Minoan frescoes. The 1600s BC was a great time for fashion.

Time Travel Question 35: Ancient History XVI and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

Religious Mask from Bath, England dated between the 1st and 4th Centuries on display at the Roman Baths Museum in Bath, England

Photographs taken by myself 2023

The Hijab did not originate from Islam nor are they oppressive when women have the freedom to choose when they wear one.

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Evolution of Style.

art by @NNNmengmeng the Tartessian bikini, golden jewelry from the 6th century BC during the Iron Age in Spain might have also been for guys too

I think @cycadaacolyte version is the best tho link

An exceptionally well-preserved child’s shoe made from leather has been found in an Austrian salt mine dating back to the Iron Age.🏞️⛏️

thinking about all of the wonderful book witcher designs that i’ve seen from fanartists across decades of fandom (i.e., way before i joined the fandom) and how different everyone’s designs are, yet how they all are so similar because we’re all inspired by the same descriptions, we’re all working with the same text. the distinguishing features come from creating based upon our personal interpretations and imaginations, which are unique to us. and yet all images, in all of their differences, are the same character, the same description, the same text

"Ladies in Blue" 1600-1450 BCE / Palace of Knossos, Crete

This largely reconstructed fresco was discovered between 1900 and 1905 by Sir Arthur James Evans in the palace of Knossos on Crete. It is one of a number of images found that depict women of the Minoan civilization (3500 - 1100 BC). The women depicted are dressed in colorful clothing, while also wearing elaborate jewelry in their hair and on their bodies. The chest, in typical Minoan fashion, is bare. The image that is reconstructed by Émile Gilliéron does not indicate the breasts as is the case in other Minoan imagery.

Recommended reading: Lee, Mireille M.. "9. Deciphering Gender in Minoan Dress" In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record edited by Alison E. Rautman, 111-123. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. https://doi-org.proxy-ub.rug.nl/10.9783/9781512806830-011

Sketch for a cosplay done in minoan fashion

Time Travel Question 44: Medievalish History 8 and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

Jewellery from Chauchitza, Greece dated between 800 - 600 BCE on display at the National War Museum in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

While digging trenches in the Macedonian region of northern Greece during the First World War, British troops uncovered arcaheological remains. Robert Gaddie, an amateur archaeologist from Edinburgh, excavated this assemblage of bronze armlets, spiral brooch, pendant, beads and gold mouthpiece at a site called Chauchitza. The discovery sparked the first prehistoric excavations in Greece.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

Despite knowing absolutely nothing about weaving, I keep having to get more and more information on Bronze Age textile production as I work on The Dancing Ground. I've looked at a lot of resources but this short video from the University of Warsaw was very helpful-- it covers Bronze Age Greek tech specifically and gives visual examples of objects as well as a of several looms in use, even pausing to let the viewers hear what weaving on a warp-weighted loom sounded like-- in other words, a priceless resource for anyone writing the period, so I thought I would share! They have a video on spinning in the Bronze Age as well ;)

The Sutton Hoo Jewellery Set

“Sutton Hoo” is a peculiar name for this exquisite set, but if you know about British archeology it won’t surprise you. Sutton Hoo is the name of an archeological site in England where burials of important people from the 6th-7th century AD Anglo Saxon kingdom of East Anglia were studied and excavated. These graves contained a plethora of beautifully made metal jewellery and other items like swords, helmets, and tools with red and gold designs. The artefacts now reside in the British Museum in London. The Sutton Hoo artefacts have inspired the “look” of a lot of mediaeval-inspired jewellery, including this beadwork set I designed and made. The golden brown seed beads and reddish crystals along with the woven look of the beadwork bring to mind the ancient Anglo Saxon ornamentation. 

Materials and techniques: beadweaving with needle and thread, polymer beading thread, bronze seed beads, red seed beads, bronze metallic fire polished crystals, swarovski crystals, antiqued brass findings

My dearest people of tumblr,

I'm looking for the best documentary films/series about history that you've ever seen. Topic doesn't matter – it can be about dinosaurs, space, random greek man, thor summoning thunders on fields, chinese jesus, ufo easter titanic triangle... The best of them. I have no life outside university and it's summer so I'm SO BORED

June 14, 1922 Harold Teen by Carl Ed: "Stealing Cleo's Stuff!"

[ID: Harold looks on, concerned, as Lillums weeps into a pile of throw pillows on her couch. /end] Harold: Holy cats! Why the deluge, Lillums...? Come! Come! Confide in me!

[ID: Lillums sits upright and talks to Harold, gesturing with her handkerchief. /end] Lillums: Y'know, Harold (sniff) (sniff) when I had my hair bobbed, I thought I was right in style. Up to the minute, see? Harold: Yeh! It's the *cat's cuffs! * Great

[ID: Lillums weeps again as Harold points his finger in the air, making a point. /end] Lillums: Now they've found an Egyptian mummy with bobbed hair. And I'm two thousand years behind the times! Harold: Oh, yes! I see they're still diggin' over there.

Harold: They hope to uncover a pair of galoshes next! [ID: Lillums jumps backwards over the couch as Harold mugs for the audience. /end]