Been too long. Time revisit this wonderful site!

#NewgrangeSolstice earlier today 🇮🇪 ☀️ The light slowly creeping through the corridor, illuminating the inner chamber, as the northern hemisphere gradually starts facing the sun again. The ancestral beauty of it all

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

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Moongazer. 🎨 Judith Yates

now they co-occur winter solstice & new moon the darkest of nights ❄️🌑❄️ #haiku #poem #poetry #imageandverse #writingcommunity #art by John Felsing

As tomorrow I am leading our carol service, here's a gorgeous Carolingian ivory of the nativity in the Vatican (Vat 64477). 📷 my own.

‘It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.’ ~ Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales. #BookWormSat 🖼️ White Cat in a Blue Winter, Mary Stubberfield.

A variety of coloured crystals in this porphyritic rhyolite piece. County Clare, Ireland.

A fine, head clearing, morning on the shore by Doolin Harbour. County Clare, Ireland.

Slightly late for #FindsFriday but this fragment of a bear (Ursus arctos) longbone was brought in last week on our @rmoudheden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social Doggerland day. Found on Katwijk beach it shows cutmarks most likely by a flint tool.(C14 within our Resurfacing Doggerland project)🐻

The Winter Solstice sunrise at Newgrange is one of Ireland’s most powerful connections to the past✨ This RTÉ Brainstorm article by Terry Clavin of the @dib.ie (based at @ria.ie) explores how archaeologist Michael J. O’Kelly rediscovered the alignment in the 1960s. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

🏺 Always gotta repost Buddo.

#FolkyFriday "And so ends this branch of the Mabinogi." It's a subtle but powerful closing line, a phrase that ties each individual story into the larger, interconnected tapestry of the Four Branches. It`s a line that, much like Christmas, gives both closure and anticipation for what's to come!

Ahead of Christmas, it feels fitting to share this Roman fibula - a decorative pin once used to fasten garments - shaped like a stag. In my Christmas-influenced imagination, it looks rather reindeerish! 🎄 Is it Dasher, Dancer, or maybe Rudolph? 🎅 From the Roman Villa at Borg, 2nd c. AD 📷Villa Borg

#AshmoleanAdvent Calendar Day 19 – Starry Sky British artist Eric Ravilious trained as a wood engraver and mural painter at the Royal College of Art. This wood engraving, showing mountains, stars and gems, is an illustration for a collection of epigrams and epitaphs by Martin Armstrong. ⭐ WA.OA979

Leiden has its moments

Stunning new discovery in Italy: Thousands of dinosaur footprints were discovered more than 2,000 meters above sea level, providing new insights into life 200 million years ago. www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/itali...

The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting. Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment. 🔗www.gov.ie/solstice#WinterSolstice#Newgrange#ShareTheSolstice

A nature photographer stumbled upon thousands of 210-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Italy's central Alps, near where some Olympic skiing and snowboarding events will be held in February. n.pr/48Xfbm3

“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” This is the posthumous message left by Gil Gerard. The actor who played Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) has just passed away at the age of 82.

"My life has been an amazing journey...See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” Farewell to Gil Gerard (1943-2025) — star of BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY. #GilGerard #FilmSky

Alright, one more. Because the big fancy stuff is cool and all, but sometimes it's the small thing which really take your breath. Like … how about some #Neanderthal #fingerprint on an at least 80,000 y/p inconspicuous lump birch bark pitch? 🤯😉

In the darkest nights of the year, stories flip their own shadows... villains repent, heroes fail, and monsters cradle lost children. Winter loves a reversal. #WyrdWednesday Art: Caspar David Friedrich

You've heard of cloak-and-dagger, but have you heard of dog-and-dagger? 🤔🏺🧪

Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday

Chocolate flint for #ChocolateCoveredAnythingDay! Sadly not actually covered in chocolate, these lithics are named for their rich colour. Popular in prehistory (if not tasty), they have been found 100s of km away from their only known sources in Poland. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Looking back upon a great day @rmoudheden.bsky.social where we hosted a session together with @naturalis.bsky.social and our citizen science partners on Doggerland lithic finds in order to train an AI model for identifying artefacts from natural stones among the many beach finds

