Very proud that today (well yesterday…) my first PhD student @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social (co-supervised with Annelou v Gijn), Lasse vd Dikkenberg, successfully defended his PhD ‘Living with Flint’ on the #Neolithic Vlaardingen culture lithic traditions @unileiden.bsky.social! Congrats to the new Dr.!
Inhoudelijke bijdrage voor @rmoudheden.bsky.social aan Klokhuis podcast voor over wonen en huizen npo.nl/luister/podc...
Bijdrage voor @rmoudheden.bsky.social in de aflevering over de Bandkeramiek!
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For my @sciam.bsky.social debut, I got to interview former astronaut Linda Godwin about the new nonpartisan organization Astronauts for America, which says it will work to promote constitutional principles and evidence-based leadership.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...
Spring at Dusk
has come to #Leiden. The quiet moments in a city are there to be cherished.
My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long and elegant curving neck, and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend!
A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago!
Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Callanish #StandingStoneSunday
A rectangular panel of brownish yellowy coloured whalebone. It has two curving handles extending from the top that are stylised as beast heads
This remarkable whalebone plaque was found in the grave of a Viking woman who was buried in Kilmainham, Dublin, over a thousand years ago.
You can see it in the Viking Exhibition in the National Museum of Ireland.
#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #Vikings
Chessmen at NMS National Museums Scotland - National Museums Scotland
195 years ago, on the 11th of April 1831, the Lewis chessmen were first exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland shortly after being rediscovered. The pieces wee made between 1150 and 1200 and commonly believed to have been made in Norway. #otd #history 🗃️
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For #FindsFriday and 🚀Artemis2 returning from the moon 🌕, these beautiful golden Lunulae: moon crescent shaped neck ornaments. They were elite or religious objects dating to the late Neolithic/EBA signifying contacts along the Atlantic seaboard. On display @rmoudheden.bsky.social #BronzeAge exh.
What a journey it has been. Just a few more hours and #NASA Artemis 2 🚀 will splashdown 🪂 🌊 Back from the moon🌕 Magical. 10 days of wearing this cap as well!
Top caption reads: Taken nearly 58 years apart, these images capture Earth on the moon's horizon across two eras of lunar exploration. Below are side by side images: on the left, the new Earthset image produced by the Artemis II mission and on the right, the iconic Earthrise image captured during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
Nearly 58 years later and Earth is still just as beautiful.
No unfortunately
. It’s a children’s booked based on science by renowned archaeologist and author Linda Dielemans @lindadielemans.bsky.social in cooperation with me @rmoudheden.bsky.social. Some of her other books have been translated but this one should obviously be available in English 🇬🇧
The #Melsonby Hoards - nearly 950 Iron Age objects buried c. 40 BC–AD 40 - reveal Britain’s first evidence for four‑wheeled wagons, as well as other types of vehicle. 🚗👀 Read the #blog and #openaccess article!
🔗 https://cup.org/4bf3b1F
#melsonbyhoards #ironage #archaeology @antiquity.ac.uk
Interesting first day of the ‘Transformations during the Mesolithic and Neolithic’ conference in Groningen @rug.nl focusing both on wetland indigenous transformations as well as the more settled Neolithic and strong landscape and ecological perspectives!
Fijne pasen! Deze haas heeft z’n uiterste best gedaan de paaseieren zo goed mogelijk te verstoppen. Nog op zoek naar een uitje? Ook op 1e en 2e paasdag is het museum open, van 10-17uur.
In Romeinse tijd werd deze haas als speld, ofwel ‘fibula’, gedragen.
Stunning work
🧶 #knit
First page of the article.
New open access paper (German/English)
Archaeology and Death. The law, science, and ethics in research and museum presentation of human remains / Die Archäologie und der Tod. Recht, Wissenschaft und Ethik bei der Erforschung und musealen Präsentation
menschlicher Überreste
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Fido the Lion - a handmade toy lion looking up out of a packing crate. His mane is soft and fluffy and his feet are inturned. He has a 'help me' expression. He belonged to, and provided much comfort to, a young girl who in 1916 had to cross the Atlantic due to the war.
Two plaster casts of the Formby prehistoric footprints
A model of a ferry boat painted in multi-coloured patches with stripes and patterns - created to honour the wartime dazzleships. It is displayed inside a packing crate with labels and storage mounts still attached.
General view of the exhibition, where visitors are looking at objects displayed in or on packing crates.
National Museums Liverpool is 40! The World Museum has a special exhibition, which opened today, of 40 objects from the stores, chosen by curators and staff to represent the collections. Well worth a visit! My faves included Fido the Lion, casts of the Formby footprints and a dazzleship ferry model.
What an image! #Artemis
A decorated gold torc in Norwich Museum
‘Celtic’ art motifs (la Tene) on the gold tubular torc from snettisham
Red inlay and la tene swirls decorating a terret ring (used to guide chariot reins) - the terret is made of bronze and is now green as a result of oxidising
Half of a reconstruction of an Iron Age chariot with wicker hurdle sides and a wheel at the front. This is part of a virtual riding experience for children in Norwich museum
#findsfriday - the extraordinary gold tubular torc from Snettisham now on display in Norwich. You could spend hours here just in the Boudicca gallery with all of its incredible Iron Age material see @tessmachling.bsky.social bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/04/a... #torc #ironage #celts #boudicca
My photo shows the ancient Coțofenești Helmet from Romania. The helmet is made from three welded gold plates, on which complex relief decoration was made by a punching method, consisting of geometric, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs. The top half of the helmet is covered in a repetitive, evenly spaced, embossed raised pattern of rounded, fan-ridged bumps which give the helmet a studded look. The crown of the helmet is missing. Over the front opening, at the forehead, are two large almond-shaped eyes, thought to be apotropaic (magical) eyes to ward off evil. They are framed by thick curved lines that sweep outward like dramatic eyebrows, and there is a vertical ridge down the centre between the eyes. The two cheek guards are decorated in relief with a human figure holding a dagger, sacrificing a kneeling ram. The right cheek guard design is partially seen in my photo. The neck guard (not seen in my photo) is decorated on two registers: on the upper part are four sphinxes, and on the lower part three griffins with a leg of an herbivorous animal in their muzzles. The helmet was discovered in the village of Poiana Coțofenești, Prahova County, Romania, in the late 1920s. Experts date the helmet to the mid-5th century BC. I saw the helmet on display in the temporary exhibition ‘Archaeological Treasures of Romania’ at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid in 2021. It was on loan from the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest.
FANTASTIC NEWS!
The 2,500 year-old gold Coțofenești Helmet from Romania has been recovered! 🤩
Also recovered are two of three ancient gold bracelets, all were stolen in a raid on a Dutch museum more than a year ago.
📷 by me 2021
#Archaeology
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #scotland
Yes. And earlier hominids like Homo erectus. As a tool it is more than 1.5 mln years old. Denisovans might have, modern humans not. They are true multi tools for chopping, cutting, making fire
They did and this looks like one but is indeed a point, probably a spear point. The other side is flat and the artefact is therefore not bifacially worked.
🐶 Who let the dogs in? And when?
Some great new research on early #dog #domestication and genetically fully distinct dogs about 14,000 years ago:
🏺 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... by @beebrookshire.bsky.social for @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
