The children’s book ‘Beneath the Waves’ by @lindadielemans.bsky.social on prehistoric Doggerland that was part of our @rmoudheden.bsky.social exhibition and research project is back in print and with a new cover 🦣 🤩. For now in Dutch but this should really, really get a 🇬🇧 an English translation!

When archaeologists found the bodies of 77 women and children in an Iron Age grave, they pinned it on a prehistoric plague outbreak. A new analysis reveals it was actually a mass execution. Most bizarre? @mireniraorb.bsky.social's look at their genes shows the victims weren't related. @science.org

Archaeologists aren't completely clear on what was happening in Early Iron Age Serbia, but a couple of mass graves excavated in the 1950s-1970s are revealing new information about victims of deliberate violence. 🏺🧪

We should not have to buy our heritage back from treasure hunters. And our museums should not be in stark, market-driven financial competition with auction houses for our shared past. 🏺

Bone and tooth necklace Skara Brae National Museum of Scotland

𝐌𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲? Join the LeidenGlobal Dialogues on 26 Feb for a critical conversation on ethics, terminology & museum practice, with expert reflections and an open Q&A @rmoudheden.bsky.social

A hand made of bronze and gold. It has been interpreted as the earliest proshetic hand for a casualty of conflict, a symbol for the status of the bearer. However, the solar symbols on the cuff suggest that it had also a cosmological significance. Found in Prêles, ...🧵1/2 #archaeology 🏺 📷 me

Mike Pitts on the latest failure of the metal detecting regime in England and Wales. It would be a irony richly deserved if the closest England's metal detectorists got to licensing were to be the name of the latest of their number to cash in their casino chips, at Noonans, one coin at a time.

Chunky Roman-era gold bracelet from a Germanic princely tomb in Zohor, Slovakia. 1st century AD. Slovak National Museum, Bratislava. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Storms revealed 2,000-year-old footprints on eastern Scotland’s Angus beach. The imprints of human and animal feet were temporarily revealed by shifting sands at Lunan Bay and spotted by vigilant members of the public. www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/

A stunning #Neolithic rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.🧵1/3 🏺

(If there are any UK archaeologists/Doggerland enthusiasts seeing this: UK kids need this book too! 😇Know a publisher who would be interested? Shoot me a message!)

🦣🏺✨🌊 Nieuwe druk!! 🌊✨🏺🦣 Vanaf vandaag weer in je favoriete (kinder)boekhandel: Onder de golven: het verhaal van Doggerland!💙 Fris nieuw jasje, zelfde spannende inhoud: een verdronken prehistorisch land! Wie wil daar nou niet over lezen? Prachtig en sfeervol geïllustreerd door Djenné Fila🥰

Stunning work! #Archaeology 🏺 www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/

5,500-Year-Old Stone Age Graves Reveal How Hunter-Gatherers Valued Family www.discovermagazine.com/5-500-year-o...

About to give a talk at the Gallo-Romeins museum on the #BronzeAge in lovely Tongeren, fma Atuatuca Tungrorum (about 2000 yrs ago). Home to the legendary Celtic warrior chief Ambiorix who still proudly presides over the market and the Onze lieve Vrouwe basilica.

May you have the energy of these fabulous Ice Age beasts as you enter the lunar New Year of the Horse! 🦣🐎

For #TombTuesday... Haroldstown Portal Tomb, Co Carlow, Ireland Image: 2022 Infrared #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Landscape #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Carlow

During various excavations at the Roman fort in Osterburken, more than 120 arrowheads and spearheads were discovered. Some are of Roman origin, most are of Germanic type. The fort was attacked around the middle of the 3rd c.AD. These finds highlight the intense threat to Roman territory...🧵1/2

The delicate grave goods and in particular the arrowheads match the impressive burial of La Motta in Brittany, excavated by Van Giffen in 1939. Here on display @rmoudheden.bsky.social in our Bronze Age exhibition, on loan from the Musée d’Archéologie National Germain-en-Laye.

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/norther... The team has determined that these remains are the third oldest Mesolithic burial in North West Europe and present some of the earliest dates for human activity in Britain after the end of the last Ice Age.

