Intriguing aspects of Neolithic Grooved Ware pots. Here, descriptions of some added cordons to the inside of rather fancy pots from the Ness of Brodgar. Not just storage and cooking. GW comes in many forms: decorated, undecorated, large and small. #GroovedWare www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/internal-cor...

Stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) 🪲 🦌 (without a party). Normandy, France 🇫🇷

MAGNIFIQUE! "[Im]mortelles - Les stèles néolithiques de Sion" @ Église des Jésuites, Sion musees-valais.ch/exposition-h... #valaiswallis #archeologie 🏺

Had to! "So we sailed on to the sun 'Til we found a sea of green" 🎵🎼🎶

For #FlintFriday beautiful plate shaped flint eroding from the chalk in front of the coastal cliffs at the Côte d’Albatre in Normandy, France 🇫🇷

Amazing new discovery: Archaeologists found a rare 5th-century BC bronze ceremonial chariot at Casas del Turuñuelo, revealing insights into the ancient Iberian culture's wealth, religion, and trade. 👉 www.elmundo.es/cultura/2026...

For it is St. John’s feast and all our shadows are given permission to walk abroad independently. We can only hope that they get up to the right sort of mischief.

Delighted to have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for 'Stocking the Past' which will investigate the balance between arable farming and stockkeeping in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland using a range of isotopic and genomic approaches with a great team. Should be fun!

And now it is Exeter's turn. Along with c.500 other academic staff, mostly in humanities, my job is 'at risk' in order to make c.150 of us redundant 😞

Ancient human DNA from the cave walls! 🤯 Wonderful new paper led by Alba Bossoms Mesa and a great team of people that made this work possible.

Call for designing a Neolithic (LBK) landmark 12-20 mtrs high! www.instagram.com/p/DZ6nBwcCC7...

Do you have the required level of profundity to be the British Museum Curator of European Deep History? bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...

Pretty (and) dramatic skies 🌩️ over Leiden

Pretty (and) dramatic skies 🌩️ over Leiden

Pretty (and) dramatic skies 🌩️ over Leiden

We’re deep into Stonehenge silly season. A few comments from me here. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

For @volkskrant.nl a brief comment on the recent combined genomic and archaeological study @nature.com of the oldest known pest outbreaks documented at the hunter-gatherer sites of lake Baikal in Siberia, dating to 5500BP www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/5...

Today I got the speak (in Dutch 🇳🇱) @nporadio1.bsky.social Villa VdB on our Neanderthal fossil Krijn. The first Dutch Neanderthal and the first from the North Sea 🌊 The fossil was presented @rmoudheden.bsky.social 17 years ago #OTD. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/v...

Altostratus (?) cloud ☁️ over Savelsbos forest, Sint-Geertruid, South Limburg. I enjoy the lines in this composition 📷

For #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday these nice artefacts from a field near Sint-Geertruid last week. They are a rather worn out flake-based scraper and a possible core preparation blade. Middle Neolithic Michelsberg culture. 🪨

In 1902 a farmer ploughed up this bronze horse at Trundholm, Denmark. Thinking it was an old toy he took it home for his children! 😱 On closer inspection he contacted the National Museum. Now the ‘Sun Chariot’ is an iconic symbol of Denmark’s Bronze Age 3,400 years ago! #FindsFriday #Archaeology

New version of the THE MAP is out! 😀 "Expansion of Farming in Western Eurasia, 9600-4000 BCE" v 2026.2 is partly based on georeferenced site data bases, other areas updated. All info and various versions on zenodo.org/records/2061... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @oeai.bsky.social

This is a stunning find. Marks inside an Iron Age skull that was entombed in a cairn in Scotland suggest that someone removed the dead woman's brain after she died. 🧪 #archaeology #history www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

Bryn Celli Ddu is a remarkable Neolithic passage tomb built to align with midsummer sunrise some 5,000 years ago! On the longest day of the year, the rising sun lights up the inner burial chamber where a stone pillar keeps watch from the shadows. Anglesey, Wales 📷 by me #TombTuesday #Archaeology

Now reading. Standing looking out over the North Sea this morning led me to thoughts of how this place got its name - from Old English meaning “stag pool” or the “island of harts” derived from heorot (a hart, or male deer) and pōl (a pool or inlet) - and on to petrified forest and Doggerland.

