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Archaeology, History & Culture

Archaeology, history, and culture are united here not by a single period or method, but by an interest in how people have lived in, understood, and shaped their worlds. Many of these pieces come out of a long-standing personal interest, involving travel, reading, and field observation. Material remains, dress, images, and everyday practices offer ways of reading the past that complement written sources and environmental evidence.

Posts in this category range widely in time and place, from prehistoric cave art to early and medieval archaeology. They focus on particular objects, customs, or moments, but a recurring theme is Identity.

Taken together, these posts form a personal exploration of culture.

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    Geography and the Bronze Age Battle at Tollense, Germany

    by Mike Pole April 19, 2025
    by Mike Pole April 19, 2025

    One of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …

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    A Crimean Gothic Woman from the Seventh Century

    by Mike Pole February 29, 2024
    by Mike Pole February 29, 2024

    Crimea, Goths and Archaeology The indigenous people of Crimea are generally regarded as the ‘Crimean Tartars’. But Crimea has older identities than …

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    The mid 7th-century Gaponovo Costume of Russia

    by Mike Pole November 17, 2023
    by Mike Pole November 17, 2023

    In the mid 7th-century someone wrapped 411 objects in a cloth, and buried them in a pit, near what is now the …

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    The Sixth-Century Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, Austria

    by Mike Pole November 5, 2023
    by Mike Pole November 5, 2023

    An elite woman who read ‘Migration Woman Vogue’. In January 1910, gold jewellery and bones were accidentally uncovered near the village of …

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    1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)

    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020
    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020

    I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

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    Time-Travel in a Time of COVID-19

    by Mike Pole April 13, 2020
    by Mike Pole April 13, 2020

    What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …

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    A Nail up the Nose, and another take on Monotheism

    by Mike Pole December 22, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 22, 2019

    You’d have to really dislike someone to bash a nail up their nose. The day before Wanaka’s Alchemy Cafe closed because of …

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    Searching for Smyrna in Izmir, Turkey

    by Mike Pole December 2, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 2, 2019

    So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …

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    That Rich Woman in the Slovenian Forest

    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019

    We don’t know what she looked like, because most of her upper body has vanished…. Most of you probably don’t know of …

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    The Prehistoric Songlines of Brittany, France

    by Mike Pole December 16, 2017
    by Mike Pole December 16, 2017

    The French woman had parted the curtains, and was peering out into the stormy night. *** There are up-sides and down-sides to …

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