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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
@MAACambridge
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, telling two million years of human history 🗺
Open Tuesday - Sunday
- Bringing back one of our favourites for #FossilFriday! This incredible Acheulean handaxe (ca. 500-300,000 BC) is knapped around a fossil shell, and was excavated in West Tofts, Norfolk. bit.ly/37OVQV1
- Dredged from the River Cam in the 1920s this grey ware beaker may date to the Bronze Age. As it might have held ale or beer it's the perfect choice to mark the start of #Oktoberfest! 📸Z 11491/Record 1 Beaker, (?)Bronze Age, Cambridgeshire. 🔗collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/418356
- Some of the last 'sorceresses' or medicine-women in rural Sweden and Finland, circa 1935 #FolkloreThursday
- We're delighted to announce the launch of our new online collections portal: collections.maa.cam.ac.uk You can access around 300,000 records in our Objects, Photographs & Documents catalogues & over 130,000 images. Want to know about this object? It’s number 1931.56 B Look it up!
- This beautiful neolithic handaxe was found in Histon, near Cambridge. It's made out of jadeite that comes from high in the Italian alps. It's perfectly smooth so we can tell it was never used as a tool. It may have been a symbol of power or status #prehistory #heritageMW
- On our bucket list? Making lists of buckets in our collection. This 5-7th c. Anglo-Saxon example still has its original wooden staves.
- #FridayFavourites - this ivory netsuke of a baby sparrow (fukura-suzume) is as exquisitely carved as it is adorable. Dating to the 17th century or later, the signature of the artist on this netsuke reads either "Seisei" or "Masakiyo". 🔗: collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/495566/
- Happy birthday to #trowelblazer Dorothy Garrod, born #OnThisDay in 1892 💪 Garrod conducted pioneering digs including at Mount Carmel, and went on to become the first female professor at Cambridge (or indeed to hold any Oxbridge chair).
- The museum's bike has arrived & we are SO EXCITED. This will get us around Cambridge to talk all things Pacific. Generously supported by @HLFEoE #newbike #ghostnets #PacificCurrents #PacificIslands
- Things you find in the archives: ‘Dear Clark, I am sending by train today your share of the Stonehenge objects and a damned poor lot too. Sorry but there it is. Can’t do any better. You can chuck a big shovel at me...’ 1/2
- We are thrilled to announce that the stunning #TrumpingtonCross is now on display in our Cambridge Archaeology Gallery! Discovered in 2011 by @UCamArchaeology, it was part of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl bed burial & dates to the 7th C. @Grosvenor_GBI generously donated it.
- The ‘Repositioning the Uganda Museum’ project, generously funded by @MellonFdn, will involve the repatriation of several dozen objects from MAA to the Uganda Museum in Kampala in 2022. Find out more about the project: maa.cam.ac.uk/news/repositio…
