Honoured to announce that I have been appointed 8th Eugène Dubois visiting professor www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Bijzonder trots dat ik benoemd ben op de Eugène Dubois wisselleerstoel aan de @maastrichtu.bsky.social www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/nieuws/ar...

Honoured to announce that I have been appointed 8th Eugène Dubois visiting professor www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/archaeo...

The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎

The engraved entrance stone to the famous Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange at County Meath in Ireland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Newgrange #Prehistory #Ireland

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trjp to a hidden glade below Cnoc na Cailligh (The Hill of the Hag), to find one of my favourite megalithic tombs, the wonderful Gaulstown Dolmen! #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Prehistory #Archaeology 🏺 #Waterford

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Exhibition explores ethics of human archaeology. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musical instrument, horse gear, or magical object? These ‘rattles’ were often found in Viking graves. The rings make a loud and clear sound that must have been important. This one was used in the Oseberg burial ceremony. c. 820 CE, iron, copper alloy, silver. Oseberg Tønsberg, Vestfold. KHM Oslo 🇳🇴

Pearl Jam released their second studio album ‘Vs.’ 32 years ago on October 19, 1993 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/pearljamVs

The Long Neolithic is more than a persistence of field system boundaries, the standing of stone houses of the dead. The Long Neolithic continues as conversation. Each of its circles, menhirs and portal tombs an ambassador of its mysteries. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Sea sounds and rockpool reflections. County Clare, Ireland.

Happy International Archaeology Day! #InternationalArchaeologyDay 🏺 #Archaeology

Communal gardens, autumn sun, a banjo and wayfaring stranger. Sometimes things are just ok! 🪕

For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.

Lugnacco Menhir: A 3.8 metre tall menhir in a little garden outside a house in the village of Lugnacco, Piemonte 📷 Thewizardhat More: http://www.megalithi...

Dear friends and colleagues. Thank you 🙏 for voting for our @rmoudheden.bsky.social Fires of Change 🔥 Bronze Age exhibition in the Museumtijdschrift annual exhibition contest. Out of 10 nominees we came second🥈after the Kiefer exhibition by both the Stedelijk and Van Gogh museum. Congrats to all!

The West Tofts hand axe, with its fossilised shell, is one of the most popular objects on display at MAA. It has been assumed that the position of the shell was an aesthetic choice by the axe's creator, but this interpretation has been challenged. What do you think? 1/2

Duddo Five Stones: Art by Bladup, lots more in our Art section #StandingStoneSunday. This circle in Northumberland lies atop a hill surrounded by farmland. One of the stones was re-erected in the 1920s and Burl believes that it is probable that they have all been re-erected at some point. More 1/

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Bruce Springsteen released his fifth studio album ‘The River’ (1980) 45 years ago this week | Listen to the album + read our tribute by Jeremy Levine here: album.ink/BSTheRiver @brucespringsteen.net

Seapottery - a piece of a domestic life long since lived. The cracks look like an aerial view of a cityscape. County Clare, Ireland.

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“ I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

News | Bronze age gold stolen from display case at St Fagans National Museum of History

Good news! The Foundation for Anthropology and Prehistory in the Netherlands (SNMAP) has provided a grant for new radiocarbon dates from the prehistoric wetland site of Bergschenhoek, a site excavated by the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in 1978. With @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr): This fantastic ring of around 30 stones #StandingStoneSunday stands on the headland of Penmaenmawr above Conwy, close to a prehistoric trackway and three other stone circles.

Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Signs of artificial cranial modification in a Late Upper Palaeolithic individual (AC12) from Arene Candide Cave, Italy (ca. 12,620–12,190 Cal BP)

#archaeobirds 🪶

Goniatite fossil shell - like an eye peering out of the shale. County Clare, Ireland.

The Cranberries released ‘No Need To Argue’ 31 years ago on October 3, 1994 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/cranberriesN...

For #FindsFriday the stunning iron Gjermundbu helmet I saw this week at the KHM in Oslo 🇳🇴. It is the best preserved Viking helmet around with a cool visor. Found in 1943 in Ringerike in a ship-shaped burial mound, it dates to the 900s.

Capricorn, the sea goat, was mascot to the II Augusta legion being the favoured astrological sign of #Roman emperor Augustus This splendid copper alloy figurine was found in 2012 at Burrington #Somerset Now in the excellent @museumofsomerset.bsky.social 📷 July 2021 #FindsFriday

A rare 13th century gravoir, used for styling hair, has been acquired by National Museums Scotland after being discovered during archaeological excavations at Eilean Donan castle in the Highlands. media.nms.ac.uk/news/evidenc...

Standing Stone • Bronze Age • Waterford The stone stands sentinel overlooking the Nire Valley, as it has for thousands of years. And as it hopefully will continue to stand for thousands more years still to come. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology

We have lost an absolute trailblazer and heroine of science www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Ever wondered what students at medieval universitites got up to? Wonder no more and learn all about this from @amwillemsen.bsky.social next Tuesday at 1pm for a free lunchtime lecture! www.sal.org.uk/event/back-i...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 30,000-year-old Gravettian-associated people, moving and mixing over considerable distances, plus a dollop of further discoveries from sedimentary DNA. 1.15 billion reads for 16,000 human SNPs though...eeeeeessh.

The Ekeberg Mesolithic rock carvings of Sjømannskolen on the rocky outskirts of Oslo. At the time, more than 6000 yrs ago the sea 🌊 was 50 m higher, so the site could be reached by canoe 🛶. This image is of a female elk or deer.

Amazing new research! 👇👇👇

Sliabh Liag cliffs, County Donegal, Ireland.

This only happens to you once

The Certosa situla (end 7th/early 6th century BC). This wine vessel depicts scenes of military processions and (ritual) feasts. Central is a banquet scene (guys with hats). It was a century old before used to hold cremation remains in the Early Iron Age. It is in the Bologna archaeological museum.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... The dolmen is 43 feet long, and its walls are 6.6 feet high. On top of the roof is a tumulus, which is a manmade mound of sand and stones.

#FlintFriday! Stunning 🤩 Mesolithic scraper from submerged #Doggerland 🌊 found on the beach by Maurits a couple of weeks ago.

Nederland geeft fossielen Dubois-collectie terug aan Indonesië. Statement en meer informatie te vinden op www.naturalis.nl/persberichte...

Fossils of the Dubois collection @naturalis including the Homo erectus specimens of Pithecanthropus erectus to be returned to Indonesia. nos.nl/l/2584097

New paper 📝 out with Raczynski-Henk and Glauberman on the role and importance of avocational archaeologists and citizen science for Middle Palaeolithic research in the Netherlands and beyond. In the Festschrift for my fellow Sint-Geertruidenaar prof. Wil Roebroeks www.sidestone.com/books/intent...