Rainy Leiden Monday antidote image. This weekends glorious walnut tree (Juglans) 🌳 in the orchard in StG, Limburg.

One of the oldest known musical instruments! A Paleolithic #flute made from a #swan's wing bone some 40,000 years ago! The preserved length is about 12.6 cm with three finger holes. The original length of the flute is unknown. Found in the Geißenklösterle Cave at Blaubeuren. This... 🧵1/2 📷 me

This night I remember James Lee Cole who 82 years ago with the 82nd jumped out of an airplane into occupied Normandy, at St. Mère Église preparing the way for D-Day a few hours later. James survived but was sadly killed during Market Garden several months later. 🙏

Mestreech sjwan sjtad oan de Moas. Gateway to the true south, home of homes, somewhere to land ✨

Thanks great uncle P.J. fighting the Nazis in 1940. Let’s keep up the good work. ⚔️

Great job of our students Science and Engineering @maastrichtu.bsky.social working on flint picks from the Rijckholt-Sint-Geertruid flint mines 3D scanning over 300(!) of them! Delving deeper into the many dimensions tool that drove the Neolithic💪 🪨

Today joined @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social Wil Roebroeks who returned to the famous Maastricht-Belvédère site after more than 40 years for a mega coring and sampling for OSL, sedaDNA and hunting for the oldest Neanderthals in the Netherlands @rmoudheden.bsky.social houses the Belvédère collection.

You should go read Rebecca's blog, it's ace:

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NEW When #Neanderthal remains were discovered in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, the fragile and crushed condition of the bones prevented detailed analysis. A year of conservation work helps explore the complex mortuary practices observed at the site. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

News report on a particularly large rectangular timber building dated to the Neolithic. Thick clay floor. Big timber posts. Of course, there's more details in the full report. Link in article. Meeting place? Communal space? Not yet clear. Nice find though. archaeologymag.com/2026/05/6000...

This carved boulder was found in the 19th century near Youghal, Cork. It is extensively carved with tightly placed concentric rings, grooves, and plain cups, and it is thought to date to around 2500–1700 BCE. You can see it on display in the National Museum of Ireland. #Ireland #Archaeology

Noch mehr vom #GöbekliTepe & inzwischen vieler weiterer vergleichbarer frühneolithischer Fundorte der Region gibt es außerdem noch bis 19.07. in einer Sonderausstellung #GebauteGemeinschaft des Vorderasiatischen Museums #Berlin in der James-Simon-Gallerie zu sehen: 🏺 www.smb.museum/ausstellunge...

Aus einer Steinkiste bei Neehausen (Lkr. MSH) wurde im 19. Jh. dieses Gefäß geborgen. Es handelt sich um einen Glockenbecher mit den typischen Verzierungstechniken der Glockenbecherkultur in Form von Kammstempelmustern. ©LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták #archäologie #geschichte (1/2)

For Memorial Day I remember the sacrifices of pvts Mart Smith and James Lee Cole 82nd ABN and William F. Stehlin 84th Inf. D. All at Margraten U.S. cemetery and wall of the missing and at Arlington. May their short lives remind us of the value of freedom and truly righteous causes.

An another glorious day for making maceheads. Granite and Lewisian Gneiss, the latter is becoming a favourite rock

Sometimes there are some lucky 🍀 finds that should be celebrated right away (second best beer choice)

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Some mowing going on last week in the orchard in Limburg. And I have a resident 🐈 ! Though we hardly meet (which he/she thinks is fine).

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John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past. theconversation.com/six-reasons-...

Stan Stane, North Ronaldsay, Orkney 📷 14.05.22 #StandingStoneSunday #Scape #Stunday #Orkney #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

Not a menhir, but the terminal stone of the triple stone row at Challacombe Down #Dartmoor, rising like a shark’s fin from the ground #StandingStoneSunday

Colmeallie - a recumbent that once was #StandingStoneSunday More info and pic on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...

The Hurlers one similarly scorching day last summer #StandingStoneSunday