks. If anyone can tell me what this is that would be amazing.

Pemmican is dried meat pounded into powder, combined with rendered fat in equal proportions by weight, and pressed into bars with dried berries. That is the entire recipe. Three ingredients. No refrigeration. No cooking required to eat it. A shelf life measured in months to years under the right conditions. One pound of pemmican delivers approximately 3,000 to 3,500 calories, a full day of sustenance for an active adult, in a package you can carry in your coat pocket.

The Cree, Lakota, Blackfeet and dozens of other Plains nations had been making it for generations before the fur trade era, and when European explorers and traders encountered it they immediately understood what they were looking at. The Hudson's Bay Company built an entire industrial supply chain around it. Robert Falcon Scott took it to Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton's men ate it on the ice after the Endurance was crushed.

William Clark wrote in his journal near what is now Great Falls Montana in 1805: the Hunters killed 3 buffaloe, the most of all the meat I had dried for to make Pemitigon. The spelling is characteristically Clark, creative and phonetic, but the reference is unambiguous. The Corps of Discovery made pemmican from bison on the trail and first encountered it as a prepared food at the formal feast hosted by the Lakota Sioux early in the journey.

The journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Gary Moulton and published by the University of Nebraska Press, are the most thoroughly documented food record in American exploration history and pemmican appears in them as a staple of survival rather than a curiosity. These men were eating nine pounds of fresh meat per man per day on good days and boiling candles to eat on bad ones. When they made pemmican they were thinking about the bad days.

The remains were naturally preserved in the silt and chilling, oxygen-deprived waters. Divers recovered the skeleton alongside an iron sword, two wooden-handled knives. a leather belt with a buckle, and leather boots with spurs. Because of the location and context of his resting place, experts speculate he may have perished in the area—perhaps during a skirmish, retreat, or construction on an older, historic bridge—before the lakebed’s sediments safely encapsulated his remains as a natural time capsule.

This was found in the harbor of Aci Treza Sicily circa 2004 while scuba diving. The back side was exposed and the carved side was protected by the mud. This was in an area that had many early Roman artifacts. It is very light and appears almost to have a grain like wood. Could it possibly be ivory?

Hi everyone,
My brother found this object about 20 years ago while snorkeling off the coast of Rimini, Italy, at an estimated depth of around 7–10 meters.
It appears to be a fragment of something decorative, possibly part of a wall, floor, or architectural element. I would be very grateful if anyone could help identify what it might be, where it could have come from, and how old it may be.
Could this potentially have any archaeological significance?
Any insights or expert opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!