Badgers Beneath. 🎨 Jane Tomlinson

Blanche. 🎨 Bex Parkin

Subfossil spruce Bossons Glacier 80-253 CE Tree buried during an early glacier advance post Roman Warm Period 🧊🌲💍 Repeated phases with compression wood show this tree lived in a dynamic environment (avalanches, landslides?) ❄️💧 #ILoveTreeRings

If you enjoy furry mustelids, throwbacks to famous archaeological sites and theoretical discussions on Mesolithic human-animal ontologies, you might enjoy this fresh article, with christmas greetings from @sofiefh.bsky.social and I ❤️🐾 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Wow, “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With feathers into the afterlife: New results on the Bad Dürrenberg shaman burial #archaeology phys.org/news/2025-12...

📰 The earliest known instance of human-made fire in the world, dating back 400,000 years and likely made by Neanderthals, has been uncovered in eastern England 🔥 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/12/10/s...

To celebrate the centenary of Woodhenge, this #findsfriday we thought we would share something from the site! This necked beaker, decorated with incised lines and zigzags was found from circle 1, Woodhenge, by Mrs M E Cunnington and Mr B H Cunnington, 1926-8. Now in our Prehistory Galleries!

Mondphasen und Sicheln: Der Sichelhort von Frankleben umfasst drei Töpfe mit 242 Sicheln. Und er ist gleichzeitig ein Spiegel des Wohlstands, in dem die Menschen der späten Bronzezeit lebten und gibt Einblicke in ihre religiösen Vorstellungswelten. youtu.be/zjQzrH1G1OU

#FindsFriday This Bronze Age shield was discovered in the marsh at Rhyd-y-gors, Ceredigion, #Wales. It dates from circa 1200-1000 BC. 👀💥 #Archaeology #History

Every time I cross the Meuse in Maastricht I visit the little monument remembering the Dutch soldiers who fell defending the Netherlands against the Nazis in May 1940. Unfortunately my great uncle P.J. Lamers was amongst the brave fallen.

Been a while, but good to be on the loess soils again in beautiful Maastricht.

"Earliest evidence of making fire" - full-text view-only version of the Nature paper, using the link below. rdcu.be/eT4WI

De muntvondst van #Buggenum met het verhaal erachter is niet alleen in het Limburgs Museum Venlo te bezichtigen, maar ook in de docu op L1 te zien, en collega’s Martijn Bink en Jan Roymans houden er op 19/12 een lezing over op het Romeinensymposium v/d VU Amsterdam www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOmQ...

Very proud and happy to give the Dubois lecture tonight in the Studium Geberale series at @maastrichtunibxl.bsky.social I will be talking about the long prehistoric occupation of Doggerland and what stories surface through modern science! www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/archaeo...

Wonderful new podcast on our recent work on Neolithic kinship and society in Ireland - featuring Jess Smythe, Neil Carlin and @suegreaney.bsky.social - thanks for the great interview @neiljackman.bsky.social

SALES DIRECTOR: Why no kitchen table? DESIGN LEAD: Because kitchen tables are for fucking Candyland. We’re selling a political mode of thinking: deduction as power. Think less “family night,” and more “I will find the hidden structure of your choices, and then I will destroy you.”

🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite. Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Roman bronze figurine of a little mouse nibbling on bread! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

NEW Isotope analysis of copper artefacts from Bronze Age Möriken-Wildegg, Switzerland finds some copper was likely sourced as far away as Cyprus, indicating that, c.1400 BC, even rural communities were involved in the extensive Eurasian market networks. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

New discovery: A late Archaic marble head of a Kore discovered at Vulci represents a rare instance of Greek statuary found within Etruscan territory. uni-freiburg.de/freiburger-u...