Women Helping Archaeologists Figure Things Out

Ok so this thread about women helping archaeologists figure out what ancient items are is actually the continuation of the Neanderthal Bone Tool Still Used Today thread! This post it starts with a mother’s unique knowledge, then a women who knows about textile making and then the woman who figured out how ancient Roman hairstyling worked! It’s all super interesting stuff! And once again, if you don’t know what something is, ask the locals or a tradesperson:

Women Helping Archaeologists Figure Things Out
Women Helping Archaeologists Figure Things Out
Women Helping Archaeologists Figure Things Out

Women Helping Archaeologists Figure Things Out
Women Helping Archaeologists Figure Things Out

Here is the link to Janet Stephens’ YouTube channel!

(via: Fangoddesses)

10 thoughts on “Women Helping Archaeologists Figure Things Out

    1. That would be because that’s not what the dodecahedrons were used for. A lot of people have come up “solutions” to the dodecahedrons use over the years but none have held water. The knitting tool for making gloves doesn’t work because it would be hundreds of years later that knitting was even invented and while people have been able to make individual finger warmers, no one has been able to explain how they then would have made the palms.

        1. No they didn’t. Vikings had nalbinding, which is an entirely different needle craft that uses a single needle and multiple short lengths of yarn, rather than two sticks and a contiguous length of yarn. Knitting wasn’t invented until around 1000 AD, and didn’t make it to Europe until the 13th century.

  1. In Egypt, they kept talking about these “Ceremonial oil jars” kept under the bed. My grandfather pointed out they were chamber pots. Why would a peasant have “Ceremonial oil” in a hut?

  2. Don’t forget the low ring of bricks or whatever that folks thought must have served some “ceremonial purpose”or whatever.

    Asked a local if they knew what the weird stone/brick rings were.

    “Yeah, we still use them today, let me show you!”

    It’s where they put/penned baby chicks. The hens can walk in and out easily. The chicks can’t and stay put / don’t wander off.

  3. Roman women also plaited their hair with long linen bands – or wrapped the bands round locks of hair. Might have made the above hairdos easier to create. I read that in a book called Roman Women.

  4. “she went ahead and experimented and proved her [hypotheses] right” So, she did science while others pontificated.

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