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we visit the Cavan Burren to find a stunning landscape that is full of echoes of the past. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology #Cavan #DiscoverIreland

The oldest Mesolithic human remains yet found in Britain belonged to a 2.5-3.5-year-old girl. Found in a cave in Cumbria. Stretches the Mesolithic cave burial ‘tradition’ back a bit and pretty far north given looks to be just after the end of the Younger Dryas.

📜 “Yesterday UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) announced that they had written to the British Museum to encourage them to remove references to ‘Palestine’ in the gallery panels and labels of their collections.”

Historians: this is the archaeological equivalent (morally if not legally) of cutting pictures out of medieval manuscripts in a library and selling them on eBay.

Tigh nam Bodach - The Shrine of the Cailleach, Glen Lyon, Scotland 📷 13.05.24 #StandingStoneSunday #scape #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

Next to the tennis courts in the southern part of Båstad in Skåne, Sweden, stand two standing stones. They are at the bottom of a gravel path and with a large tree between them both. The two stones are believed to be from the Iron Age and placed over burials from that period. #StandingStoneSunday

The terminal stone, Challacombe triple stone row, looking like a shark’s fin #Dartmoor (Not today, alas although the moors may have had sleety snow?) #StandingStoneSunday

*Academic sells history off to the highest bidder* There, BBC, we sorted that headline for you If he truly feels *a connection* to the find, as the article claims, would he not have donated it to a museum? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beautiful Bouquetin (ibex) dating to the Middle Magdalenian 14.400-13.300BP. Galleria Inferior de la Garma. Omoño Ribamontán al Monte, Cantabria. 📷 At Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria in Santander. #FindsFriday

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ancient DNA has uncovered the murky story of where these people came from

Beautiful line drawing of a Scottish gold torc (Netherurd, @tessmachling.bsky.social ??) by Keith Henderson in Piggott’s 1958 Scotland Before History (thanks to @gjmichaelson.bsky.social for reminding me of this book!) #FindsFriday

I get where this is coming from & how #technofossils make sense given the geo-/paleontological backgrounds of the authors referred to here, but if we're talking about future #archaeologists, I'd think #artifacts still would be quite a suitable term, no? 🤔 www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

'FRACTURED RHYTHM' . Two dark trees twist and tower through Kyoto’s Arashiyama Bamboo Forest, interrupting the forest’s perfect rhythm 🇯🇵 . davebowmanphotography.com/featured/fra... . #photography #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #classicmono #BambooForest #Japan #wallart

The middle Neolithic long barrows are often used in later periods for burial and sacrificial purposes, but this example from Dornberg is something special! 🤎👍 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

Analyses reveal that the Nördlingen Bronze Age octagonal sword was decorated with drawn copper wires and preserves tool marks www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/a...

🔆Good morning! Happy #DarwinDay! “Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.”🧪 – Charles Darwin

📰 The identification of a unique board game from the Roman Netherlands has big implications for our understanding of ancient games 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/a...

The first people to reach the Kitsissut Islands off the north-west coast of Greenland were Indigenous peoples, who crossed over 50 kilometres of treacherous water

Western Europe's earliest known mule died 2,700 years ago — and it was buried with a partially cremated woman | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game board, according to an AI analysis

The International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research are delighted to announce that CHAGS 14 will take place in Belém, Brazil Mon 12 - Fri 16 July 2027. Events/trips immediately before/afterwards. Tx to hosts: Goeldi Museum & Federal Univ. of Pará. More details to follow. Please share widely!

NEW AI simulation helps calculate the rules of a previously unknown Roman board game, pushing evidence for the playing of blocking games in Europe back centuries! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology @waltros.bsky.social @eric-piette.bsky.social @Dennissoemers.bsky.social

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.

Uit archeologisch onderzoek blijkt een druk gebruik vanaf zo’n 5000 jaar geleden van de heuvel #Gawroniec in #Polen. Het gaat om een #neolithische #mijnnederzetting waar vuursteen werd verwerkt. /1 www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/stud...

More than 800 Iron Age artefacts, known as the Melsonby Hoard found in a N. Yorks field will go on display for the first time at the Yorkshire Museum, York from May onwards. The collection features chariot wheels, cauldrons & spears. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...