Why would you name "rock dwellings" (actually 3D-printed concrete blocks) Navajoo and Hoodoo? One a Native American Nation that do not build rock dwellings; the other a set of African American spiritual practices. Why build "rock dwellings" in the flattest country on earth in the first place?

Er gaat een oproep rond om veel en massaal naar Vrijheid, Gelijkheid, Zusterschap van Sophie Straat op Spotify te luisteren. Als protest dat een anti-AZC nummer (gegenereerd door AI) op 1 gaat komen en dat willen we niet. Wij zijn met meer. Doen jullie mee?

"Funding came from Arts Council England, V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society, and the Friends of Leeds City Museums." AKA The detectorist and landowner were paid an undisclosed amount to hand over what should be ours... #Archaeology 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Terwijl het deze campagne nauwelijks gaat over onderwijs, stemde vandaag een rechtse meerderheid in de Eerste Kamer in met nieuwe bezuinigingen. Weer met hulp van het CDA. Hopelijk neemt iedereen met hart voor onderwijs of opgroeiende kinderen, dit mee in het stemhokje. www.aob.nl/actueel/arti...

Doe. Het. Niet. Bezuinig niet op het onderwijs! 🟥 Vandaag maakt het CDA in de Eerste Kamer wéér dezelfde fout als eerder dit jaar door de bezuinigingen van de VVD aan een meerderheid te helpen.. Stem morgen op een partij die het onderwijs niet laat vallen! 🔴🟢

Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position in archaeology? @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de has currently 14 (!) positions advertised for start in 2026. Feel free to contact me or any of the other PI's for more information. Deadline is 15th December. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... 🦣🏺👇

The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this? (Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.) #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...

Acht jaar geleden postte Wilders al ophitsende nepfoto's op social media. Het enige verschil met nu is dat de PVV nu zo groot is dat hij anderen in de fractie kan vragen dit te doen. Wilders' excuses zijn waardeloos.

45k people calling on our politicians to pay attention to the biggest issue of our times: Climate change, which gets zero attention in the current Dutch elections. Also my kids' first demonstration.

🔥Before farming, hunter-gatherers already transformed nearly half of Europe’s #landscapes via burning and hunting! Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Paleoecology #Anthropocene

🔥See our new paper led by @nikulinaav.bsky.social People shaped Europe’s #ecosystems long before farming 🦣#Megafauna effects on #vegetation openness dropped from 77%→57% bt #Eemian & #Mesolithic 🧑‍🦱Mesolithic people shaped up to 47% of landscapes w Neanderthals affecting 6–14% doi.org/10.1371/jour...

In je hemd staan jullie @speld.nl! www.nu.nl/tweede-kamer...

Metal-detecting deteriorates into grave-robbing. Visited exhibition on identification of victims from the Battle of Arnhem to encounter this case-study. Illegal metal-detectorist robbing a grave caught red-handed. If not caught the grave would have disappeared unseen.

But let's all talk about red herrings like woke and migration. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Was invited to provide context for Casal Lumbroso @theconversation.com Very cool research by @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social et al. shows people made tools on elephant bones and scavenged the carcass. theconversation.com/how-a-400-00...

PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below! We work on: 📜 Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history 📈 Natural selection and trait genetics 🐺 Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves 🦠 Ancient pathogen genomics 💀 Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics

Metal detecting is at best a legalised tragedy of the commons, but so often just heritage crime.

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Medieval sandal, from 14th century, found preserved in vultures nest on a cliff in southern Spain, a rough sandal woven from grasses and twigs I'm not saying that vultures might also steal single socks from your laundry basket, but y'know...? www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Wrote a brief newspaper summary of the sophistication of Australian hunter-gatherer ways of life @volkskrant.nl. Take-home message: civilization is not a race to invention X, Y or Z, it is about enabling quality of life and the pursuit of happiness. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp...

Car exhaust fumes really do cause autism. Trump's addiction to fossil fuels should make one cynical about his and RFK's latest red herring. Stop whining about proven medical procedures and take on the car lobby! But he's too much of a coward for that. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was a privilege and pleasure to be able to see the Homo erectus type specimen in my hometown. Now the fossils are returning home. www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...

