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Hello, my name is Ivan Semyan, PhD — specialist in the Bronze Age, experimental archaeology, and ancient warfare. Chief Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Experimental Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. Project Researcher at NYU Abu Dhabi.
For 13 years, I have worked on excavations of Bronze Age sites in the steppes of the Southern Urals and Kazakhstan, focusing on archaeological experiments and living history related to this period.
Over the past five years, I have been studying the archaeology of the Armenian Highlands — conducting excavations and experimental research.
This channel is dedicated to sharing the experience accumulated by me and my colleagues.
For 13 years, I have worked on excavations of Bronze Age sites in the steppes of the Southern Urals and Kazakhstan, focusing on archaeological experiments and living history related to this period.
Over the past five years, I have been studying the archaeology of the Armenian Highlands — conducting excavations and experimental research.
This channel is dedicated to sharing the experience accumulated by me and my colleagues.
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My colleague archaeologist Elena Kupriyanova has identified and reconstructed a unique female headdress of the Sintashta culture of the Bronze Age (Southern Urals and Northern Kazakhstan).
The artifact was discovered back in 2016 in the burial complex of the Stepnoye VII cemetery, but for a long time it was mistakenly considered to be a fragment of a bag. The item turned out to be a complex ceremonial headdress with multicolored beads and fur trim, made using a tapestry-weaving technique. To study the headwear, several scientific methods were applied, including radiocarbon dating, spectral analysis of dyes, and strontium isotope research.
The reconstruction made it possible to recreate the pattern of the headdress and to reinterpret other finds from the same burial. Bronze ornaments, previously lacking clear attribution, have now been identified as parts of a single ritual costume — a braid ornament and a facial pendant — indicating the burial of a girl from the elite of the Sintashta society.
Photo by Elena Kupriyanova
Graphic reconstruction — Elena Kupriyanova
AI reconstruction — Mikhail Rodin
The artifact was discovered back in 2016 in the burial complex of the Stepnoye VII cemetery, but for a long time it was mistakenly considered to be a fragment of a bag. The item turned out to be a complex ceremonial headdress with multicolored beads and fur trim, made using a tapestry-weaving technique. To study the headwear, several scientific methods were applied, including radiocarbon dating, spectral analysis of dyes, and strontium isotope research.
The reconstruction made it possible to recreate the pattern of the headdress and to reinterpret other finds from the same burial. Bronze ornaments, previously lacking clear attribution, have now been identified as parts of a single ritual costume — a braid ornament and a facial pendant — indicating the burial of a girl from the elite of the Sintashta society.
Photo by Elena Kupriyanova
Graphic reconstruction — Elena Kupriyanova
AI reconstruction — Mikhail Rodin
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Sometimes you have to stop and think about these historical events and remind yourself that these things actually happened. Thousands of men stood on either end of a valley ready to do battle, risking their own life of course and that of their friends and comrades. But also at stake was maybe the life of their king, and in some cases the lives of their wife and children if they failed. And every man would know that even if he fought bravely, with honour and skill, and did everything right and killed every man in front of him and didn't break, his army might still be routed and he could be killed anyway in a catastrophic loss. Or that an arrow or cannonball or musket shot could hit him at any moment and snuff him out. Many of your ancestors actually did this, in real life, not in a video game or in a movie, but actually lived that, and died in battles. You have to imagine if that was you, standing in formation, shoulder to shoulder with your comrades, how you would feel. You would feel the hand of fate on your shoulder, wouldn't you.
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Few inventions have reshaped human history as profoundly as the wheel. For a long time, it was assumed that Mesopotamia — as the "Cradle of Civilization” — was the birthplace of the wheel. But over the last few decades, new discoveries in Europe have challenged this old assumption.
So who REALLY invented the wheel? And when was it invented, and why?
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Few inventions have reshaped human history as profoundly as the wheel. For a long time, it was assumed that Mesopotamia — as “the cradle of civilization” — was the birthplace…
Few inventions have reshaped human history as profoundly as the wheel. For a long time, it was assumed that Mesopotamia — as “the cradle of civilization” — was the birthplace…
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And is the AI in the room with us right now?
Just use a landscape image, replace the sky from another one, create 2 or 3 layers and blur them incrementally to create a fake depth of field effect, use colour filter overlays and punch up the saturation etc, draw in fake shadows beneath the object, + fiddle around with it for a few hours. Easy peasy.
Just use a landscape image, replace the sky from another one, create 2 or 3 layers and blur them incrementally to create a fake depth of field effect, use colour filter overlays and punch up the saturation etc, draw in fake shadows beneath the object, + fiddle around with it for a few hours. Easy peasy.
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