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    I recently treated myself to one of these Lego skeleton necklaces from the fabulous DigGeek. Kirsty is a bioarchaeologist (you can follow her on Twitter here!) and makes the cutest jewellery for lovers of archaeology! How amazing is that packaging?! Such attention to detail! Check out her shop on Etsy here, although be warned, you *will* want to buy it all!

    (Source: xmorbidcuriosityx)

    Proof that women have ALWAYS loved jewellery: Skull from 1550BC goes on display with elaborate bronze headband She may have walked the earth thousands of years ago, but this woman was clearly as fond of a nice piece of jewellery as the average 21st Century girl. The female skeleton, which is believed to date back to between 1550 and 1250BC, was discovered in Oechlitz, south of Halle in eastern Germany, while construction was underway to build a new rail track. The Middle Bronze Age woman had been buried wearing an elaborate headband made up of tiny bronze spirals. Staff at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, where the skeleton is now on display as part of its permanent exhibition, said similar spirals uncovered in the past had been found separate and loose.Tomoko Emmerling, the museum’s press officer, said the discovery gave historians an insight into how the spirals were worn in the Middle Bronze Age. The ancient skeleton, which was excavated within a block in 2008, went on display at the German museum today. It is among thousands of artefacts in a new section of its permanent exhibition entitled ‘Glutgeboren’, or ‘Born in Embers’. The display includes items from the middle and late Bronze Age as well as from the pre-Roman Iron Age. Read more here!

    Proof that women have ALWAYS loved jewellery: Skull from 1550BC goes on display with elaborate bronze headband

    She may have walked the earth thousands of years ago, but this woman was clearly as fond of a nice piece of jewellery as the average 21st Century girl.

    The female skeleton, which is believed to date back to between 1550 and 1250BC, was discovered in Oechlitz, south of Halle in eastern Germany, while construction was underway to build a new rail track.

    The Middle Bronze Age woman had been buried wearing an elaborate headband made up of tiny bronze spirals.

    Staff at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, where the skeleton is now on display as part of its permanent exhibition, said similar spirals uncovered in the past had been found separate and loose.

    Tomoko Emmerling, the museum’s press officer, said the discovery gave historians an insight into how the spirals were worn in the Middle Bronze Age.

    The ancient skeleton, which was excavated within a block in 2008, went on display at the German museum today.

    It is among thousands of artefacts in a new section of its permanent exhibition entitled ‘Glutgeboren’, or ‘Born in Embers’.

    The display includes items from the middle and late Bronze Age as well as from the pre-Roman Iron Age.

    Read more here!

    designersof: Contemporary jeweller Kerry Howley’s debut collection Attraction/Aversion is a material exploration of how people can feel seemingly opposing emotional responses simultaneously. The necklaces are made of human hair, a familiar material that we take pride in. However once off of the body hair becomes an innate source of aversion. Kerry wanted to see if she could make discarded hair attractive again. Through the familiar form of a necklace, and using patterns and symmetry that are instinctively pleasing, Kerry has created a delicate balance between the viewer/wearer’s feelings of aversion and attraction.

    designersof:

    Contemporary jeweller Kerry Howley’s debut collection Attraction/Aversion is a material exploration of how people can feel seemingly opposing emotional responses simultaneously.

    The necklaces are made of human hair, a familiar material that we take pride in. However once off of the body hair becomes an innate source of aversion. Kerry wanted to see if she could make discarded hair attractive again.

    Through the familiar form of a necklace, and using patterns and symmetry that are instinctively pleasing, Kerry has created a delicate balance between the viewer/wearer’s feelings of aversion and attraction.

    (via thespianoge)