AviArch is hiring! archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif... 🦆🦢🪺🐦🏺

OUT NOW! Intent on the Paleolithic Papers in honour of Prof. Dr. Wil Roebroeks edited by Gerrit L. Dusseldorp, Wei Chu, Corrie Bakels & Marie Soressi 📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/intent... #Analecta

My better half has had an asteroid named after her! Super cool!

Publication alert 🏺! The 55th volume of the Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia contains a series of contributions celebrating the illustrious career of Palaeolithic archaeologist Wil Roebroeks. @mariesoressi.bsky.social @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social www.sidestone.com/books/intent...

Walt Disney Company apparently planning to make further changes after cancelling Disney Kimmel. @disneyanimation.tumblr.com.web.brid.gy www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

"a former museum curator advised [a collector] to keep the fact that he owned [a looted antiquity] on the down-low, investigators said. 'If you limit access to your emperor to dinner guests and clueless meter readers, you should be fine'..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

Investing in South African gold mining as a Ponzi scheme. Very interesting observations by Boom2Dust research project. www.boom2dust.nl/blog/acacia-...

Extreem eenzijdig verhaal. Met Baudet als bron, want die werd ooit in België met een paraplu geslagen en dat toont aan dat je in Nederland niks kan zeggen, ofzo. Geen letter over alle bedreigingen van wetenschappers uit rechtse hoek. En dat Brekelmans moest 'vluchten' van de UvA is een verzinsel.

'Homo sapiens, Denisovan and Neanderthal attention differed in degree rather than kind.' 🏺 🧪

Newsflash: "Complementary medicine" (Read: quackery) does not work.

Ditch of the Roman temporary camp near Ermelo. With lots of (podzol) soil formation!

Frauds, illegal tomb robbery, and forged documents This is the antiquities market in a nutshell. Don't trust a single artifact that passes through an auction house eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Goud voor Bronstijd?! Stem op Bronstijd als tentoonstelling van het jaar! Onze expositie ‘Bronstijd – Vuur van verandering' is genomineerd voor de tentoonstellingsprijs van Museumtijdschrift. We zijn onwijs trots op deze nominatie. Help jij Bronstijd aan goud? Stem ook! www.tentoonstellingsprijs.nl

Prehistoric stone tools were often hafted, but we only find the lithics not the wood/bone part of tools. So it is not always clear how stones were hafted. We tested two ways of hafting the same type of arrow tip, shooting into ballistics gel. Very mythbusters! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"It [is] a cold-water-over the head moment seeing the relentless tumble of records in so many climate variables year after year." Humidity, surface temperature, wildfires—hear from #StateoftheClimate2024 editors at the UK @metoffice.gov.uk on major 2024 trends: bit.ly/45l2PUr

Very interesting stones in house in Dol-de-Bretagne. Never seen this before and no clue what it is/means. Anyone?

New paper alert! I demonstrate that C,N stable isotope values in food chains differ between different types of (wetland and dryland) landscapes. This hampers their potential for archaeological diet reconstruction. #isotopes #diet 1/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Tatoeages prehistorische ijsmummie ‘rockten waanzinnig’ en tonen zelfbewuste oervrouw

Niet Russen maar bacillen gaven Napoleons ‘Grande Armée’ nekslag, blijkt uit tanden van dode soldaten

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

#HeritageCrime News A Dutch court has heard evidence that gold treasures from Romania, stolen in January while on loan to a Dutch Museum, may not have been melted down for the bullion value as feared.

For India’s critically endangered gharial, a fish-eating crocodile with a slender snout that ends in a bulbous growth, heat is emerging as a major threat. Nest temperatures are rising, researchers wrote in a new study, which could be skewing the sex ratio of hatchling gharials more toward females.

Geochemically, Neanderthals sometimes look more carnivorous than lions. How come? Maybe they were eating maggots. This piece is a really cool analysis with a potential explanation for Neanderthal hypercarnivore 15N isotope signatures. 🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...