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Also last week, at the succesful Transformations conference organised by @hanshuisman.bsky.social 🙏

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!

Congratulations!

An impressive find, and when you click further, also an interesting read about wood preservation in the past

Interested in #archaeology and the #Mesolithic - #Neolithic transition? You can still register for the Transformations conference taking place in Groningen April 7-10 weleer.nl/transformati... Organized by @hanshuisman.bsky.social at @rug.nl

Mystery of a 10,500-Year-Old Ritual: Aurochs Skull on Wooden Post Found Near Germany’s Oldest Cremation Grave - Arkeonews Archaeologists in northern Germany have discovered a 10,500-year-old aurochs skull mounted on a wooden post near the oldest known cremation

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Late Neolithic archaeology, wetlands and @archaeobotany, now with detailed program 😀

Many congratulations to @rosaliehermans.bsky.social for succesfully defending her impressive PhD!

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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

Auch Forschung, die nicht direkt für die Wirtschaft monetisierbar ist, ist genauso wertvoll!
Petition gegen die Schliessung des Instituts für #Archäologie an der Humboldt Uni Berlin hier unterzeichnen:
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Closing Symposium: Late Neolithic Houses Project – 13 March, Leiden, Netherlands — EXARC EXARC invites members and friends to join the closing symposium of the Late Neolithic Houses Project on 13 March at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Interested in the Neolithic, wetlands and archaeology?

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Lovely postcard in the School 'posthole' from Professor Amy Bogaard telling us about her recent #fieldwork in #Albania. preview.shorthand.com/4lwIX8v1duOO... And some glorious stratigraphic sections (if you don't mind us saying so!) #archaeobotany #excavation

Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in Spain A small bone discovered in southern Spain may represent the first direct archaeological evidence of the war elephants used by Hannibal Barca during the Punic Wars. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Presumably one of Hannibal's elephants found in Spain

Looking forward!

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Very pleased and feeling lucky that I could spend some hours last weekend in company of my PhD supervisor and great example Prof. Corrie Bakels.

Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion - Nature A distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry persisted 3,000 years later than in most European regions, contributing to later Lower Rhine–Meuse Bell Beaker users.

Proud that after five years of careful analysis and discussion our paper "Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion" has now been published.

📢Save the date 📢 15th International Meeting on Phytolith Research (IMPR) / III Brazilian Symposium of Archaeobotany

The call for abstracts and registration will open on 1 st June 2026.

The organisation looks forward to welcoming you in São Paulo!

The magic feeling of feeling at home during the annual Steentijddag (Stone Age day) organised last weekend at the @rmoudheden.bsky.social by Stichting Steentijdarcheologie.

Shipworm (see last repost) & other tunnelling molluscs from the Oxford Book of Invertebrates (1971)

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Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece) | PNAS The Middle Pleistocene (MP; ca. 774 to 129 ka) marks a critical period of human evolution, characterized by increasing behavioral complexity and th...

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Unieke archeologische vondsten in Rockanje: resten van boerderij uit ijzertijd ontdekt Rockanje - Tijdens archeologisch onderzoek aan de Dwarsweg in Rockanje zijn de resten van een boerderij uit de ijzertijd gevonden. Archeologen van Archol bV hebben in opdracht van de gemeente en de pr...

Excavation of an Iron-Age farm in Rockanje, NL (lots of wood!)

Bone, thanks!

@ll-herskind.bsky.social What is the comb made of?

Thanks for sharing Mark. I enjoyed being interviewed by Vincent Reed for this podcast. #dendrochronology #Scotland

Rare Bronze Age log boats on display in Peterborough first The boats

Three of the log boats discovered during the Must Farm palaeochannel excavations are going on display at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Nine boats were found with dates ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.

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Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

Pleistocene poisoned arrows at Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, South-Africa: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...