This is figure 3, which shows Structure from Motion (SfM) orthophotographic overviews of the excavated artefact lenses and surfaces at Jojosi 5 and 6.
A study in Nature Communications shows that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousand years ago. go.nature.com/4cyKgiX 🏺🧪
📰 Did #Neanderthals hunt European pond turtles for their shells?
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
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Hooray! Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Prehistoric Policies project now has a website 👇👇👇👇.
PP examines how & why contemporary environmental policy makes claims about the deep time human past, and why that matters!
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If at the very least historians would use in-text referencing, then at least I'd know before leaving through an entire book to find the endnote that it will contain a fun tangent or good gossip.
Ah, here the general idea is that if people have to hand in their finds they will stop cooperating and go underground. To my mind this is a bit defeatist and also quite a cynical view of many detectorists, but I seem to hold a minority view (in Holland at least).
@arjenlubach.bsky.social heeft Tex de Wit een droomtransfer naar het ministerschap gemaakt?
To my mind this reduces metal detecting in Holland to a tragedy of the commons. A collective possession, heritage, is used for individual gain in the form of enjoyment, but all too often also monetary profit.
How does the removal of monetary value work?
In Netherlands detectorists have to register their finds, but only have to keep them available for 6 months. Afterwards, they can do whatever they want, including breaking up find complexes and selling finds singly and shipping them abroad.
A Latin inscription carved on a gritstone tablet and painted with red text. The translation reads “To the holy god Serapis, Claudius Hieronymianus, legate of the Sixth Legion, Victorious, built this temple from the ground".
An inscription from a temple to Serapis in York, possibly built during the stay of the emperor Septimius Severus and family c.208-211 CE. The northern-most attested temple to an Egyptian god, the York temple may have also housed shrines to Isis, Harpocrates and Anubis. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
Gave a talk also on behalf of colleague Fulco Scherjon on Agent Based Modelling of Bandkeramik farmer expansion ~7000 years ago
Transformations conference organised by @hanshuisman.bsky.social (Thanks!) www.weleer.nl/transformati...
📷 @welmoedo.bsky.social who gives a keynote tomorrow!
Detecting, even when done legally, leads to loss of important context. Further, after 6 months there is no protection to the finds. Collections are broken up, finds disappear abroad, etc. etc.
Don´t do it!
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Et tu, Freek Vonk?
Dutch popular science presenter Vonk has apparently markets a children's metal detector.
Detecting in Holland is a tragedy of the commons; treasure hunting is legal in the top 30 cm of soil. After registration, finds can be traded freely.
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ACTION ALERT⚠️ Dept. of Interior is trying to rush through a revocation of Biden’s public law protecting lands around Chaco Canyon from new oil/gas leases. They’ve given only 7 day for public comment, during Easter/Passover. Thread 🧵 below on why you should care, but here’s a link to comment! 🏺
The Leiden botanical gardens have updated their #Dutch #Peat #Bog display to be scarily reminiscent of the state of Dutch nature.
Lekker gewerkt! @boerburgerbeweging.bsky.social @vvdonline.bsky.social
Seems super-relevant in view of novelty lapel-pins and Apartheid death penalty laws currently making the news.
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Is het niet stiekem gewoon voor de financiering: Zit aan de titel een promotiebonus vast voor het instituut? Zou ment hopen dat dat als stimulans werkt voor meer toegepast onderzoek?
Time to reconsider?
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The past years I attended and presented at a series of excellent conferences organised by @unileiden.bsky.social African Studies Research Master students.
This will be the final time as budget cuts mean the end of this globally recognised excellent programme.
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Neen! We moeten juist nu van fossiel af, niet aan blijven modderen.
De minister van Groene Groei heeft heel overduidelijk gefaald, anders was er nu geen probleem.
Haar falen dat betekent niet dat we daarom nu maar een nóg grotere puinhoop van de planeet moeten maken.
A happy (or sinister?) #Roman mosaic crocodile, basking on the banks of the Nile 🐊
#MosaicMonday 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
Antibacterial properties of experimentally produced birch tar and its medicinal affordances in the Pleistocene
Is dit een herhaling door #NWO van de farce die we in Leiden hebben gehad? Hoelang trappen we nog in dit soort borrelpraatissues in plaats het echt te hebben over de staat van wetenschap en academische vrijheid in NL? www.nwo.nl/bijeenkomste...
The Archaeological Society of Alberta (ASA) has lost its annual provincial funding and designations. Write or call your MLA and express your support. For more info and a letter template, visit: arkyalberta.com
#archaeology #heritage #alberta #albertaarchaeology #albertaheritage
I do not like archaeological progress narratives. And I notice some of my countrymen are very sceptical when I outline the above F1 scenario.
Perhaps we should end our progress fetish?
We should also abolish F1, because even electrically, it is just a festival of conspicuous consumption.
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F1 as archaeological parable on progress.
The move to electricity a clear innovation (and saving the planet). Some adapt (e.g. Hamilton), some are like silent film actors, failing to adapt to sound. Verstappen's career is languishing as he can only perform with the primitive and old-fashioned.
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Kiespijn terugkijken kan hier (shorttrack terugkijken weet ik niet): npo.nl/start/serie/...
Not even wrong.
Van Riebeeck kwam in 1652 en begon vrijwel meteen bij de VOC om slaven te bedelen.
Dát is zijn legacy in Zuid Afrika.
#BREAKING: Israel just bombed right next to the ancient temple of Baalbek, a UNESCO listed site in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley
When ISIS bombed Roman temples in Palmyra, Syria, the west launched an international coalition that send them fleeing to the ends of the Earth
