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/...

Mark Smits, VVD-fractievoorzitter in de Provinciale Staten van Gelderland, heeft ons gesommeerd om een artikel te verwijderen. Hij dreigt ons via zijn juridische bedrijfje voor de rechter te slepen. Ook eist hij een schadevergoeding van 7.500 euro.

🧪🏺🦣 Obvs what's happening now is of greatest import, but rising temperature extremes in S. Europe & West Asia really make me realise how climate at +1.5-2C during last Interglacial MIS 5e c. 120-118 ka BP likely made these landscapes rapidly unlivable for #Neanderthals & early H. sapiens too.

I am really enjoying SAFA conference @icarehb.bsky.social in Faro. Here with Dr Reynard presenting work at Strathalan Cave. Now looking forward to my own talk on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Umhlatuzana tomorrow morning.

The Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) conference in Faro, Portugal begins tomorrow! To celebrate the occasion, we've put together a collection of articles on #AfricanArchaeology and they will all be *absolutely free* for the duration of the event 🏺 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The first known representation of a living Neanderthal appeared in Harper's Weekly today in 1873. #sciart www.lindahall.org/experience/d...

Spoiler alert! Neanderthal tar production made it to the New York Times puzzle app. Impactful research is about reaching society. We can change how people understand the human condition, from puzzle to (hopefully) common knowledge. Today's message: Neanderthals are cool!

Truly nice afternoon in the sun: World Cup qualification Netherlands - Italy. Vd Merwe taking a wicket.

Historians as a profession are facing the same crunch as journalists and other professions in the digital age where there is plenty of demand but an economic model that remunerates the people who do the final repackaging for the public while funding for the production of original work dries up.

Farming is an industrial endeavour. Weirdly news about the industry is often illustrated with pretty pictures of cuddly animals. Last week I snapped and suggested @devolkskrant.bsky.social that they rather use photos of abbatoirs or factory farms. (2nd letter) www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Just as Unesco is deciding to list this unique rock art landscape as World Heritage, WA govt. is proposing to build serious oil and gas refineries here. I guess unique heritage and a liveable planet just don't matter much to some people.

New paper in #ScienceAdvances led by @paleomonrepos.bsky.social and @unileiden.bsky.social on #Neanderthal adaptation 125ka years ago at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany. Our study shows large-scale grease rendering thousands of years earlier than previously thought: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦣🧪🏺

"To be" cannot be a criminal offense. This impossibility is impervious to whatever a shoddy law says. Proposing this measure just makes you the baddies. campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/ns... @vvdonline.bsky.social @partijnsc.bsky.social Doe dit niet!

Published today in @nature.com our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making, headed by @elliescerri.bsky.social . Glad to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #Evolution

A stunning find from Nijmegen: a #Roman rock crystal ring decorated with a crescent and stars inlaid with gold leaves, found in a woman's burial, dating 1st c. AD. The decoration had a meaning associated with death, the crescent and stars were...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Intent on the Paleolithic Papers in honour of Prof. Dr. Wil Roebroeks edited by Gerrit L. Dusseldorp, Wei Chu, Corrie Bakels & Marie Soressi 📙 Pre-order now for special discount! www.sidestone.com/books/intent... #archaeology #prehistory

Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Informatieve Spraakmakers over stikstof. Wat ik ook niet wist bv.: Stikstof heeft óók effect op klimaat, fijnstof, ozonlaag. Minder vee helpt, maar niet als sector doorgaat met dieren “opvoeren”, bv koeien die steeds meer melk geven zodat uitstoot per koe toeneemt. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/s...

I am offering two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded) and a 57 month combined post-doc / project manager position as part of my NWO-Vici grant, which starts in September.

Revised age for Schöningen hunting spears indicates intensification of Neanderthal cooperative behavior around 200,000 years ago | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Live updates on an event taking place in total isolation. A contradiction in terms if ever there was one. More problematic: there is real journalism to be done instead of staring at some chimney. What about the erosion of democracy, the ongoing climate breakdown? edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...

A research project looking at how ideas of prehistory are used by policy makers today has been awarded funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers programme. #archaeology #research #mesolithic #paleolithic #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch

Biblical apologism in Science does not fly. Tell Hammam was not hit by a comet; this was not the biblical Sodom and Gomorra event.

I really enjoyed the Palaeoanthropology association conference andere the subsequent SAA conference in Denver. Takeaway 1: I have kever before been so friendlily treated by US customs. 2: The US, or at least Denver have a serious mental health/homelessness/opium crisis

Dat iets of iemand goed is gedocumenteerd, wil niet zeggen dat het ook belangrijk is geweest: de Sumerische koning Gudea van Lagash had z'n public relations op orde, maar dat maakt zijn regering nog niet tot een bloeiperiode. mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/04/15/g...

#FosiilFriday Tabun 1 female Neanderthal @NHMLondon. Discovered by Yusra, a Palestinian woman on Dorothy Garrod’s (pictured) excavation team, working there in the early 1930s